Ep. 919 - Disney’s Gay Agenda
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Disney executives are now openly admitting to their gay agenda, their words, not mine. Another executive in a recent staff meeting bragged about her pansexual child. We ll talk about Disney s free fall into far-left wokeism. Also, a kindergarten teacher worries that the Florida bill just signed into law will prevent him from talking to his students about his love life. But why does he need to talk to them about that? That s the question. And a Republican congressman claims that he s been invited to drug-fueled orgies by other members of Congress.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Disney executives are now openly admitting to their gay agenda,
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their words, not mine. Another executive in a recent staff meeting bragged about her pansexual
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child. We'll talk about Disney's free fall plummet into far left wokeism. Also,
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a kindergarten teacher worries that the Florida bill just signed into law will prevent him from
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talking to his students about his love life. But why does he need to talk to them about that?
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That's the question. And Biden signs the Anti-Lynching Act, thanks to Republicans who
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provided him this opportunity to virtue signal. Jim Carrey is speaking out against Will Smith's
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violent outbursts at the Oscars. Why is he almost the only guy in Hollywood saying anything about it?
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Plus, a Republican congressman claims that he's been invited to drug-fueled orgies by other members
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of Congress. And our daily cancellation, Jon Stewart has white guilt and he wants to tell us all about
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it. We'll listen and then cancel him. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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and health questions. You know, I was never a very good student of physics in high school or of any other
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subject, frankly. But one thing I know is that when an object starts falling, its velocity will increase.
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The rate of its descent will only accelerate until it hits the ground. And I've noticed a similar thing
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happens with wokeness. Leftism has its own gravitational pull, which ensures that once a
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person or organization falls into the woke pit, it will tumble towards annihilation at ever-increasing
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speeds. But also, there really is no ground in this scenario. Leftism is more of a black hole,
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I guess. You fall endlessly into the darkness until you're ripped apart and the pieces of you
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disintegrate and become one with the abyss. We're watching this play out right now across our
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culture. Disney is just one case study, but a rather instructive one. Now, it's true that Disney
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has been liberal probably since Walt himself died, but they've mostly sort of been orbiting around the
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black hole, approaching it in a somewhat controlled manner. But then the parental rights bill in Florida
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came along, prohibiting teachers from talking to five-year-olds about their sexuality.
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Disney, facing pressure from a small cluster of LGBT extremists in their organization,
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had to make a choice. They could try to remain neutral, which would keep them in orbit around the
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black hole of wokeness. Or they could actively push back against the LGBT militants, which was never
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going to happen. But if they did, it would actually move them farther away from that black hole. Or they
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could cave to the radical gay factions and come out fully in favor of teaching seven-year-olds about
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transgenderism and gender fluidity. They, of course, chose the latter option, which meant diving right
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in to the hole. And now they're in the midst of an ideological freefall. This is what LGBT activists
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want. They don't want you orbiting around the perimeter. They insist that you surrender to their demands and
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reorganize your whole life or your whole organization or both in whatever way they require. So investigative
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journalist Chris Ruffo has obtained footage that shows just how rapid this dissent has been.
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According to Ruffo, Disney recently called an all-hands meeting where multiple executives and other
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high-ranking people in the institution talked about what Disney would do going forward to cater to the
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gay agenda. And lest you think I'm exaggerating or engaging in conspiracy theories with the phrase
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gay agenda, you should realize that the term was actually used in the meeting. Here's executive
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producer Latoya Raveneau. And here she is. Listen, it's like, I love Disney's content. I grew up
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watching, you know, all of the classics. They have been a huge, like informative part of my life. But
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at the same time, like I worked at small studios most of my career and I'd heard, you know, hear
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whispers. Like I'd heard things like, Oh, you know, they won't let you show this at a Disney show. And I'm
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like, okay. So I was a little like sus when I started. But then my experience was bafflingly the
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opposite of what I had heard on my little pocket of like, you know, proud family, Disney TVA. The
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showrunners were super welcoming. Meredith Roberts and like the, our leadership over there has been so
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welcoming to like, my like, not at all secret gay agenda. And so like, I feel like I felt like it
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was, I mean, like, maybe it was that way in the past. But I guess like, something must have happened
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in the last, like, like, they're turning it around. They're going hard.
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Now, she says Disney is going hard on the gay agenda. And no further comment needed. But as bad as that is,
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and as disturbing is the way she phrased it, still somehow the most troubling thing in that video
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is that a grown woman is speaking with the language and mannerisms of a 14-year-old on TikTok.
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But if you're wondering what the gay agenda might look like in practice or sound like,
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Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware appeared later in the meeting to give just one
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example of how this gay agenda may be put into practice. Listen.
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Last summer, we removed all of the gendered greetings and relationship to our life skills.
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So we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We've trained, we've provided training for
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all of our, our cast members and in relationship to that. So now they know it's, it's hello, everyone
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or hello, friends. We are in the process of changing over those, those recorded messages. And so many of
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you are probably familiar when we brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom. We no longer say ladies
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and gentlemen, boys and girls, we say dreamers of all ages. And so I love the fact that it's opened
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up the creativity, the opportunity for our cast members to look at that. We, we have our cast
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members working with merchandise, working with food and beverage, working with, with all of our
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guest facing areas where perhaps, you know, we, we want to create that magical moment with our cast
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members, with our guests. And we don't want to just assume because someone might be in, in our
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interpretation, maybe presenting as female, that they may not want to be called princess.
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So let's think differently about how do we really engage with our guests in a meaningful
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and inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone.
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Yes. Well, we all know that nothing upsets a little girl at Disney world more than being
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called princess. I mean, they just hate that. Good thing Disney has done away with such slurs.
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Although I should warn them that everyone, they said we're going to say everyone instead of ladies
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and gentlemen. Well, that's not going to be an acceptable alternative because everyone implies that each
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individual identifies as being just a single entity. This could be quite othering to the
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self-identified they's and them's in the audience, not to mention anybody with disassociative identity
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disorder. Everyone is not only exclusionary and transphobic, but also ableist. Now, at another
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point in the meeting, Disney production coordinator, Alan March made an appearance where he assured the,
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the assembled staff that his team has created a tracker to ensure that Disney is telling a sufficient
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number of queer stories. Listen. Yeah. Um, I've had the privilege of working with the moon girl team
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for the last two years and they've been really open to exploring queer stories. And part of I'm on the
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production side, uh, part of, uh, the work that I feel like I can put in is, um, making sure that we
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take place in modern day New York. So making sure that that's like an accurate reflection of New York.
