Ep. 1049 - They Are Waging A War Against Truth Itself
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, desperate Democrats are warning that voting Republican means the death of democracy. But the real threat to our democracy, in fact to our whole civilization, comes from somewhere else. It comes in part from the protesters at my event last night who were ripping pages out of the Bible and eating them. I’ll explain. Also, Ted Cruz bravely walks into the chicken coup and debates the squawking hens of the View. MSNBC tries to embarrass Trump voters in a focus group but it doesn’t work out how they intended. Sandy Hook families now want to sue Alex Jones for trillions of dollars. And one of the most prominent Native American activist in the country, who just died recently, wasn’t actually Native American at all.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, desperate Democrats are warning that voting Republican means the death of democracy.
But the real threat to our democracy, and in fact to our whole civilization, comes from somewhere else.
It comes in part from the protesters at my event last night who were ripping pages out of the Bible and eating them.
I'll explain.
Also, Ted Cruz bravely walks into the chicken coop and debates the squawking hens of The View.
CNN tries to embarrass Trump voters in a focus group, but it doesn't work out the way they intended.
Sandy Hook families now want to sue Alex Jones for trillions of dollars, with a T, trillions.
And one of the most prominent Native American activists in the country, who just died recently, wasn't actually Native American at all.
Imagine that.
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We are now officially two weeks from election day.
There was some question over the summer about whether it would really materialize, but now it seems rather clear that the red tsunami is coming.
We can see the signs, the water level dropping, the tide going out, the wave gathering strength as it heads to shore.
And when I talk about signs, I don't mean the polls, which are all fake and made up and meaningless and who cares.
I'm talking about the Democrats themselves, how they're behaving.
What they're saying.
They know what's on the horizon and that's why they're becoming so desperate and frantic.
So this weekend we saw Joe Biden promising a bunch of TikTok stars that he would pay for their abortions and make sure that every state in the union is sexually mutilating children.
This is what democratic desperation looks like.
This is what they do when they're scared.
They double down on their infanticide and child castration advocacy.
Also, even more indicative, the Democrats are warning that the coming Republican takeover of the House and possibly the Senate as well will spell the end of democracy in America.
So Max Boot writes for the Washington Post, quote, if the current trends hold up, Republicans are likely to take over at least the House and quite possibly the Senate too, along with many state offices.
This is how democracies die, both at home and abroad.
So democracies die when voters participate in them, says the Washington Post.
So by voting, you are killing democracy.
In a similar way, you might die of thirst by drinking fresh water or drown by sitting on dry land.
MSNBC had a similar message last night.
In fact, they took it a step further.
According to Joy Reid and her panel of guests, who all together, with their brainpower combined, equal the IQ of a moderately intelligent meerkat, if voters, they say, vote for Republicans, they are essentially Nazis.
Listen.
Matthew, we talk about this all the time.
Democracy on the ballot.
It's not just a slogan.
You know, I mean, we're talking about women literally losing agency over themselves.
Donald Trump has said, you know where he's going to challenge the election?
Already in advance, he says he's going to do it.
Philly.
That's a dog whistle, right?
I mean, it's not even being hidden at this point.
It's just fascism in the open.
And what scares me is that I'm not sure everybody minds.
You know, I think there are some people who will just sit back and let it happen, thinking it won't be that bad.
And that, to me, is almost more dangerous than the radicals.
Well, I mean, I'm not calling, I'm not going to say that, you know, the GOP are Nazis at this point or whatever, but it certainly sounds very familiar to what happened in Germany, which is a bunch of citizens, shaved off Hitler, gets a third of the vote.
Nobody thought it could happen there.
They kind of went along because they said he was going to solve the economy and fix inflation.
Yeah, that's right.
You can hear those sorts of things.
And then, oh, but lo and behold, few years later they lost their democracy and they're all
like how'd that happen here.
That's my worry. That is my worry. Obviously the price of a hamburger, the price of milk,
the price of gas is concerning. But what is what that is a short-term problem. The loss of a
democracy will decimate everyone's freedom. Yes, your inability to eat is a short-term problem. I
mean I guess it probably is.
The only problem is that you might not have an opportunity for any problems after that if you're not able to eat.
But I have to say, I am begging all of you, absolutely begging you, especially on the left, to learn about something in history other than the Nazis.
Not that you actually know anything about the Nazis or how they rose to power, of course.
