The Matt Walsh Show - March 17, 2022


Ep. 910 - Leftist Media Accuses Me Of 'Harassing' Groomers


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

176.1012

Word Count

9,731

Sentence Count

638

Misogynist Sentences

20

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

The organizers of a sex camp for children are now allegedly in hiding because of right-wing harassment from the likes of Ben Shapiro and yours truly. Also, Jussie Smollett is released from jail, proving that few people are more privileged in this culture than someone who is gay, black, and famous. And a children s hospital gives advice on tucking for kids.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the organizers of a sex camp for children are now allegedly in hiding
00:00:04.540 because of, quote, right-wing harassment from the likes of Ben Shapiro and yours truly and others.
00:00:09.760 According to the media, just because you hold masturbation workshops for kids
00:00:12.860 doesn't mean you can't be a victim too. Also, speaking of victims, fake victims anyway,
00:00:16.960 Jussie Smollett is released from jail proving that few people are more privileged in this
00:00:21.040 culture than someone who is gay, black, rich, and famous. Also, a children's hospital gives
00:00:25.580 advice on tucking for kids. Now, if you don't know what that is, you're going to find out today and
00:00:30.220 probably hate me for telling you. And a popular new song worships Ukrainian President Zelensky as a
00:00:35.100 Christ figure who has come to save the world. What's the problem with this kind of over-the-top
00:00:39.480 adulation of a political figure during wartime or any time? We'll talk about all that and more today
00:00:43.860 on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:12.100 the media and the Democrats were quick to hail her as a highly qualified, irreproachable candidate who
00:02:17.060 should be immediately confirmed because there's nothing to ask her or find out about her other
00:02:21.180 than the fact that she is simply wonderful in every way. Now, as expected, some Republicans joined
00:02:26.100 in this chorus as well, celebrating Jackson for her stellar resume, even though the most important
00:02:30.880 thing on her resume, as far as Biden was concerned, was her gender and her skin color. All in all,
00:02:36.180 the consensus from DC seemed to be that this nominee is perfect, unassailable, and there's nothing else
00:02:42.120 to see here, folks. Well, it turns out there was a little bit more to see. At least Senator Josh
00:02:47.040 Hawley decided to buck the trend and do a bit of homework on Kentonji Brown Jackson. What he discovered
00:02:52.420 was quite disturbing, disturbing especially because it's part of a larger trend. Now, in a series of tweets
00:02:57.760 last night, Hawley revealed, quote, Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off
00:03:02.420 the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She's been advocating for
00:03:07.240 it since law school. This goes beyond soft on crime. I'm concerned that this is a record that
00:03:11.360 endangers our children. As far back as her time in law school, Judge Jackson has questioned making
00:03:15.420 convicts register as sex offenders, saying it leads to stigmatization and ostracism. She suggested
00:03:21.240 public policy is driven by a climate of fear, hatred, and revenge against sex offenders. Now, I will say for the
00:03:27.520 record, taking a pause here for a moment, that I actually agree that we should get rid of the
00:03:32.740 sex offender registry, but that's only because anybody dangerous enough to be on the registry
00:03:37.860 should still be in prison. The registry only exists because the courts are releasing predators and
00:03:43.540 pedophiles into our communities who they, the courts, know are a danger to the public. So, rather than
00:03:50.520 writing their names on a list and putting another little red dot on a map, these people should just be
00:03:56.020 kept in their cages to begin with. And then we don't have to worry about it. It's absurd that
00:04:01.240 the legal system would actually label somebody a high-risk sex offender and then proceed to send
00:04:06.520 them into our neighborhoods. They could put a stamp on someone saying, high-risk sex offender. Okay,
00:04:12.560 you can go now. Get rid of the sex offender registry by extending prison sentences. That's my position.
00:04:20.540 Though Jackson wants to get rid of it for much the opposite reason. Now, back to Holly. It says,
00:04:26.920 Judge Jackson has also questioned sending dangerous sex offenders to civil commitment.
00:04:31.360 We have a civil commitment law in Missouri, and it protects children. It gets worse. As a member of
00:04:35.260 the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson advocated for drastic changes in how the law treats
00:04:39.980 sex offenders by eliminating the existing mandatory minimum sentences for child porn. Judge Jackson has
00:04:45.140 said that some people who possess child porn are in this for either the collection or the people who
00:04:51.140 are loners and find status in their participation in the community. What community would that be?
00:04:56.320 The community of child exploiters? Judge Jackson has opined that there may be a type of, quote,
00:05:00.700 less serious child pornography offender whose motivation is not sexual, but, quote,
00:05:05.160 is the challenge or to use the technology. A, quote, less serious child porn offender? In her time on
00:05:11.920 the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson said that she, quote, mistakenly assumed that child
00:05:16.240 pornography offenders are pedophiles, and she wanted to, quote, understand this category of
00:05:20.700 non-pedophiles who obtain child pornography. Non-pedophiles who obtain child pornography.
00:05:30.580 That's like, what, non-drunk drivers who happen to be driving while intoxicated.
00:05:36.220 Holly continues on for many other more tweets, revealing many more sordid details about this
00:05:42.180 highly qualified judge, but I think you get the idea. She believes that some people caught with
00:05:48.640 child porn aren't even pedophiles, and they might just be collectors. What, no different from someone
00:05:55.580 who collects baseball cards or stamps, maybe? Her reference to pedophiles as a community is
00:06:01.880 extremely disturbing because this is the classic thing. This is the classic move by people who
00:06:07.220 wish to normalize or excuse any sort of deviant behavior. It always begins by turning the deviants
00:06:13.420 into a community. That's always the first step. They're a community. A bunch of individual predators
00:06:20.660 and perverts, you know, they can be condemned. But a community, well, you can't say anything bad about
00:06:26.720 a community. You know, the people that nobody has any interest in excusing or validating or legitimizing,
00:06:34.100 we don't talk about them as communities. Like, nobody talks about the serial killer community. No one
00:06:39.100 says that, even though there are multiple serial killers in the world, but we don't talk about them
00:06:43.400 as a community. The word community is used when there is an effort to validate and generate sympathy.
