Ep. 841 - How The Media Rigged The Rittenhouse Trial
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, as we await a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, we ask this question.
Is it possible for anyone to get a fair trial in a modern America, or has the media effectively put an end to fair trials in America?
We'll talk about that also.
An FBI whistleblower reveals that Merrick Garland lied when he was testifying to lawmakers about the FBI's pursuit of parents at school board meetings.
Plus, a Waffle House customer claims that a waitress committed a noose-related hate crime When has a story like this not been a hoax?
Maybe this will be the one exception.
Probably not.
In our daily cancellation, we will finally, once and for all, cancel Sesame Street.
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We'll get to that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues its deliberations, deliberations that should have lasted about five minutes before landing on a full acquittal on every single charge, it's been revealed that the prosecutors who already committed quote-unquote grave constitutional violations, according to the judge who said that during the trial, Went back to that same bag of tricks by withholding evidence from the defense, reportedly.
The Daily Mail reports, quote, prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence
from the defense that was, quote, at the center of their case, only sharing the high definition
drone video footage on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded.
DailyMail.com can reveal.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played the enhanced drone footage to the jury during his closing statements and claimed that it showed Rittenhouse pointing his gun at people, an assertion that opened the door to the state claiming that Rittenhouse provoked the violence on the night of August 25, 2020.
Now, in the motion obtained by DailyMail.com, Rittenhouse's defense insisted that the state only shared it with the defense after evidence had closed on Saturday, November 13.
There's just one of the grounds on which they have made a motion for a mistrial with prejudice filed by Carl Rittenhouse's defense Monday afternoon.
And a mistrial with prejudice, by the way, means that they can't refile it.
Mistrial, and then that's it.
Double jeopardy would apply.
So, if you're wondering why the deliberations are taking so long, this is part of the reason.
The jurors have been bombarded by lies from the district attorney, and every underhanded, dirty tactic has been utilized.
For Rittenhouse to have any shot at a fair trial, he would need 12 jurors who are, first of all, smart enough and savvy enough to wade through all of the half-truths and untruths and falsehoods and fabrications, spotting the sleight-of-hand tricks and the red herring distractions along the way, and somehow sift the truth out of all of that.
And that would be tough enough to find 12 people who can do that.
But that alone is not enough.
It's not simply a matter of being intelligent and observant.
Something that, I mean, the average person, let's face it, is not.
That's why we would call the average person average.
But also, they have to have the courage and the wherewithal to do the right thing at potential cost to themselves.
That's not the kind of calculation that a member of a jury in the United States should have to make.
The whole system breaks down when members of juries start balancing the right verdict on one hand against their physical safety on the other because they can't have both.
When that becomes a mutually exclusive proposition where you can do the right thing or the safe thing when you're deliberating, that's when the whole system breaks down.
But that's where we are.
The system is breaking down.
And that's the case, no matter the ultimate conclusion of this trial.
It's already taken longer than it should, precisely because of the way the game was rigged.
And who rigged it, we should ask?
Well, the prosecutors, of course.
We know that.
And also the media.
I mean, the media has intentionally made it so that men like Kyle Rittenhouse cannot get a fair trial in the United States of America, period.
We live in the information age, which is not to say the truth age.
This is not an age of truth.
It's an age of information.
Because information is not always true.
We walk around every day inside this tornado, this never-ending tornado, this storm of information, most of it false and misleading.
And nobody can really escape it.
And what this means is that the media has the absolute power to pollute any jury pool that they want to pollute.
They can do this absolutely if they decide that they want you to be convicted of a crime.
If you, for whatever reason, fall into their crosshairs.
And you might be sitting there thinking, well, I don't have to worry about it.
I'm not, you know, I'm not a prominent person.
They're not going to come after me.
Well, you never know.
Kyle Rittenhouse was not a prominent person before all this happened.
You never know when the spotlight will fall on you in a way you don't want it to fall.
And if they decide that, they can craft a narrative about you, craft it quickly, almost at lightning speed really, and with the same speed, send it around the entire world and inject that narrative straight into the minds of the masses.
Once it's there, once everyone has been exposed to it, and most have come to believe it, because most people do.
Most people just accept whatever they're told.
Once that happens, you cannot possibly get a fair trial.
Your only hope at that point is that you manage to extract a fair outcome from this incredibly unfair situation.
And that's possible.
It's not likely.
I mean, it is possible.
But whether you get the right outcome or not, the fact remains that you did not have a fair trial.
So when I say that fair trials are over in America, that's true.
They are over.
They don't exist anymore.
But that's not the same thing as saying that every innocent person will be found guilty and every guilty person will be found innocent.
Sometimes, even in an unfair situation, just by happenstance, against the will of the people trying to rig it, the right thing can happen.
But that's going to be the minority of cases.
And so we're left with this kind of farce.
The legal system itself has become a farce thanks to the media.
We talk about an impartial jury, but we all know that every single person on that jury had heard about Kyle Rittenhouse.
Every single one.
You're not gonna find anybody, especially in Kenosha, who's never heard of that.
And every single one of them, again, every single one without exception, had been exposed to 18 months of propaganda, painting Kyle as a murderous white supremacist.