Your understanding of your one single historical period of interest is dubious at best.
But it's really time to branch out anyway.
It really is.
Other things have happened in the world before and since, I promise you.
There are other things that you could compare current events to.
The possibilities for historical analogies are endless.
But you have to read a history book first.
In any event, I do appreciate Matthew Dowd's prudence and restraint.
I give him credit for that.
Because he says that he's not going to compare the GOP to Nazis.
But all he's saying is that the GOP are just like the Nazis.
He's not going to make the comparison.
He's simply pointing out that Republicans are exactly like the Nazis.
That's all.
And you are ushering in the end of democracy if you vote for them.
This is all preposterous, of course.
Democracy is not under threat because of Republicans.
But that is not to say that democracy isn't under threat at all.
I mean, it is.
And it's much more than democracy that hangs in the balance.
The entirety of Western civilization is on the brink of collapse, is indeed in the process of collapsing.
It's not because of one election or one political event.
It's because we are, as a society, rejecting fundamental basic truth.
Our civilizational flight from truth is the real threat to democracy, to civilization.
You can't have a functioning democracy without truth.
You can't have a thriving country or any real country at all without truth.
You can only have chaos and misery.
Which brings me to my event last night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yesterday I told you about the drama in the lead up to the screening of my film and my speech and Q&A afterwards.
Leftist students and faculty were losing their minds over the prospect of my physical presence on campus.
They filed a bias incident report, they tore down flyers, they set up safe spaces, they graffitied all over the campus, including vandalizing a veterans memorial.
When I finally arrived on campus yesterday, over 300 protesters, apparently was the number, gathered outside.
Many tried to rush inside the building.
Some made it in.
Some were stopped.
They rushed into the screening of the film.
They tried to disrupt it.
I'm told that one of the protesters literally vomited, like, out of rage.
An actual scene from The Exorcist played out.
During my talk, they repeatedly pulled the fire alarm.
Which had the effect of knocking the AV system out, so I didn't have a working microphone for a large portion of the speech.
Fortunately, I had a loud enough voice, so that was only a minor inconvenience.
Back outside, they ranted and raved incoherently, often branching into grievances that have seemingly nothing to do with the subject of my film or my talk.
Here's just one example.
Listen.
And that includes in organizing spaces?
Because so much of the time, organizing spaces are dominated by white people who don't give BIPOC voices a
chance to speak!
[cheers]
White people, stop being racist!
All of you!
I don't care!
It's ingrained in me.
I'm not white.
It's ingrained in all of us.
But white people, you need to realize your positionality.
You need to realize the space you take up.
And you need to realize how hard it is every single f***ing day for BIPOC people, especially at this institution!
That voice is hard to listen to.
Yes, people of color are not able to speak.
She screams into a megaphone.
Most of the speeches and chants were targeting me and explaining why I'm a horrible person, but the interesting thing about this girl is that she was at least partially targeting her own comrades.
It doesn't take long for them to start to eat each other.
And eat other things, too, actually.
As the protest grew, it also became more explicitly satanic.
There was one woman who pulled out a Bible and began ripping pages out of it and eating them.
And we can see her do that here.
If you thought I was exaggerating when I call these people demonic, well, here you go.
I spoke yesterday about the helpful contrast, right, that you see when these leftist protesters show up.
Here's another one.
Which way will you go, America?
That's the choice you have.
Which way, Western man?
Do you want to join in with the side that eats the Bible and vomits in anger, kills babies, castrates little children?
Or do you want to join literally any side but that one?
I mean, this is the choice to be made.
Sadly, though, up to this point, our civilization has made its choice.
And it chose the Bible eaters.
It chose these screaming, spastic lunatics.
Fundamentally, it shows untruth.
Because as I am constantly reminding everyone, this is what these people represent.
It's what they advocate for.
It's what they demand.
It's why they protest.
It's not merely about silencing conservative voices.
It's not about squashing debate or discussion.
It is all of that.
But, more importantly, it's about driving truth, even the most basic truths, especially the most basic truths, out of college campuses, out of all of our institutions, out of the public square, off of social media, off of all the platforms, and off into exile.
Their goal is to build a society apart from truth, where they can make their own truth and live in their relativistic utopia, one in which everything revolves around the self and around the ego.
But we've seen how this utopia works.
Specifically, we've seen that it doesn't.
It doesn't work.
A civilization grounded in relativism is not grounded at all.
It is weak and unstable.