00:06:51.420 That's the idea. And this, again, is part of a larger trend. As we've seen, there are many groomers
00:06:57.740 and predators on the left and many more who say that we should have sympathy for these kinds of
00:07:01.900 people. Speaking of which, you may remember last week when we discussed the, quote, sexy summer camp
00:07:06.800 for children hosted by a group of disgusting perverts in Kentucky. As uncovered by Chris Ruffeau,
00:07:12.340 the camp, meant for people of all ages, including kids, has lessons on sex liberation,
00:07:17.700 gender exploration, BDSM, being a sex worker, self-managed abortions, and sexual activity while
00:07:24.740 using licit and illicit drugs. The itinerary for the camp shows that the very first workshop on the
00:07:30.140 first day is a lesson on self-pleasure, which includes a, quote, hands-on masturbation demonstration.
00:07:38.140 One of the women who hosted the camp has been an outspoken advocate for childhood masturbation for
00:07:42.320 years. You probably remember the video that we played last week where she talks about this,
00:07:46.780 but if you didn't watch last week, and maybe you don't remember, unfortunately, I'm going to have
00:07:50.900 to play it again, and here it is. You know, like, get down with yourself, explore your own body.
00:07:56.780 Masturbation is really healthy, and I recommend it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my
00:08:03.580 nephews could talk, they were doing that. That's what they were doing. Kids touch themselves. Kids start
00:08:09.420 to ask questions, and we teach them the language for their bodies, right? That's your nose. Touch your nose.
00:08:15.780 Show Aunt T. You can touch your nose. But my sister's not saying that when they're tugging at their penis,
00:08:20.980 right? But it feels good, right? We have to learn ways to talk to young people about this so that
00:08:26.860 they know how to explore their body consensually so that it's not in public, right? We don't want
00:08:31.980 people exploring their bodies in public. That's not consensual. But exploring your body at any age,
00:08:38.320 grandmas, grandpas, all of us.
00:08:44.980 You know, we see a lot there. One of the things we see, part of this, is this female privilege.
00:08:52.780 Because I tell you something, if that was just a dude talking about, you know, as like an uncle,
00:09:00.060 talking about how he likes to talk to his nieces and nephews about masturbating, there would be
00:09:10.040 universal agreement that this guy is a pedophile, a predator, and needs to be put in prison and kept
00:09:15.880 away from kids. Now, there should obviously be universal agreement on this too. But there isn't.
00:09:22.280 You know, there's agreement really just on one side of the aisle. As I discovered when I called
00:09:30.040 this out on my show, and so did many people on the right to include Ben Shapiro, some Fox hosts like
00:09:34.660 Laura Ingram, lo and behold, turns out, and as I saw last night, that we as the critics of the sex
00:09:40.780 camp for kids have become the bad guys. And the groomers giving masturbation demonstrations to
00:09:48.920 children, they're the helpless victims. The feminist website Jezebel published this report
00:09:53.400 with the headline, a group of sex ed teachers are afraid for their lives amid right-wing harassment
00:09:58.640 campaign. Now, I should note that I found out about this article because I was tagged in a post
00:10:03.420 by the Catholics for Choice page on Twitter linking to this article with their caption, which said,
00:10:08.600 this is horrifying and sadly more and more common as right-wing extremists continue to feel more and
00:10:14.040 more emboldened to target others with their vitriolic hatred. Shame on Laura Ingram,
00:10:18.920 Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and everyone else bullying these teachers. Now, it's no surprise
00:10:23.600 that the heretics who call themselves Catholic while whoring themselves out for the abortion
00:10:27.300 industry would take the side of groomers. That doesn't surprise me at all. As for the article,
00:10:32.800 it says, quote, a group of sex education teachers in Appalachia are afraid for their lives, so much so
00:10:37.660 that they're having to hide in safe houses after Christopher Ruffo, the right-wing activist credited by
00:10:43.060 The New Yorker for effectively, quote, inventing the conflict surrounding critical race theory,
00:10:47.440 has now set his sights on exposing their program. Since the thread was published,
00:10:52.120 the program was featured on the Ingram Angle, was called out in an advertisement for a populist
00:10:56.260 conservative think tank, and has attracted the attention of a slew of well-known conservatives
00:10:59.380 like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. Now, program staffers have been doxed on Twitter with a user
00:11:04.460 on social media likening them to witches, predators, and pedophiles, and calling for their arrest.
00:11:10.440 The online attacks have become so prevalent that they've recently been forced to seek refuge at a
00:11:14.500 safe house. A source close to the women told Jezebel, and an allied local pro-abortion
00:11:19.360 organization has also created a spreadsheet to track threats of violence and death against the
00:11:24.640 staff. By the way, why do you think the abortion, you got Catholics for Choice, a pro-abortion
00:11:30.780 organization, why are they so invested in this? Do you think about that? Why are they so invested
00:11:35.400 in sexualizing children? Why do they care? Planned Parenthood? The abortion industry is very invested
00:11:42.320 in this. Why is that? A part of it is that they hate kids. They despise children. They kill them. They
00:11:48.920 see children as just things to be exploited. But also because the more that they can encourage
00:11:59.140 sexual activity younger and younger, then the more customers they're going to have.
00:12:06.020 To clarify something else, some of these women, we're accused of calling them witches, but actually
00:12:10.820 these women call themselves witches. Now, I probably would have still called them witches because they
00:12:16.100 are, even if they didn't identify as such, but that's irrelevant. Now, back to the article. It says,
00:12:21.740 Since last Tuesday, Sexy Sex Ed, our educators and our funders have been flooded with hundreds of
00:12:32.180 threatening messages across all platforms, the group wrote in a statement on their website.