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So I put together like a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have like a, the
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full breadth of expression. And, uh, we got into a very similar conversation carry of like, oh, all of
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our like gender non-conforming characters are in the background. And so it's not just a numbers game,
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um, of how many LGBTQ plus characters you have. We got the further, uh, the, the more centered a story is
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on a character, the more nuanced you get to get into their story. And especially with like trans
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characters, you can't see if someone is trans. There's not one way to look trans. And so kind of
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the only way to have these like canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, canonical
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bisexual characters is to give them stories where they can like be their whole selves.
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So this is where you end up when you free fall into woke leftism, you end up using phrases like
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canonical asexual characters. Although that phrase is not nearly as disturbing as something uttered
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by Disney corporate president, Carrie Burke. Listen to this.
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I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually. Um, uh, one transgender child, um, um,
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and one pansexual child, um, and, and also as a leader. Um, and that was the thing that really
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got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple
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of weeks, um, and open forums and through emails and phone conversations. And, um, I feel a responsibility
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to speak, um, not just for myself, but for them, um, to all of us. We had a, we had an open forum last
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week at 20th where, um, again, the home of, of really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over
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the years where, um, one of our execs stood up and said, you know, we only have a handful of queer
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leads in our content. And I went, what? I, that can't be true. And I, and I, and I realized, oh,
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it actually is true. Yes. Um, pansexual child is what she said. Now, please keep this in mind.
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If your kid is watching Disney content, he is watching content produced by people who believe
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in the existence of pansexual children. Now the word pansexual, of course, in reality means nothing
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at all. It's nonsense. But according to the left in their fantasy world, a pansexual is somebody who
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quote, is not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.
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I mean, the story of Peter Pan begins to take on a whole new meaning. And so Ms. Carrie Burke says
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that there is a, that her, that her child, an actual child is not limited in his sexual choice by
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biological sex or gender identity. This is how she speaks of children, her own children. And she has
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two children who are both queer, quote unquote, one pansexual, the other trans. How in God's name
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do you end up with two children who allegedly identify themselves with these alternative sexual
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labels? Well, it happens because you select it for them. You hand that identity to them the way that
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you might buy a child a new jacket and tell them to put it on. A child is not going to come up with the
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concept of pansexuality on his own any more than he's going to come up with transgenderism.
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Those must be given to him. We talk about things being assigned to children. Well, that is assigned.
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He has to be converted into it because, as I've argued many times, the real conversion therapy
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that happens in our world today is the kind where a child is converted into LGBT. Now, in a normal,
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in an insane world, the woman in that video would be in prison right now on charges of child abuse.
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Instead, she's a well-compensated executive at a billion-dollar multimedia company in charge of
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creating entertainment for children. She also says later in the clip that she wants to have
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half of Disney's characters by the end of the year be LGBT or minorities. Half of them. Now,
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this would seem to be in conflict with the whole concept of a minority. If the idea is simply
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representation, then why is there this push for over-representation? Why the insistence on making
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these identities more prominent on screen than they are in real life? Well, here's the important
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point. When these people talk about representation, they don't mean that they want the characters and
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storylines to represent America as it currently is. They want it to represent the kind of world and
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culture they wish to create. They're not representing culture. They're making it.
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They want to have a whole lot more, quote, LGBT children, which means putting a lot more of it
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on the screen. They want to reshape the world, which means reshaping your child. The only question
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yesterday when my wife, at a point when What is a Woman was charting on Amazon at like number 22,
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I think. Yeah, number 22. And it was right underneath the book that Will Smith recently
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wrote, which has also been surging on the charts a little bit, as you might expect. And so my wife
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tweeted this. I just thought it was fantastic. She said, let's get Matt Walsh number one again.
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What is a Woman is currently ranked number 22 under Will Smith. Nobody wants to be under Will Smith,
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not even Jada. And I just, when you can come up with an insult that makes even me go, wow.
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Oh boy. If I have that reaction, then you know, it's pretty harsh, but also very well done.
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So these are the kinds of things that I am proud of, you know, in my marriage is when my wife
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comes up with a joke like that. All right. I want to start with this because we're talking about the
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Florida bill and we've seen, you know, in many ways, this is not notable at all because we've
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seen this parade of people appearing on cable news, teachers and LGBT activists from Florida
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talking about how horrible the bill is and of course, completely misrepresenting it at the same time.
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But I want to show you, um, this is a kindergarten teacher who appeared on MSNBC to talk about
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the bill and the terrible consequences that it will have for his own life. And just listen to what he
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has to say. Listen to the Florida governor signing this, um, into law. Yeah. You know, it's twofold.
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It really hits hard, um, in my heart professionally and, uh, personally both, uh, professionally. It,
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it truly makes me feel like, um, I am not trusted as a professional. Um, I know my kindergarten
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standards through and through and, um, nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about, um,
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teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity. Um, so for them to, to say that, that that's happening,
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um, that, you know, it's kind of crazy. Um, but, uh, we should be able to have discussions and that's
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what we're encouraged to do in kindergarten. And then personally, because, um, you know, my, my kids
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do have questions. They want to know who the, uh, my partner is in pictures outside of my classroom
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and I should be able to speak to that. So, so do you worry that you won't even be able to talk about
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your own personal home life? I mean, I have a child in kindergarten right now. I know exactly
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that my, my child has two teachers, one of which has a daughter at home, um, and is single. The
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other is married and has four children. I know everything about their lives because my kid tells
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me. Absolutely. Absolutely. You are 100% correct. Um, that's what we do as educators. We build
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relationships with our kids. And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life,
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you talk about what you do on the weekends. That's building community. I, it scares me
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to death that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children
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because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend. I don't want to have to hide that
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my partner and I went paddle boarding this weekend. It scares him to death that he can't
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tell his children. Listen to the phrasing there that, um, that he went paddle boarding over the
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weekend. He's scared to death that he can't talk about his paddle boarding trip with the
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kindergartners. So now it's the, it's the don't say paddle board bill apparently.