It will collapse, and it will take everything down with it, including democracy.
That's what's at stake here.
And that's why we may be tempted to laugh at these embarrassing displays on college campuses.
I laugh at them.
What lies underneath all of the hysteria is this war on truth.
These kids have been conditioned to lash out blindly, violently, with rage and fury at any discussion of truth, at any individual who speaks truth.
That's why I'm doing all this, why I'm in the fight.
I see this as a fight for truth itself, and thus for civilization itself.
To reiterate what I said at the end of my speech last night, if you'll forgive me plagiarizing myself, it really is as simple as this for me, that the truth matters.
And it matters more than anything else.
It matters more than ideology.
It matters more than your preferences, your feelings.
It matters more than your self-identification.
It matters more than your life, and more than mine.
See, these leftist protesters, they claim that my speaking truth, or anyone else who speaks truth, that when we do that, we somehow put their lives at risk.
Now, I don't think that's true.
That we're not putting their lives at risk by speaking the truth.
But even if it was, I would still speak it.
And I would still encourage you to speak it.
The truth would be worth the cost.
Be worth the cost of their lives.
It's worth the cost of my own life.
I would speak the truth if it put my own life at risk.
And according to the death threats that I get all the time, it does.
And that's because life itself can't have any meaning.
Nothing can have meaning.
Apart from the truth.
There's nothing to fight for except the truth.
Nothing to live for except the truth.
There is no love without it.
There's no beauty.
There's no joy.
There's no freedom.
There's nothing without truth.
And that's why we can't give it up.
For anyone's sake.
No matter what.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
[MUSIC]
Well, there's one other clip I wanted to play from last night before we move on.
And I wish I could play the whole exchange, but it's too long.
I have kind of a longer clip that I'm going to play still, but you can find the whole clip on my Twitter page.
During the Q&A, a person who identifies as trans, who's going through transition right now, did come up to speak in the Q&A, and this doesn't happen very often.
This is pretty rare.
I mean, I do these Q&As, and anyone can come speak, and I'm always encouraging people who don't agree with me to come speak, and very rarely do they take me up on it.
They'd rather go stay outside where they have their numbers and they can shout into megaphones and hold their signs and all of that.
This was someone who actually came and spoke and stood up there, and I appreciate that.
It takes courage.
It takes guts to do that.
From his perspective, this is like walking into the lion's den.
This is behind enemy's territory.
We're not his enemies.
But that's how he would see it.
And so it takes guts to do this.
So I thought this was an important conversation.
I wanted to share a piece of it with you.
Here it is.
Eight months ago, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria while I was inpatient here in UW-Madison.
I looked into the research and talked to doctors, and through my journey I decided to explore medically transitioning, because it's shown to decrease suicidal ideation and stuff like that.
And since then, although I've had to deal with other issues such as transphobia and sexual assault, I've been more happier overall than I ever was before.
And my question to you is, what specifically about medically transitioning do you think is so immoral?
That we should ignore the potential benefits, and why should I listen to you as somebody who's not a medical professional and has not experienced gender dysphoria?
There's a dishonesty behind it.
Dishonesty in the false promises that they make, which is that you can attain this image of maleness or femaleness, or that you can actually become, in some ways, the opposite, gender or sex, whatever words you want to use, which is a lie.
It's not true.
You never can.
I don't think I can pass.
I have a horrible Adam's apple.
My voice sounds like this.
I still love myself.
And there has always been money in making people happy, like wearing nice clothes or good food.
It does cost a lot of money.
That's why I can't get surgeries that would make me a lot happier.
But the point of medicine is not supposed to be to make you happy in the moment.
That's not the objective of medicine.
The objective of medicine is your overall wellness.
It's about treating what is actually wrong.
That's medicine.
And so if you are struggling to accept Who you were born as, what your actual biological identity is, I have all the compassion in the world for that.
I mean, I can't imagine having that disconnect in my head.
It has to be a source of immense despair.
But what I hate is the medical professionals who, instead of helping you with that, instead of helping you to accept who you really are and find joy and fulfillment in it, They're trying to make a quick buck, and they're selling you false promises, and they're telling you that this stuff is based on long-term studies, and they're lying to you, because it's not.
There have never been any reliable long-term studies on almost all of this stuff, because the fact is that the medical industry only started doing this at such a large scale recently, so they couldn't have the data.
They're pretending that they do.