Every single one of them has been living in that environment.
Not only that, but we also know that all of them, again, every single one, no exception, is aware of the potentially devastating personal consequences of passing down an acquittal.
So we all know this.
Which means that the trial from the very start is a charade, it's a pageant.
And all we can hope is that Kyle manages to free himself from its clutches like he freed himself from the clutches of the mob in Kenosha, even with the odds stacked against him.
The media has subverted our justice system.
And ripped our country to shreds.
They deserve not just to be sued into oblivion, though they do, of course, deserve that, but to be put in prison.
I mean, the media members responsible for this should be in prison.
This is the way elected Republicans need to start talking.
Yeah, I don't want to hear vague general complaints about the media anymore.
What they need to start saying is that this is criminal.
And we're going to put you in jail for it.
The people who lied about the Jacob Blake case in the first place in order to provoke the riots, provoke them, by the way, as part of a larger effort to influence the presidential election, and then lied about Rittenhouse, they shouldn't just face monetary repercussions, they should be in jail.
They should be locked in cages like the rats they are.
They have no right to do what they're doing.
This is not free speech.
This is terrorism, is what it is.
Of course the left has never met a truth that it won't deny, so they'll still claim that really when it comes to the justice system, in fact they'll agree that the justice system is rigged and that it's unfair and everything and that it's all a farce, but they would say it's because of white privilege and white people are so privileged and they have the advantage.
And they still claim that somehow.
You know, that somehow Kyle Rittenhouse is getting better treatment than he would if he were black.
And they say this even though we all just witnessed only a few weeks ago a black school shooter waltz out of jail less than a day after opening fire in his classroom and then go home to a welcome home party that was broadcast live on Facebook.
Not only that, but we also saw gang members in Chicago shoot each other in the street in full view of security cameras, by the way, leading to at least one person's death, and none of them were charged with crimes.
To reiterate, straightforward homicide on camera, and there were no charges.
None.
Not even for illegal firearm possession or, you know, I don't know, disturbing the peace.
Not even so much as a misdemeanor charge for first-degree murder.
Privilege?
What white privilege?
In the court system?
No, that's not the kind of privilege you'll find in the court system.
And it's not black privilege either, necessarily.
If Kyle Rittenhouse were black, but still associated with being right-wing, and I don't even know if that's true or not, I don't know what his politics are, but that's how he's associated.
So if he were black and associated with being right-wing, and he had been in Kenosha under the same circumstances, and everything had played out the exact same way, he'd probably still be facing the same fate.
In fact, just as the media is calling Rittenhouse a white supremacist right now, even though he shot three white people who were attacking him, I have no doubt that they would still call him a white supremacist for shooting white people, even if he was black, provided that he was associated with being right-wing.
So the privilege in the court system, just as in society at large, is not strictly racial.
It's ideological.
It's determined by the media, most of all.
The media dispenses the privilege, right?
The media decides who will get favored treatment and who will not.
The media has rigged the entire system, destroyed the entire system.
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It was the most right thing he ever said, the most correct he ever was.
was when he said, the media are the enemy of the people.
Because they truly are.
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So, The Daily Wire is on the scene in Kenosha, outside of the courthouse, and there's been a few interesting interactions.
We'll start with this.
I want to play this for you.
Here's The Daily Wire's Georgia Howe talking to Jacob Blake's uncle, who's there.
Now, let's just remember again, we have to review this all over again, because this all started with Jacob Blake.
And really it began not even at the police shooting, it actually began when he allegedly broke into a woman's home early one morning, I think on a Sunday morning, and raped her and then stole her credit card and her vehicle and drove away.
Now, the thing about that is he was never convicted in that case.
In fact, they dropped the charges for that.
This happened a few months ago, and of course, there was no outrage from the MeToo set or anything.
I mean, this was a guy accused of breaking into a woman's house and raping her, and they dropped the charges.
And yet, what we know, and part of the reason, by the way, that they said they dropped the charges is that they weren't getting a lot of cooperation from the victim.
But of course you're not going to get a lot of cooperation from the victim because the entire media and society and culture and everything, they're all on Jacob Blake's side.
They have made him a hero.
He's a folk hero.
And so that's what she's up against.
And so she's afraid for her own well-being.
Not without reason.
And I would imagine that's why she was not very cooperative.
And they decided to just take that as an excuse to drop the case entirely.
But we still know You know, this was not one of those cases where Jacob Blake was accused of rape 10 years later or 30 years later, you know, like a Brett Kavanaugh situation.
No.
The morning of this alleged incident, the victim called the cops, trembling and crying and telling them what happened, you know, in her pajamas.
And they showed up and the morning that it happened, So I guess you could decide, I mean, did she just wake up one morning and decide to, you know, she was going to go for an Oscar and put on this whole show?
It seems pretty clear to me that, you know, that we could drop the alleged from the rapist part, but I'll keep it on there just for litigation reasons.
So that's where this begins.
And it has to begin there because he's got a warrant for his arrest stemming from that.
And then he shows up again to his alleged victim's house.
And he is accosting her, and she calls the police to come and save her from this violent scumbag of a man.