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He wants to be able to share his life with his kids. Now, now listen,
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of course, in truth, there is actually nothing in the bill whatsoever that would prevent that dude
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from telling his children who are not his children. They're students. They may be
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kindergartners, but that's of course how he sees it. Very revealing. That's how these teachers see
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it. They think it's their children, but my children, but there's nothing actually in the bill
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that would prevent him from talking about his paddle board trip or even saying, Hey kids,
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I went on a paddle board boarding trip, uh, with, with, uh, with my gay partner. I'm,
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I'm a gay man. I went on a paddle boarding trip. He, he, according to the bill, he can still say
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that. I don't think he should, but there's actually nothing in the bill at all that would
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stop that from happening. It's not in there, but it does raise the question of why do you need
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to share this information with the kids anyway? Like the kids are going to ask what you did over
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the weekend. Really? They, are they really going to ask you that? I guess, uh, I guess I was, uh,
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unusually selfish child and every other kid in my class when I was in elementary school also was
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unusually selfish because I, nobody ever asked the teacher that we didn't sit down on a Monday and say,
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so, uh, Mrs. Smith, what'd you do over the weekend? Well, who's, who is having that conversation with
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it? You think kindergartners, little five-year-olds are coming in to say, uh, say, uh, have a great
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weekend. How'd it go? Kids aren't asking you that. They don't care about that. And even if they did
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ask you that, like it's, it's not a whole long conversation you need to have.
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I mean, even if there was a law saying that, uh, you can't talk about your gay relationships,
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which again, that's not actually what the law says, but even if there was, you could still say,
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I went paddleboarding over the weekend. There's nothing stopping you from saying that.
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Do you need to get in the specifics about your relationship and your, I I'm sorry. I don't
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believe that quote unquote, his children are asking him all about his private life.
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I've never heard of such a thing. Kids don't care about that.
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Um, but even if they do, why do you need to talk about this?
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When, when I went to school, I didn't know anything about the private lives of any of my teachers.
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I think as I've said before, I really thought for much of my, my younger years in school,
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I thought that they all like lived in the school. I thought they were kept
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in a crypt or something in the basement and then just wheeled out to, to teach us the ABCs and
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then sent back into their, into their layer or whatever. That's what, that's what I figured.
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I didn't even, I didn't think about their private lives at all. I'd assume they didn't have them
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because they were just my teachers. They didn't sit down to talk about their marital problems or
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anything like that. Um, why do you need to talk about it? Well, here's the answer.
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Um, it's, um, for these, these teachers taking the LGBT stuff, putting it all the way to the side
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for a lot of these teachers now that what they're doing, it's, it's, it's, everything is self-focused
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as we always talk about with leftism. Everything comes back to the self.
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The entire worldview is turned in on itself and it's nothing but just a, it's a, it's a fun house,
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you know, hall of mirrors and everything just reflects back to them. So teaching,
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um, certainly for, for the mentality of a leftist, teaching is not about the kids. It's not about
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relaying information on whatever subject you're teaching. It's about you. And so it's unthinkable
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that you would not be able to put yourself into it and talk about yourself. That's the main thing
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they want to talk about. You think that you're sending your kids to school to learn the ABCs
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and the one, two, threes, but really, uh, as far as the teachers are concerned, you're learning,
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you're sending them to school to learn about the teachers. And as they're talking about themselves
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incessantly, maybe they'll throw in, um, a little bit of two plus two here and there.
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It is unthinkable to them that maybe it's not about you. That weirdo that we just saw,
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like it's who, it's not about you. No one is sending their kid to kindergarten to learn about
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you. Nobody cares about you. The parents don't care that the kids, it's not about you. That's not
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why they're there. This is not story time with Mr. Whoever. All about his life.
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Just keep yourself out of it. Keep personal life out of it.
00:23:18.620
Even though there's no law stopping you from talking about your personal life, maybe there
00:23:22.340
should be. You know what? Maybe that's, maybe that should be the consequence. All of these idiots
00:23:29.860
claiming that this law has been passed, stopping them from talking about their personal lives,
00:23:34.100
if I was in charge, the consequence would be, you know what? That law doesn't exist,
00:23:38.300
but now we're going to make one. Cause that apparently is the law you want to argue against.
00:23:43.420
So here, I'll give you something to cry about. Yeah. How about a law for all teachers? Just,
00:23:47.480
you're not allowed to talk about your personal lives at all. All you're allowed to talk about
00:23:50.460
is the subject and that's it. It doesn't matter what's going on in your personal life. Can't talk
00:23:55.380
about it. Talk about the subject. If that's unthinkable to you, if that's some horrifying
00:24:00.360
possibility, then go do something else with your life.
00:24:07.780
If you cannot separate your damned ego from your job as a teacher, then please go do something else.
00:24:16.400
All right. Let's move on to Joe Biden yesterday, signed the anti-lynching act. And before we talk
00:24:27.520
a little bit more about this anti-lynching act, let's, let's listen to Joe Biden who, you know,
00:24:31.340
he's, he's had just one bad day after another politically. And it's been his entire tenure
00:24:38.500
has been a succession of bad days where it only seems somehow to get worse and worse. And you think
00:24:43.600
it couldn't possibly get worse than the next day it is worse. Um, so he was very excited to have,
00:24:48.260
um, a crowd pleasing moment like this, where you could get up and bravely take a stand against
00:24:55.380
lynching. And let's listen to that a little bit. It was over a hundred years ago in 1900,
00:25:02.580
North Carolina representative named George Henry White, the son of a slave, the only black lawmaker
00:25:07.600
in Congress at the time who first introduced legislation to make lynching a federal crime.
00:25:14.000
Hundreds, hundreds of similar bills have failed to pass over the years. Several federal hate crime
00:25:21.560
laws were enacted, including one I signed last year to combat COVID-19 hate crimes, but no federal law,
00:25:29.780
no federal law, expressly prohibited lynching. None until today.