They're lying.
And that's what I hate.
That's the immorality.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah, so like I said, that was a piece of it.
That's kind of the beginning and the end.
And then there's the middle two, which you can find on YouTube or you can find it on Twitter.
And I wanted to show that to you because, first of all, again, I appreciate the fact that somebody was actually willing to go and stand up there and ask a question.
And also, I want to show that we have this idea That when you're talking to someone who actually is trans or actually identifies that way and is going through the whole process, that it's like we have to choose between being compassionate or being truthful.
Those are two separate paths.
Those are two different choices.
That's the way it's presented.
That's not the case.
I think you can be compassionate and also say what is true.
Which is what I tried to do there.
Now if I have one regret, and this is not meant as a criticism of the audience, who were great, and really all the audiences we've had on this tour have been awesome, very supportive, and I appreciate them all very much, but I regret in some ways the applause for me at the end there.
Not that it was inappropriate, it's just, you know, it's the audience's way of saying they agree.
And it's not like a combative applause, but it's the nature of the forum.
That's how it works in that kind of forum.
And that's fine, but it does, you know, it kind of makes it sound maybe at the end like a Matt Walsh destroys type of video.
And that's not what it is.
It's not what I intended.
I certainly hope that the student, you know, that wasn't his takeaway.
This is not a matter of trying to debunk or embarrass someone, certainly.
I care about him.
I do.
I care about these kids who are being taken advantage of.
I know a lot of them hate my guts.
They think that I'm a horrible person.
I'm a monster.
And I get that.
That's the way they see it.
That's okay.
But I care about them.
That's why I care about the issue.
People like that.
Who are dealing with something, dealing with something real, but it's internal.
It's like something in his mind, something real.
And if I had a chance to follow up with that student, I would tell him, first of all, that, you know, it's going to be okay.
I know he's suffering.
I don't doubt that.
I know it.
But it's going to be okay.
He is okay.
There's nothing wrong with him physically.
He says there that he talks about he hates his Adam's apple and his voice.
There's nothing wrong with any of that.
You know, that's, that's, that's him.
That's who he is.
And there is nothing wrong with that at all.
That's who you are.
There's nothing wrong with who you are.
The trouble is, is when your mind is not able to reconcile with who you are, or for whatever reason is not wanting to accept who you are.
And so it's that struggle to accept that that is the fundamental issue that we need to try to address.
As I'm as I'm always saying, it is very much on our side, which is the side of truth, is very much a message of actual self acceptance, of real affirmation.
All right, I want to play this clip for you, because there's so much that is contained in this clip, so much is shown, is learned, perhaps, in this.
CNN held a focus group with Trump supporters in Pennsylvania.
And the goal, obviously, because it's a focus group with Trump supporters and it's on CNN, the goal is to embarrass them and to show that they're a bunch of ignoramuses.
But it didn't work out that way.
In fact, it kind of worked exactly the opposite way.
The person who was trying to embarrass the Trump supporters only got embarrassed in the process.
So I want to go through and watch a little bit of this.
Let's see.
Doug Mastriano was at the insurrection and he was photographed breaching one of the restricted areas.
Is that okay?
Which area?
Because I saw a video where Capitol officers were taking away barriers and unlocking doors.
So, I mean... So it shouldn't be disqualifying for an elected official if they participate in January 6th?
He didn't strike anybody?
He didn't hurt anybody?
Alright, let's pause it there for a second.
Because of the protester there, not a Capitol police officer.
Not armed female veteran.
That's the only one that died.
That's the only one who died.
A police officer did die.
No, it was a stroke.
That's not- That's not on sight.
Caused by that, that's because he shouldn't have been a police officer.
So what do you make though, overall, of January 6th?
I mean, it was, watching that footage, it was pretty disturbing.
I mean, there were people throwing excrement at the walls.
All right, let's pause it there for a second.
So she makes, she pivots there.
What do you make of January 6th in general?
Because she realized that what she's telling, what the claims that she's making about January 6th are incorrect.
And these people know that it's incorrect.
So what's happening here is that she's trying to showcase their ignorance.
But instead, in fact, they are educating her about January 6th.
They are better educated on January 6th than she is.
She says this is a common bit of misinformation that we still hear somehow, is that there were police officers who died on January 6th.
Didn't happen.
Did not happen.
There were no police officers killed by the rioters on January 6th.
That did not happen.