The police show up, he fights the police, pulls a knife on the cops, and they're still doing everything they can to apprehend this guy without... He gave them an excuse almost right away to just shoot him there on the spot and shoot him dead.
They gave him a reason.
As soon as he pulls the knife out, that's their reason, but they still didn't.
And he walks around the car, not his car, it's his victim's car, where there's children inside, and the cops are trying to stop him, and telling him to stop, telling him to stop, and he starts to climb into the car, where there are children, into a car that is not his, while he's wielding a knife, and so we've got this knife-wielding, accused rapist, trying to steal a car with children inside, and that's when they open fire, and they were absolutely justified in doing so.
So, that's what happened with Jacob Blake, and that's where all of this begins.
In fact, if we were to start, if we were to make a list of who to blame for the Rittenhouse shootings, who's really to blame for it?
Well, first we have the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse, and then we have the media for ginning up this mob and this riot in the first place, again, in an effort to influence the election.
And then we have the government officials who abandoned their communities to the mob, but then also Jacob Blake.
He's actually the first to blame.
He's the one who started all this.
And yet, in spite of all this, Jacob Blake's family, they're still out there.
I mean, they got a visit from the president and the vice president.
You know, president and vice president made their state visit to the folk hero, Jacob Blake.
accused rapist, knife-wielding madman who tried to kidnap kids and steal a car.
They made their visits, and the family is still, you know, they have no shame whatsoever.
They're still out there painting them.
They're a victim too, by extension.
So that's the context, and here is Georgia Howe.
We'll watch a little bit of this talking to Jacob Blake's uncle.
A lot of people have been making this about race, and I noticed we have some Black Lives Matter protesters here.
Do you think this case is about race?
Of course.
I'm going to be just cold-blooded honest with you.
Of course it is.
A young black man was shot seven times in the back, who was never charged with any crime, who was not being aggressive, and who had his back turned on a police officer.
Now, when it comes to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, all of the men that he shot were white.
So, how is the Kyle Rittenhouse case about race?
So, to be blunt with you, back in the 50s, 40s, and 60s, they would refer to them as f***ing lovers.
So, they were sacrificed.
They were sacrificed and this young man was used.
So if they can, the tone that we're setting today is that I don't believe our Caucasian counterparts are willing to give up the lives of their young people on the street.
This is no different than the shooting in Colorado, the shooting in Florida.
It was a young person because he would have been in high school or just out of high school and he shouldn't have had a gun.
And he murdered people with the gun that he had illegally.
Some people would say, you know, Jacob Blake was visited in the hospital by the vice president of the United States.
They would say that is a form of privilege, sort of like what you're discussing.
Let me tell you, I wish you would mention the president in my presence.
He has failed us.
He has betrayed the Floyd family.
He's betrayed the Taylor family, Bianca Taylor.
That's great.
I love that they still hate him.
Okay, we can cut out of this.
We've heard this guy babbling enough.
Just lying.
I mean, this is someone with no soul whatsoever.
He knows the truth.
Jacob Blake was a good young man.
He didn't do anything, right?
He wasn't charged with any crime.
They were there to warn out for his arrest.
What do you mean he wasn't charged with any crimes?
Many of those charges have been dropped for political reasons.
But a fair number of the crimes he committed are on camera.
We can all see him do it.
And they continue right along with the narrative.
It doesn't matter.
But he still goes on for a while there.
It's actually an interesting conversation.
I was going to continue playing it, but I can't stomach listening to this guy anymore.
I really don't want to hear from anybody in the Blake family.
But it's great that he doesn't like Joe Biden.
Joe Biden showed up and bowed before this absolute scumbag, Jacob Blake, worse than a nothing, this absolute total dirtbag, Jacob Blake.
Nothing positive can be said about this man.
He's contributed nothing positive to society, only negative.
He has been an absolute negative for humanity in every single way, Jacob Blake.
He gets shot by the police.
Totally deserves it.
Every bullet he took, he deserves.
And the president still shows up and bows before him at his hospital bed.
And what do the BLM protesters say?
Still not good enough.
Not enough.
It's not just not enough.
We hate you.
They don't even know why they hate him.
What more do they want Joe Biden to do?
They don't know.
But their whole gig is to be perpetually aggrieved, no matter what.
So if you're in a position of authority, they're going to hate you because they are the victims.
And if you're running the system, then you are responsible for victimizing them, no matter what you do.
Meanwhile, we had some other protestors who were on the scene, and protestors on both sides of it.
Let's watch a little bit of some of the anti-Rittenhouse protestors, and see, maybe a few of them will make some interesting points.
Maybe they can explain why they're there, and they can be eloquent and articulate about it.
My hopes are not very high, but we'll see.
I wanted them to think of the word hero when they see Anthony Huber.
I want them to think hero because you guys, they were running after Kyle not to, like, kill him.
They were just trying to stop him because he just shot somebody.
They're treating him like a child and making it as comfortable and as non-threatening as possible.
And what did you make of the footage of the actual incident?
Did it look like self-defense or not self-defense to you?
It looked like a crazy situation.
It looked like murder to me.
And it was an illegal, horrendous act.
Has it been your opinion that Kyle has been treated as if he was innocent?
