Ep. 489 - Media Matters Has A Hissy Fit Because I Said Boys Are Male
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Media Matters attacks the Daily Wire because we committed the sin of calling males “male.” Also, Five Headlines, including the media’s increasingly desperate, but also hilarious attempts to make Stacey Abrams into a superstar. And in our Daily Cancellation, I cancel the NFL for considering the most insane affirmative action scheme ever devised.
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Today, on the Matt Wall Show, Media Matters attacks the Daily Wire because we committed the sin of calling males male.
So we'll go through that today.
They're very upset about it.
And as they are every single time we say anything about anything.
So we'll talk about that.
Also, five headlines, including the media's increasingly desperate Attempt but also hilarious increasingly desperate increasingly hilarious attempts to make Stacey Abrams into some sort of Superstar and it's it's it's really gotten pretty absurd.
So we'll talk about that and in our daily cancellation I cancel the NFL for Considering what I think may be one of the most insane affirmative action schemes ever devised certainly in professional sports Also, we'll have a Why I'm Wrong email and much more all on the way.
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Okay But we're going to start with our good friends over at Media Matters, who are of course huge fans of this show and of The Daily Wire in general.
They published another lengthy expose about us on Friday.
Now this is to be distinguished from the regular, almost daily, or really I think literally daily, little posts they do about whatever offensive thing that one of us might have happened to say that day.
So those sorts of things that you expect But then, every once in a while, they go more in-depth in trying to really reveal our bigotry and show what nasty, horrible people we are.
So they tried that again on Friday with this article, the headline, Daily Wire hosts demeaned trans high school athletes at center of alliance defending case.
Now the author, Alex Patterson, introduces the article this way on Twitter, it says, The Daily Wire's anti-trans pundits, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles, repeatedly misgendered and demeaned two teenage athletes.
Grown-ass men commenting about teenagers' genitals.
Disgusting.
Yes, disgusting.
Disgusting!
It's so disgusting that we would dare mention That males are males.
What a horrible and disgusting and inappropriate thing.
Absolutely inappropriate.
Shocking.
Scandalizing.
Because that's what Alex means here, right?
We commented on teenagers' genitals in the sense that we said males are males.
So, in that way, you know, the doctor, when the doctor tells you it's a boy, he's commenting on the baby's genitals.
Quite literally.
He is looking at the genitals and announcing the sex.
So, when the doctor tells you that, would you—you pervert!
What are you doing commenting on my baby's genitals?
Alex, by the way, what does that tell you?
You know, people in the medical profession, when they want to determine the sex of a baby, they look at the genitals.
What does that tell you?
Think about that for a second.
Use your brain.
Not to comment on your internal organs, especially one that I'm not sure you actually possess.
Okay, let's check out the article.
This is pretty fun.
We'll take a look at it.
And actually, if you could, producer, please play a little bit of sad violin music while I read this, because it will help set the tone, I think, and get us all in the mood of this article.
Okay, it says...
Across several pieces of online content and podcasts, The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles attacked and misgendered two trans teenagers at the center of a lawsuit from extreme anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom that seeks to prevent them from competing in girls' sports.
Since May 11th, the reliably anti-trans outlet and pundits have posted four podcast segments that received over 215,000 views on YouTube and two articles that earned a combined 158,000 interactions on Facebook.
The pundits repeatedly misgendered the teen athletes and fear-mongered about trans-inclusive sports, with Knowles claiming that recognizing transgender people is part of an agenda to end objective reality.
Shameful.
What a bigot Knowles is.
After National Review first reported on the story on May 11th, Daily Wire published two articles, one written by Walsh and the other by Amanda Prestigiacomo, that repeatedly misgendered the athletes, referring to them as male, or biologically male.
During the May 11th episode of Walsh's Daily Wire podcast, The Matt Walsh Show, he called trans girls, quote, boys with XY chromosomes and penises.
And claimed that, quote, people are like Mr. Potato Head dolls now.
