Ep. 869 - Twitter Suspends The World’s Leading LGBT Children’s Author
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The leading LGBT children s author in the world was suspended from Twitter over the weekend. It was an appalling act of homophobia, but there s something even deeper and more important going on, which we ll talk about today. Also, the CDC has finally started admitting some basic truths about the COVID virus just in time for the midterms, and a teacher stuffs her son in the trunk of her car so that he doesn t give her COVID. Plus, Navy Boot Camp goes woke, and we must cancel a prominent doctor who posted a dramatic tweet about his son s battle with a cold. All that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the leading LGBT children's author in the world was suspended
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from Twitter over the weekend. It was an appalling act of homophobia, but there's something even
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deeper and more important going on, which we'll talk about today. Also, the CDC has finally
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started admitting some basic truths about the COVID virus just in time for the midterm elections,
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but that's a coincidence, I'm sure. And a teacher stuffs her son in the trunk of her car so that
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he doesn't give her COVID. Interesting parenting strategy. Plus, Navy boot camp goes woke,
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and we must cancel a prominent doctor who posted a dramatic 25 tweet thread about his son's battle
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with a cold. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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So tragedy struck my family on Friday when I got the news, which came completely out of nowhere,
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hitting like a bolt of lightning from the clear blue sky, that I had been suspended from Twitter.
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These are truly the times that try men's souls. I was informed of the suspension mere moments
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after posting a video of me defeating my wife in a plastic sled race in our front yard. Now, at first,
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I thought that I was being suspended because of that video, perhaps on a bullying charge or something.
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Either way, you know, that's the kind of indispensable content that the internet was deprived of
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in my absence. Then I received the email from our Twitter overlords. They informed me that the
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suspension was for two offensive posts that I had recently authored. One said this, trigger warning,
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get ready for this. This is what it says. The greatest female Jeopardy champion of all time is a man.
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The top female college swimmer is a man. The first female four-star admiral in the public health
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service is a man. Men have dominated female high school track and the female MMA circuit.
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The patriarchy wins in the end. The other was a tweet from a few months ago. I think it was a few
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months ago. And I was responding, I believe, to the news that Demi Lovato had come out as a they,
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them. She had come out as multiple people where I said in my trademark diplomatic and gentle style,
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I am not referring to an individual person as if she is two people. Everyone else can run around
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sounding like maniacs if they want to, but I will not be participating. No, thank you.
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Well, I did say no, thank you. So I think I was pretty polite about it.
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What rules did these two posts violate? Well, the company said that I had run afoul of their
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policy prohibiting hateful conduct. What is hateful conduct? This is the only explanation
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they offer for that. They say, you may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people
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on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,
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religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. Now, it should be noted that you can still
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promote violence against them if you just disagree with their opinions, because people do that to me
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every single day. I mean, every day someone is telling me they're going to kill me or wishing
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death on my entire family. But that's okay, because they just hate me for everything I stand for and
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believe. And that's totally fine. Hate somebody for their race or gender, on the other hand, well,
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that is unacceptable. But did I promote violence? I mean, did I make any threats against anybody?
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I said the patriarchy wins, but that was simply an observation, not a threat.
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I didn't say the patriarchy will win, you fools. You're all going to pay.
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That's the kind of thing I might say, but that's not what I mean. That's what I hope it will happen,
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but that's not what I actually said. So where was the threat? Or was I guilty of harassment?
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Was I harassing the trans Jeopardy! contestant by simply observing in a tweet where he was not
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tagged or even mentioned by name that he's a biological male? Now, if I had to guess,
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and all I can do is guess, because social media companies never deign to explain themselves to
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plebs like us, but if I had to guess, that's what I would think they probably determined,
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that I was harassing trans people by making objectively correct statements.
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And not even, again, making those statements to them, but just in general.