There's Brian Sicknick, who had a stroke, had a medical emergency after the fact.
And then there were other police officers who, in the weeks and months afterwards, there were, I think it was two, who tragically committed suicide.
And shamelessly, for years now, it is, the left has been taking those suicides And connecting it to January 6th without any evidence whatsoever.
So these people know all of that.
Because, well, how do they know it?
Because although they're participating in a CNN forum or a CNN focus group, they don't rely on CNN to get their information.
Really, rather than being a showcase of the ignorance of Trump voters, which is what CNN was hoping for, it is a showcase of, among other things, CNN's own irrelevance.
That these random voters that they picked up in Pittsburgh, they're not looking at CNN.
They don't care what CNN says.
CNN has made itself irrelevant.
So then she pivots to talking about January 6th in general.
Let's keep watching this a little bit.
There were people throwing excrement at the walls, and it was our, you know, it's the Capitol.
It looked a lot like Antifa's actions to me.
Except on a much smaller scale, it looked the same as the Black Lives Matter riots.
That's what I saw the similarities to be.
Minneapolis burns.
Kenosha burns.
But so it's okay just because, just because one side that you disagree with?
No, I'm saying Antifa infiltrated.
It's good for one, it's good for the other.
Anybody who harms anybody, anybody who caused property destruction, that needs to be dealt with.
But if you're there making your voice heard at the people's house, no less, that's, again, it's a fundamental constitutional right of an American citizen.
And people should not be being held political prisoner because of it.
For misdemeanors.
That's East Germany.
That's East Germany.
Tactics.
Yeah, that's what's scary.
It was an actual fiery but mostly peaceful protest.
And the other ones that were the... Was the protest...
Legitimate in your eyes because... Our administration, I feel like, is using it as their Reichstag fire.
Yeah.
That's exactly what they're using it as.
Do you think that President Trump could have quelled the violence that day?
Not him.
I don't think so, no.
I don't think so.
It started while he was still speaking.
I was actually there.
I was there.
I'd love to see an hour-long focus group with this group of Americans here, these patriots, and a CNN anchor.
You know what I actually want to see, though?
What I would love to see is a group of Democrat voters' focus group ask the same questions.
Get some Democrat voters, get some leftists into a focus group and start talking to them about January 6th.
And I guarantee there's going to be a whole lot more misinformation being spread.
Because these are people who actually rely on the corporate media for their information.
And if we were to swap them out for leftists, we're going to hear all about how there was like a dozen police officers with a bloodbath, people lying dead all over the place.
That's what we would hear.
Of course, all the points that they make about what happened with the BLM riots and Antifa, all totally valid.
And the CNN reporter has no response to that other than to say, well, just because one person, so two wrongs don't make a right.
Are you admitting that it was a wrong now?
Because that would be something new for CNN.
Are you admitting that the BLM riots were actually wrong?
I don't think anyone at CNN has ever even admitted that.
As opposed to on the right, right?
With like this one single example that you have of people on the right rioting.
And that's what it was.
It was a riot.
And these were mostly people who are on the right.
And it's happened one time in like decades.
Okay?
As opposed to on the left when it's... I mean, we went through a season.
We went through a period of a... We went through a season when it was happening on a daily basis.
But...
You got your one example, and every conservative that I've ever talked to, we have no problem saying that shouldn't have happened.
That was incredibly stupid.
That's a horrible decision.
I was saying it at the time.
Nothing good can come of this for the people who are participating in it.
There's no good that comes of this.
None whatsoever.
Now, in fact, there's good for the left and for the elites and the powerful people in Washington.
They're going to make hay of this, and that's exactly what they've done in the many months after following.
So we have no problem saying that.
It's no problem for us.
On the left, though, they still have not gotten around to actually denouncing or admitting that BLM did anything wrong by rioting.
Those many dozens and hundreds of times that they did.
All right, similar theme here.
Ted Cruz was able to get himself onto The View, which I have to admit to some, I'm a little bit sour about this.
I'm a little jealous because this is my dream.
This is my dream, is to be on The View.
Ted Cruz had a chance to be on there, and I will say that if it can't be me, you know, There's a selection of people on the right who, if it can't be me, I would love for it to be one of them.
I think Ted Cruz is on that list because he handled this wonderfully.
And there were a lot of great moments, but I thought this about election denial was maybe the best moment of all.
Listen.
Anytime a Republican is in front of a TV camera, try to say the election was fair and square and legitimate.