You just take the different parts, swap them out, doesn't matter, it makes no difference.
I did say that.
He also claimed that the athletes are not females.
Quote, not by science, not by common sense, and not by human decency.
The following day, Walsh doubled down on his remarks and called trans athletes, quote, penis-wielding XYs.
That's terrible.
Terrible!
And claimed, quote, they're not girls and they're certainly not female.
Shapiro, the outlet's founder, also misgendered the athletes during the May 11th edition of the Ben Shapiro Show, referring to them as biological males throughout the segment.
On May 13th, Knowles fear-mongered about trans-inclusive sports on his Daily Wire podcast, claiming that, quote, if the left can force you to believe that men are women and women are men, then there is no objective reality.
Knowles also said that accepting transgender people's gender identity is how, quote, science is abused and appropriated and monopolized and perverted and transformed to invert objective reality.
The Daily Wire regularly spreads hateful, anti-trans content that earns significant engagement online.
Okay, there it is.
Wow.
Yeah.
Of course, Every sane person listening to this right now is thinking, wait, okay, but where's the offensive part?
Where's the controversial part?
I don't, I didn't hear it.
I'm confused.
But that's it right there.
That's, that's, that's all, that's all that stuff there where we say a bunch of things that every single rational human on planet earth agrees with.
That's it.
That's, that's the part that they're upset about.
Now, a few observations here.
First of all, notice again how the artificial and arbitrary and invented distinction between sex and gender has finally been abandoned by the left.
It's important to notice what they've done.
And it's long since been abandoned.
This is just more evidence of that.
Because the article says, we repeatedly misgendered the athletes, referring to them as male or biologically male.
Well, wait a second.
I thought male was sex and man was gender.
That's what you guys told us for years.
They're two different things.
That's what we were told.
And now you're saying that calling a male male is misgendering?
How could it be misgender if it refers to sex and sex and gender are two different things, according to you?
So you're saying that sex and gender are two words for the same thing now?
Well, of course they are, you know.
They're two words for the same thing.
They always have been.
Well, not always.
Originally, of course, gender was a linguistic term, a grammatical term.
Words had gender, not humans.
See, we didn't need to refer to humans having gender because humans have sex.
We don't need a second word for it.
We've already got that covered.
But words, on the other hand, don't have a sex because they're not biological entities.
And that's why we have gender to refer to masculine or feminine words.
But what the left did is they said, okay, we're going to take this grammatical concept and we're going to apply it to people.
And these are two different things.
Well, apparently not.
Now they've gone back on that.
They're not just saying that gender is fluid, they're saying that sex, that biological sex, is fluid.
So this is the ultimate bait-and-switch.
Leftists, they tried to normalize this idea of gender fluidity, this idea that gender is a separate thing, and it can change or switch back and forth, and then, right when people started to buy into it, which nobody ever should have in the first place, they, without announcing it, switched sex back for gender.
So they tried to get us used to the idea of, you know, gender is a different thing.
You know, you could be biological male, but your gender could be woman, and it's a fluid thing, and you know, they tried to get us used to that, and right when some people started getting used to it, they switched it around, and they said that, oh no no, actually that's, yeah, he's not a male at all, he's a female.
They went from trans women are women to trans women are female.
Which is a clever move.
Dishonest, despicable, false, incoherent, you know, all that stuff too.
But also clever, strategically.
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You notice how there's no argument presented here, right?
And there never is.
This is just emotion.
I mean, my kids would be better at presenting a rational argument than this.
So this is what I'll say to Alex and Media Matters and all leftists with respect to this issue.
And every issue, really.
Here's what I'll say.
How about this?
Get it out of your system.
Okay?
You can yell, scream, cry, call me a bigot.
Sure, yes, I'm a bigot.
I'm a hateful, terrible, evil, mean, awful... I'm Hitler.
I am literally... I'm worse than Hitler, okay?
Yeah, I'll just... let's grant you that for the sake of argument.