00:12:36.480 We recognize that the current misinformation attack against Sexy Sex Ed is part of a long-term,
00:12:40.760 highly funded and coordinated strategy of the right to maintain and entrench their power through media
00:12:45.780 and narrative control. Now, the statement from the sex camp workers is,
00:12:51.740 lengthy and calls me out by name along with Rufo and Ben Shapiro. I can't speak for those other two,
00:12:58.280 but I'm quite sure that they would join me in laughing hysterically at the very idea that we owe
00:13:04.380 these women an apology or any sort of sympathy at all. I also don't believe, by the way, that they got
00:13:11.180 the kind of threats that would require them to go to safe houses. I don't believe that. Okay. I just
00:13:15.740 don't believe it. I get threats all the time, much more than they do. And I've never fled to a
00:13:21.600 safe house because of them. Now, regardless, I don't condone threats or violence, but the general
00:13:27.240 anger directed at these predators is due entirely to their own actions. Nobody forced them to hold
00:13:35.700 masturbation and BDSM workshops for kids. They had to think of that in their own dark, twisted,
00:13:42.580 little, disgusting brains and make the choice to put their bizarre fantasies into practice.
00:13:49.320 What they didn't expect is that anybody outside of their community, their community, quote unquote,
00:13:55.840 of weirdo perverts would notice or hold them accountable. But this is what evil does.
00:14:02.940 When it's exposed, it shrinks away, securries off to the corner like cockroaches, plays the victim,
00:14:11.860 manipulates, woe is me. It's a dishonest game and a repulsive tactic. But it means we're pointing
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00:15:45.300 like so many other words, pretty much any word that the left commonly uses, the fact that they're
00:15:50.560 using it so often means that they've removed it of all meaning because they never use any words as
00:15:55.060 they're supposed to be used. So misinformation is one of those. And we're accused of a misinformation
00:16:00.140 campaign. Literally what Chris Ruffo did is he found their actual program and videos of them
00:16:07.340 speaking and said, here's what's happening. Here's their actual program from their sex camp for kids.
00:16:12.980 And it lists it all. A very, uh, you know, just right, right there. You can read it. This is
00:16:18.480 the first workshop, the second. And so for him to take that and say, look, everybody, here's this
00:16:26.840 thing, this thing that's happening, much of which they got from their own website, that that's
00:16:32.840 misinformation now. Right. Um, let's start with this from CNN. Jussie Smollett was released from jail
00:16:40.520 Wednesday night after an Illinois appeals court granted an emergency motion by his defense
00:16:44.760 attorney. Smollett's legal team is looking to delay his sentence and grant him bond until their appeal
00:16:49.260 of his conviction is decided on. The former empire actor was sentenced last week to 30 months of
00:16:53.560 felony probation, including 150 days in jail. Um, and, uh, including some restitution as well.
00:17:00.960 Quote, there's no room for politics in our court system. Defense attorney Nenya Uche said in a news
00:17:05.980 conference shortly after the actor's release, regardless of what you think about this case,
00:17:08.540 the real question is, should black men be walked into jail for a class four felony?
00:17:13.960 That's a disgrace. The attorney added. Um, and, uh, you get to the reason for this release. There
00:17:22.620 isn't, there wasn't much reason given, um, by the court for why they're releasing Jussie Smollett from
00:17:29.900 prison. We know the real reason, which we'll get to in a second. Um, as far as any reason,
00:17:35.580 what they, what they basically say is that, uh, well, the appeal is going to take a long time
00:17:39.820 and it's only 150 days in jail. So he'll, he'll, he's appealing the sentence. And by the time the
00:17:46.500 appeals decided the sentence will be over anyway. So we're just going to let him out of jail by that
00:17:51.120 logic. Well, I guess we're never going to send anybody to jail again for the six month sentences,
00:17:58.240 I guess are out the window now, because that's always going to be the case that if you appeal
00:18:02.100 it, uh, the appeal will take longer than the sentence. So is that what that means? We can't,
00:18:06.840 we can't send anybody to jail for that amount of time. This only further affirms what, what I said
00:18:14.540 immediately after the sentence was passed down. And there were people talking about, even people who
00:18:18.800 were happy that he was going to jail were saying, Oh, that's pretty harsh sentence. Uh, you know,
00:18:23.160 it, no, it should have been much more than that. He should have been looking at five, 10, 15 years
00:18:30.040 for all the reasons that we've talked about, given that he's, given that he's unrepentant,
00:18:35.980 um, given the just sociopathic nature of the, everything that went into the premeditation,
00:18:41.960 as I pointed out many times, the fact that he was, he was willing to let innocent people take the fall
00:18:48.340 for him. Um, all of that perjured himself on the stand, you know, was, was trying to inflame racial
00:18:56.960 tensions would have been fine. If there was a, if there was a riot in Chicago over this, he would
00:19:03.200 not only would have been fine with it. He was, he would have been happy about it. He probably was
00:19:05.920 upset that there was no riots. That's yet another thing that makes him a victim is that people
00:19:10.620 weren't writing over it. So you take all that consideration. You could easily justify the max prison
00:19:16.480 sentence, which would have been as the sentencing judge admitted 15 years and he should have gotten
00:19:20.340 all 15 years. And then at least they can't release him from jail on the excuse that the appeal will
00:19:27.720 take longer than the sentence. Uh, but now he's at a jail and his defense attorney says, well, should
00:19:34.520 we be, should we be marching? Should we, should we be walking black men into jail for class four
00:19:40.620 felonies? Let me answer that question for you. If I could, the answer is a yes. Why shouldn't we be
00:19:49.060 what, why shouldn't we be walking black men into jail for class four felonies?
00:19:56.440 But the law stipulates that you can go to jail for those kinds of crimes.
00:20:00.940 Now you notice the only thing that the defense attorney is worried about is black men. So white
00:20:05.260 men, we can march. Oh yeah. Well, they can go to jail, but black men, how dare we put black men
00:20:10.280 in jail? He's almost admitting just by saying that he's almost admitting what we all know to be true
00:20:20.640 anyway, that despite all the talk about white privilege and everything else, there is privilege
00:20:26.460 in this country. There's no question about it. There are people who are privileged in many different
00:20:31.860 ways. You know, there's the basic kind of privilege that comes with being wealthy and having a lot of
00:20:37.500 money and being famous. Justice Millett has all that. There's also the privilege that comes tied
00:20:42.760 to identity. There is racial privilege. There is identity-based privilege. And it's privilege that
00:20:48.960 you experience in the culture, in society, through social advantages, and you also experience it in the
00:20:56.460 courtroom. But we're not giving that privilege out to white people unless they can claim some other
00:21:04.480 privileged identity for them. Now, a white person who says he's gay or trans, sure, he'll get some
00:21:09.860 privilege. But the reality is that Jussie Smollett, as a black, gay, rich, famous person, is almost as
00:21:20.500 privileged as you can possibly get. And that's exactly how he's gotten away with all of this.