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In much the same way that I guess that my math teachers in elementary school harassed me by
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telling me that I was doing long division wrong. You know, the truth is harassment,
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if you don't want to hear it. That seems to be the standard, though, rather unevenly applied,
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of course. Now, fortunately, I was let out of timeout the next day, and I was permitted to
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continue posting, you know, whatever I want. I mean, posting videos of my sled races if I wanted
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to. But whether I can continue to post scientifically correct information about sex and gender is
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another matter. I will continue to do it. We'll just see how much more they tolerate before they
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ban me. Now, although my Twitter suspension was obviously a great hardship for me, and I'm still
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struggling with PTSD from the experience, I'm aware that it's not exactly earth-shattering news for
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everybody else. Especially because this kind of thing happens all the time. The point that has
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greater implications for society is not that this or that individual person gets suspended or banned.
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It's that the most powerful social media platforms on the planet have forbidden us from stating basic
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objective truths. Now, although we have perhaps grown accustomed to it by now, it is nonetheless
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mind-numbingly deranged that multi-billion-dollar companies have decided that you cannot say
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biological males are men. Many of the dystopian novelists of the 20th century were able to correctly
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predict various aspects of our society today, but none of them predicted this. None of them prophesied a
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future, a near future, where it's considered harassment to observe that an individual with a penis is a man.
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This goes far beyond the darkest nightmares of Orwell or Huxley. And it, of course, extends beyond social
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media. There are efforts now to impose these kinds of rules on the entire country from the federal level
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in the form of bills like the Equality Act. School districts have adopted these policies, like in Loudoun
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County. Major corporations across the spectrum have imposed them on their employees. And we cannot lose sight of
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just how exceedingly psychotic all of this truly is. Now, of course, I say psychotic in a colloquial
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sense. The people imposing these rules are not actually crazy. Some of these people that are imposing
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the rules on behalf of are crazy, but the people coming up with the rules are not crazy. They are acting
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with intent and with clear and coherent goals in mind. Part of what drives the censorship is that the
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left's gender ideology is a fragile and vulnerable thing, and they know it. It cannot stand up to the
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slightest scrutiny. It can only be defended if all of the opponents are cleared from the playing field
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ahead of time. It could only stand up if no wind is allowed to blow. Over at the University of
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Pennsylvania, biological male swimmer Leah Thomas just won, just a few days ago, first place in the 200
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and 500-yard freestyle races in a meet against females. Now, he was defeated in the 100 freestyle
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race, however, by Yale's Isaac Hennig, who is also transgender. So a trans person beat another trans
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person in the female meet. Now, the interesting thing is that Hennig is a female who now identifies
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as male, which means that in the women's competition, men who call themselves women are allowed to
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participate, but so are women who call themselves men. It is total indefensible insanity, though a
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journalist on NBC this weekend tried to defend it anyway, and let's listen to that. So let's talk
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about it now with Joe Yerkeba from NBC Out, who just published this piece with the latest about Leah.
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Joe, I'm glad to have you here. Talk about what's going on here, right? Because Leah does have support
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from her team, from her school, from her league, if you will, and yet for some of her detractors,
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that doesn't seem to be enough. Sure, yeah. So there are a few different arguments happening
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here. You've got an argument about fairness. There are people who oppose trans women competing
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in women's sports because they say it's unfair to cisgender women who aren't trans,
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most of whom don't receive the athletic advantages of higher testosterone levels during puberty,
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though then you have folks who say there's very little scientific evidence that shows that those
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advantages carry over for trans women after transition. So then you've got this argument
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about fairness and human rights on the other side. And trans advocates say that this question
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of inclusion is about more than just sports because we're still seeing these efforts at the
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state level to ban trans people from using the bathrooms of their gender. So they say this debate
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is really part of a larger conversation about whether trans people can participate in certain aspects
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of society at all. Just one minute there, and somehow they managed to pack like a half dozen lies
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into it. Every word of what you just heard is false. It's not true that Leah Thomas has support
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from his teammates. They hate the fact that he's there. They by no means are thrilled to have this
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big bulky guy intruding in their space, but they'll be punished if they say anything on the record
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about it. They have talked off the record, but that's all they can do. As for the claim that there's
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no scientific evidence that biological males have advantages in sports, that would be true if you
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simply ignore literally all of the evidence because every piece of evidence available confirms over
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and over and over again that males have an advantage. I mean, every single piece of evidence.