I don't have an opinion on that.
It's really up to the jury to decide what's going to happen.
You don't have an opinion on that?
What are you doing there with a poster board sign, you idiot?
He's shouting into a lampshade, by the way.
A little context here.
Here's a man shouting, Kyle is a killer, into a lampshade.
Alright.
He's shouting into a lampshade, by the way.
A little context here.
"At Pudgy's Clavern in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin."
Here's a man shouting, "Kyle is a killer," into a lampshade.
All right. So there you go.
I love the one guy. He's got a sign calling for a conviction of Kyle Reinhart.
He said, I really have no opinion about the case.
I think the jury should decide.
What are you doing protesting, though, if you want the jury to decide?
Well, they have no idea.
These people have no clue whatsoever.
Useful patsies for the left that are out there.
But it is interesting, you know, that it's not a huge crowd outside the courthouse.
There's a great amount of interest in the case, obviously.
And if you go online, you see, I mean, every leftist is calling for Kyle Rittenhouse's head, but it's not a big crowd out there.
It's really a very sad assortment.
It reminds me of the people who protested at Netflix because of Dave Chappelle.
It might actually be the same people.
Or, you know, maybe they all kind of end up looking the same, slightly overweight, oftentimes.
Not the stereotype, but this sad, pathetic assortment Like a handful of people out there.
And that's why I might end up eating these words, but most people on the right, most conservatives, are kind of predicting and expecting that if Rittenhouse is acquitted, that there's going to be massive, massive riots, and it's going to be even worse than it was in 2020 after the Jacob Blake shooting.
And there's certainly a possibility of that, but I wouldn't put my money on it.
If I were to put money down on something like this, I would not put my money on massive riots.
There will be some protests.
But it's probably not going to be anything like it was in 2020.
And why is that?
Well, because, as we said, there was a reason why the media made the decision to foment these riots at that point.
It's not a coincidence that this happened to be right leading up to a presidential election.
That's why they did it.
They were trying to get people fired up in a very literal sense with this idea that it's a racist system.
It also gives everyone the impression when there's rioting and there's violence in the street and everything, it makes people more inclined to want change.
And so they got to get rid of whoever's on the top.
They don't want this now because Democrats are running the system.
So they don't want that You know, this feeling of unease and chaos and violence.
They don't want that, even though there is a lot of chaos and violence in the streets of our cities, whether there's riots or not.
But the other problem is they realize that Democrats are running the system right now.
So a riot, because everybody's upset about systemic oppression and systemic racism and everything, well, that's going to put the blame on the Democrats who are running the system right now.
Therefore, the media has no real interest in fomenting riots.
The riots in 2020 across the country, these were not organic things.
These were not spur of the moment, spontaneous.
There's a reason why we saw Vans showing up with signs and all the rioters were carrying the same signs and the same kind of slogans.
These were funded.
These were coordinated.
These were promoted.
They had the whole PR mechanism of the media behind it.
That's not going to be the case this time.
So I would expect, no matter what happens to the trial, it's not going to be the same kind of reaction.
Though I could be incredibly wrong about that.
All right.
And then obviously you had a lot of protesters also saying that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there.
So this has crossed state lines, even though he lives 30 minutes away and he worked there and his dad lived there, but he crossed state lines and he shouldn't have been there.
You hear this a lot.
This is something you hear on the right also.
David French wrote an article recently saying Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero.
He shouldn't have been there.
And quickly to address that notion one more time, if you are saying that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there, And really, that's irrelevant to the case, whether or not it was self-defense.
Whether he should have been there or not is irrelevant.
But if that's what you're saying, if that's the position you're taking, then what you're saying is that when the government surrenders your community to the mob, and surrenders it to anarchy and violence, and says that they will not uphold the law anymore for a period of time, What the he-shouldn't-have-been-there folks are saying is that your moral obligation is to sit there and take it.
And I guess hunker down, batten down the hatches, go into a storm cellar and wait for it all to be over and hope that your house isn't burned down in the process.
That's what you're saying.
Now that is the actual reaction of most people.
But is that like the morally right reaction?
When the government decides there's going to be this huge hole, this void, where they're not going to enforce the law, is it our moral responsibility to say, well, the government doesn't want to enforce these laws anymore, so, well, that's it?
Or are we morally justified in stepping into that void and saying, if you're not going to do it, then we have to do it?
I would say that you are morally justified.
Huge development here.
Report from Yahoo.
It says, citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the Bureau has created a system to track threats against school board officials and administrators And accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee, the FBI's Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions created a threat tag, EDJO Officials, to track instances of related threats, according to the email.
The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement.
The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Timothy Langdon and former Criminal Division Assistant Director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month.
In the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Representative Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that the whistleblower email provides specific evidence that federal and law enforcement officials employed counterterrorism tools against concerned parents.
The FBI has denied this.
If you care at all what the FBI has to say, here's what the FBI says to the Wall Street Journal, a statement,
"The FBI has never been in the business of investigating parents who spoke out or policing speech at school board
meetings, and we are not going to start now.
The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it
represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats."
Of course, Merrick Garland's...
So he lied.
