Today on the Matt Walsh Show, new revelations shed more light on Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous decision to send infected COVID patients into nursing homes in New York. The scandal is even bigger than we thought. Also Five Headlines including Dave Ramsey getting himself into trouble by criticizing the stimulus bills, but does he have a point? And in our Daily Cancellation, we’ll discuss the backlash against a film critic who committed the sin of critiquing an actress.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, new revelations shed more light on Andrew Cuomo's disastrous decision to send infected COVID patients into nursing homes in New York.
The scandal's even bigger than we thought.
We'll talk about that today.
Also, five headlines, including Dave Ramsey getting himself into trouble by criticizing the stimulus bills.
But does he have a point?
And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the backlash against a film critic who committed the sin of critiquing an actress.
Can't do that as a film critic.
Plus I'll read my YouTube comments and much more today on the Matt Wohl show.
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Now, as far as we know, 15,000 people have died from COVID in New York nursing homes.
As far as we know.
Emphasis on that part of it.
The number is already much higher than the previous figure, which it turned out was being underreported by about 50%.
We could probably assume that the actual number is higher still.
But even pretending that the numbers at this point are accurate, 15,000 is a staggering figure.
How did it get so bad?
How could so many die, especially when they were already ostensibly isolated in care facilities?
Shouldn't that have made them more protected instead of more vulnerable?
Well, the how has been coming into sharper focus lately, and some revelations this week especially have helped to reveal the magnitude of this scandal in New York.
First, the AP reports, based on records that it obtained, it says, that, quote, more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial directive that was scrapped amid criticism of accelerated outbreaks.
The new number of 9,056 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what the state health department previously released.
And it raises new questions as to whether a March 25th directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration helped spread sickness and death among residents, a charge the state disputes.
Okay, 9,000.
That's 9,000 people carrying a deadly virus, a virus known to especially infect and kill the elderly, and carrying it right into nursing homes.
Keep in mind that we knew on March 25th that the elderly are most vulnerable to coronavirus.
It cannot be claimed that Cuomo and his administration didn't realize what they were doing or didn't understand the implications.
One of the first established facts about the coronavirus was that it hits the elderly hard.
And that it hits kids hardly at all.
Those were the two things we knew about it right away.
Those are maybe the two, maybe the only two facts about the coronavirus that have not changed.
And yet leaders like Cuomo responded by shutting down schools and opening up the nursing homes to COVID.
Why was this done?
I mean, what was the reason?
Or at least the stated reason?
Well, the AP says this.
The Cuomo administration's March 25th directive barred nursing homes from refusing people just because they had COVID-19.
It was intended to free up space in hospitals swamped in the early days of the pandemic.
It came under criticism from advocates for nursing home residents and their relatives who said that it had the potential to spread the virus in a state that had, at the time, had the nation's highest nursing home death toll already.
Okay, free up space.
So they had no choice but to send COVID patients into the nursing homes, effectively condemning thousands to death because the hospitals were swamped, overflowing, at capacity, they say.
Well, that's strange.
It's strange when you consider this.
Reading from a USA Today article published on April 23rd, 2020.
It says, the naval hospital ship USNS Comfort is set to leave New York City's harbor after it floated for three weeks mostly empty of patients.
Projections about the spread of the coronavirus sent New York State scrambling to increase its hospital bed capacity by more than double its 53,000 limit.
The federal government was called in to convert spaces like the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan into overflow hospitals, but a month after shutdown efforts, that capacity hasn't been stretched to its limits.
Comfort and its 1,000 hospital beds sailed into New York late last month, but was under scrutiny for being sparsely used.
Of four overflow hospitals built in the state, only the Javits Center has taken patients so far, according to state officials.
Okay, that again, April 23rd, 2020.
The hospital ship had been in the harbor for three weeks at that point.
The directive to send COVID patients into nursing homes because of overflowing hospitals ...was signed on March 25th.
So for the entire month of April, just about, patients were sent to nursing homes to free up space while an entire naval ship floated there unused, along with four other overflow hospitals that were also barely used.
How do you make sense of this?
Granted, I don't know all the logistical complications of sending patients into a hospital ship, but whatever they are, whatever extra effort or red tape had to be gone through, whatever it would be, wouldn't you make that effort rather than intentionally introducing the virus into communities of elderly people?
So why weren't the ships used?
We can only speculate.
Here's one speculation that you can't help but wonder about.
Did Cuomo choose to send the patients into nursing homes rather than onto the ships because he didn't want to have to say that Trump was helping?
Was this all about making sure that Trump didn't get credit?
You can't help but wonder.
Did 15,000 elderly people die in order to protect Cuomo's political ego?
Now this possibility becomes even more prominent when you consider another big revelation this week.
This is from the New York Post.
This is what they report.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing home death toll from COVID-19, telling them, quote, we froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against us by federal prosecutors.