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There is no evidence on the other side of this. And yet it's not even our side that needs to produce
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evidence. If you wish to contradict thousands of years of human knowledge and experience,
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which are free to do, it's you who must meet the burden of proof. You must provide evidence that
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they don't have an advantage, which you have not and never will because you can't. And it's also not
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true that people are trying to stop transgenders from participating in society. Nobody has made any
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such attempt or suggested anything like that. I am not aware of any law or any proposal anywhere at any
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point. That would prohibit trans people from using the bathroom. That would not be a sanitary policy
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for one thing. It also certainly wouldn't be fair. The question is whether trans people should be
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required to stick with their biological sex in these contexts or if they should get special treatment.
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So once again, everything you heard there was a lie because all they can do is lie, which is no surprise
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given that they are waging a war on truth. And that's what this is about.
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But the lies are so brazen, so empty, so glaringly obvious and false that the truth just cannot be
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allowed within its proximity at all. The lies would shrivel and die. They cannot endure the slightest
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challenge. That's why they censor. What other choice do they have? Tell the truth? I mean,
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well, they obviously can't do that. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right. So we start with this, some sad news, troubling news. Congresswoman Alexandria
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Queza Cortez announced on Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19. It's from the Daily
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Wire reporting now. The announcement comes just a week after the New York representative was caught
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vacationing in Florida and partying at a drag club with celebrity Billy Porter while skipping voting in
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person at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. because of the ongoing emergency pandemic, she said.
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And she also wasn't wearing a mask for much of this. So, but, you know, she went to a super spreader
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event, maskless at a drag party, and now she has COVID. I guess, you know, COVID has a crush on AOC.
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Seriously, COVID, back off. Why are you so obsessed with AOC COVID? It's super creepy, all right?
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That's all the analysis I have on that. We'll move on to the next thing. From CNN, it says,
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the Supreme Court's conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President
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Biden's most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of COVID-19, a vaccine or testing
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requirement aimed at large businesses. But in a separate challenge, some justices seemed more
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open to a vaccine mandate aimed at certain health care workers. The court heard arguments for almost
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four hours as the number of infections is soaring and 40 million adults in the U.S. are still
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declining to get vaccinated. The three liberal justices on the court expressed clear approval for
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the administration's rules in both areas. So, based on the arguments, anyway, it seems likely
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that the mandate will get, at least huge swaths of the mandate will get, will be shut down as well
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it should be. But, you know, I didn't listen to all the arguments from the clips that I've heard and
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what I've read. The, the one fact that I think was not, doesn't seem to be, to have been focused on
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enough. And to me, this is, this is the decisive fact, right? Is it because we can put all the civil
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liberty questions aside as important as they are. And obviously in a Supreme Court challenge, you have
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to focus on those because that's what this is about. It's about the constitution. So it's a constitutional
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challenge. But you, but in reality, you could really put all that aside and just look at the fact
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that the vaccines do not prevent transmission of the virus, which the CDC, and we'll play some clips
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here in just a second, but the CDC is finally admitting that. Even the CDC is saying that at this point
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it doesn't prevent transmission. So let's, let's just say in a fantasy world that Pfizer and Moderna
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had come up with a vaccine that does prevent transmission, you know, even then I would not
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be in favor of vaccine mandates imposed by the federal government because then we go over to the
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civil liberty issue. But if there could be any argument, if there could be any argument in favor of
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these things, that argument has to hinge on the vaccine, stopping the spread of, of, of the virus.
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Because then you're saying that this is a public health necessity. And so we have to put these other
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liberty issues on pause or whatever. It's a bad argument. It's a weak argument. But if the,
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if the vaccine does not prevent transmission, there's no argument.
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That is, you know, the other strategy here. And I just, I just saw this headline pop up that right
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now the pharmaceutical industry, they are working hard on a, a vaccine specifically for Omicron or I'm
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sorry, I didn't mean to mispronounce it. Omnicorn. So they're working hard on a vaccine for Omnicorn and
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they, they hope to have that ready, you know, in the next few months. So sort of like in a, in a similar
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move, I, you know, I'm, I'm organizing an effort to supply more lifeboats to the Titanic. You know,
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that's, that's the great thing is that that's one way maybe where the vaccines will work is if you,
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if you, if you start vaccinating everybody against Omnicorn after everyone's gotten it already.