Let's just... so we can move on.
I will grant you that.
You don't need to scream it anymore.
Yes, all that is true.
We've established it.
Get it out of your system, out of the way.
Okay.
Hopefully you feel better.
Hopefully we've gotten past that part of the discussion.
We've laid that framework.
Can we please now move on to the part of the discussion where you actually try to explain why I'm wrong?
No, stop.
Don't start calling me a transphobe.
Don't go into the phobes and the isms.
We've already done that.
We're past that now.
Okay?
Yes, I'm a phobe, I'm an ist, I'm an ism.
Lay them all on me.
I really don't care.
We've already covered those bases though.
So those bases are covered.
Let's move past it.
You don't need to publish another article saying Matt Walsh is a transphobe.
We know that.
Everybody knows that.
Fine.
I don't care.
Okay?
What I'm asking you to do, Alex at Media Matters, or anyone else over there, or any leftist anywhere, What I'm asking you to do, follow along please, okay?
Just bear with me.
I'm asking you to present an argument which explains why and how I'm wrong and you're right.
Okay?
And it should be really easy to do because I'm Hitler, you know?
I'm a bigot, I'm Hitler, I'm all these things.
I mean, to beat me in an argument should be super easy.
So just do it, that's all.
And I'm gonna let you present it however you want, but I would suggest that if you disagree with my take on the definition of the word male, okay, or female, no, stop.
I know you wanna start screaming bigot again, I know you do.
You have like Tourette's and you can't help it, but you don't need to because we've already done that.
If you disagree with my definition of the word female or male, then what you need to do really is, is give me the right definition.
Okay?
That's all.
Give me the right definition.
Give me the right definition.
That's all you got to do.
And I'll tell you what, I'll make this interesting too.
We'll put some skin in the game.
All right?
This is a deal that I'll make with Media Matters right now on this show.
If anyone over there can give me a coherent, objective, and valid definition of the word female, I will apologize, I will admit I'm wrong, I will admit I'm a bigot, I've already done that, but I'll apologize and admit I'm wrong, and I will come on to this show tomorrow with a rainbow flag draped around me, and I will pledge allegiance to the LGBT squad, okay?
That's what I'll do.
I promise you I will.
If you can simply provide a coherent, objective, and valid definition of the word female.
The reason I stipulate coherent, objective, and valid is that, because that's what a definition has to be, right, in order to be a definition.
But also, you see, you can't do something like, well, the definition is a female is a person who identifies as female.
You can't do that.
That's not going to work, okay?
Because that, by definition, is neither coherent, objective, nor valid.
Because you're using the word you're defining in the definition, for one.
And two, it's a definition that tells me absolutely nothing about the thing you're defining.
Okay, so if you say X is a person who identifies as X, that tells me nothing about X. I know absolutely nothing about X based on that.
And definitions are supposed to tell me something.
In fact, they're supposed to tell me the definition.
So I should come away knowing what the thing is because you've defined it.
So you're gonna have to do better than that, right?
Now, just to make this even easier, I'll tell you what my definition is.
Okay, I'll go first.
We'll trade definitions.
Here's my definition of female.
And this, in fact, is the dictionary's definition, too.
So I feel pretty safe.
Webster agrees with me on this.
And, in fact, actually every single biology textbook that's ever been written, ever, agrees with me.
And every anatomy textbook that's ever been written, ever, agrees with me.
Okay?
So this is our definition.
I'm just going to put it out there for you.
A female, a female human, let's be even more specific, because that's what we're talking about here.
A female human is a person who bears two X chromosomes, has a vagina, And barring infirmity or old age, can bear offspring and produce eggs.
That's my definition of a female person.
And according to that definition, those trans track athletes are not female.
They're just not.
Okay?
That's all.
Not saying anything else about them.
I'm just saying they're not female.
And, but the other people competing in, you know, in the girls sports or the girls track teams and the girls that are filing the laws, they are female.
Okay?