00:21:27.280 Got away with doing all of this and getting on the stand and perjuring himself, lying to the court
00:21:36.160 for hours on end, which the sentencing judge mentioned that and pretended to be upset about it.
00:21:46.760 That's almost as privileged as you could possibly get in our society today. The only thing that would
00:21:51.140 make Jussie Smollett more privileged is if he was trans. That's the one thing. That's the one
00:21:55.820 advantage. The one card he hasn't played yet. Yet. I mean, emphasis on yet.
00:22:03.800 And maybe my guess is that now that he's out of jail and all the legal problems are going to be put
00:22:10.300 behind him, you know, the next thing that he's going to want is he's going to want to get back
00:22:14.620 into Hollywood and start starring in films again. And I think he'll have no problem doing that.
00:22:22.120 But if he really wants to make sure that Hollywood embraces him and he can get his whole life back
00:22:28.180 and maybe even benefit from this in the end, then just come out as trans. So that's my guess in the
00:22:35.040 next couple of years, Jussie Smollett. Jussie Smollett will become Jessica Smollett in the next
00:22:41.300 couple of years. That is my, my, my guess. Maybe Jussie is already a gender neutral name,
00:22:47.380 so he doesn't need to change it. It's all, it's already all set up for him. Okay. This is from
00:22:50.640 the Daily Wire. It says, Dorn Becker Children's Hospital in Portland, which bills itself as Oregon's
00:22:55.820 top-ranked children's hospital, boasts a gender clinic, which offers advice for the safe tucking
00:23:02.660 of a boy's genitals out of the way, quote unquote, that can make, quote, the genital area look smoother
00:23:08.920 and flatter, as well as a referral to a, quote, sex positive shop in Portland. They sell gender
00:23:14.840 affirming clothes items, as well as sex toys, videos, and more. So there's a children's hospital
00:23:22.060 referring children to a sex shop while also giving them tips on tucking. What's that all about? Well,
00:23:29.880 the resource on safe tucking from the gender clinic states, quote, safe tucking. What is tucking?
00:23:36.060 Tucking is moving the penis testicles or both out of the way. This makes the genital area look
00:23:40.240 smoother and flatter. Tucking can reduce any concerns you have about your body, how your clothes fit, and
00:23:44.980 how safe you feel in public. People of all genders can tuck. There are several different methods of
00:23:49.700 tucking. The information below helps you tuck in ways that are safe for your body. According to the
00:23:55.560 hospital's website, it works in cooperation with the Oregon Health and Science University Transgender
00:24:00.820 Health Program, the OHSU logo is also emblazoned on the safe tucking handout. The handout cautions,
00:24:09.000 quote, a note on the words we use. This information uses the words penis, scrotum, and testicles.
00:24:14.600 We know you may not use those terms or identify with them. We use them here to refer to body parts
00:24:19.300 that people with tucking needs have. People with tucking needs. While understanding those words are not
00:24:25.580 for everyone. The resource advises, it is best to tuck for the first time when you're planning to be
00:24:30.620 at home. This keeps you from stressing about having to get it right the first time. It's also easier to
00:24:35.540 learn what your body needs to be comfortable when you tuck. Choose a method that feels comfortable to
00:24:40.120 you. And I just can't even keep reading this. Absolutely revolting. And this is a children's hospital.
00:24:47.800 This is, you hear me talk about this issue all the time because you know that I believe that gender
00:24:57.300 ideology and especially its effects on kids, this is probably the number one issue we face as a society
00:25:04.100 right now. But even as much as I talk about it, if you listen to the show, you still probably don't
00:25:16.040 quite comprehend just how bad this is, how widespread this madness is, how ubiquitous, how ingrained it has
00:25:27.280 become. I don't think anyone, even I can't fully comprehend it because I'm living through it.
00:25:36.780 And it's the kind of thing that you can't fully understand. It's like it's a historical,
00:25:40.900 you know, anytime you're living through a historical period or some sort of historical event,
00:25:44.340 you, you, you, the people who are in it can't, they don't have the view of it that you have when
00:25:49.660 you're later, when you can look back. Um, and so even for me, it's, it's, it's impossible to fully
00:25:58.440 comprehend what we are doing to ourselves and especially to our kids. I mean, what this, this
00:26:07.260 generation that we're raising right now, what's, what's this generation going to look like in 30
00:26:16.220 years? How many of them are still going to be here? Because a huge portion, it's, I'll tell you
00:26:23.460 one thing we're going to see and we're already starting to see now, and it's only going to get
00:26:27.960 worse, mass suicide epidemic among these kids who, who we have taken. And when I say we, I mean,
00:26:38.340 society has, has taken and, uh, forced an identity crisis onto them and completely from the youngest
00:26:48.880 ages, completely morphed and deformed their, their, a concept of themselves and put them on a path
00:26:57.560 towards destroying and rejecting their own bodies. To a point where eventually they're going to look
00:27:06.380 back and so much damage has been done that can't be undone. And they're going to say, who am I? What
00:27:10.160 am I? What have, what have I done? What have you all as the adults allowed me to do? What have you
00:27:16.020 done to me? And we're, we're going to see a wave of despair and suicide, unlike anything the world has
00:27:23.300 ever seen before. Again, we're already seeing it. It's only going to get worse. The wave is going to
00:27:28.500 become a tsunami. And don't, don't comfort yourself by saying, well, this is a children's hospital in
00:27:35.060 Oregon. It's not the only children's hospital, but it's a children's hospital, a hospital telling kids
00:27:43.280 to do this. I don't think I need to get into an explanation of why giving tucking tips to little
00:27:52.220 boys is reprehensible and disgusting and horrible. One of the reasons is that we are encouraging our
00:28:03.980 kids again, to reject themselves, reject their own bodies. It's really the exact opposite of the
00:28:11.280 message that most of us grew up with, especially, you know, in the millennial generation back when I
00:28:16.760 was a kid and none of this stuff existed. Nobody was talking about any of this. But back then there
00:28:22.520 was this huge emphasis on embracing yourself and loving yourself and your own body. An emphasis that,
00:28:31.180 that oftentimes went, went way overboard and went into the realm of, you know, narcissism and encouraging
00:28:36.340 people to be sort of self-obsessed, but at least it was on the right path.