He perjured himself.
He should be disbarred for that.
He should resign in disgrace.
But neither of those things will happen.
And the problem is, there's no denial from the FBI that matters to anyone at this point.
I mean, nobody has any faith in the FBI.
How is this going to work when we get into federal criminal trials and that sort of thing?
It's all based on work by the FBI and FBI testimony.
You've got people from the FBI up there on the stand testifying.
Nobody trusts them.
No one believes anything they have to say.
And that's something they brought on themselves.
And when you weaponize the FBI against average Americans, well, average ordinary Americans like parents, that's going to change how they see the FBI.
So this is the great crisis that we're facing.
It's a total collapse in trust in our institutions.
And you can't have a functioning society when no one has any faith in the institutions underpinning it.
One of our most fundamental institutions is the court system, the justice system, law enforcement.
And when no one has any faith in any of this stuff, Then it, as I said, it breaks down.
Although maybe, I keep using the phrase breaks down, I probably shouldn't because that makes it sound sort of accidental.
It's not being broken down, it's more being demolished, deconstructed, as the left likes to say.
All right, I want to get to this.
This is from the Gainesville Times.
It says, a Gainesville woman says she was threatened at a Waffle House on November 7th by employees who said they needed nooses after her biracial family walked in to eat.
While at the Waffle House in Gainesville, a woman, Angelica Tabor-Fells, recorded a video describing the allegations, which has since gone viral on TikTok with 2.5 million views, of course.
And so there's, you know, this has already gone viral.
The police department is investigating it.
The Waffle House has released a statement.
It's a whole thing.
Let's watch.
We have the TikTok video.
Here is, what's her name again?
Angelica Tabor-Fells.
With a story of a noose-related hate crime.
These things are always... Okay, up until this moment.
And we'll watch it together and we'll see what we think about it.
But up until this moment...
These stories have always been false.
I mean, like 100% of the time for the last 30 years at least.
Anytime there's a claim of a noose-related hate crime or a racist incident involving a noose, it is always false every time.
It's incredible that we have... I mean, to bat a thousand on something like this is pretty incredible.
But maybe this will be different.
Maybe this is the one real one.
The one real incident.
Let's watch and find out.
So we're at Waffle House in Gainesville.
I have 129.
Look at my family.
It's very diverse.
See my family?
So I'm about to show you a waitress that decided to ask for a noose in front of me and my daughter.
And then when I asked to speak to the manager, the manager who said that he has two nooses in his car
So I'm pretty daggone sure this is probably the racist place I've ever been
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Now they're trying to hide.
Ma'am, can I get my ticket to go because this thing over there needs a noose and we're the only black people in here.
And your manager said he got two nooses in his car.
So we're getting the hell up out of here.
And I need a number for corporate.
Okay.
I don't mean to laugh at your pain, Miss Angelica, Angela, whatever your name is.
Angelica is her name.
Yeah, I find this extremely hard to believe.
I really do.
So, some customers walk in and the waitress looks at them and says, I've got to grab my nooses.
And the manager says, I've got a few in my car, go grab them.
What?
That doesn't even make any sense!
Okay, did she say, oh, I need to get some juice?
I mean, can we go through words that rhyme with noose here?
Of course, as we said, batting a thousand, these stories are always fake.
And I gotta say, this one...
This one I would put on the tier of the claim a couple of years ago that there were racist nooses hanging at a cracker barrel that someone had put there.
And then it turns out that they were just cords, like extension cords.
So I would say, I'm going to give this a 99.9999999% chance of being false.
999999% chance of being false.
Let's just, let's round up and call it 100%.
These stories are always fake and I'm thinking this one's gonna be no exception.
You know, there.
If we wanted to break this down and analyze it, there are a number of questions we could ask.
Probably no reason to do it, but here's one question.
Why would they be the first black people at this Waffle House to have this experience?
I mean, if this Waffle House is that racist that you simply walk in and they start talking about going to grab a noose, wouldn't there be other customers who would have similar stories?
Or are we supposed to believe that these are the first black customers that have ever gone into this Waffle House?
Are we really supposed to believe that?
Waffle House in Gainesville has never seen a black customer before.
I'm a big fan of Waffle House, by the way, assuming that they're not committing hate crimes like this.
If they are, then I will not go on any more Waffle Houses.
But on the assumption that they're not, I'm a big fan of Waffle Houses myself.
I consider myself to be sort of an aficionado of Waffle Houses.
And what I will tell you is one of the great things about it is Waffle Houses are very, very diverse.
I've never been to a Waffle House that was anything less than racially diverse.
That's another thing that makes this story not make a lot of sense.
Okay, what else do we got here?
I tried a few days ago to talk about this Britney Spears thing.
Britney Spears, this is the story from Elle magazine.
I'm a big reader of Elle magazine.
This is a couple days old now, but a Los Angeles judge ruled that the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for over 13 years should end today, according to the New York Times.
The pop icon, now 39 years old, has been under the court-ordered legal arrangement since 2008 following struggles with her mental health, and now the conservatorship has ended.
Yeah, I've been threatening to talk about this, and there are more important things to talk about, so I've kind of skimmed over it.
