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Ep. 578 - Pence Dominates Debate. Media Cries Sexism.

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Mike Pence dominates in the Vice Presidential debate. The media is so desperate to distract from Pence’s brilliant performance that they are now accusing him of sexism for debating a woman — at a debate against a woman. Also Five Headlines including more rioting and looting for perhaps the most absurd reason yet. And in our Daily Cancellation, I will cancel celebrities who got naked in order to encourage people to vote. I will not only be cancelling them but I will also be cancelling all get out the vote drives. I think they should all be abolished and I’ll explain why. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Mike Pence dominates in the vice presidential debate last night.
The media is so desperate to distract from Pence's brilliant performance that they're now accusing him of sexism for debating a woman at a debate against a woman.
Also, five headlines, including more rioting and looting for perhaps the most absurd reason yet.
And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel celebrities who got naked in order to encourage people to vote.
But I'm not only cancelling them.
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Okay.
Let's talk about the debate now as I do so from this ritzy hotel room because I am Here in Grove City, Pennsylvania, waiting to speak at Grove City College at 7 o'clock tonight.
If you're in the area, come on out.
I'm excited to be speaking to people live in person for the first time in months.
So that'll be great.
Grove City College tonight.
Hope to see you there.
Now, as for the debate, it was not a surprise, you know, to see Vice President Mike Pence win the debate against Senator Kamala Harris, a woman who threatens at times to make Hillary Clinton appear genuine and likable by comparison.
But it was perhaps unexpected to see Pence, in his polite, understated, Midwestern way, dominate and humiliate Harris to such an extent, to such an extent that the mainstream media was forced to make headlines out of the fly that landed on Pence's head for two minutes.
Anything to distract from the substance of his performance, anything to avoid the real headline, which is, Mike Pence wins big.
In fact, the left has been so desperate in the aftermath of the debate that an MSNBC guest went into a lengthy discourse on the fly, eventually concluding that the fly was an omen.
It's the mark of the devil.
Listen.
Well, if this was a normal debate, his behavior would have been scored very, very poorly, would have been on the higher end of weird behavior and not for nothing.
I mean, I don't think it's ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes.
You know, that's a that's a sign all through history of sin.
And historically, biblically, uh, maybe you wouldn't normally say this after, uh, you wouldn't, it's only safe to say this, sorry, after midnight, but you know, the, a fly, he who commands the fly has always been seen historically as the mark of the devil.
So I just, I must be relevant.
But having the fly landed on you.
Now as a journalist, now I have to ask for the record, are you joking?
Because, uh, the fly could have landed on anyone.
Yes.
But it didn't.
It landed on Mike Pence, and it says something.
I don't think karmic about the status of the campaign as it implodes.
Now, if we really want to play this game with the fly, then we could talk about the time that Obama nearly had a fly pry its way into his mouth.
And, you know, as this photographic evidence confirms.
But let's not talk about the fly.
The fly was not the only headline to come out of the debate.
According to our diligent journalist class, Mike Pence also had one eye that was a little red.
This provided fodder for extensive commentary from Forbes, BuzzFeed, Los Angeles Times, and other esteemed publications.
Also, Mike Pence's wife, Karen, appeared on stage to congratulate her husband after the debate and was not wearing a mask.
which provoked indictments from the Huffington Post, Newsweek, New York Times.
Imagine their shock and horror should they learn that Karen Pence also presumably doesn't wear a mask when she sleeps in the same bed as her husband, or sits on the sofa next to him to watch TV, or spends much of her life in close proximity to him.
But the big news, even bigger than the flies and the pink eye, you can believe it, Is that Vice President Mike Pence was a sexist for committing the unthinkable sin of debating a woman during a debate against a woman.
Right on cue.
Nearly as soon as the broadcast concluded, Dan Rather and others in the news media were accusing Pence of mansplaining.
George Stephanopoulos at ABC also latched onto this mansplaining talking point.
Here's what he said.
Sarah Fagan, let me bring that to you, because obviously Mike Pence is a former television commentator, does have a very calm demeanor, but I think a lot of people were noticing some mansplaining going on tonight.
I don't know.
I didn't see it that way, George.
It didn't come across to me.
Now, notice how he ironically tries to explain about mansplaining to a woman who disagrees with him, which is funny.