They fit into the definition that I have presented and the definition that every dictionary and every biology textbook and every anatomy textbook anywhere, everywhere says.
So they fit into that definition.
These other, these trans individuals do not.
And so that's why they shouldn't be in the same week.
So, your turn.
Give me your definition, and we'll take it.
Maybe you're, here's the thing, see, you, when it comes to this issue, you guys, you've never made any kind of argument, ever.
You never present any argument, so all of the arguments are being made by people on my side.
Who knows?
Maybe we're wrong.
I mean, we could.
I don't think we are.
I mean, I'm pretty damn confident we're not wrong, but maybe you have some kind of, like, brilliant argument that you can put forward that we just don't know about.
And it may just blow my mind and make me rethink everything I think I know about the world.
Maybe you do.
So just, if you do, put it out there.
But if you don't put it out there that I think I'm fair in assuming you have no arguments whatsoever and all you have is emotions and tears and whining and crying.
Which is why your position can be disregarded.
Because it's irrelevant.
Alright.
So, let's move on to headlines here.
Number one.
Washington Post Magazine Ran a lengthy story on Stacey Abrams over the weekend.
And the title of that story is, The Power of Stacey Abrams.
And this is not a joke.
Here's the picture that's attached to that article.
That is Stacey Abrams wearing a cape.
They actually put her in a cape.
And the image, it looks like if Batman died and his secretary had to take over the superhero duties.
That's what this looks like.
And here's an actual quote.
Let me pull this up.
Here's an actual quote from the article.
It says, pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage, like a runway supermodel, stops on a dime, poses, tilts her head slightly and smiles.
Camera flashes explode.
She next pivots and walks slowly to the center of the stage, freezes there, and repeats the pose.
Again, the flashes explode.
Abrams is summoning her inner actress, and she is both enjoying the moment and getting through it to get to the conversation.
She then pivots and walks to the far right of the stage.
Same.
Okay, that's the article.
Supermodel, Stacey Abrams.
Now this is not the first time the media has tried to manufacture a political superstar.
They obviously do it all the time.
The most famous example would be Barack Obama.
And that was a pretty successful example.
Okay, they made him president for eight years.
A less successful example would be Beto O'Rourke.
They tried their hardest with him to make him into a superstar.
They had to give that up.
But the difference here is that Obama, and even O'Rourke, at least to some extent, had some semblance of political talent and charisma.
And so there was something there.
Even with Obama, a pretty good orator, O'Rourke, not as good, but at least he has the whole punk rock thing that he did in the 90s and so he's got that going on.
And he's got the furry thing, so that's kind of interesting.
So there's a little something there that you could try to build into this political sensation if you want to.
But Stacey Abrams?
Are you serious?
There's just nothing...
There, she's an extremely standard, extremely unimpressive, normal, average politician.
In fact, failed politician.
She's just your average failed politician.
Very little charisma or talent.
Nothing special as a public speaker.
This is like if the right tried to make Jeb Bush into a rock star.
It doesn't work.
And the attempts are becoming increasingly embarrassing, but like I said, also hilarious.
Okay, so Mashable, number two, has a video out showcasing some new protective gear that they're hoping people will wear to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
And, well, you let me know what you think.
Take a look at this.
Honestly, I would rather be dead.
I would rather... I would choose death over wearing that for even five minutes of my life.
Now, tell me if this is kind of mean, but when I saw that video, I did have the thought that it would be kind of funny if somebody straps that helmet on, right, and they're feeling super safe, and they're feeling impervious to any and all threats that they might have come across, and they walk outside their home, and just really confident, step into the street, immediately get hit by a bus.
That would be kind of funny.
I don't know if that's mean for me.
I'd be really terrible for the family, of course, but also a little funny.
Or maybe I'm just a bad person.
Or it could be that it's funny and I'm a bad person.
That's very probable as well.
Number three, Rebecca Brand is, I'm not sure who she is exactly, but she recorded a video over the weekend complaining about people not wearing masks.