I have the same, I have followed this story, as I said, not very closely, so maybe I've missed something along the way.
But, as happy as I am for Britney Spears, that she's free now and she can do whatever she wants, that's wonderful, because that's something I've been deeply, I personally have been deeply worried about for the last 13 years.
I have not been able to sleep well at night knowing that Britney Spears is under a conservatorship, so I feel that relief like everyone else does.
But the reason she was under the conservatorship is because she was judged mentally unwell, and so mentally unwell that she was a danger to herself and others.
That's also why she lost custody of her children, which is a very hard thing to do as a woman.
It's very hard to lose custody of your children, especially in, I believe this was in California.
So, to be in California and to lose custody of your kids, that's not something they do lightly anywhere, but especially in California.
That was the judgment, that she was psychologically unwell to the extent of being a danger to herself and others.
That's why she was under the conservatorship.
I assume that the people who wanted the conservatorship to end, I assume those people aren't claiming that it's impossible for someone to be judged mentally unwell and unable to care for them, you know, a threat to themselves and others.
Obviously, there are people who fall into that category.
And so there should be arrangements like conservatorships for those sorts of people.
We should also have institutions to put them in, and we used to, you know, we don't do that nearly as much as we used to, but assuming we can agree on that, the question is, is that the case for Britney Spears?
And I guess my point is, I don't really know, but all the people calling for the conservatorship to end, do they have evidence?
Do they have some information about her psychological health?
Could they somehow prove that she was not as crazy as they said?
I never saw anyone produce that evidence.
It's just sort of an assumption.
This is what the court had decided and there's an assumption that it's false.
It could be wrong.
We just talked about not trusting the court system.
But do you have any reason to think that?
And if the original judgment was correct that she's a danger to herself and others, And now she's been released of this conservatorship and then she goes on to hurt herself or hurt someone else, you know.
All the protesters who've been calling for this for the last several years.
How are they going to feel then?
One other thing.
We gotta mention this also.
Some closure here from the New York Post.
Brass against rocker Sofia Arista has apologized for going too far by peeing on a fan on stage while insisting that she's not a shock artist.
This is not something she normally does.
In fact, she's never peed on someone's face on stage before.
If anything, it's something she does in the privacy of her own home.
And she always makes sure to take sanitary precautions, puts down some newspaper and all that sort of thing.
So not something she normally does.
She got carried away.
This is her statement.
She says, I've always pushed the limits in music and on stage.
That night I pushed the limits too far.
I love my family, the band and the fans more than anything.
And I know that some were hurt or offended by what I said.
And so she apologizes.
We all make mistakes sometimes.
You accidentally pee on someone's face on stage.
It happens.
I would like to get an explanation.
I'd be interested in what the explanation is.
Like, what was the thought process that led to this?
I'm curious.
But we don't need to talk about it anymore.
This whole thing is gross.
It's just really not my cup of tea, to be honest.
Sorry, I used up all the good urination puns yesterday, so I'm all out.
The bladder is empty, you might say.
I just wish this video had never leaked.
I mean, talk about a live stream.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm done.
You know, this singer, she's not a big star in the music industry.
She's like a little star, really.
So she went tinkle, tinkle, little star.
OK, that was that was a bad one.
I even wrote that one down.
Can you believe I wrote that?
I wrote down tinkle, tinkle, little star so I could tell that joke.
And I hate myself for it now.
I really do.
Let's go to the comment section.
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You're killing me small says, hey Ben Shapiro.
Hey, Ben Shapiro referred to you as my friend Matt Walsh during the Q&A with
the trans activists who couldn't answer what is a woman.
That was heartwarming.
I did see that exchange.
Ben Shapiro speaking in Florida, University of Florida I believe, and he had an interaction with the trans activists and he dropped the what is a woman question and gave me some credit for that.
And of course, the response from the trans activist was that there was no response as always.
I think the trans activist accused Ben of a red herring fallacy.
And this is something, you know, people who grow up on the internet at a certain age, they're very impressed with themselves because they know about certain fallacies.
And so their response to any argument you present is always to label it with a certain fallacy and then to define it for you.
Well, that was a red herring fallacy.
That was a red herring fallacy and a straw man fallacy.
It's not a red herring fallacy.
It's the opposite of red herring.
This is the whole point.
Can you, within the context of gender theory, even define what these genders are?
If you can't, then that shows that the whole thing's incoherent.
And the other interesting thing is that, ironically, while accusing Ben of a fallacy, the trans activist, their entire argument is structured around an appeal to authority.
As far as calling me his friend, I do appreciate that because if I was in his position and the roles were reversed, I would refer to him as my subordinate and employee.
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Yeah, I feel like that needed more explanation than we gave it.
That was sort of out of nowhere, wasn't it?
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Cyril says, Oh, I saw a fairy in the garden.
What?
Am I the only person who never believed that fairies and unicorns were real?
Matt makes it seem like it's normal for kids to do this.
As a child, I always had a very good idea of what was real and what wasn't.
And I think it was because my parents said the exact thing Matt is mocking.
And before you say that I'm a special case, I have three siblings who shared in this upbringing and have similar early understanding of these things.