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And then, you know, so they'll wait till everyone gets it and it peters out on its own. And then they
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give the vaccine and a few weeks later they could say, look, no one's getting Omnicorn anymore.
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It worked. So unless you're using a strategy like that, um, these vaccines are not stopping
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transmission, which means that there is no rational argument for them at all. The argument is gone
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because this is not, you're not protecting public health anymore. You're not stopping anyone from
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getting it. But the real headline for the, from the arguments on Friday was the avalanche of
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misinformation from the liberal justices. And, uh, going back to the CDC, Brett Baer had the CBC
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director, Walensky on his show on Sunday and asked her about some of that, uh, the misinformation.
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And we'll start with this because there was a claim made by Sotomayor that a hundred thousand
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children are hospitalized with COVID. And, um, Walensky was asked about that and let's, let's listen.
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We just heard about the U S Supreme court currently deciding the fate of the president's vaccine
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mandates in the questioning justice. Sonia Sotomayor made this statement.
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We have over a hundred thousand children, which we've never had before in, in serious condition
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vaccination and, um, many on ventilators. Now we can find from Friday suggests there are fewer than
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3,500 current pediatric hospitalizations from COVID-19. Is that true? Yeah, but you know,
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here's what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations. Now, first of all, the vast
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majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated. And for those children who are not
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eligible for vaccination, we do know that they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their
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family members aren't vaccinated. So the most important thing we can do for those children
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to keep them out of the hospital is to vaccinate them and to vaccinate their family members around
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them. Understood. But the number is not a hundred thousand. It's roughly 3,500 in hospitals now.
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Well, you know, a hundred thousand, 3,500. What's, what's the difference? Uh, later on in the
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conversation, Walensky was asked whether she feels any responsibility to fact check the Supreme Court,
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because, you know, that's something that allegedly the CDC has been doing, Walensky has been doing.
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Uh, we, we know that, that, uh, misinformation supposedly is a big problem. And so when we get
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misinformation from the nation's highest court, uh, from a, from a platform with that much prestige,
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is it necessary to fact check it? And, uh, Walensky wasn't so sure about that.
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From your data, ages 15 to 24, for example, the risk of death is at 0.001%. Um, I, I guess that
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what I'm getting at in this opening is that the Supreme Court is in the process of dealing with
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this big issue about mandates. And do you feel a responsibility as a CDC director to correct a very
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big mischaracterization by one of the Supreme Court justices?
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Yeah, I, um, here's what I'll tell you. I'll tell you that right now, 17, you're, if you're
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unvaccinated, you're 17 times more likely to be in the hospital and 20 times more likely to die
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than if you're on, than if you're boosted. And so what my responsibility is, is to provide
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guidance and recommendations to protect the American people. Those recommendations strongly,
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uh, recommend vaccination for our children above the age of five and boosting for everyone above
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the age of 18, if they're eligible. Well, you know, we don't, we don't need to worry about
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misinformation when it's coming from that side. Uh, she was also asked at a different point,
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how many of the deaths, because this is now a subject that we're allowed to suddenly talk about,
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um, how many of the deaths, COVID deaths of the 800 plus thousand, how many of them are deaths
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from COVID as opposed to with COVID? This was the, the unspeakable thing for about two years. You
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were not allowed to talk about it. That was going to be, that would be a quick, easy ban from pretty
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much any social media platform if you had suggested such a thing. And, but now we're allowed to talk
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about it. She was asked during that same interview, how many of the deaths are from COVID as opposed to
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with COVID. And she said, well, we got to, I'll look into that and we'll, we'll get that information
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over to you. You know, we're still, we're still putting the numbers together. Yeah. She's still
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putting the numbers together two years into it. Um, so she didn't want to answer that question on
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Fox, but the next morning on good morning America this morning, she, uh, admitted another
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interesting fact about the COVID deaths. Listen, the overwhelming number of deaths over 75%
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occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who
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were unwell to begin with. Another two years, almost three years into it. First time we've
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heard that from her, not the first time we've heard it, but from someone like her. So what,
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what exactly is going on? I mean, we finally have people in the mainstream media
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talking about the effects that the shutdowns and lockdowns are having on kids and we, how we can't
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keep doing this, uh, the, the trade-off that that's been made and how much it's damaged children.