00:28:42.820 Okay. We, we, we, sometimes it went too far and we didn't go about it the right way all the time,
00:28:49.260 but it was the right path where you're at least telling people, okay, this is who you are. This
00:28:54.660 is your body. It's the only one you're ever going to get. So you should accept that, accept who you
00:29:02.020 are. Uh, you should love who you are, love the body that God has given you. The message now for
00:29:10.820 kids is exactly the opposite of that. And I'll tell you something else. Um, the people who see this kind
00:29:21.000 of thing are giving tucking tips to kids in a children's hospital. The people who see this and approve of
00:29:26.500 it, uh, I don't want to share a country with them. I don't want to be united with them. They are not my
00:29:36.320 brothers and sisters in the, in this country. They're not my friends. I don't want to be their
00:29:41.880 friends. I, I, I don't even want to be cordial towards them. We can't even be cordial. Like if
00:29:48.080 you're around me and I know that you're that kind of person who would approve of something like this,
00:29:51.940 I can't respect you as a human being. I don't want to be near you. I don't want to have a
00:29:58.440 conversation with you about anything. You disgust me. You are an evil, twisted, sick person.
00:30:07.080 That's where we are in this country.
00:30:10.860 And, uh, I don't see how it gets any better. All right, let's see what else we got here. Um,
00:30:16.560 we'll play this for you this week. The Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions
00:30:23.080 voted on an amendment that would block the government from enforcing mask usage and vaccines
00:30:29.760 for preschoolers and toddlers. I want to play this clip for you quickly and just listen to this and,
00:30:34.220 uh, tell me what you hear. And next we have Braun amendment number eight to prohibit HHS from
00:30:42.540 implementing or enforcing their regulations regarding mask or vaccination protections
00:30:46.700 in the headstart program. Again, I will be a no on this. Does anyone want Senator Braun's 15 seconds?
00:30:53.520 Seeing none. Clerk will call the roll. Senator Romney.
00:31:00.600 There's Senator Romney with the, uh, with the no, which means that he's, he, he doesn't want to
00:31:06.640 stop the government from forcing masks and vaccines on toddlers. He's, he's in favor of doing that
00:31:13.840 as a, as a Republican. This is the Republican party. All right, moving on quickly. Another clip I want
00:31:21.420 to play for you before we get to the comment section. Um, I don't exactly know why, but we
00:31:25.960 got it. We need a little bit of levity here. We need something a little bit less serious.
00:31:29.120 So Kim Kardashian was, you can't get less serious than that. She was on with Ellen and apparently
00:31:34.860 Ellen DeGeneres still has a show. I thought that she got run out of town and her show was canceled,
00:31:38.920 but apparently not. She's been doing a show and she was, um, interviewing Kim Kardashian,
00:31:43.420 talking about her wonderful romance with Pete Davidson. And this is what she said. Listen,
00:31:49.460 there's a tattoo that says Kim. Um, yeah, he has a few tattoos, few cute ones, you know,
00:31:55.860 that he got. Um, but this one is a, it's not that one. The Kim one isn't a tattoo. It's actually a
00:32:02.180 branding, like a branding because let me explain it because he wanted to do something that was really
00:32:10.800 different. Cause like, okay, first tattoo we got, I was like, Oh, so cute. Thank you. Oh my God.
00:32:15.540 So, you know, second, whatever. I'm like, Oh, that's so cute. But like, that's what tattoo people
00:32:19.620 do, right? Like they get tattoos of what's going on in their life. And wait, back up, back up.
00:32:24.880 Am I special? You said first tattoo. So he has three tattoos of you. It just sounds like this is
00:32:32.080 like the third. So the first tattoo was, you said kind of cute. So yeah, is it your name or is it
00:32:38.860 like a little branding is my name? Right. The other ones are like cutesy things. I think my
00:32:43.440 favorite one, it says here, it says, my girl is a lawyer. She a lawyer is Kim Kardashian, a lawyer.
00:32:53.060 That's there's a lot of information coming out on the show that I don't think anyone wanted to know.
00:32:56.660 One of them is a Kim Kardashian somehow has a law degree apparently. So Kanye West is the mentally
00:33:02.900 ill one here. And yet Pete Davidson is getting branded with his girlfriend's name. Kanye West
00:33:12.280 is a problem though. Here's the, here's the proper response when you're dating someone and
00:33:17.940 they get a tattoo of your name. It's just as soon as it's, it's a real, it's a real simple
00:33:22.300 thing. You're dating someone and, uh, they say you're, you're sitting down with them somewhere
00:33:28.160 and they say, Hey, check out this tattoo. I got your name. All you do very simply is you
00:33:32.520 just get up and you walk away and never talk to that person ever again. Um, now they get
00:33:39.300 three tattoos and that even, and a branding even more so that would be, that would be the
00:33:45.560 proper response. But of course, Kim Kardashian's a, uh, herself, a raging narcissist, obviously.
00:33:51.380 So she thinks, well, yeah, of course you're going to get branded. The whole world should be
00:33:54.960 branded with my name as far as she's concerned. All right. Um, one other quick headline. This
00:34:01.100 is from the New York post. It says a comment, 16 miles wide is heading towards earth. That's
00:34:08.840 the headline. So this is not the, this is different from the one that was the size of a giraffe
00:34:14.180 or the, or rather a half giraffe. This is one that's 16 miles wide and, uh, it's, it's heading
00:34:19.120 towards earth. My question is, when I read this, the first thing that I thought, I know you
00:34:22.840 had the same thought. I know for, you know, many people in the media, of course, had this
00:34:26.140 thought, but the first thing I thought, 60 mile wide comment heading towards earth.