00:25:34.540
How brave. How, no, no, first of all, I know that I'm not, I'm the last guy to make fun of anybody for
00:25:40.180
their pronunciations, but at the same time he did say hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of laws have not
00:25:46.960
passed. Um, he says no federal law has expressly forbid lynching. That's technically true because of the
00:25:57.140
word expressly, but there are federal laws that do in fact prohibit lynching, even if it's not
00:26:04.700
expressly, doesn't need to be expressly stated because we do have a, we have a federal hate crime
00:26:12.860
laws where if you commit a violent act against someone, um, for racist reasons, that's a federal
00:26:20.980
hate crime. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't, whatever the violent act is. So yeah, as it stands
00:26:27.940
right now, until this lynching law came on, maybe it didn't specify every possible violent act you
00:26:33.480
could pot, you could commit. If you commit a violent racist act of punching someone, if you stab them,
00:26:38.780
if you shoot them, if you drown them, like, do we, do we need to specify each individual thing that
00:26:45.040
you might do? No, it's, it's racist violence is already a federal hate crime and lynching very
00:26:54.060
much falls under that umbrella. Like it's, it's in that category, 100%. So if prior to this law,
00:27:01.060
you had gone and lynched somebody, you would be going to prison forever as a murderer. And you would
00:27:08.240
also be hit with hate crime charges, um, provided that this was done, you know, it was racially motivated.
00:27:15.040
So that was already the case, already the case. Um, but it, it, it didn't really come up because
00:27:22.360
you might think, well, uh, when's the last time someone, uh, you say that somebody could be
00:27:26.980
prosecuted as a, for federal hate crimes in the past or for committing a lynching, but when's the
00:27:31.660
last time that happened? Well, it's been a really long time because it's been a really long time since
00:27:37.180
anyone has lynched anybody else. It's been decades and decades. And the last, the most recent occasion,
00:27:44.560
I think was in the early eighties. If I remember correctly, I looked this up in the past and even
00:27:48.680
that was an isolated incident that was, uh, uh, shocking because it had been decades and decades
00:27:55.440
before it happened in the, before that. So in the last like 50 years, how many people have been lynched?
00:28:09.360
doesn't make it okay. Obviously doesn't mean that because it hasn't happened, it should be legal.
00:28:16.560
But the good thing is it wasn't, it was already a crime on every level. It's like on every level
00:28:23.380
of government, it was already a crime. Now it's just a crime a second time.
00:28:26.800
Um, and, uh, but that will make no effective difference whatsoever. But here's, you know,
00:28:32.100
I've, I've made this point about this anti-lynching bill and this totally like cynical. You want to
00:28:39.380
talk about cynicism? I think there could be no better example of it than this.
00:28:47.620
Making this big show of, of, uh, you know, prohibiting a crime that was already prohibited
00:28:55.020
and that nobody is committing anyway. So a cynical virtue signaling ploy. And yeah,
00:29:04.460
we're used to that from the left. We're used to that from the Democrats. Obviously Joe Biden is
00:29:08.300
going to take any thing like this that he can get, um, any softballs that you lob to him. He's going
00:29:16.120
to, he's going to go ahead and take them and he'll still, you know, he'll still whiff on a lot of the
00:29:21.220
softballs, but yeah, he'll appreciate it. But why did the Republicans go along with this?
00:29:26.660
This only happened because almost every Republican in Congress in both the house and the Senate,
00:29:32.880
with the exception of three or four went along with this, even though they all knew that this
00:29:40.560
was totally absurd. And the only reason this is being done is to give Joe Biden a chance to
00:29:45.480
virtue signal. And every Republican, almost every Republican Congress, Congress went along
00:29:49.300
with this in order, in order to give Joe Biden a chance to virtue signal and not only virtue signal,
00:29:55.920
but cynically exploit racial tensions, actual hate crimes. I mean, you know, treating actual lynching,
00:30:03.940
which never occurs anymore, but it turns into this political pawn and Republicans went along with it.
00:30:10.800
And why did they go along with it? Well, because as I've been reminded, when I've complained about
00:30:16.300
this, oh, well, well, if they didn't, they would have been called racist. Oh, not that.
00:30:22.280
Oh, certainly. I mean, uh, yeah, well go, go along with whatever the left wants. So, uh, because
00:30:26.440
otherwise they'll call you racist. Yeah. The only problem is that even if you do go along with them,
00:30:31.800
they still call you racist. Is there any Democrat, have you heard a single Democrat giving props to
00:30:36.680
Republicans and saying, Hey, you know what? Maybe these guys aren't as bad as I thought. They're not
00:30:39.720
actually racist. They they're against lynching too. Look, they signed the bill or they, they voted for
00:30:43.560
the bill. Is any Democrat doing that? No, you're still a racist Nazi in their minds. It makes no
00:30:50.040
difference. Vote for the bill or don't you're, you're racist either way. So why, why go along with
00:30:57.220
it? You know, a better approach would be for every Republican to refuse to go along and then to
00:31:05.780
explain why to just explain it as I've explained it. It's not hard to do.
00:31:14.420
so much of their story can be explained by their own cowardice, of course, and their own stupidity,
00:31:22.660
but also their belief that, that we are stupid, that most of us are stupid.
00:31:30.660
And yeah, there are plenty of stupid people out there, but I think the American people in general
00:31:38.520
are capable of understanding like basic concepts. So, um, you could just explain, Hey, listen,
00:31:47.100
it won't take, it takes like 30 seconds to say, Hey, we're not signing this bill. Uh, this is a cynical
00:31:51.660
ploy on their part. Lynching is already illegal. It's already a federal hate crime too. And, and so that's
00:31:57.940
why we're not signing. We're not going along with this. In fact, we're, we find it outrageous that
00:32:01.460
they're, they're, they're doing this in the first place. Is that so hard to say?
00:32:09.480
Um, but of course, Republicans always, uh, always eagerly, you know, sort of digging dirt on their
00:32:15.800
own graves. All right. We move now to, uh, the slap gate, some updates on that. First of all,
00:32:23.960
I just thought this was interesting, interesting from the daily star. You know, there are people
00:32:26.860
who are not giving up on this, uh, idea that the whole thing was staged. And so the daily star has
00:32:32.460
this Will Smith's brutal smack of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscar ceremony was a choreographed Hollywood
00:32:38.880
display. One body language expert says celebrity psychic and body language expert in ball honingman
00:32:45.620
has explained that the incident comes off as a back slapping display, which saw the two men appear
00:32:51.740
dignified and leisurely, at least on the surface, dignified, dignified and leisurely. And I only
00:32:58.520
saw this because people were sharing as I see, you see, it's a, it's all a, this was all a stunt.