So either all four of us are special cases or there may be something to that approach.
No, I was not there for your childhood, far be it for me to say, but I will tell you.
I mean, far be it for me to tell you what happened in your childhood, but I will tell you what happened in your childhood, and I can tell you 100% certainty.
You definitely, at some point in your childhood, believed that things like fairies and unicorns and dragons and everything were real.
You absolutely did.
And the reason that you did Is because you were not born with the brain you have right now.
Which is a really good thing, because if you were, you would have killed your mother on the way out.
Okay?
So your brain was not fully developed as it is right now.
Hopefully as it is right now.
And early on in childhood, once again, you do not have the neurological equipment in place To differentiate between real and not real.
Okay?
So, when you go to a two-year-old and you say, such and such is not real, it's a fantasy, that doesn't mean anything to them.
They don't understand the difference.
Okay?
Which is why little kids, they're afraid that there's a monster under the bed.
You could explain to them, no, monsters aren't real, that doesn't even make any sense, what would a monster be doing under your bed in the first place?
I mean, if there were monsters, they wouldn't be under your bed in any way.
Here, I'll turn the light on, you can look under, there's nothing there.
And that's not enough to convince them.
Because they see it in their head, they feel it, and so it's real to them.
And the idea that you could feel something, see it, think it, and that it's not real, That's a realization that develops later in life.
If you're a leftist, it never develops, right?
So that's the case for everybody.
And you're no exception.
You might not remember those times because it was a long time ago.
Let's see.
BH says, if you have to wear a band on your wrist to relieve you from your helpless feeling of nausea, you are a female.
How dare you, sir?
How dare you?
More bigotry against the motion sick community.
The MSC, as we call ourselves.
Actually, we are not motion sick people, by the way.
We are people of motion sickness inclination.
And how dare you, once again I say.
You're banned.
Nate says, Conservatives, there's no such thing as your truth.
Your personal experiences don't determine reality.
Walsh, if you don't have kids, your opinions on anything parent related is completely irrelevant and silly.
Okay, well, this isn't about people having their own truth, okay?
I'm not saying that if you're a parent, you have one truth, and if you're not a parent, you have another.
What I'm saying is that if you aren't a parent, you can't really know the truth about parenting.
There are certain truths, certain realities of parenting that you can't really know until you are one.
And this is something that I know if you're not a parent and, you know, if you're younger, You don't believe me on this.
You don't think I'm right.
I was in your shoes too, okay?
There was a time in my life when I was younger and I was childless and I sat there judging parents and making all of these declarations, sometimes in my head, sometimes out loud, about what I would do as a parent and how everything would be as a parent and what, you know.
And I was, before I had, this is what I can tell you, before I had kids, I was an absolutely perfect parent.
Perfect.
I was a model for everybody else.
And then I had kids, and I start to understand certain realities that I simply didn't have access to when I wasn't a parent.
And when you have kids, this same thing will happen with you.
I guarantee it.
You will look back at the things that you said and the things you thought before you had kids, and you'll think, what a moron was I. So that's just... I can tell you to take it from me.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
All right, so today we cancel Sesame Street.
We could have canceled Sesame Street a week ago when Big Bird tweeted.
Big Bird has a Twitter account now, by the way.
He tweeted that he'd just gotten the vaccine despite having natural immunity.
from respiratory viruses due to the fact that puppets don't have respiratory systems.
But I suppose if we're giving the vaccine to kids who are almost completely immune to severe COVID illness, then we might as well give it to fictional birds also.
To make matters creepier, Big Bird then appeared on a CNN town hall to further push pharmaceuticals onto kids.
Big Bird seems to have really settled into his new role as drug dealer.
Here's what that looked like.
You know, my granny bird says that since I'm six years old, I can get the vaccine.
Oh yeah, that's right, Big Bird.
But, well, I have a lot of questions.
Like, what is a vaccine?
And does it have to be a shot?
And will I still need to wear my mask?
Those are such great questions, Big Bird, and it turns out lots of kids and families have questions, too.
So, over the next half hour, we're going to be answering your questions, talking with experts and giving you the information you need about vaccinations for kids.
You know what?
Elmo better go change.
See you later!
Oh, come on!
It's time for the town hall!
Yay!
Okay, this raises a number of questions.
Questions like, what the hell happened to Big Bird's voice?
Why does he sound like a child molester now?
He sounds distinctly creepy all of a sudden.
Also, what kind of six-year-old is watching a CNN special about vaccinations in the first place?
Who is the audience for this?
When I was a kid, the only thing I knew about CNN was that it's the channel my dad watches sometimes when he wants to yell at the TV, which, come to think of it, explains a lot.
In any case, this is all very weird and inappropriate and dystopian and horrible, as a show for preschoolers hawks a drug that nobody in the preschool demographic actually needs, but that's not why I'm canceling Sesame Street.
It would have been the reason until they gave us a whole new reason.
As ABC reports, quote, Sesame Street debuts G. Young, the first Asian-American Muppet.
That's the headline.
The article says, at only seven years old, G. Young is making history as the first Asian-American Muppet in the Sesame Street canon.
She's Korean-American and has two passions, rocking out on her electric guitar and skateboarding.