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They're finally talking about that. They're talking about the difference between dying from COVID and
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with it. Um, we're even getting now admissions about the fact that the vaccines do not prevent the
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spread of the virus. Why is this happening right now? Well, a cynical person, also just a logical
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person might look at the fact that we're, we are almost exactly a year into the Biden administration
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at this point. And Kate cases are surging to record highs. Um, deaths have gone down,
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which is another thing that now the quote unquote public health authorities and the media,
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they're also pointing to that, um, which they hadn't done in the past.
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You know, in the past it was, well, we're just going to focus on cases. And, uh, even if deaths
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are lagging behind where, you know, let's, let's worry about the cases, but cases are surging to
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record highs a year into the, to the Biden administration. And we're coming up now on
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midterm elections. And now they're finally admitting some basic truths about the virus
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because they realized that Biden promised to shut down the virus hasn't happened. It's never going
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to happen. The people who were stupid enough to vote for him based on that promise and promises
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like it, they're going to be upset and they're going to look, there's go, there's going to be a
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price to pay at the polls. So now the media and the Democrat party, they have a, they have several
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months of this cleanup effort that they can do. And the cleanup is going to be, um, erasing and
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reversing everything they've been saying for the last two to three years. Now, one other clip I want
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to play for you, because I thought this was interesting over on water's world on Fox. Uh,
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he had an expert on to talk about something that I hadn't heard until I saw this, this clip,
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but the, the possibility that Omicron, Omnicorn, I keep getting wrong. I'm sorry.
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Was, uh, was also a lab leak. So we know that the original COVID strain was most likely leaked from
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a lab. Um, another thing that you weren't allowed to talk about for two years. And now suddenly you're
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allowed to talk about, but, uh, Omicron also was potentially a lab leak. Let's listen to that.
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Research suggests and evidence suggests that they were doing experiments on mice
00:24:23.480
in a lab in South Africa. We don't know which lab. Do we know which lab?
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Uh, we do. We have, we have some information from that there. There are actually several
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laboratories. So we don't have that, that final bit of information. Uh, I just soon not go there on,
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on, on, on. I understand. And they were trying to do experiments in order to get ahead of the virus
00:24:46.720
in order to make sure that a vaccine would help it or doing research. And it escaped because that's
00:24:53.200
what viruses do it. Would this have been gain of function research in a South African lab?
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Yeah, it's effectively is gain of function. If you're trying to teach a virus, how to get around
00:25:04.620
human antibodies, it's gaining the function to get around human antibodies growing in mice.
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It's gaining the ability to grow in mice. So yeah, both of those do qualify as gain of function.
00:25:14.520
All right. Well, I guess the good news is this is a pretty weak strain. Uh, it's not a mutation
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as far as we can tell, as far as the research shows, and, and it's going to wash through and
00:25:25.420
give the, I guess, hopefully the whole country enough immunity that this thing kind of decelerates
00:25:30.940
and we can turn the page on, on COVID-19. Is that your understanding?