And now her name is no longer Rebecca Brand anymore.
It's Karen.
This is not just Karen.
This is THE Karen.
This is the ultimate.
This is like the boss Karen at the end of the game.
The quintessential Karen.
If anyone wants to know, if anyone's confused about the Karen meme and where that comes from and what is a Karen, well, here it is right here.
Oh my God, not one person with a mask on.
Everybody is here.
Oh my God!
And nobody, yeah, oh my God, that's what I'm saying.
Oh my God.
Look at all those people!
There's like 20?
What the heck?
What are we doing to you people?
Hi, I'm Rebecca Brand, and I'm flipping out because Governor Newsom announced that this Friday we are no longer going to be on total lockdown.
We're opening back up.
I'm flipping out because people haven't been wearing masks, and this is going to be even more loosey-goosey than ever before.
I think it's all going to go downhill from this point on.
Loosey-goosey.
It's loosey-goosey.
Listen up, all you loose gooses, you loose geese.
Get your acts together.
This is, of course, they're at the beach, you know, and that's why people aren't wearing masks, Karen, because they're at the beach and they're outside in the sun.
And the chance that they pass coronavirus on to anybody or contract it themselves is almost zero.
And so that's why they're not in masks at the beach.
And that's why you don't need to be either.
And I don't even understand, I don't, how could you, how is it, why would you even go to the beach?
If you're going to wear a mask at the beach, why go in the first place?
The whole, it's, first of all, it's hot.
I mean, imagine how hot it must be under that mask and you're getting sand in it.
And, you know, part of the whole thing of being at the beach is you can breathe in that fresh sea air with the, you know, the scent of the salt water.
You get none of that.
You just get your own fumes back up your nostrils.
What's the point of even going?
Well, I know what the point is for Karen there.
The point is to, you know, virtue signal and to show off how responsible she is while everybody else is being loosey-goosey, as she says.
Number four, NASCAR started back up again.
I think a few days ago over the weekend, which is great news, you know.
And then you think about, so NASCAR started up.
They're playing soccer again in some places in the world.
And this just makes me really excited for when sports get going again.
I mean, real sports.
We got NASCAR and soccer just makes me think, I can't wait till the sports leagues.
Actually, start up again.
Number five, incredible report here in the Daily Wire.
It says, Democrat-controlled New York has reportedly admitted to knowingly undercounting the number of deaths suffered in nursing homes from the coronavirus after the facilities were devastated by Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo's policy that forced them to take patients who were infected with the virus.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports The department made a subtle change to its disclosure... Disclosure... Disclosures... I can't read.
To its disclosures, beginning around May 3rd, according to its web archives, the New York State Department of Health told the Daily Caller News Foundation its disclosure now only reports coronavirus deaths for long-term care patients that died while physically present at their facility.
In other words, New York's nursing home and adult care facility, Coronavirus Death Tracker, omits any individuals who contracted coronavirus while living at a long-term care facility but died in a hospital.
That's the way.
Now, I've commented on this before.
You look across the country and you see that nursing home deaths make up 40, 50, 60, 70, sometimes 80% or more of the total deaths in that state.
And then you look at New York and it's kind of strange because there it's officially, it's like 20% or less.
Even though they had the most deaths Total, by far, of any state, and we know that they had this crazy policy of deliberately, forcibly introducing the infection into nursing homes, yet it's only, what, 15, 20% of the deaths are in nursing homes?
That makes no sense.
And so I've been saying for weeks, there's something going on here, and I think that number's gonna go up, and here it is, reportedly, that they're saying, okay, it doesn't count as a nursing home death if they died in the nursing home.
So if somebody gets sick and is on their deathbed, and they're brought to a hospital for care, and they die there, well, we're not gonna call that a nursing home fatality, when in reality, of course, it is.
And why are they doing that?
Well, because they're gonna protect Andrew Cuomo, because they realize that this is a massive, massive scandal, and easily one of the deadliest political scandals in American history.