The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because, quote, right around the same time, President Donald Trump turns this into a giant political football, according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
She continues, he starts tweeting that we killed everybody in nursing homes, DeRosa said.
He starts going after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, starts going after California Governor Newsom, starts going after Gretchen Whitmer.
And the Post report continues, in addition to attacking Cuomo's fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us and basically we froze.
Okay, if this is true for the New York Post, and I see no reason to think that it isn't, then we have an omission of a cover-up, and one of the worst cover-ups in American history.
That's not an exaggeration.
This is easily, without question, one of the country's deadliest political scandals.
We're talking about decisions that were made for political, self-serving reasons, it would seem, that directly led to the deaths of thousands of people.
More from the Post.
Quote, but instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the health department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25th state health department directive, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience it caused them.
She said, so we do apologize.
I do understand the position that you were put in.
I know it's not fair.
It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.
Ah, yes, a political position with the Republicans.
That's the concern here.
Not, you know, all the dead bodies?
Not the position you put your elderly citizens in?
The position of lying in a damned coffin?
Well, let's not forget, while this was all going on, Infected patients sent into nursing homes, thousands of people dying, a cover-up happening.
Andrew Cuomo, the guy behind it all, was being awarded an Emmy for his press briefings.
And he signed a book deal to brag about his COVID leadership.
And he was going on CNN for cutesy interviews with his little brother.
Let's all remember this.
I understand.
This is the normal swab I'm holding up here now and for everybody at home.
A very valuable object.
There's only one company in the entire country that makes these up in Maine.
All right, here's the swab.
Is it true that this was the swab that the nurse was actually using on you and that at first It went into your nose and disappeared so that, in scale, this was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that double-barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face.
See, I said I was going to be nice and sweet and cooperative.
I just want a yes-no.
And I was trying.
Was it this?
I was trying very hard.
Or was it this?
Look.
Which was it?
Oh, isn't that so cute and sweet?
Isn't that so funny?
You know, in hindsight, that's one of the most embarrassing moments for the American media ever.
Well, not in hindsight.
It was embarrassing at the time, too.
Cuomo will continue to get this kind of treatment from the media, no matter what's revealed about it, because they're invested in the narrative that Trump and Republican governors are the ones who botched the COVID response.
That's the narrative.
They cannot waver from it.
But the reality is clear.
There's plenty of evidence that Andrew Cuomo was guilty of criminal negligence and rampant abuses of power.
He should be arrested, prosecuted immediately.
Maybe once they're done with this show trial in D.C., they'll get around to that.
But I won't hold my breath.
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But this is something that has plagued me for my whole life, and it happened to me again this morning when I was coming in, I was stopping at the gas station.
You know, the only thing worse than someone who doesn't hold the door for you when you're walking into a building right behind them, is when somebody holds the door for you when you're too far away.
I was at the gas station.
I was practically just getting out of my car.
I was like 25 paces away.
And this guy looks back, sees that I'm heading towards the door and holds it for me.
And I tried to give him the wave and say, no, it's fine.
Go ahead.
Just keep going.
And he gives me the wave.
I'll stand here.
And so now it's just that awkward walk where I have to do that sort of half jog walk to get to the door faster than I otherwise would have.
All for the sake of me not having to just do this and open it myself.
I'm perfectly capable of doing that.
You can just keep going.
So that is a lot worse.
And here's the mistake people make, and this is just the tip I'm going to give you.
Walking inside a building, it's a very complicated procedure, but here's what you want to do.
If you're walking into the building, and then you look back, you do the check to make sure there's no one coming in behind you.
If you catch eye contact with someone coming in behind you, now you feel like you have to hold it for them, right?
Even if they're 20 paces away.
So make sure when you look back, your eyes are looking down, so you'll catch just their feet.
And then you can make a judgment of how many paces.
If it's more than 10 paces, you just keep going, let them open the door for themselves.
That's it.
And at the end of the day, if they have to open the door for themselves, it's not a big deal.
Always err on the side of being too rude than too polite.
That's my tip.
That's my etiquette tip.
Take it or leave it.
You'll probably want to leave it.
Okay, speaking of Andrew Cuomo.
He, uh, and him embarrassing himself.
I also want to play this for you.
Number one, he shared a PSA yesterday from something called hip hop public health.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know why it is, but it is.
is. And well, here it is.
I got the vaccine. You got the vaccine. They got the vaccine. We got the vaccine. We could get back the normal.
Let me inform you. Let's all get the vaccine. It's about community immunity. I'm talking unity for you and me. If
Doc says it's good.
Trust me, it's good.
Now let's all get the vaccine.
I'm the king of rock.
There is none higher.
DMC.
I will inspire.
Time for us to trust and not debate.
The vaccine believe it's safe to take.