00:33:03.020
It's all a conspiracy. I am glad that this woman is a body language expert and psychic because those
00:33:09.220
two things are truly the same. I mean, they're both an absolute scam, but these body language
00:33:14.180
experts, well, you see when he, uh, he moved, he twitched his finger in a certain way, which means
00:33:18.700
that he's thinking about this, like, shut up. Do you, I've, I've already addressed this, but
00:33:24.520
somehow, I mean, of all, of all the dumb conspiracy theories, this one somehow annoys me the most just
00:33:31.640
because it is so stupid and you have to have absolutely no understanding of human nature and
00:33:36.460
especially of what makes a celebrity sort of tick to, to go to think that this was a stage play.
00:33:43.540
You think that we've talked about how Will Smith would never, as serious as these people take
00:33:50.240
themselves, he would never go along with something that's going to overshadow his own Oscars win
00:33:56.720
and cause career damage to him. Um, he would, for the sake of a stunt that some producer at the Oscars
00:34:06.840
pitched to him. But so that's clear, but Chris Rock, you think Chris Rock is going to volunteer to be
00:34:12.540
slapped in the face on television, a moment that will, will live in, uh, Hollywood infamy that,
00:34:21.880
that anytime you think of Chris Rock for the rest of your life, anytime his name comes up forever,
00:34:27.820
that is going to be front and center is getting slapped in the face.
00:34:32.500
And Chris Rock agreed to that. He agreed that, you know what? I want my whole legacy to be getting
00:34:37.600
slapped in the face for the sake of, of this Oscars bit. Um, because I, that's how much I care about
00:34:43.420
Oscars ratings. I'm going to, I'm going to throw my whole career on the burn pile and, um, be, be
00:34:50.680
totally disgraced in front of the entire world so that the Oscars get better ratings. Come on guys,
00:34:56.860
just stop with that. Okay. No, no, nobody would do that, especially not a celebrity at an, at the Oscars.
00:35:07.600
Um, these are not people known for self-deprecation, especially not self-deprecation to that extent
00:35:14.400
absurd. Um, but you know, after all this happened, um, it, it, there's a, the sort of the silence is
00:35:23.120
deafening because there were a lot of celebrities there who watched this all happen and very few of
00:35:28.200
them are speaking out. Um, the one guy we've heard is Jim Carrey. He was on a CBS yesterday. Let's listen
00:35:33.380
a little bit of this and him reacting to the, uh, to the slap. What did you think as you watched it
00:35:38.620
unfold? And then what happened after? I was sickened. I was sickened by the standing ovation.
00:35:44.840
I felt like Hollywood is just spineless on mass. And, uh, it just, it really felt like, oh, this is
00:35:53.480
a really clear indication that, uh, we're not the cool club anymore. There was some question today
00:35:58.960
about if anyone else had walked from the audience and done that, they would have been escorted out
00:36:03.360
by security or maybe even arrested. The police asked, asked Chris to file charges. They asked
00:36:09.940
Chris, do you want to file charges? And Chris apparently said, no, he did not. He doesn't want
00:36:14.220
the hassle. I, I had, I had for announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million
00:36:20.440
because that video is going to be there forever. It's going to be ubiquitous. You know, that insult
00:36:26.320
is going to last a very long time. If you want to yell from the audience and disapprove or show a
00:36:32.820
disapproval or say something on Twitter or whatever, you know, you do not have the right to, to walk up
00:36:37.960
on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words. Yeah. I mean, everything you said,
00:36:42.780
of course, is completely reasonable. And by the way, as I'm listening to this, I'm thinking about
00:36:46.580
the tragedy of Twitter because Twitter kind of gives you an insight into people's mindsets, um,
00:36:54.780
and, and who they, they really are. And that view is often quite discouraging, um, for a lot of
00:37:02.400
people. So Jim Carrey, for example, you know, if, if not for Twitter, all I would know about him is the
00:37:08.580
movies I've seen him in. And then like an interview like that, where he comes off as a really
00:37:12.560
reasonable guy. And I would think, well, okay, he's just a reasonable, sane, you know, dignified
00:37:18.460
guy. It seems like, um, but then, but then he's on Twitter all the time, especially during,
00:37:25.920
during Trump's tenure, like ranting about Trump. He's got all, he's making all these obscene
00:37:30.440
paintings of Trump and posting them just coming off like a total fruitcake, uh, that if not for
00:37:37.320
Twitter, we wouldn't know about that side of him at all. There are so many people in the public light
00:37:41.820
that it's, it's like that if not for Twitter, there's this whole ugly side of them that if not
00:37:47.560
for that, we wouldn't even know it existed. And our impression of this person would be completely
00:37:52.860
different. Um, anyway, but what he said there, of course, right. It's, it doesn't, it shouldn't take
00:38:00.200
courage to stand up and say that like, yeah, you can't get up from your seat in the middle of
00:38:05.660
an award ceremony and slap a comedian in the face. Cause he made a joke. He didn't like,
00:38:10.520
but as basic as that concept is just to show you the cowardice in Hollywood, no one else is saying it.
00:38:20.100
I think there were a few celebrities who originally tweeted about it and said that they disapproved and a
00:38:24.180
lot of them deleted it afterwards. And when it comes to the A-listers, as far as I know,
00:38:29.600
if we can call Jim Carrey, Nate Lister still, he's the only one who's come out and say, yeah,
00:38:34.700
you know what? I am opposed to getting up at an award ceremony and slapping a comedian.