Also, Major Garrett at CBS gushed with pride, exclaiming that Harris was an inspiration for women everywhere when she asserted herself against the rude man who kept arguing with her, almost as if they were taking part in an event where the whole point is to argue with each other.
Here's what he said.
I think there was something very stylistically important, and just because it's stylistic doesn't mean it doesn't have weight.
I think this will.
And back me up on this, Caitlin and Elaine, because I'm sure you heard it as well.
When she was being interrupted, Senator Harris did not look at the Vice President and say, don't interrupt me.
What did she say?
I'm speaking now.
I think that is an important stylistic difference.
She's not giving the vice president an order, stop interrupting me.
She is asserting I'm speaking now.
And I think many American women heard that and said, I know what that feels like.
I know what that is in that moment.
I'm speaking and I should be allowed to speak.
And there were more.
NBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss noted that Pence was interrupting not just one woman, but two.
Both his female opponent and the female moderator.
This, he says, shows a lack of respect.
Over on CNN, S.C.
Cupp was apoplectic, ranting about how Pence's alleged sexism and mansplaining was, quote, infuriating.
It made her skin crawl.
Here's what she said.
Let me just start by saying I know Mike Pence, I've met Mike Pence, I've interviewed Mike Pence, and at one time I found him very impressive.
Tonight, he made my skin crawl, and I think showed that you can be insulting without using insults.
You know, the constant interruptions, the mansplaining.
The condescending to both of the women on that stage tonight, and the not answering questions, the gaslighting, I found infuriating.
And predictably, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got in on the identity politics action, okay?
She can't let this go away without having her say.
She said that Pence daring to ask questions to Harris was misogynistic and, quote, exemplary of the gender dynamics so many women have to deal with at work.
Feminist writer Jill Filopovich claimed, bizarrely, that it was condescending and sexist for Pence to call Kamala by her name.
Okay, Jill.
Many publications, such as The Hill, extolled Harris' courage in the face of these horrific attacks, celebrated her inspirational girl power performance.
On and on and on.
Now, this is all nonsense, of course.
The candidates spoke for the same amount of time, or Harris actually had more speaking time, depending on which tally you believe, but by no one's count did Pence hog the stage and take significantly more than his fair share of the speaking time.
He did argue with Harris and attempt to explain his point of view, but that, again, is the entire point of a debate.
Pence approached this encounter like he did with Tim Kaine in 2016.
And speaking of 2016, Donald Trump was frequently accused of sexism for interrupting and talking over Hillary Clinton, yet Trump did far more of that sort of thing against Joe Biden last week.
It seems these men are just debating How they debate, regardless of the gender of their opponent.
Indeed, it can be said in general that any woman who is interrupted and talked over by any man is most likely being treated exactly as that man treats other men.
It's also how that woman likely treats other men and how she treats other women.
It is, to put it simply, just people being people.
It is equality.
And that's supposed to be what feminists are fighting for.
But as we've learned time and again, feminists actually want special treatment, even while clamoring for equal treatment.
In a strange way, they have become our culture's great defenders of chivalry, yet they pretend to hate chivalry and advocate for a version of it while claiming to want the opposite of it.
And that's how we end up with a spectacle like last night.
They tell us that women are strong and tough and can hang in there against any man, and then proceed to wilt like delicate flowers when a woman was subjected to mild pushback from one of the least aggressive, most polite men in politics.
It is an absurd and transparent tactic, but it's all they have.
I can only hope that most Americans are too smart to fall for it.
Let's get to our five headlines.
Speaking of debates, if we must continue speaking of debates,
the Daily Wire reports the second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and
Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place virtually with both candidates in separate
locations, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Thursday.
The commission announced the new form after Trump tested positive for coronavirus last week.
Trump responded to the news minutes later, asserting he would not do a virtual debate.
According to a statement from the commission, the second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting in which the candidates will participate from separate remote locations.
The town meeting participants and the moderator, Steve Scully, will be located at the Adrian Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
The White House pool will provide coverage of the second presidential debate.
Okay.
But Trump says on Fox Business he was asked about it and he said, I'm not going to do a virtual debate.
I think this is a mistake, personally.
I'm probably going to be in the minority among conservatives.
I don't know.
I'm not really sure if I will be or not.
But I think Trump needs to do the debate.