9 out of 10 people won't get sick.
That's 90% effective and legit.
This COVID thing is real and it will find you.
It's killing our people.
♪ Let me remind you ♪ ♪ Back in the days, back in the days ♪
♪ There was polio, smallpox ♪ ♪ Back in the days ♪
♪ Measles and mumps, man ♪ ♪ Back in the days ♪
Okay.
♪ Because of the vaccines ♪ - We can cut that off.
That would seem about enough of that.
You know, that's going to be really effective messaging to the teens in 1988.
to the teens in 1988.
So if there's any teenagers in 1988, you know, hanging around,
a Back to the Future type of situation.
I think they're going to be very that that's something that they're going to be really interested in.
It is just so insulting though, because because of course, in reality, they call this hip hop public health.
That's the organization.
This is obviously meant it's supposed to supposed to speak to the black community.
And it's it's just so it's so insulting.
Anytime you get these efforts by the left or by the government, With messaging for a certain community, one community or another, it's always insulting.
If you want people to get vaccinated, whether they're white, black, otherwise, just say so.
Give the info.
We don't need the rap.
We don't need Run DMC, of all things.
Just give the information.
I think someone, regardless of their race or ethnicity, that's probably all they're really looking for, I would assume.
And, you know, information is actually important.
Not in the form of a rap, but here are the facts about the vaccine.
Because people have questions about it.
It's okay to have questions.
If you're asking millions of people to inject something into their body, perfectly rational for them to have questions.
Maybe just present that information in a way that is easy to understand.
Uh, okay.
Number two, Dave Ramsey is finding himself in front of the cancellation firing squad for his comments on student loan forgiveness and, and also the stimulus.
And he was trending yesterday, uh, because people were very upset about this and let's take a listen to his offensive remarks and we'll decide if they really are all that offensive.
This is a political gimme by progressives simply trying to buy votes.
And we know that because when you go from $10,000 in forgiveness to $50,000 in forgiveness, the people who benefit are not lower income people.
The vast majority of people that have an average income or less have less than $10,000 in student loan debt.
The vast majority of people who would be blessed by moving it from $10,000 to $50,000 are high income earners.
So again, this is all political rhetoric.
It's not reality.
You come from an interesting perspective.
You talk to Americans across the country every day on your radio program.
What do you believe is the right number or the right answer for the next stimulus check?
Well, I don't believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already.
You've got other issues going on.
You have a career problem.
You have a debt problem.
You have a relationship problem.
You have a mental health problem.
Something else is going on if $600 changes your life.
And that's not talking down to folks.
I've been bankrupt.
I've been broken.
I work with people every day who are hurting.
I love people.
I want people to be lifted up.
But this is again, it is, it is just political rhetoric and it's just throwing dollars out there.
It's peeing on a forest fire.
Okay.
So that's what people were crying about, which first of all, agree or disagree, just the crying about it.
Give me a break.
You're, you're, you're talking, you're talking down, you're, you're being just shut up.
You're not actually offended by that.
So stop it.
We'll get to a point where people can just express their opinion, their point of view.
That's a valid point of view, in fact.
Now, I'm in favor of the stimulus, as I've said a million times, because just really on principle, more than anything else, that the government has told people they can't go to work and has shut down entire industries and thousands of businesses have gone under because of the government.
And so they owe it.
They owe it.
If the government has told you you can't go to work or if they've destroyed your business, they owe you money.
And so it's not an entitlement.
Now, unlike student loan forgiveness, which was what he was first talking about there, now that is like an entitlement.
An entitlement in the sense, in the way that that word has been used historically in this country.
Which is that when we talk about entitlements, usually we're talking about people getting money that they're not actually entitled to.
So with a stimulus, the irony is that that actually, in another sense, in a very literal sense, that is an entitlement because you are actually, in this case, entitled to it.
So that all gets very confusing.
But as far as a stimulus goes, this is the government's fault for shutting down the economy, and they owe it.
So that's my take on it.
However, it's also true That $600 or $1,200 or $2,000, that's not going to solve anybody's problem.
If you've been bankrupted or your business has been destroyed by the lockdowns, then $600,
even $2,000, that's not even a band-aid. So it is a question, how many people in the country right now
are in a position, because of the lockdowns, [BLANK_AUDIO]
Where they're really hurting, but all they need is $1,200, and $1,200 is going to solve everything.
Does anyone fall into that category?
I think there are a lot of people who've done okay through the lockdown because their industry wasn't that affected by it.
That's the case, by the way, for the media, of which I am in the media.
So there's a lot of people that are doing fine, or they're in another industry where they could work from home.
It's a lot of people.
And they don't need the money.
They shouldn't get anything.
A lot of them will get money, but they shouldn't because they don't need it.
If you haven't, if you've, if you have been working through the pandemic and have not taken a big hit in your, um, in your paycheck, you should get $0.