00:34:29.480 How is this going to affect the LGBT community? Like marginalized communities are going to
00:34:35.220 be disproportionately impacted. That's my main concern by this earth destroying comment.
00:34:41.260 Turns out by the way, that when you, uh, when you click on the article that it's the comment
00:34:45.740 is heading towards earth, but it's just going to, it's going to orbit around and then go somewhere
00:34:49.340 else. So it's not actually going to hit the earth. Just another click bait, another click
00:34:54.100 bait, uh, asteroid article. It gets all, all of our hopes up as usual. Let's get to the
00:34:58.980 comment section.
00:35:09.540 All right. Dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. Do we have anything worth watching from there?
00:35:14.060 Let's try clip seven. Hey, sweet daddy. So I'm getting ready to watch your show.
00:35:23.620 And yesterday I did a little search on, uh, Ernest Shackleton because I was so inspired the other day
00:35:30.740 and, uh, knowing how much my public school education had failed me. I am going to, um, continue the journey
00:35:39.400 on my own and read this book. But I noticed this, uh, nice little comment on audible, uh, from Matthew
00:35:46.720 in 04 saying, I listened to this one in the car on my way to and from work each day. As the end
00:35:55.460 approached, I would sit in my car and listen. I couldn't bring myself to turn off the player.
00:35:59.820 I even cried twice. I never cry. Just wondering if that's you. Hmm. Anyways, uh, have a good show
00:36:12.540 today. Oh, one more thing. I, uh, purple nerpled my husband until he called you sweet daddy. So
00:36:20.960 yeah, sweet baby gang for life. Uh, the bit at the end there was just, well, that's, that's when we
00:36:27.980 get into the TMI range. I'm not sure that I needed that. Actually, I thought, see, this is written on
00:36:32.460 the clip sheet. It says, uh, did you write this Amazon review? So I thought it was gonna be a review
00:36:36.980 for my own book, Johnny the Walrus. It'd be a good product placement. But anyway, uh, no, I, I look
00:36:42.580 this is not, it's not, it is, it's an affecting book. Um, it's a good book, but we've gone through
00:36:50.980 the list, the appropriate reasons for men to cry and, um, a book didn't make the list unless we're
00:36:57.840 talking about the Bible. I have to allow it for that. If you're overcome, even there, don't overdo
00:37:02.600 it. But if you're reading the Bible and the spirit is moving you, then I, I can't, that I just, I can't
00:37:07.920 judge you for that without incurring, uh, the wrath of the almighty. So I'll allow it for that,
00:37:12.760 but no other book. All right. I'm being told that clip nine is good. Is it good? It's a minute and
00:37:20.660 27 seconds. You're telling me this is good. Okay. I'm McKenna is in my ear right now, promising me
00:37:27.280 that this one minute, 27 second clip will actually be good. So she's on the hook here. Okay. Let's
00:37:34.080 watch. Hey, Mr. Walsh, it's me. It's Uncle Murray. You know, I was looking through your
00:37:38.440 store and I didn't see no little Matt Walsh figurines or something from my dashboard. So
00:37:43.160 I thought, okay, I guess I'm going to have to make one myself. I figured I'd carve my own
00:37:47.720 little daddy Maddie out of a stick of wood. Here, watch, I'll show you. See, that's going
00:37:51.520 to be you. You got your leprechaun hat for St. Patrick's Day. Okay, here we go. Well, that's
00:37:56.180 the rough out of you. If your tools are sharp enough, you can go in sideways like a ninja.
00:38:01.100 If I don't trim that off, it'll look like you got this. Okay. Does he actually carve
00:38:05.140 the thing? What is he carving? From your tushy all the way down. He actually
00:38:09.180 carves me. Can we fast forward to the end where I see myself? Now I'm working
00:38:12.840 leprechaun and you let your beer grow out a little manlier, right? Wow. That's actually
00:38:18.740 impressive. I can't even tell the difference. Listen. Okay. I'm Matt Walsh. I like beer and
00:38:24.000 whiskey and I hate you. Okay. Okay, fine. I am. We didn't need a minute and 27 seconds
00:38:30.720 of that, but he actually carved that whole thing, huh? That takes talent. I'll give him
00:38:35.940 that. But please, stop sending your comments in. All the same. Let's see. Sidney Mercedes
00:38:44.080 says, Matt, you're banned if you make us listen to that song about Zelensky. That's cruel and
00:38:47.900 unusual punishment. Well, as you know, if I have to endure these things, so do you. So
00:38:52.560 stay tuned for the daily cancellation. Curly says, Matt, evolution only occurs within a species,
00:38:57.940 not between species. Herschel was entirely correct. Well, he wasn't because he misstated
00:39:02.240 what the theory is. And that was my point yesterday is that if you want to take this
00:39:05.280 on, you know, as a Christian, as a political candidate, for some reason, you feel like
00:39:09.780 you got to talk about evolution. You want to take on this issue. You need to at least
00:39:13.740 understand what the theory is, especially if you're going to take the skeptical side of
00:39:18.840 it. Because if you misrepresent what it is, then you're not achieving anything. You're just
00:39:25.100 going to get mocked and no one's going to listen to your critique and, uh, and all of
00:39:29.320 that. So he, he just, he didn't understand what the theory actually states. Uh, and that's
00:39:34.320 the problem. Heart for kids says, I love how you drop, draw a sharp breath and then say,
00:39:40.200 all right, when transitioning from one headline to the next, it's sweet. Now you just made me
00:39:45.180 feel weird about it. I can't even, now I just feel stressed. I feel weird about so many
00:39:50.580 things that have happened in the last five minutes. Uh, Brian Bauer says, I was about
00:39:55.120 to unsubscribe when Matt said he didn't approve of the daylight savings time change, but I
00:39:58.720 didn't realize they were talking about keeping it permanently in place. Once again, I should
00:40:02.040 always realize whenever I think that Matt is talking about a subject, uh, I should wait
00:40:06.520 to hear what his correct assessment is before continuing with life. Well, thanks Brian for
00:40:11.180 pointing that out because there were a lot of people in the comments that were disagreeing
00:40:13.560 with me. Um, and because they, they didn't understand again, they didn't understand what,
00:40:19.880 what, what, what, what Congress had done. They didn't abolish daylight savings time. They
00:40:24.260 have made it permanent. So they've taken this failed government policy and they've said that
00:40:28.380 now we're stuck with it forever. Abolishing it would be good. They did the opposite of that.