He's down in the polls.
The last debate didn't go very well for him.
He has more to gain from another debate than Biden does.
So the strategy of not doing it.
I don't really see it.
And this has been my point.
I think it's a little bit of maybe tough love, tough talk for some conservatives and some Trump supporters who are whistling past the graveyard a little bit.
And we see all these polls coming out.
And almost all of them look bad for Trump, to varying degrees.
But what we hear, of course, is that, well, you know, you can't trust the polls.
They were wrong in 2016.
2016!
Remember 2016?
This is how it was in 2016.
Everybody said Trump would get killed in 2016, and he didn't.
2016!
2016!
Yeah, I know.
That was 2016, though.
2016. Yeah, I know that was 2016 though. It's not 2020.
You're never going to win a campaign by pretending that it's four years ago,
especially when so much has happened in the intervening years.
And especially when there are a lot of obvious differences here.
Number one, he's not running against Hillary Clinton anymore.
That was a big advantage he had, being that she still is the least likable person on planet Earth.
She was also under investigation by the FBI at the time.
So, I mean, he couldn't have asked for a better opponent.
So he doesn't have that.
Now, there are a lot of weaknesses to Joe Biden, but he's not Hillary Clinton.
He's not just this viscerally detestable guy.
You might not like him.
I don't like him.
But I'm talking about how he's perceived in the public.
It's not like Hillary Clinton.
So he doesn't have that going for him.
He's not a novelty act anymore.
He's the incumbent.
And then you add in the economy, coronavirus, riots, everything.
Some of that cuts for him, some of it against him.
But the point is it's an entirely different situation.
And so if you're telling yourself, ah, it'll be fine, because remember 2016, I think we're making a big mistake.
And remember, this is the mistake that a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters made in 2016.
It's because they were so confident.
Now I'm going to have a fly problem.
The good thing is if I have a fly on my head, you won't be able to see it.
That's Pence's problem.
He had white hair so you could see the fly.
Anyway.
But Hillary Clinton supporters were so confident that I think many of them didn't show up because they figured that they were going to win.
I think that's a foolhardy confidence you don't want to have.
So, Trump needs to really try to win.
If he doesn't try, he's not going to.
And I think that includes doing the debate.
Now, that said, Objecting to a virtual debate, I think, doesn't make a lot of sense.
But I do think there are other reasons, other good reasons to object to a debate.
And one thing that Trump could do is take issue with the moderator.
I mean, I think that Republicans in general, forget about format, virtual or not, when it comes to the moderators.
Republicans in general should be putting their foot down and saying, we are not going to do any more debates, period, at all, until you give us a moderator who is not an unofficial member of my opponent's campaign.
It is not an unreasonable demand.
The moderator last night, I thought, was even worse than Chris Wells, so absolute embarrassment.
A lot of examples of bias.
The most biased thing we got, though, from the moderator last night was when she was talking about the Breonna Taylor case.
I don't know if you picked up on this.
She referred to the police officers breaking in to Breonna Taylor's apartment.
They were serving a legal warrant, and she categorized that as a break-in.
Just an absurdly biased framing, and false framing for the question, but that's what you get from these moderators.
Okay.
Number two.
Well, it's Groundhog's Day all over again.
More rioting, this time in Wauwatosa, a city in Wisconsin.
Here's just one short clip of the rioting.
Watch this.
The reason for the riot is the DA's decision not to charge the officer with a crime in the
shooting of Alvin Cole.
Cole, 17-year-old black male, was shot by Officer Joseph Mensa at a shopping mall.
The DA says that Cole was armed with a stolen pistol.
He had flashed it at somebody during an argument, and then he pulled the gun on the cops, and he actually fired the gun.
He hit himself, apparently, in the process, but he pulled the gun and fired it.
And that's when he got shot.
The officer who shot him, by the way, is black.
Okay, he's a black man.
But this, somehow, so a black police officer shooting an armed person who pulled a gun on him, that somehow is racist police brutality.
A black police officer shooting a guy who points a gun at him is racist police brutality.
Well, sure, why not?
Because none of these words have any meaning anymore.
They've just no meaning.
You can use them however you like.
The words like racist, police brutality, they should have meaning.
In reality, they have meaning.
But the way they're used, there's no meaning.
You just throw them out.