00:38:39.300
Cause he made a joke. I didn't like, I'm, I'm opposed to that. Count me in the anti column for
00:38:43.260
that one. Just suffocating, overwhelming cowardice in Hollywood. And after all the virtue signaling
00:38:53.720
they did prior to this, you know, uh, we're standing for Ukraine, we're standing for the
00:38:59.680
rights of, uh, for human rights and all this kind of stuff. And, and then they watch a violent
00:39:05.800
incident in their own midst and they all, they all shrink away. They all wilt like little flowers
00:39:13.980
because when, when it's something happening, yeah, they could stand there and say, F you Putin
00:39:20.200
cause you're in Hollywood and that's happening thousands of miles away. And it's really easy to
00:39:26.460
say, but when it's in your own, when it's happening right next to you, you can't say anything
00:39:33.220
cause you're too afraid. Um, all right, let's move. We do it. I want to make sure we have time
00:39:39.880
for this representative Madison Cawthorne is a Republican. He made a claim in a podcast interview
00:39:45.920
that has provoked mostly mockery from both left and right, but it's a pretty notable claim that
00:39:54.180
he made. So I think it's worth listening to. Let's do that. Kevin Spacey and I forget who else
00:40:00.060
was in it. Um, but anyway, really well done show, very well done show, but it was so dirty and it was
00:40:06.420
about this, uh, congressman, uh, who was Kevin Spacey, who was, I think it was minority or majority
00:40:13.600
whip. What was it? Yeah. And so anyway, very, very powerful guy. And it was just kind of like
00:40:19.500
his secret life of all this corruption and power and money and perversion. And it was just dirty.
00:40:27.160
How much in your opinion, cause you're, you've been behind the veil. Is this a fictitious show
00:40:36.780
or is this more closer to like a documentary? Is it that bad? So I heard a former president that
00:40:44.000
we had in the nineties was asked the question about this and he gave an answer that I thought
00:40:48.800
was so true. And he said, the only thing that's not accurate in that show is that you could never
00:40:53.640
get a piece of legislation about, uh, about education passed that quickly. And everything
00:40:58.960
else is good. Aside from that, I mean, the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean,
00:41:03.480
it being kind of a young guy in Washington with the average age of probably 60 or 70.
00:41:08.480
And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I've looked up to through my
00:41:11.400
life. I've always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of a sudden you get
00:41:15.080
invited to like, well, Hey, we're going to have kind of a, a sexual get together at one of our
00:41:19.260
homes. You should come. And I'm like, what, what did you just ask me to come to? And then you
00:41:24.140
realize they're asking you to come to an orgy, uh, or the fact that, you know, there's some of the
00:41:27.620
people that are leading on the movement to try and remove, you know, addiction in our country. And then you
00:41:32.820
watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you. How old is Madison? He, he, he looks like
00:41:41.300
he's 17. How old is he actually? Um, but that's not really the point. He says, first of all, he says
00:41:47.620
that a house of cards was a really well done show, which that we know is an absolute false narrative
00:41:52.880
as not as a terrible show is horrible. Um, and then, and then he says that he's been invited to
00:41:59.700
orgies in, in Congress and you, you try not to even, and then, and then your mind starts like
00:42:08.100
immediately you start thinking about who we have in Congress. And, uh, it's, it's quite disturbing
00:42:13.760
and horrifying and to stop yourself from vomiting. You, you, you, your mind has to, has to cut it off
00:42:20.620
there. Um, like who exactly is involved in these orgies? I, I, I don't want to know. Now he says that
00:42:26.780
he's been invited to a, a sexual get together. And I, I will admit now I've never been in this
00:42:36.640
environment before, so I don't know, but I, I'm, I'm skeptical that if you were going to be invited
00:42:44.860
to an orgy, somebody would say to you, Oh, would you like to come to a sexual get together? Is that,
00:42:49.120
is that really how it would be phrased? You might as well just say orgy at that point, say, Hey,
00:42:54.680
I'm going to send you an RSVP on there. Hey, I sent you an invitation to that orgy. Did you,
00:42:58.360
I didn't get the RSVP yet. Is there any, Oh, it's my email. Okay. I'll check. Is that how it goes?
00:43:02.300
Is it that direct? A sexual get together? Or maybe it's just, Hey, would you, we're having a get
00:43:08.140
together in my house. What kind of get together? Oh, it's a sexual one. Yeah. Sexual. A little bit
00:43:12.160
of drugs too. I don't know. That's, I didn't think that the, that it would necessarily go that way or
00:43:17.680
that that's how they would talk about it. Um, but at the same time, so the fact that he phrased it
00:43:24.660
this way and tied it to house of cards is being used to dismiss the entire claim, but there's no
00:43:30.660
doubt. Number one, as he says, plenty of sexual perversion in Congress. We, we certainly know that.
00:43:38.380
I mean, there were members of Congress, one in particular, it comes to mind who was having
00:43:44.220
like threesomes with her own staff members. So that sort of thing definitely happens.
00:43:49.980
Now, whether Katie Hill invited people by saying, would you like to come to a sexual get together?
00:43:54.340
Uh, at my house this evening, you know, that's, that's sort of semantics,
00:43:58.300
but there's no question that the sexual perversion is there, that these are all a bunch of degenerates,
00:44:03.820
no doubt about that. And also it's interesting. I saw someone make this point on Twitter, um,
00:44:08.900
that the people who are laughing hysterically at the claim that members of Congress would engage in
00:44:14.820
this kind of activity. Uh, these are the exact people who took as fact right away and had no
00:44:22.280
skepticism about the claim that Brett Kavanaugh was the ringleader of some sort of gang of,
00:44:28.920
of, uh, of serial rapists and that he would go to rape parties.
00:44:32.520
That to them was totally credible. They thought that was the fact that some of these claims were
00:44:38.780
being filtered through Michael Avenatti, no problem to them. And yet this claim is somehow
00:44:46.540
beyond the pale. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Let's move now to the comment section.