Why should you get anything?
I think many of us have been in the situation, maybe especially recently where you just feel like you can't get ahead of your finances.
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So if you're in that category, you shouldn't get anything.
But when you look at the people who have been legitimately devastated financially by this, what is $600 or $1,200 or $2,000 going to do for them?
Not much.
Although I would say it's better than nothing.
But the point is, the real thing that we can do for those people is we get the economy open.
You let people go back to work.
You let restaurants serve customers again.
And not with a capacity of 10% or whatever crazy thing they're doing, or you have to feed them outside, like dogs.
That's the real solution.
But his point there, it's not unreasonable, it's not irrational.
If you're crying about it, just get over yourself.
Look, anytime the government is talking about spending trillions of dollars, it's good for people to criticize that, even if you agree with it.
There should be an open debate.
There should be no criticism of a government spending bill that's out of bounds or out of line.
The rest of what he said about the student loan forgiveness is 100% right.
You know, you talk about $50,000 of student loan forgiveness.
Who are the people who have $50,000 of student loan debt?
Who are these people?
Are these, for the most part, poor people with $50,000 of student loan debt?
Or blue collar workers or, you know, retail workers at Walmart.
No, for the most part, these are upper income people.
And so it's, that is a bailout for upper income privileged people.
That's what a $50,000 student loan forgiveness is.
So he's right about that too.
All right.
Number three, I just, I want to play this for you.
Ron DeSantis proving why he's our 2024 candidate.
Let's, let's play this.
The media is worried about that, obviously.
You guys really love that.
You don't care as much if it's a, quote, peaceful protest, then it's fine.
You don't care as much if they're celebrating a Biden election.
You only care about if it's people that you don't like.
So I'm a Bucs fan.
I'm damn proud of what they did on Sunday night.
And so in terms of the UK variant, here's what we know.
We know Based on all the evidence that these vaccines are going to be effective against that.
And that's really the main concern.
I mean, we're getting our seniors vaccinated.
We've not seen any data or any evidence to suggest that these vaccines are not effective.
And so if we get the seniors vaccinated, we're going to be good.
And that's what we're going to do.
If there's data that comes out, not an academic model.
I guess I should have set that up a little bit, a little bit of framing there.
He was responding to a question about all of the Bucs fans in Florida that were out celebrating, you know, the victory.
And maybe they were wearing a mask or maybe they weren't.
And his response was exactly what you just heard.
Well, I didn't hear you asking that about BLM protests.
You weren't talking about that when people were in the street.
That's the most egregious thing of all, is when you think about For a couple of days, the Biden fans in the street, dancing and celebrating.
Because there you don't have the excuse.
With the BLM riots, the excuse we hear is that they were protesting injustice, and this was something that people had to do.
Really, they were saving lives, actually, in the end.
That's the excuse.
Which, of course, is completely bogus and ridiculous.
With the Biden celebrations, though, you don't even have that bogus and ridiculous excuse.
There's no excuse.
These are people that were happy because their guy won, and so they're out in the street celebrating.
No criticism from the media about that.
That's a good response.
You consistently hear Ron DeSantis responding to the media in exactly the right way, saying the kinds of things in response to their questions that, like, you or I would say if we were in that position.
That's what I like about it.
Okay.
So that's someone responding the right way to a thing.
Here's someone I think not responding the right way.
Morgan Wallen.
We know the country star who got himself canceled after he was secretly recorded by a neighbor saying the n-word drunkenly to a friend.
Drunkenly and jokingly saying it.
And next thing you know, his songs are kicked off of pretty much every radio station in the country.
He's not eligible for country music awards anymore.
He's suspended by his record label.
All this stuff is happening.
And he's already apologized for it.
He apologized immediately.
As soon as TMZ got their hands on the video and they contacted Morgan Wallen, he immediately apologized.
But that's not enough.
You know, he apologized.
It didn't have the effect he was hoping for, probably, and so here he is apologizing again.
Hey, y'all.
It's Morgan.
I'm long overdue to make a statement regarding my last incident.
I wanted to collect my thoughts, seek some real guidance, and come to you with a complete thought before I did.
I was made aware of the video being posted to TMZ with hardly any time to think before it was released to the public.
I was asked if I wanted to apologize and of course I did.
I wrote many detailed thoughts and only a portion of those got used with painting me in an even more careless light.
I'm here to hopefully show you that that's not the truth.
The video you saw was me on hour 72 of 72 of a bender and that's not something I'm proud of either.
Obviously the natural thing to do is to apologize further and Just continue to apologize, but because you got caught, and that's not what I wanted to do.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm not going to criticize him for... I think when you're in that position, it's hard to know... What are you supposed to say, right?
He's already apologized.
He's trying to apologize again.
So I understand why he's doing it.