Doesn't matter if it applies or not.
I'll have more to say about this case probably tomorrow, so we'll get back to it.
Number 3 from Reuters says, Netflix Inc.
is facing a criminal charge in a Texas county for promoting lewd visuals of a child in the French film Cuties.
According to a statement from Tyler County's district attorney, the document filed on September 23rd said Netflix promoted material in the film that depicts a lewd exhibition of the pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child.
Who was younger than 18 years of age, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex.
Netflix said in a statement that Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children.
This charges without merit and we stand by the film.
So this is the government enforcing basic standards of decency.
I'm all for it.
I love it.
I think it's a great thing.
I'm glad the government's doing it.
I wish more local governments would do this.
But I do think it's, and this has been the reaction I've noticed from, I haven't seen any conservative object to this.
Most conservatives, anyway, are celebrating this and saying, good.
The interesting thing, though, is I can remember about a year ago, when we were talking about laws related to pornography, some of us were making the case that the government should enforce basic standards of decency, especially to protect children, and a whole lot of conservatives had a big problem with that.
If there's been a change in heart, that's great.
Maybe we're starting to realize that, yeah, protecting children, that sort of thing, the government does have a role there.
All right, number four, big news here, if I can find it.
Oh, here's the big news.
Apple is turning the mask emoji frown upside down in an upcoming update to the iOS.
This is according to CNN.
The mask emoji has typically been used to represent someone who is in the medical field or is sick.
However, with masks becoming more ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji's look in the upcoming... Why am I even reading this?
Anyway, they've got more mask emojis coming.
Okay, that's all.
I only bring this up just because it's further proof, I think, of my point that emojis are stupid.
That's all.
There you go, evidence.
Number five.
Finally, Oklahoma County Jail employees Gregory Cornell Butler Jr.
and Christian Charles Miles have been charged with cruelty and conspiracy for handcuffing inmates and forcing them to listen to Baby Shark on repeat for hours.
Now, as a parent, I'm thrilled to find out that I can actually have my children prosecuted for committing similar crimes against me.
I think many parents have dealt with this.
Now, granted, my kids never really got into the baby shark craze, thank God.
For me, it's been the book, we're going on a bear hunt.
That is our baby shark.
That is the thing that is heard, that reverberates through our household at all hours of the day.
All of my kids have been obsessed with this book.
They like to have the book read to them.
They like to watch videos of other people reading the book.
They like to listen to musical renditions of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
It is torturous.
It has ruined my life.
We're going on a bear hunt.
We're gonna catch a big one.
What a beautiful day.
We're not scared.
Uh-oh.
Grass.
Long wavy grass.
We can't go over it.
We can't go under it.
Got to go through it.
Swishy-swashy, swishy-swashy.
And on and on and on.
That's how the book goes.
Repeating itself.
For pages and pages.
And the book doesn't even make sense, first of all.
The onomatopoeias that it uses are completely arbitrary.
Swishy-swashy for grass?
What kind of grass is swishy-swashy?
And the plot is even worse.
The plot is this family, mom, dad, kids, young kids, walking through the woods trying to catch a bear.
What sort of neglectful, psychotic parent brings their kids into the woods to catch a bear?
A big bear, it's even specified.
This book is basically an account of an attempted murder-suicide.
That's how disturbing it is.
It might as well be, we're gonna go drown ourselves, yay!
It really is that, and it's brainwashed my kids on top of it.
Every time we're in the woods now, we go for a hike or something, every time my son is saying, let's go on a bear hunt.
And I say, oh, you're going to hunt for a bear, huh?
With what?
We don't even have a hunting rifle.
What are you going to use, a stick?
The kid's going to get himself mauled.
And you know what?
It's going to be the fault of this book.
So we all have, every parent has something like that that tortures them.
It's different for all of us.
Okay, hopefully one day our kids will be brought to justice for inflicting this psychological torture on us.
We're gonna get to our daily cancellation now.
Now today, for our daily cancellation, I'm afraid I must play some deeply unsettling footage for you.
I wish there was another way.
I wish I didn't have to subject you to this, but I'm afraid a mere description will not suffice.
So, here it is.
I'm naked.
I'm completely butt-ass naked.
I'm naked.
I'm, like, naked.
There isn't a man behind me.
These are my hands.