00:40:35.560 And finally, Sean says only Matt Walsh would get this worked up over daylight savings time.
00:40:39.920 You're going to give yourself an aneurysm, bro. That's my charm. If I have any charm at
00:40:43.980 all, it's about, it's because I get worked up about insignificant things, isn't it?
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00:43:25.540 Well, as previously mentioned, or maybe threatened,
00:43:27.560 the daily cancellation today begins with a musical tribute from the admittedly quite talented John
00:43:33.400 Odranczyk. Is that your pronouncing?
00:43:37.460 On Jurassic. Whatever. His stage name is Five for Fighting. He wrote this song called
00:43:42.400 Can One Man Save the World for and About President Zelensky in Ukraine. It's been shared all over social
00:43:48.200 media and hailed by many people, including many conservatives, some of whom I respect,
00:43:52.200 as a stirring, beautiful, and well-deserved homage to the leader of Ukraine.
00:43:57.560 Newsweek catalogs some of these tearful reactions in an article headline,
00:44:01.300 Can One Man Save the World? A song about Zelensky takes internet by storm.
00:44:04.920 The article notes that the singer has performed the song on television as well, and
00:44:09.400 everywhere it's played, the audience becomes overwhelmed with warm emotions.
00:44:15.500 Now you can decide for yourself whether it's worthy of that sort of reaction.
00:44:18.840 Let's take a listen.
00:44:20.800 Who is this comedian, his audience, more mice than men?
00:44:28.400 This Superman Ukrainian, I don't know.
00:44:34.400 Great grandson of the Holocaust, an Eastern heart the West has lost.
00:44:41.800 Nail or carry off his cross, I don't know.
00:44:45.780 But he's got everyone thinking Yeah, he's got all of us thinking
00:44:58.740 Can one man save the world in a thousand years?
00:45:05.420 Will they say your name or is this all in vain?
00:45:11.920 Can one man save the world?
00:45:15.480 Will you tell me?
00:45:16.500 All right, so it's possible that I'm hearing things hallucinating, but I could have sworn
00:45:21.240 that the song presents Zelensky as Superman, Christ carrying his cross, and a Messiah who
00:45:28.180 can save the whole world.
00:45:29.680 And that's just the first verse.
00:45:31.360 I didn't listen to the rest of it, but I assume it ends with a modified version of the
00:45:34.920 Lord's Prayer.
00:45:36.060 You know, R. Zelensky, which art in Ukraine.
00:45:38.160 Now, I agree with the general consensus that it is good and admirable for Zelensky to stay
00:45:44.900 and fight for his country.
00:45:46.860 That's great.
00:45:47.520 Of course, the only other option, right, is to abandon your country and flee into the
00:45:52.520 night, which would be an act of unspeakable cowardice.
00:45:55.020 So Zelensky has chosen not to be an unspeakable coward, and that's good.
00:46:02.140 Doesn't make him Jesus Christ, though, or Superman.
00:46:04.540 And it's important to point that out, not for the sake of cheap cynicism, but for one
00:46:09.020 thing, because the Zelensky adulation was already teetering on the edge of sacrilege
00:46:13.700 and deification, and has officially fallen over that edge now, and is in a state of blasphemous
00:46:19.260 freefall.
00:46:20.860 I shouldn't need to explain why, you know, talking about political leaders this way is, to borrow
00:46:24.740 a favorite leftist buzzword, problematic, especially from a moral and theological perspective,
00:46:30.300 but, you know, apparently we do.
00:46:32.360 And for another thing, when you hail somebody as a blameless hero, a literal Superman, a
00:46:37.560 savior figure who's fighting to save the world and redeem all of mankind, as many people have
00:46:42.100 done with Zelensky, and not just through this song, you've made it impossible to think critically
00:46:46.860 about him, about what he's doing and saying, and especially about what he wants us to do
00:46:51.640 for his sake.
00:46:52.280 Like, this is a perilous moment for the world.
00:46:56.140 Things could go any number of different ways, and some of them bad, and some of them very,
00:47:01.860 very extremely catastrophically bad.
00:47:04.400 We are in a position where nothing really good is going to happen, but it's a question
00:47:10.700 of how bad is it going to be.
00:47:13.380 What we need now, in a moment like this, are sober minds and people who are capable of careful
00:47:19.380 reflection.
00:47:19.880 We need prudence, but that's out the window when you're literally bowing at the feet of
00:47:25.660 one of the people involved and worshiping him as some kind of demigod, a deity made flesh.
00:47:32.280 This kind of thing is not just cringy and annoying, though it is that it's also the sort
00:47:36.220 of thoughtless, hysterical, overzealous, emotionally driven mentality that leads people to do very
00:47:41.460 stupid thing.
00:47:42.860 Now, as a general rule, there's absolutely nothing good that ever comes out of making supermen
00:47:48.100 out of political figures, and there's especially nothing good that comes of it when you do
00:47:53.960 that during wartime of all times.
00:47:57.040 Now, if we can keep our wits about us and stop with the slack-jawed drooling over Zelensky,
00:48:03.440 stop being a bunch of fangirls, treating a foreign politician like he's a pop star in concert,
00:48:08.080 and we're in the front row reaching out our hands and hoping that he touches us, if we
00:48:14.280 can knock that off and be grown adults for a change, then I think maybe this is the picture
00:48:19.260 of Zelensky that might take shape.
00:48:21.340 He's a political leader whose country has been invaded.
00:48:25.520 He's trying to fight to defend his home.
00:48:28.500 That's good.
00:48:29.000 Beyond that, most of us don't really know anything else about him.
00:48:34.220 Most of us had never heard his name or thought about him for even a second prior to three weeks
00:48:38.980 ago.
00:48:40.180 What else has he done in Ukraine?
00:48:42.020 What is his personal history?