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So now I'm canceling the organization and the bureaucratic part of it.
The reason is this.
Reading a report now from NFL.com.
It says, During his State of the League address three months ago at a Super Bowl in Miami, Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged a need to increase the opportunities for minorities to become head coaches and general managers.
He says, clearly we're not doing enough, we have to do more, blah, blah, blah.
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Here's the idea.
They came up with an idea they proposed to incentivize teams to hire minority coaches and front office personnel like GMs and so on.
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If a team were to fill both positions with diverse candidates, diverse candidates in the same year, the club could jump 16 spots, 6 for the coach, 10 for the GM, and potentially move from the top of the third round to the middle of the second.
Okay.
So that's the idea, basically, and it goes into more detail, but that's, you get the general gist.
So it would seem that affirmative action in the NFL, much like its players, is on steroids.
Because this is remarkable.
This is the kind of thing that I might have made up as a joke and proposed it in an article or something, satirically.
This is Babylon Bee stuff right here.
It really is.
They want to actually bribe teams with draft position if they hire a minority coach.
And just so you know, if you don't follow football, draft position, especially in the second and third round, is extremely valuable.
So we're not talking about seventh round flyers here.
We're talking about, they want to rig the second round of the NFL draft By giving picks to teams if they hire, quote, diverse candidates.
And by diverse candidates, of course, they mean black, okay?
They don't actually, they don't want diverse candidates.
That's not the point.
There is one particular race that they're looking for.
They don't want to put it like that because it would sound insane and degrading and just absolutely weird.
But that is the point.
So, what are the problems here?
Well, for one thing, it's completely contrary to the spirit of athletic competition.
Giving teams competitive advantages on the basis of this is to destroy the whole point of sports.
Sports are a meritocracy.
That's what's so great about them.
That's why people like them.
That's why they are usually a respite.
They are an oasis from all the craziness.
With the social engineering and the culture.
You can go to sports and you just see, may the best man win.
That's it.
Or may the best team win.
Not may the most racially woke team win.
Once you start introducing that into it, it destroys the whole point of the endeavor in the first place.
And for another thing, this is demeaning and infantilizing to the people that it's supposed to help.
Because what you're doing here is you're creating suspicion Reasonable suspicion that any black coach or black GM who's hired from here on out was only hired because of the reward that the team would get for hiring them.
Which, inevitably, that will be the case.
For some of the black coaches and black GMs that are hired if this plan goes through.
But then there are going to be others that would have been hired anyway just based on their merits, based on their qualifications and their skill, but they also are going to be forever tainted by the suspicion of racial favoritism.
So it doesn't help them.
And then of course, on the other hand, this guarantees that some candidates, white candidates, will be passed up Despite being the most worthy and most qualified.
Based solely on their race.
So it guarantees that based on their race, there are going to be some candidates who are overlooked.
It guarantees racial discrimination in order to solve racial discrimination.
So we're getting rid of potential theoretical racial discrimination by replacing it with guaranteed racial discrimination.
Great plan.
Just wonderful plan.
And, you know, the last thing, if we're going down this route, why don't we incentivize teams to put, you know, white cornerbacks on their rosters?
There are zero white cornerbacks in the NFL right now, as far as I know.
Certainly there are none that start.
So there are zero starting white corners in the NFL.
Not very many white running backs, a few.
Not very many white wide receivers, a few.
Not very many white free safeties or linebackers or, well, not very many white players in general except at the quarterback, kicker, and offensive line positions.
Those are the only places where you typically are going to find white people.
So, why don't we give incentives for that?
Oh right, because this is not really about racial diversity at all, this is about racial dogmatism, left-wing racial dogmatism to be specific, and that's what the NFL is considering.
It hasn't passed, but if it does, it's just... I'm pretty cynical, and so it's hard to surprise me, but this really does.
And I think we have a couple emails here, but I think we'll save those for tomorrow because they could be longer conversations.
So we'll leave it there.
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