Why you want me be naked?
I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, Ruffalo, um, put your clothes on.
To be honest, I wish I could.
Cover my hands with my boobs, but here we are.
I'm here to talk to you about voting.
Did you know that ballots could be naked?
And if you don't do exactly what I tell you, your ballot could get thrown out.
This is my ballot.
Just got it.
First of all, when your ballot comes, you're supposed to read the instructions.
Read and follow the instructions that come with your ballot.
And if they say to use a black pen, use a black pen.
I know that's, like, literally the least sexy thing a completely naked person could say, but...
But I have crumb like can of Pepsi.
Is problem?
Number two.
In some states like Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania.
There are two envelopes you have to stuff your ballot in, otherwise it's called a naked ballot.
Naked ballots?
And you don't want to have one of those.
Number three, mail your ballot in as soon as you can.
Don't sit on them.
Get those things out ASAP.
Like, now.
Do it!
Get it in as soon as you can.
I gotta get my ballot to the motherf***ing post office.
Let's go!
Please vote.
Take your clothes off and vote.
Vote, vote, vote.
Everyone's voice matters in this election.
Please vote.
America needs you.
Yes, the celebrities are at it again, I'm afraid, this time naked.
And the makers of this particular montage did not appear to be selecting participants based on their physical attractiveness.
It seems they were selected based simply on their level of personal desperation and shamelessness.
Now, it is somewhat amazing that celebrities keep coming out with these PSAs, particularly this format, the montage of various celebrities saying different words.
They keep doing this even though they are roundly mocked and derided every time.
Even more perplexing, the same celebrities are often involved.
Mark Ruffalo's PSA resume is more extensive than his filmography at this point.
It's also more widely viewed, I think.
They just can't get enough of it.
This guy in particular, Mark Ruffalo, he appears to think we can't get enough of him, but we can and we have.
In fact, I'm not sure that anyone on earth has at any point ever said to themselves, I'm not sure what to make of this particular issue.
I hope Mark Ruffalo releases a PSA.
But if such a person does exist, they must be in a near constant state of euphoria because the PSAs never stop.
But I want to be clear about something.
I am not just cancelling these celebrities for this PSA, and I'm not just cancelling celebrity PSAs in general, though I am cancelling both.
My real problem here is that this is a get-out-the-vote PSA, which is my least favourite type.
I am cancelling all get-out-the-vote efforts.
Get-out-the-vote videos, PSAs, billboards, campaigns, whatever.
They're all cancelled.
I hate all of them.
None of them should exist.
And the reason is very simple.
If you need naked celebrities or anyone else to tell you to vote and encourage you and even explain how to do it, how to fill in a mail-in ballot or press a button, then you are exactly the sort of person who should not be voting.
All of the people who should be voting are the ones who do not need to be told or reminded to do it, much less do they need the process explained to them.
That's because they are informed, competent, mature adults.
This is the precise category of person that we want at the polls.
We don't want anyone else.
Any effort to get anyone but informed and competent people to the polls is bad and should be abolished and banned and criminalized.
This all goes back to the familiar, but still rather new, American attitude that sees voting as a sacred duty of all Americans and that, you know, thinks that anyone who votes should be proud of themselves.
They should put on an I Voted sticker and take a selfie and post it on Instagram and say, look world, I voted!
Aren't you proud of me?
No, I'm not.
And you shouldn't be proud of yourself if you voted just to vote, if you voted just simply because it's your right or your alleged responsibility.
No, it's not your responsibility to simply vote.
It is your responsibility To make an informed, knowledgeable, well-reasoned vote.
That is the only good kind of vote.
All other kinds of votes are bad and harmful and helping to destroy our republic.
So if you are not informed and not knowledgeable, then the best thing you can do for your country, the most patriotic thing, the most responsible thing, is not vote.
If you vote despite being uninformed, then you should be ashamed, not proud, of having inflicted your stupidity on the country.
So enough of the get-out-the-vote drives.
Let the people who know what's going on, who keep themselves informed, who have done the legwork prior to voting, vote.
Let everybody else remain in their Doritos-stained Netflix stupor.
We don't need them on election day.
We don't want them.
Do your duty, if you're in that category, and stay home, no matter what the naked celebrities tell you.
That's going to do it for us today.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
Thanks for listening.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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