00:44:51.340
Who's bringing shopping carts back to the rightful place. We're becoming saints here in the sweet
00:45:01.320
baby gang. A few comments here about, uh, the daily cancellation yesterday, where we talked about
00:45:08.500
the, uh, how we're pathologizing grief. Now grief is now a, a medical disorder, a mental disorder,
00:45:15.780
according to the pharmaceutical industries, psychiatric industry, who coincidentally
00:45:20.080
stand to make billions of dollars in profits, additional profits by medicalizing, uh, yet
00:45:26.640
another aspect of the human condition. So some people reacted to that. Debbie says,
00:45:30.200
my father died five years ago. My mom, 12 months ago. I cry when I think of them both. No way I'm
00:45:35.440
taking drugs to get over it. B Barrett says, grief is always going to be a part of us. We don't get
00:45:40.180
over it. We learned to perform our day-to-day activity while carrying it. Another one says it's
00:45:46.840
been over two decades and I still feel the grief processing. The feelings takes longer and becomes
00:45:51.360
more difficult to live with when we avoid feeling it fully and sorting through all the negative
00:45:56.480
emotions. And this has got a lot of comments like that, um, from people who've experienced real loss
00:46:04.580
in their life, spouses, children, parents, that sort of thing. And, um, what everyone that consensus
00:46:12.580
seems to be that you don't really, you never get over it in the sense of you just go back to normal
00:46:17.920
like the person never existed. You wouldn't want to get over it in that way. You just, you learn to
00:46:21.540
live with it. You carry it with you, but you're always going to be sad. I mean, God forbid you lose
00:46:24.920
a child. There's never going to be a time you'd be 50 years later. There's not going to be a time
00:46:28.580
when it doesn't make you profoundly, deeply, uh, devastatingly sad to think about. And you just
00:46:36.360
carry, but you, you carry it with you and you, and you continue living. So there are ways that the
00:46:42.700
problem though, is that, um, well, there are many problems, but one of them is that we've decided the
00:46:51.720
only way to help people now is through drugs. And so if you come out against using drugs to solve
00:47:00.320
a problem, then automatically what you're saying in the minds of a lot of people is that you don't
00:47:06.080
want to help at all. That you don't think these people should be helped, but no, that's not the
00:47:11.240
case. There are many ways to help someone in grief. Now you can't take it away. You can't take their
00:47:16.520
grief away because you can't take away the cause of the grief, which is the absence of this person
00:47:21.920
that they loved. Um, but you can help them to live with it. And you do that through counseling,
00:47:29.660
support groups, being there for them. I mean, just like these human interactions like this,
00:47:33.860
this is what is causing the pain is the loss of a human connection, someone that they cared about
00:47:38.420
deeply. And so if you're going to help them through it, what they need is a human connection,
00:47:41.720
not a damn drug. How is this any different by the way? How is this any different? Like you might
00:47:48.560
as well just prescribe to someone in grief that they go home and drink a bottle of whiskey.
00:47:53.060
It's the same thing. And I can understand if I lost someone really close to me, um, I'm sure I'd be
00:47:58.140
very tempted to respond to it in that way, but that's just, you're trying to numb the pain,
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which is a human instinct. It's understandable.
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That's all it is. You put it in the form of a drug and you, you make a fancy pharmaceutical
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commercial for it and you have Pfizer or somebody selling it and all of a sudden it's a different
00:48:15.940
concept. No, it's not. You know, a pill is no more a medicine for grief or despair than a bottle of
00:48:24.820
alcohol is. They both effectively do the same thing, which is to numb you to it,
00:48:30.540
but they don't solve it or make it go away. Um, octarian war criminal says we have officially
00:48:40.380
found Matt's worst shirt. Sweet daddy walls truly has disappointed us today. How dare you says I would
00:48:46.540
condone Will Smith slapping Matt for wearing that shirt. And then I guess I don't have to keep
00:48:53.460
reading these comments. A lot of people, this was, this seemed to be another consensus agreement is
00:48:58.500
that the shirt I wore yesterday, I thought it was a nice shirt for the shirt was very disturbing to a
00:49:02.080
lot of people, I guess, because maybe it kind of blended in with my, with my skin tone. It was not
00:49:07.800
my intention to wear a nude colored shirt, but I guess that's how it came off on a, so when you first
00:49:15.420
clicked on the episode, you saw me and it looked like I was just wearing no clothes at all, but you know
00:49:18.760
what? And a lot of people are recoiling in horror at that thought, but, but that, that number one is
00:49:23.980
body shaming to me. So what if I was doing the show without any clothes on? You know, you can't
00:49:29.540
complain about that without body shaming. No, I thought it was a great shirt. Uh, Savvy Moon says,
00:49:35.020
Matt, that shirt you're wearing today is very nice. Okay, good. Thanks for got one. Me and this one
00:49:39.760
person, we agree on the shirt and you know what happens now. I mean, you know what happens. You
00:49:44.720
complain about a shirt that I wore. You say it was ugly. It's disturbing. It's giving you nightmares.
00:49:48.340
What does that mean? It just means I'm going to wear it a lot more now. You've done this to
00:49:52.460
yourself. Well, the left has infiltrated every facet of the entertainment industry, including
00:49:56.400
sports. Athletes kneel out of worship to the prevailing woke ideology and virtue signal. Um,
00:50:01.880
and they are doing all these things, of course, with some exceptions, like NBA star Jonathan Isaac,
00:50:06.660
who, despite facing heavy criticism from the media for his views on social issues and vaccines
00:50:10.500
over the past few years, stood strong while everybody else was on their knees, which is why I'm
00:50:14.620
extremely excited to announce that he's decided to write a book with The Daily Wire called
00:50:17.560
Why I Stand. Jonathan's book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey
00:50:21.880
into faith, and his strength to stand alone in the face of immense pressure. The book
00:50:25.520
is available for pre-order now at Amazon, so go reserve your copy today. Now let's get
00:50:34.640
So it's with great pleasure today that I canceled Jon Stewart. Now, Jon Stewart actually has a
00:50:39.440
show which streams on Apple TV and which generates enthusiasm and public interest about on the
00:50:43.680
level with the WNBA game. If you're like the average person, you probably didn't even know
00:50:47.320
that the show existed. The last you heard from Stewart was probably several months ago when he
00:50:51.160
went viral for criticizing some aspects of the mainstream COVID narrative. I think it was last
00:50:56.040
year, and he earned many high fives and backslaps from the right for this moment of lucidity.
00:51:01.060
Oh, that Jon Stewart, conservatives said, he's not woke like other liberals. He's one of the good
00:51:06.460
ones, you know. This is a familiar process. Someone on the left says something mildly sane and then is
00:51:11.860
immediately valorized by the right as a champion of truth and common sense. He's baptized, usually
00:51:16.880
against his will, as an honorary conservative, even as 99.9% of his worldview still remains firmly
00:51:22.640
planted on the left end of the political spectrum. The next step in the process is inevitable. The
00:51:27.940
newly christened conservative hero proceeds shortly after this fleeting episode of rationality to go back
00:51:33.780
to far left talking points. And then he is once again demonized by the same conservatives who two
00:51:38.140
seconds before were ready to canonize him. Around and around we go, nothing ever changes. On that note,
00:51:43.720
here is Jon Stewart on his Apple TV show talking to his viewers about, or rather to his viewer,
00:51:53.160
For however sincerely we want to reckon and listen, the truth is America has always prioritized
00:52:01.140
white comfort over black survival. Black people have had to fight so hard for equality that they've been
00:52:10.120
irreparably set back in the pursuit of equity. And any real attempt to repair a ton of that damage,
00:52:23.280
reparation, sets off white people's, they're coming for our alarm, which we would know ourselves
00:52:34.400
had we actually been listening. My feeling is white people have a very, very serious problem,
00:52:43.940
and they should start thinking about what they can do about it. Take me out of it.