00:25:37.480
Absolutely. Yeah. So it grows faster than Delta in the, in the nose and the, in the throat grows
00:25:43.280
much slower in the lungs. The consequence is that, you know, it's very transmissible, the most
00:25:48.480
transmissible virus we've ever seen. Basically the sneeze heard around the world is enough to,
00:25:53.060
to fill a room with it, but it doesn't go deep in your lungs to cause pneumonia. So it's sort of
00:25:58.320
the white hat, perfect virus. If you could, if you had to engineer one, if you had to engineer one,
00:26:05.140
which it sounds like this one was, uh, even though if, if, if Omnicorn kind of works out because
00:26:12.340
it's a weaker strain taking over for, um, the, the, the, the deadlier strains, but even so another
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virus potentially escaped from a lab, maybe we should just stop doing this kind of research
00:26:27.040
entirely. It's sort of amazing when you think about all of the, the red tape that governs most
00:26:32.860
of our lives. And especially if you're a business owner, you know, you know, this better than anybody
00:26:37.800
else. Um, all of the, all of the, the, the policies that are put in place, all of the red
00:26:44.140
tape, every, every, every aspect of everything that you do, you is, has oversight from like three
00:26:50.500
different layers of government to make sure that everything is safe. Nobody gets hurt. And yet you've
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got these labs across the world that are just, they're just letting, letting, uh, letting viruses
00:27:04.940
escape. And next thing you know, millions of people are dead and we, we, we barely even talk
00:27:10.160
about it. Of course, there's no, no consequences for anybody. Nobody pays any price for that
00:27:16.080
whatsoever. So, you know, if you want to open up a, if you're, if you're a 10 year old daughter
00:27:24.400
wants to open up a lemonade stand, uh, outside your, your front door, that might get shut down
00:27:30.220
by the government. In fact, there's been many cases of that happening where you're going to get a,
00:27:34.560
the government's going to shut that one down because it's not safe. You know, this is, this
00:27:38.520
is unregulated lemonade that's being let loose into the community. Who knows what could happen?
00:27:45.680
Your daughter might be a psychopath lacing it with, with arsenic.
00:27:51.580
So they're going to shut that down right away. If you try to have the unsanctioned, uh,
00:27:55.400
lemonade stand without all of the licenses and everything that you need, all the permissions,
00:27:59.540
but you want to open up a virus lab somewhere across the world. That's perfectly fine. Several
00:28:06.380
million people die. Yeah, whatever. Here's a local news report about a teacher who went to,
00:28:12.380
shall we say extreme lengths to protect herself from her son when she thought that he might've had
00:28:20.000
COVID. Listen, the local teacher is accused of putting her son in the trunk of her car while she
00:28:28.120
got tested for COVID. According to the district attorney's office, she said he tested positive
00:28:33.020
and she was trying to isolate him. And now we're learning that that woman is a teacher at a local
00:28:38.300
school district. Our Bill Barajas is live now in Northwest Harris County with the latest. Bill.
00:28:45.280
Well, Cypher ISD tells us she is a 41-year-old Sarah Beam, a Cypress Falls high school teacher.
00:28:51.480
According to court records, that teacher went to Pridgen Stadium's testing site on Monday with her
00:28:57.880
son in the trunk of her car because he had tested positive for COVID and she did not want to be
00:29:03.340
exposed. So she has been now charged with endangering a child. Well, when I first heard this
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story, I know it doesn't, it doesn't surprise me that it's a teacher. I probably could have told you
00:29:15.480
that. I just, you hear these kinds of stories and it sends chills down my spine. When I think about
00:29:24.780
the kids who are in, who are in, in, in these households governed by these COVID psychopaths,
00:29:32.840
imagine, I mean, this poor kid, imagine what he's had to endure. I mean, seriously,
00:29:38.000
imagine what he's had to endure for the last two to three years.
00:29:43.620
And it always goes back like we've been talking about, you know, it goes back to,
00:29:46.920
yeah, this is a germophobia and all of those kinds of things. Super paranoid people. And
00:29:55.840
many of them have just been, their brains have been broken by the media. The media, by the way,
00:30:02.280
you know, condemning this woman, but of course it's partly their fault. They're, they're partly
00:30:06.420
responsible for this kind of thing. They have intentionally broken everybody's brains. And then,
00:30:10.560
and then this is what happens as a result. So all of that factors into it, but then also there is
00:30:16.100
this, this obsessive self-centeredness from these parents who are not primarily concerned
00:30:25.480
with the safety of their own kids. They're just thinking about themselves
00:30:28.620
and they will inflict any torture on their children to keep themselves safe.