But at the same time, the problem is, like we talked about already this week, the people who are calling for his cancellation and want his career to be destroyed over this, and are celebrating over the fact that it has effectively been destroyed, at least for now, there's just nothing you can say to them.
It doesn't matter.
Forgiveness is not part of the bargain.
They don't care.
Because they don't care about the initial offense.
They weren't really offended by it.
No, let me tell you, not one person in the country was offended by that video of Morgan Wallen.
Nobody.
Go online and try to find an example of someone who appears to be actually offended.
No, the reaction is, we got him.
This is going to take him down now.
All right, now we're going to take this guy down.
It was like a celebratory.
Vengeful kind of bloodlust.
For most people, they don't really care one way or another.
Even if they are calling for his, you know, for him to be fired and all this kind of stuff, they don't really care.
There's no passion in it.
It's just kind of casual, let's destroy another person for the sake of it.
But as far as the passionate people, it's more, it's vengeful.
This is a guy, you know, he's he's a white guy's country star, lives in Nashville, suspected Trump supporter, even if he's not, he kind of fits the bill.
And so, yeah, we got him.
Let's take him down.
That's the attitude.
So there's there are there isn't any injured party for you to apologize to in reality.
If there are people close to you in your life who are actually disappointed, maybe people in your family, especially as he points out, he was on a bender, you know, all these kinds of things.
Maybe he's got family members or personal friends who are really disappointed by this.
Then you speak to them privately.
You don't need to do it for the entire world.
It's none of our business.
It's not everybody in the public.
We don't know Morgan Wallen.
We were not involved in this.
We're not injured by it.
If there actually is anyone in his life who he feels he needs to, then you speak to them.
Maybe he's already done that.
That's enough.
The apology does not need to be put on display for everyone.
So continuing to address it, continuing to apologize, it's just not going to have the desired effect.
Because you're asking for grace and forgiveness from people who categorically deny.
Will deny it.
They will refuse it.
No matter what you do.
Alright, number five.
Speaking of which, the Daily Beast is reporting on another major racism scandal, supposedly.
They say, this is what they report.
Once again, The Bachelor is trying to feel its way through a racism controversy, and this time, it's not just a vexing contestant who's landed in hot water, but host Chris Harrison as well.
On Wednesday, The Bachelor guru apologized for defending Rachel Kirkconnell after photos surfaced of the seasoned frontrunner attending a plantation-themed party.
Now, I don't know who any of these people are.
I've never watched The Bachelor one time in my life.
I don't know anything about the original controversy, but this is what they say.
So she attended a plantation-themed party.
Kirk Connell has already come under scrutiny for apparently liking racist social media posts.
Now, big grain of salt there.
The Daily Beast is saying that they're racist social media posts.
Maybe they were.
I have no idea.
But there's a very good chance they weren't racist at all.
Just because the media calls something racist does not at all mean that it was.
So, grain of salt there.
I'm not sure what the social media posts were.
They could have been anything.
That's the thing.
With the media and the left, when they say the word racist, you just have no clue what they're actually talking about.
They could be referring to actual racism.
Maybe.
99% of the time, though, they're not.
So, the word has lost meaning when they use it.
Um, as well as, uh, there were resurfaced photos of her wearing a Native American Halloween costume.
Oh, no.
Oh, my God.
Oh, dear God.
She was wearing a costume, pretending to be someone she's not on Halloween?
That's not the time for that!
These posts are only more troubling, given that she's competing for the heart of Matt James, the franchise's first black Bachelor, in nearly two decades on the air.
Um, well, why is that troubling?
Matt James, maybe let him make decisions for himself?
Why is it troubling to you?
Maybe let Matt James decide if he cares about the Native American costume or whatever?
Why would you be troubled?
During a recent conversation with Rachel Lindsay, the first black Bachelorette, on Extra, Harrison seemed bent on convincing the Bachelor alum that, really, fans have been too hard on Kirk Connell.
And so that's it.
That's what the host now is in trouble for.
The host Chris Harrison.
He's in trouble for saying, and this is him, now he's addressing it now and he's apologizing.
So he's apologizing He was originally saying that we should accept the apology of this other person who allegedly did a racist thing, and now he has to apologize for that.
And this is his apology for saying that we should accept the other apology.
This is what he says.
To my Bachelor Nation family, I will always own a mistake when I make one, so I am here to extend a sincere apology.
I have this incredible platform to speak out about love, and yesterday I took a stance on topics about which I should have been better informed.
While I do not speak for Rachel Kirkconnell, my intentions were simply to ask for grace in offering her an opportunity to speak on her own behalf.
What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism, and for that, I am so deeply sorry.
No, you haven't caused any harm.
Chris, whatever your name is again, Chris Harrison, you've caused no harm to anyone.
Nobody has been harmed.