The children's TV program, which first aired 52 years ago this month, gave the AP a first look at its adorable new occupant.
Ji Young will formally be introduced in See Us Coming Together, a Sesame Street special.
Simu Liu, Padma Lakshmi, and Naomi Osaka are among the celebrities appearing in the special, which will drop on Thanksgiving.
Now, if you want to see Ji Young in action, which I know you do, here she is.
Actually, there's something really cool about my name.
So in Korean, traditionally, the two syllables, they each mean something different.
And chi means like, smart or wise.
And young means like, brave or courageous or strong.
Yeah.
And I think it was honestly inspired, unfortunately, by the past year and the rise in, you know, attacks and Racist incidents against Asian people, especially during COVID.
My one hope, obviously, is to help have Jiyoung help teach, you know, what racism is, help teach kids to be able to recognize it and then speak out against it.
But then my other hope for Jiyoung is that she just normalizes seeing different kinds of looking kids on TV.
And I'm excited to share Kimbap and tteokbokki and gogi and jjigae and banchan and kimchi and japchae and all sorts of stuff.
Ah, yes, okay.
Well, we need the Asian Muppet to tell kids about racism in case they didn't pick up on the racism lessons from literally every other show or movie they've ever watched.
It's very important, you see, that we don't allow young children to go more than 17 minutes without being reminded of racism.
Even 17 minutes is probably too long.
I'm concerned that, you know, like SpaghettiOs hasn't released a new product where the letters in the soup are R-A-C-I-S-M so that even when they're eating, they can still be reminded of racism.
Plus, as the puppeteer behind the Asian Muppet explains, we also need to normalize Asian people for kids.
This is important in case there are any children in America who've never seen an Asian person before.
We need to think about, you know, all those kids maybe who were raised inside a crater on the moon and haven't encountered any members of another race or ethnicity.
We need to make sure we normalize other ethnicities for all of those moon children who might be watching.
But this all leads to a confusing question.
G. Young is the first Asian puppet on Sesame Street.
Okay.
Well then, what race are the other Muppets?
What race is Ernie?
What is Elmo's nationality?
Where is Grover's ancestral home?
We know that the Count is from Transylvania, so we know that.
We know Oscar the Grouch is from New Jersey, which is why he prefers living in a trash can.
But the rest of the characters seem to be very intentionally non-racial.
I mean, what the hell is Snuffleupagus supposed to be?
Does Cookie Monster have an ethnic background?
I guess he's from New Jersey also.
In fact, he was the governor of the state from 2010 to 2018.
But you see the point.
Most of these characters have no ethnicity, no race, no nationality.
They're fictional characters that all children can relate to equally.
And I think that was sort of the point, right?
They exist in a fantasy world where there are no races.
And there was a time when this was the liberal utopia, a world of sameness where nobody is different, everyone is the same.
And when it comes to things like gender, that kind of homogenous, ambiguous paradise is still what they strive for.
But in the realm of race, as equity replaces equality, the pendulum has swung back in the other direction dramatically.
And now, rather than emphasizing similarities and downplaying differences, the left wants to make sure that everyone is categorized and labeled and put into a box.
And it makes things even more confusing because our gender is all fluid and there's no differences and it doesn't matter, but as far as race goes, we are strictly in our box and we can never leave it.
They want kids to see themselves in those terms.
Sesame Street actually has been pushing this message for a little while now.
They debuted their first Black Muppets a few months ago, and here's how those characters explained race.
Well, it's because the more melanin you have, the darker your skin looks.
The color of our skin is an important part of who we are, but we should all know that it's okay that we all look different in so very many ways.
Oh, well, Elmo's fur is red and soft.
Oh, and my hair is black and curly.
Things on the outside, like our skin color, our hair texture, our noses, our mouths and eyes, make us who we are.
Many people call this race.
Our skin color is what makes us who we are, says the Black Muppet, as woke Sesame Street tries its hardest to ensure that kids see race first and foremost.
But our skin color is what makes... When I was a kid watching Sesame Street, the message was precisely the opposite of that.
Of course, the funny thing is, you'll notice, the Asian puppet doesn't actually look or sound all that Asian.
And so this is always the conundrum for the identity box checkers when it comes to cartoons and puppets.
They want to make sure that there's proper representation, but they also can't allow themselves to be accused of stereotyping.
Which is a problem because when you're making a puppet or a cartoon that's supposed to represent a certain race, then inevitably, by definition, there is a caricature, a stereotype going on.
But they can't do that, yet they want to have the representation, which just means that the diverse characters meant to represent a specific ethnicity or race end up representing really nothing and nobody in particular.
They want to racialize the fictional world as much as they've racialized the real world, but they can't really do that because then they'd be engaging in stereotypes.
So they're left then with this weird kind of half measure, which is what wokeness always boils down to.
It boils down to incoherence and weirdness in the end.
Though on a different note, I'm wondering if we'll see the episode where the Asian puppet, G. Young, applies for college and is turned down in favor of the Black Muppet.
That's another important real-world lesson about equity.
Maybe we'll get that as well.
And I look forward to that.
But in the meantime, Sesame Street, we must say, is cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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