00:52:50.960
Understood. So what you can't see in that video because it's just out of frame is Ibram X. Kendi
00:52:58.060
standing there with a gun pointed right at Jon Stewart. At least I assume that's what's happening
00:53:02.100
because the whole thing has the look, sound, and feel of one of those Taliban hostage videos.
00:53:06.640
Only it's worse than that because the Taliban, to my knowledge, doesn't usually castrate the hostage
00:53:10.640
before filming the video. Stewart, on the other hand, sits there like a docile, gelding,
00:53:15.860
head bowed, meekly whispering, understood, after a black woman declares that everything is the fault of
00:53:20.580
white people. Later in the episode, Stewart brought on a panel of fellow self-hating whites to talk
00:53:26.220
about some more about how awful white people are. There was one man involved in the conversation,
00:53:31.100
Andrew Sullivan, who had the gumption to suggest that perhaps white people are not necessarily spawns
00:53:36.160
of Satan, and that maybe, in fact, there might even be some good things about America and American
00:53:40.540
history and white people. These outrageous claims were dutifully shouted down by Stewart and the
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You're not living on the same f***ing planet we are. Honestly. I really don't think you are.
00:53:54.260
I think you are not living in the planet most Americans are, which is why this kind of extremism,
00:54:02.120
this anti-white extremism, is losing popular support, is creating a backlash, is going to
00:54:10.260
elect Republicans and undo a lot of the good you think you're doing. This is what happens when you
00:54:15.020
don't talk about it. This is what happens when white people don't talk about it, is you have
00:54:20.140
racist dog-whistle tropes like this that actually perpetuate and perpetuate and perpetuate.
00:54:26.500
So I am, and I did not come on this show to sit here and argue with another white man. That's
00:54:34.100
one of the reasons that we don't even engage with white men at race to dinner.
00:54:39.880
So, you know, because quite honestly, if white men were going to do something about racism,
00:54:50.360
Oh, she's not going to engage with white men. She went on a white man's show to sit on a panel with
00:54:57.200
white men, but she doesn't want to talk to white men. She hates white men. She despises them.
00:55:01.680
She doesn't even think that they should be able to speak, and she feels comfortable vocalizing all
00:55:05.340
of this bigotry because she expects that she'll be applauded for it, and she was. But remember,
00:55:09.520
all of our systems are racist against black people, even though the only group of people you could
00:55:13.160
actually be openly racist against are white people, especially white men. Makes total sense.
00:55:17.780
If you're brain damaged or have single-digit IQ, which is precisely the demographic that critical
00:55:21.440
race theory appeals to the most. Now, the angry portly woman there with the bad haircut says that
00:55:26.840
white men should have already done something about racism. We had 400 years, she says.
00:55:32.660
To which you might point out that it was largely white men who abolished slavery.
00:55:37.360
White men didn't invent slavery, but they did abolish it. White men, in fact, are responsible
00:55:41.180
for many of the best things about our civilization. That's just a fact. White men have been busy,
00:55:45.100
you know, inventing modern science and building skyscrapers and fighting and dying in our wars
00:55:49.740
and defeating the Nazis, creating modern medicine, inventing cars, electricity, space travel,
00:55:53.480
antibiotics, writing the greatest novels and plays and poems in history. That's what white men have been up to.
00:55:57.600
But they're not worthy of even speaking to the bitter cat lady on the Jon Stewart panel.
00:56:03.020
She turns up her nose at the whole group. Be gone, she says. Well, okay, maybe we'll go,
00:56:08.000
but you better hope we don't take all our stuff with us on the way out the door because you're
00:56:10.920
not going to be left with much if we do. But hold on a second. She said that white men
00:56:15.840
had 400 years to do something about racism. Why 400 years specifically? I mean, what about,
00:56:21.680
and what about everybody else on earth? What was everyone else doing about racism?
00:56:27.100
Who exactly was fighting against racism 400 years ago? Well, she says 400 years ago because she's a
00:56:33.260
mindless disciple of the 1619 project. And she believes that racism was invented around that time
00:56:38.740
and that it was white people who invented it and only white people who ever engaged in it.
00:56:42.540
In reality, of course, racism has existed in the human species everywhere on earth,
00:56:46.800
in every population, everywhere since the dawn of civilization. Racism is just one form of tribalism.
00:56:54.380
It's a form of tribalism that still exists in the world today, in fact, and can be found in much
00:56:58.840
more virulent and violent forms in the parts of the world where white people are least present.
00:57:05.440
It's not just that there is racial and ethnic tribalism in Africa and Asia too. It's that there's a
00:57:10.220
whole hell of a lot more of it in those regions of the world, and it comes in a far more brutal
00:57:14.900
package. Now, going back in history, I asked earlier who exactly was fighting against racism
00:57:21.880
400 years ago. I'm not claiming that white men were, and they weren't, but who was? Well, the answer
00:57:27.820
is nobody. Not a soul on earth back in those days. The idea that all people should be treated equally
00:57:35.260
regardless of how they look or where they're from is an idea that simply did not exist anywhere in
00:57:40.500
the world 400 years ago. That idea had to be thought of and codified into law, and guess who
00:57:47.160
thought of it? That's right, white men. Now, granted, the white men who came up with the concept did not
00:57:52.720
actually apply it consistently because when it came down to it, they shared the flaws that were
00:57:56.980
ubiquitous in almost all human beings on earth at that time. But they certainly set the stage for
00:58:02.180
racial equality under the law. They put the framework in place. I'd say that's a pretty
00:58:07.240
significant achievement, even if it doesn't impress the panelists on Jon Stewart's show or Jon Stewart
00:58:12.380
himself. But who really cares? Because anyway, Jon Stewart is today canceled, and we'll leave it
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there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:58:23.000
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