Nobody has been harmed by comments that the host of The Bachelor made about some other controversy.
Remember what I said about Morgan Wallen?
Forgiveness and grace are ruled out.
You are not going to get it from the cancel mob.
Well, here this proves that point exactly.
Now, Chris Harrison is being cancelled simply for saying we should have grace and forgiveness for someone else.
Absolutely not.
To even call for grace and forgiveness is itself racist now.
But that won't stop this guy from apologizing and another apology that will be absolutely ignored.
Okay, we're going to read the YouTube comments in a second.
Oh yeah, but one other thing.
Here's a bonus.
This is from a local news report.
I wanted to play this for you.
It's a great video.
Almost as good as the cat lawyer.
Not quite as good, but almost as good.
Here's a mother proving why she should be the first NFL player, not Sarah Fuller.
Let's watch this.
A police officer's dash cam rolling when a Houston-area mother tackles a suspected peeper who she says was looking into her daughter's bedroom.
Even if you think you can run from the cops, good luck getting past this mom.
Captured on police dash cam, taking down a man she says was trying to look into her 15-year-old daughter's bedroom window early on a Sunday.
That is a nice tackle.
I gotta say, that's good form tackle.
She plants the shoulder.
Especially if you're on the Chiefs defense, especially in the defensive backfield after the performance we saw in the Super Bowl.
You can take some tips from this.
You see what she does.
First of all, she wraps up.
She's not just throwing her body into the guy.
She's going for the full wrap-up.
You see how she wraps her arms around his body.
And look at her shoulder.
Look where her shoulder's placed.
Now this is great form.
She plants the shoulder into his chest.
Okay, now you could argue she's hitting them a little high.
She could go a little, you know, maybe bend the knees a little bit more.
But still, I say pretty good form and a great pursuit angle.
That's the other thing you've got to consider as a defender.
You've got to take the right angle.
And you see how she squares up and she takes this angle and boom, she gets them.
That is a great tackle.
I love that.
That's a heartwarming video.
You gotta love to see that.
And the thing is, everybody loves that, right?
You see that, you see a mother defending her daughter, taking this guy down, and it just, it warms your heart to see it, doesn't it?
Whether it's a, whether it was a mother or father, it warms your heart.
Why does it, you know, it's worth thinking about.
Like, why do we love seeing a video like that?
Because this is, this is a, this is motherly love, properly ordered.
She's going to defend her daughter, and we all love to see that.
We love to see mothers and fathers doing what mothers and fathers do.
The properly ordered familial love.
We all enjoy seeing that.
And that's worth thinking about when you consider, for example, the Black Lives Matter movement saying they want to destroy the nuclear family.
Well, that's what they're trying to destroy right there.
All right, let's move on to read our YouTube comments.
We got a bunch of comments on the show yesterday.
We won't read all of them, but a few.
This is from ffvigirl.
She says, hey, Matt, I signed up with Charity Mobile.
So far, so good.
Thank you for the recommendation.
And thank you.
Thank you for supporting the sponsors of this show.
That's something that I certainly appreciate and they appreciate as well.
Shayna Siliker says, Matt, two things.
One, I agree with you on so much, but would have to disagree about Star Wars being overrated.
Save the three movies that came out in early 2000s.
Those can just go away.
I hope you're wrong on the pattern of the CDC making it required to wear two masks.
Love what you guys are doing.
Yeah, well, on Star Wars being overrated, listen.
How many Star Wars movies have there been, and how many have actually been good?
At most, you can argue that the first three were good.
I think that your judgment on the first three is skewed by your nostalgic attachment to them.
But even if I were to agree that they're good, you've got, what, nine movies, and a third of them arguably are okay?
I think that qualifies as overrated.
Lobster Puncher, another great username, says, I don't know what lobsters ever did to him, but Matt Walsh prohibits his subjects from using emojis.
Also Matt Walsh, cold opens with a cat filter.
His ways are not our own.
I don't know what you're referring to.
What cat filter are you talking about?
I have no idea.
Aaron Hamner says, the left wants strong, beautiful, intelligent, and courageous women unless they disagree with their views.
What a petty group of fascists.
That's exactly right.
They want women to be strong and independent, girl power, all of that, until the moment comes when a woman expresses a viewpoint that they disagree with, in which case, destroy her.
That's the way.
We know, of course, that's how it always works.
Um, Bill Berger says, Matt, a guy in a stairwell this morning screamed at me to maintain a six feet distance as I came closer to him.
And while he was climbing up towards me, a stairwell in a public building, we both had masks on.
And I said to him and laughed that it would be coming to that at some point, if it could happen, it will.
He screamed at me after I passed him going, uh, down the up, down the stairwell, six feet distancing you jackass.
I hope you get COVID.
The wheels are not coming off, America.
They've been off for a long time.