00:48:44.820 What was his role in the lead-up to this conflict?
00:48:48.420 These are details that the vast majority of Americans don't have.
00:48:51.800 The lack of information, as always, should be reason for caution, not reason for assuming
00:48:56.540 that everything we don't know must not matter, because if it did, we would know it.
00:49:02.000 But here's something else that we do know about Zelensky.
00:49:04.300 He is actively pushing to get us involved in a conflict which would certainly lead to thousands
00:49:09.540 of our sons and daughters dying and might lead to many more deaths than that, potentially
00:49:13.220 millions of deaths.
00:49:15.400 Zelensky wants us to incur those costs, wants us to sacrifice our children's lives, potentially,
00:49:21.180 for him and for his country and for his people.
00:49:23.180 There's no reason to think that he would do the same for us, but he wants us to do that
00:49:28.320 for him.
00:49:29.220 You can't blame him for wanting this kind of assistance.
00:49:32.280 You can't blame him for caring more about Ukraine and his people than he does about the United
00:49:36.480 States and our people.
00:49:38.660 Most people in this country obviously don't blame him for that, and neither do I.
00:49:42.600 And yet the same people in the U.S. who don't blame Zelensky for caring more about Ukraine
00:49:46.400 than the United States do blame Americans who care more about the United States than Ukraine.
00:49:51.540 It's completely perverse and backwards.
00:49:55.160 According to these sad, self-loathing patsies, the only people in the whole world who should
00:50:00.220 not prioritize their own nation's safety over the safety of other nations are Americans.
00:50:05.840 Everybody else can put their people first.
00:50:08.160 We cannot.
00:50:10.080 This kind of confused thinking only becomes worse and more confused when you mix it with
00:50:15.540 the deification of foreign leaders.
00:50:17.260 Zelensky wants us to sacrifice an indefinite number of American lives for him.
00:50:23.280 If we insist on seeing Zelensky as a faultless martyr, as a saint, a sort of cinematic protagonist,
00:50:29.200 then we're not going to be able to evaluate those demands with the clear-headed, temperate
00:50:32.880 disposition that's required.
00:50:34.960 We're likely to march our way into bloodshed and suffering and death with our eyes not open
00:50:39.340 but closed, imagining some sort of fantasy scenario that's only vaguely related to the real world.
00:50:44.140 One other point.
00:50:46.480 Every time I make this argument, I'm accused of lacking compassion for the suffering people
00:50:50.720 of Ukraine.
00:50:51.940 Just as one example, yesterday, a guy named Noam Blum, an allegedly conservative media figure,
00:50:58.060 took me to task on Twitter writing, quote,
00:50:59.700 If Matt Walsh were capable of spending a tenth of the emotional energy he does being pissy
00:51:04.480 at Zelensky on showing some legitimately passionate human empathy to the suffering going on, he
00:51:10.360 wouldn't be Matt Walsh, I guess.
00:51:13.020 I guess for Blum and many others, I haven't spent nearly enough time tweeting hashtags about
00:51:18.800 how I stand with Ukraine.
00:51:21.300 I've ruthlessly refused to put a Ukrainian flag in my bio or buy a Ukrainian flag t-shirt.
00:51:27.080 Lots of other people have done this.
00:51:30.620 I'm not sure why I need to do it too.
00:51:33.180 That's one thing I don't understand.
00:51:34.060 If you see everyone doing and saying something, why do you need, if there's a couple people
00:51:39.120 not doing it, what do you need them for?
00:51:41.820 Is there not enough of that already?
00:51:43.400 I'm not sure what it achieves or how any of this virtue signaling helps the people of Ukraine.
00:51:51.520 Yeah, I mean, I could defuse that criticism by just tweeting out hashtag I stand with Ukraine.
00:52:00.560 Okay.
00:52:01.600 What does that do?
00:52:03.040 Who does that help?
00:52:04.660 Except me, I guess, in that I can display my virtue.
00:52:07.520 I don't see that it helps anything.
00:52:11.080 And at any rate, my focus is on making sure that America doesn't get sucked into a conflict
00:52:16.300 that could spread that misery and suffering to our shores.
00:52:20.180 And that's not selfishness on my part because it's not just myself that I'm worried about.
00:52:24.500 I'm worried about America and Americans.
00:52:27.260 It's not a me first mentality.
00:52:29.160 It's an America first mentality.
00:52:30.620 And we as Americans must have that attitude because if we don't prioritize our own people's
00:52:36.300 safety and security, then nobody else will.
00:52:39.960 But I must also note that as Blum attacks me for not saying enough publicly about the
00:52:44.620 suffering people of Ukraine, he himself has, so far as I can tell, never said anything at
00:52:50.160 all about the suffering people of Mozambique.
00:52:53.240 That's also a war-torn country where many innocent men, women, and children live amid violence
00:52:57.640 and untold misery.
00:52:58.440 Literally untold misery because nobody talks about it.
00:53:01.940 Nobody talks about the vast majority of the victims of genocide and war and violence and
00:53:06.880 disease across the planet.
00:53:08.720 What's happening in Ukraine right now, I got to tell you, is not the first war we've seen
00:53:12.960 in recent times, even this year.
00:53:17.760 Well, do those people not count?
00:53:19.700 Are they less important?
00:53:21.840 See, if you only express compassion and empathy for the suffering people in countries that get
00:53:26.920 American media attention, you might want to consider the possibility that your compassion
00:53:31.180 and empathy are completely fake and meaningless.
00:53:34.540 You feel intense compassion for whichever group of people the media is talking about, and then
00:53:39.160 you stop thinking about them the second the news cycle moves on to somebody else.
00:53:43.020 You get caught up in these waves, and then you have the audacity to get self-righteous
00:53:47.720 about it, blaming others for not virtue signaling as enthusiastically as you are.
00:53:51.720 It's absurd, but it's worse than absurd, because this wave we're in right now is threatening
00:53:57.680 to send us crashing into a world war.
00:54:00.740 And then we'll really see some death and suffering, much closer to home.
00:54:06.020 And that's why empty virtue signaling and Zelensky worship are both today, I must say, canceled.
00:54:12.420 And we'll leave it there for today.
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