00:30:35.140
All right, let's move on to this from the Daily Wire. It says, on Wednesday nights,
00:30:39.480
Kevin Porter Jr. of the Houston Rockets knocked down a three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in the
00:30:43.580
game to beat the Washington Wizards 114-111. The game-winning shot should have been the story,
00:30:47.240
but it was the reaction by a member of the Wizards broadcast team that stole the show.
00:30:51.680
On the replay of the shot, Wizards broadcaster Glenn Consor made a comment that immediately set
00:30:56.960
social media on fire. Consor said, what a well-designed play. You got to give credit. Kevin
00:31:03.640
Porter Jr., like his dad, pulled that trigger right at the right time. That's what he said in the
00:31:09.480
broadcast. And, you know, pulling the trigger is kind of a common phrase that you hear from
00:31:16.800
sports broadcasters, common metaphor. But it says, the problem with the reference to Porter Jr.'s
00:31:22.840
father is that Brian Kevin Porter Sr. spent more than four years in prison for the 1993 shooting
00:31:28.440
death of a 14-year-old girl and then was shot and killed in 2004. According to USA Today,
00:31:35.080
Porter Jr.'s father, Brian Kevin Porter Sr., pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and
00:31:39.880
shooting death of a 14-year-old girl in 1993. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
00:31:44.260
Porter Sr. then died in 2004 after being shot in a South Seattle bar.
00:31:49.700
The Rocket Star was four years old when his father was killed.
00:31:52.160
Now, of course, so he makes this comment, ends up on social media. And because, I mean,
00:32:01.680
you have to keep in mind that of everyone watching the Wizards game, and they heard that comment,
00:32:07.120
99.999%, if not all of them, they wouldn't have any idea about the criminal history of Kevin
00:32:16.000
Porter Jr.'s father. They would have heard that comment, and they would have thought nothing of
00:32:19.880
it. They would have assumed that this basketball player has a father who played in the NBA at one
00:32:28.260
point, and that's what they would have assumed. But, you know, one person on social media does the
00:32:35.000
Google search, makes the connection, puts it out there, and next thing you know, this guy is getting
00:32:41.320
blasted by everyone. He's calling for him to be fired and everything else. LeBron James jumps on
00:32:46.580
the dog pile. LeBron James tweeted, oh, he thought this was cool, huh? Nah, we ain't going for this.
00:32:52.600
Sorry, but this ain't gonna fly. How insensitive can you be to say something like this? Beat it, man.
00:32:58.420
I pray for you, but there's no place in our beautiful game for you. Yeah, I pray for you. I want your life
00:33:03.080
to be ruined, and I'm going to use my immense platform to do it, but I'm praying for you as I ruin your
00:33:09.400
life. Immediately following the call, many wondered whether Concer was referring to former NBA player
00:33:16.420
Kevin Porter mistakenly believing him to be Porter Jr.'s father, and then it turns out that the
00:33:23.820
broadcaster, that's exactly what happened. He put out a statement apologizing where he apologizes and
00:33:30.620
said he was sincerely sorry for it, but then he says, I mistakenly thought Kevin was the son of former
00:33:35.980
Washington player Kevin Porter and was unaware that the words I chose to describe the game-winning
00:33:41.280
shot would be in any way hurtful or insensitive. I've reached out to Kevin to personally apologize
00:33:45.320
and hope to be able to talk with him soon. So, again, most people will hear this, not think
00:33:51.760
anything of it. Then when you look into it and you see that, okay, well, this guy's name is Kevin
00:33:56.160
Porter. He's playing for Washington. Years back, there was another guy named Kevin Porter who played for
00:34:01.660
Washington. This broadcaster was aware of that and assumed that there was a family relation and
00:34:06.680
that's what he was talking about. So, this was just a mistake, an accident. It happens. And yet,
00:34:13.860
even after he explained this, which is a perfectly logical explanation, and that makes a lot more sense.
00:34:21.820
I mean, we can't know what was going on in this guy's head and what his motivations were.