I hope you get... Yeah, it is funny how quickly the very paranoid people, pro-maskers, it's funny how quickly they go from, I'm wearing a mask to protect you, to protect you, they go from that to, if you don't wear a mask, I hope you die.
You know, they go from, I'm trying to protect you to, I hope you die in like one second flat.
We should tell you something about the ProMask message.
Chrissy Jensen finally says, So you say to get your kids out of public schools, but also you want the schools to open.
Seems like maybe you should be celebrating that the public schools aren't teaching.
It's kind of like your shoe cancellation.
You don't want to see our feet, but also you canceled shoes.
Hashtag there is no winning.
Hashtag everything is bad.
I don't disagree with your hashtags, but yes, ultimately, As a society, I think we should move away from public schools.
Ultimately, I think we should get the government out of the education business, because they've done such a poor job of it.
And I don't think that's just something the government should be doing, period.
I don't think that's something we should rely on the government to do.
So that's ultimately.
And I've been saying that for years.
But that's a gradual change you have to make as a society.
You can't do it all at once.
Because then disaster unfolds.
It's not fair to the families.
It's not fair to the kids.
And the other important thing is, if we're getting rid of the government school system, you gotta replace it with something.
I never said there should be no education.
And what's happening now is that we have effectively suspended the government school education for a year and replaced it with nothing for a lot of these kids.
Because Zoom class is nothing.
It amounts to nothing.
So, rather than kids being educated in the public school system, they're just not being educated at all.
And on top of having no other social interaction, not being around their friends, being isolated and all these things.
So, yes, while I think that society should move that way, this is not the way to do it.
And besides, whatever my opinions are of the public school system, the fact that I'm a homeschool advocate, that doesn't change the fact that the teachers who are refusing to go to work and do their job Alright, let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
Today, we're going to cancel Variety, the magazine Variety, and also Carey Mulligan, who's an actress who I actually thought was pretty good.
And the one thing I saw her in, unless I'm thinking of something else, I don't know.
Anyway, to understand how this cancellation came about, we must reach back in time, all the way back to January of 2020.
So, back then, a year ago, a film critic named Dennis Harvey wrote a review for a variety of Carey Mulligan's new film, which was called Promising Young Woman.
Now, that movie, according to IMDb, is about, quote, a young woman traumatized by a tragic event in her past who seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Not exactly revolutionary stuff from the sound of it, but that's all right.
The film critic Harvey basically liked the movie, but thought that some elements of it didn't quite work.
Specifically, he thought that Mulligan's performance was maybe a little bit off.
Okay, here's what he said.
Mulligan, a fine actress, seems a bit of an odd choice, as this admittedly many-layered apparent femme fatale, Margot Robbie, is a producer here, and one can perhaps too easily imagine the role might once have been intended for her.
That's what he said.
Cassie wears her pickup bait gear like bad drag.
Even her long blonde hair seems a put on.
The flat American accent she delivers in her lowest voice register likewise seems a bit meta.
Though it's not quite clear what the quote marks around this performance signify.
Still like everything here, this turn is skillful, entertaining and challenging,
even when the eccentric method obscures the precise message.
That's what he said.
Now you might hear that and think, how dare this man critique that poor woman?
I mean, you might think that if you're a stupendous moron who doesn't understand that critiquing
is literally the whole job of the critic.
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So it seems that Mulligan herself did not understand this, or pretended not to understand it, and whether what comes next is the result of her being a stupendous moron or just a petty, ridiculous bully is up to you to decide.
I tend to think it's more of the latter.
What happened is that a year later, in an interview with the New York Times, published with the title, Carrie Mulligan Won't Let Hollywood Off the Hook, Mulligan complained about that Variety Review, which again, at this point, was a year ago, and she's still thinking about it.
She said, quote, I read the Variety Review because I'm a weak person, Mulligan said, and I took issue with it.
She paused, debating whether she really wanted to go there.
It felt like it was basically saying that I wasn't hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse, she said finally.
Mulligan can still recite some of the lines from that review, but she said, it wasn't some sort of ego-wounding thing.
Like, I fully can see that Margot Robbie is a goddess.
What bothered Mulligan most was that people might read a high-profile critique of an actress's physical appearance and blithely accept it.
It drove me so crazy.
I was like, really?
For this film, you're going to write something that is so transparent now in 2020?
I just couldn't believe it.
Yes, a film critic criticizing.
In 2020?
Unbelievable!
No, Kerry, what's unbelievable, or perhaps all too believable, is that you were roundly praised and celebrated for your performance in this dumb movie, and one guy offers a mild dissent, and you stew over it for a year, and then smear him as a misogynist?
That's the part that stands out to me.
The only part of Mulligan's diatribe that I agree with is that she says she's a weak person.
Now, that is clearly true.
But weak people can still be bullies.
In fact, they often are.
And that's what she's doing here.
She is bullying.
And she didn't stop.
A couple of months later, she was doing an interview or a discussion with another actress.
And in fact, she was doing this for Variety.
This was filmed by Variety and published on their platform.
And in this discussion, she still couldn't shut up about the one film critic who sort of criticized her one time.
Let's take a listen.
I know recently you called out a movie review and their criticism and saying that it was sexist and they ended up apologizing for it and I just wanted you to kind of speak to that and what that really meant for you.
I feel it's important that, you know, that criticism is constructive.
I think it's important that we are looking at the right things when it comes to work and we're looking at the art and we're looking at the performance and, you know, the way that a film is made.
And I don't think that that goes to the appearance of an actor or your personal preference for what an actor does or doesn't look like.
I think in criticising or bemoaning a lack of attractiveness on my part in a character, it wasn't a personal slight.
It wasn't something that I felt.
It didn't wound my ego, but it made me concerned that In such a big publication, an actress's appearance could be criticized and it could be, you know, that could be accepted as completely reasonable.
Okay, so she's concerned.
She's very concerned.
She's not worried about herself.
That's not why she's stewing over this review for a year and a half.
It's not that she's concerned.
It's that she's, it's not about herself, right?
She's looking out for everybody else.
All the women out there, that's what this is about.
Everything she's saying about the review is completely wrong, of course.
He didn't say that she isn't hot enough.
He was talking, and he's, by the way, the reviewer is a gay man, so it's probably unlikely that he would be judging her on that basis anyway.
He was talking about the way that she inhabited and embodied the role.
This is a very common thing for critics to bring up.
For both men and women.
Carey Mulligan says, it's not about your personal opinion.
Of course it's about his personal opinion.
He's a critic.
That's all it's about.
It's about his opinion.
Now how far that opinion goes with you, how much you care about his opinion, that's a different subject.
Personally, I don't care about the opinion of a film critic hardly at all.
But either way, that's what he does.
Men and women.
Anytime a new Batman is cast, we hear about this kind of discussion.
We always hear this kind of discussion.
Nobody's asking whether the actor is hot enough to be Bruce Wayne, but we're asking whether he has the physical presence to pull off that role.
You hear that all the time for male roles.
That was Harvey's point.
Any semi-literate person can understand that.
So, is Mulligan illiterate?
Or is she just an enormous egomaniac?
Those would seem to be our two options.
We could ask the same questions about the illiteracy of the powers that be at Variety, because after hearing that an actress didn't enjoy being critiqued by their film critic, they tacked on an editor's note onto the one-year-old review, which says, now, if you go to that review, here's what it says right at the top.
Editor's note.
Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review of Promising Young Woman that minimized her daring performance.
Yes, they apologized for allowing the film critic they employ to criticize her.
They also called her performance daring in the editor's note as if it's some sort of objective fact.
It's not.
In fact, I haven't seen the movie, but I can say right now, definitively, there is nothing daring about it.
An actress playing a woman seeking vengeance in a performance that received near-universal praise is not daring.
Might have been a good performance, but daring?
No.
An ABC News reviewer, being a good boy and saying only what he's allowed to say, called the movie, quote, a diabolically funny takedown of toxic masculinity.
Now, maybe he's right that it's diabolically funny.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
But what I can say for sure is that there is nothing at all even a bit daring about a Hollywood film trying to take down toxic masculinity.
That's not daring.
At any rate, maybe that's a minor detail.
The greater point is that a film critic was attacked as a misogynist for doing his job, and his publication caved like a sinkhole and threw him under the bus.
We should note also that the National Society of Film Critics did come out and defend the critic, Dennis Harvey, but it took them two months to do it.
Because even the Society of Film Critics has to spend two months working up the nerve to defend the concept of being a film critic.
And you would think that if the Society of Film Critics has any function at all, that's it.
This is the world we live in now.
The power of victimhood knows no bounds.
It can even exempt an actress from criticism by film critics.
It is a get-out-of-jail-free card, quite literally in many cases, and also a get-out-of-criticism card.
Get-out-of-accountability card.
Get-out-of-any-unpleasant-situation card.
People like Carey Mulligan know that.
They know that they have this card.
They know the power that comes with it.
And they're eager to play it.
The only way this ever changes is if we get to a point as a society where we can look at somebody like Carey Mulligan and say, listen, okay, listen, lady, I understand your feelings are hurt.
However, your feelings are unreasonable.
Your point of view is ridiculous.
You're being obnoxious.
You are not owed an apology and you will not get one.
Get over yourself.
That must be the response to these self-victimizing manipulative bullies.
Until we start responding that way, this will never change.
But, at least I can still say to Kerry Mulligan and Variety, you are cancelled.
The last one for the week.
Many more to come, though.
And we'll wrap it up there now.
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Talk to you next week.
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