00:34:26.020
But either he mistakenly thought that the old Kevin Porter was the father of this Kevin Porter,
00:34:32.180
and that's the reference, or he was making a joke about an NBA star's father killing someone
00:34:40.380
because he wanted to destroy his own career. Either this was a simple mistake or this broadcaster
00:34:47.820
committed an act of random career suicide for no apparent reason. Which explanation makes the most
00:34:55.920
sense? Well, obviously, the simple mistake makes the most sense. And yet, even after he explained
00:35:01.180
and provide a very reasonable explanation for the comment, still people want him fired anyway,
00:35:08.020
including LeBron James, who after his most recent game, he was talking to the media and he's still
00:35:13.860
offended by this, still very upset, and he still wants this guy punished for it. Let's listen.
00:35:18.960
I stand by my tweet and I stand by everything I said. So, okay, let's just say,
00:35:23.220
let's just say he thought that was the case. So, we get scouting reports on players.
00:35:34.780
And I know you guys from the media, y'all get memos and stuff from players and stuff before the game,
00:35:40.080
right? Y'all get like packets and stuff when y'all come to the game and what's going on in the game's way.
00:35:45.180
And I believe that I'm not a play-by-play person, but I believe that they do due diligence as well
00:35:52.980
and they get their reports on teams that they're about to play as long as their own team, right?
00:35:58.680
So, I was actually watching the game live last night when I heard it. And I waited. I didn't do it
00:36:05.480
right away. As you've seen from my tweet, I was watching the game. So, if that's the case,
00:36:11.360
if I am a play-by-play announcer, right? And I'm covering a team in my local team. In his case,
00:36:23.960
he's covering the Wizards. So, he remembers the Kevin Porter who used to play for the Bullets,
00:36:29.240
correct? The first thing I would have done, I would have said, oh, Kevin Porter Jr. is coming
00:36:38.060
in the town. Let me see if that's his son. Okay. All right. Thanks, LeBron. Shut up, shut up,
00:36:43.380
shut up. So, yeah. So, really, this guy, the broadcaster, the announcer, he still deserves
00:36:50.260
to be fired. Consort deserves to be fired because, as LeBron points out, you know, it was his job to
00:36:57.900
research the family tree of every single player that is involved in a game that he's calling.
00:37:05.080
And the fact that he didn't do that means that, sorry, sorry, bud, your life's over. You know,
00:37:10.000
you should have known better. Before you call a game, you got to look up the rosters in every
00:37:14.360
single person, maybe the starters, but also the bench players, because they might take the court.
00:37:19.060
And if you think that you might be referring to them, you got to look up their entire family tree,
00:37:23.240
going back at least 100 years. And if you didn't do that, well, sorry, your life is over.
00:37:29.920
Sure. That's what LeBron is like. You see here, again, how cancel culture, of course,
00:37:35.060
has absolutely nothing to do with holding people accountable. It's also not even really
00:37:40.500
like an overreaction to people who do or say bad things. Because there's a complete disconnect here.
00:37:49.620
This was, intention does not matter. Motivation doesn't matter.
00:37:54.240
It's especially if you're not in a victim class. So, Consor, who I believe is a white guy,
00:38:05.180
as a member of a non-victim class, when he says something, he does not get to decide
00:38:13.300
the intentions of his own words. He doesn't get to determine why he said something or what he meant.
00:38:19.100
His own intentions and motivations are not up to him.
00:38:24.800
They're up to members of the victim class, like LeBron James, who's certainly a victim.
00:38:30.020
He's worth like a billion dollars. He's beloved and world famous and everything.
00:38:35.820
But he's a victim. He's certainly more of a victim than just some local broadcaster for the Wizards,
00:38:45.540
as a member of a victim class, he gets to decide
00:38:54.740
Alright, one other thing before we get to the comment section.
00:38:57.180
I thought this was just great. Check out this tweet
00:39:04.520
Even after a 12-hour night shift at the hospital last night,
00:39:16.200
And then there's a picture that he took of his wife down there
00:39:30.300
I gotta say, I saw this tweet and I was pretty upset.
00:39:47.620
John, your wife comes home for the 12-hour shift
00:40:10.920
Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.
00:40:22.880
Next Matt needs to film the podcast in a parking lot