You know who y'all don't do that to?
You don't do it to Hillary Clinton, who stood up and said Trump stole the election.
You don't do it to Stacey Abrams, who said that the election was stolen.
They sat here and said it was illegitimate, and you guys were fine with it.
Okay, so it's illegitimate when Republicans win, but not when Democrats win.
No, you know, here's the thing.
We may not like when Republicans win, but we don't go and we don't storm.
We don't try to change... Did I miss an entire year of Antifa riots where cities across this country were burning and police cars were being firebombed?
Your position is the left doesn't engage in violence, really?
No, they wanted to nuke our friend Mike Pence.
How do we make sense of that?
You just accused us of doing something we didn't do.
You said Hillary Clinton didn't say whatever she didn't say.
I'm saying to you, listen.
And she said it's sitting here and you were fine with her saying it was illegitimate for Republicans to do it.
She called Donald Trump the next morning and she conceded the election, Ted.
She sat there while Donald Trump was getting sworn in.
Hillary Clinton says Trump is an illegitimate president.
Hillary Clinton says the election is stolen from you.
Hillary Clinton in 2002, George W. Bush was selected, not elected.
Joe Biden, Al Gore was elected president.
So Joe Biden claims George W. Bush is illegitimate.
He just said we don't scream at each other, right?
Or is it just you that gets to scream?
This is good.
And we've got to give credit to Ted Cruz, because I know you might think, well, that's easy to win an argument with.
I just said before that MSNBC panel had the collective IQ of a meerkat.
But these women, and there's more of them, I don't even think would make it that high up on the scale.
So you might think, well, there's a bunch of morons.
Of course, you could win an argument.
And they are a bunch of morons.
But even so, it's hard to overstate How kind of overwhelming it can be to be in a totally hostile environment, even when you're surrounded by morons.
In fact, like, especially if you're surrounded by morons in some ways.
And everyone is, you sit at a table, everyone's against you, the entire audience is against you.
And to be able to handle that is not something that everyone can do.
I thought Ted Cruz did a great job there.
And once again, the point that he's raising is obviously 100% correct.
But the answer from The left, and what you actually hear from the women on view there, is, well, it's different when we do it.
And that's how they see it.
It's different when we do it.
So that's, as I'm always reminding you, that's the standard.
It's not so much a double standard.
There is one standard, which is that we can do these things and you can't.
That's what the standard is.
Which doesn't mean that we should tire of pointing out that fact.
Any chance you get to point it out and put it on display for everyone else, that's good.
So Ted Cruz on The View, this debate is not about convincing the women on The View.
They cannot be convinced.
We all know that.
It's more for anyone else who might see it, any other spectator.
All right, a few days ago, Marco Rubio reported that a man who was canvassing for him wearing a Rubio shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally assaulted by someone because of his political views.
Rubio tweeted, quote, Last night, one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally attacked by four animals who told him Republicans weren't allowed in their neighborhood.
He suffered internal bleeding and a broken jaw and will need facial reconstructive surgery.
This is apparently yet another example of a conservative being assaulted for his political views.
Something that is happening with increasing regularity.
But the media isn't interested in that story, obviously.
They don't want to talk about it.
So they set out to find ways to either ignore these stories, or they find ways to explain it away, or outright justify The violence being committed against conservatives, and that's what they're doing here as well.
Alex DeLuca with the Miami New Times tweets quote The man attacked last night while canvassing for Marco Rubio
has been ID'd as Christopher Manzon ex-member of the white supremacist group League of the
South Despite Rubio's tweet about the incident the police report
does not mention a political dispute Nor does it indicate that Manzon was targeted because he's
a Republican. Oh Yes, we know that
This white supremacists are famous for their affinity for Marco Rubio
You know, white supremacists just love Marco Rubio.
He's their favorite.
Now, as for the alleged—so we have two issues here.
We have the justification that is being offered for assaulting this man, and then also the claim that—well, they're trying to set this up like it's almost like it's a Jussie Smollett thing, and Marco Rubio made it up.
Well, as for the alleged contradiction between the police report and Rubio's claim, here's what the article says.
This is their article.
It says, quote, a police report supplied to New Times indicates that Lopez, who's the guy who committed the assault, confronted Monzon on East 60th Street while Monzon was handing out flyers.
Lopez allegedly said, you can't pass by here, this is my neighborhood.
During an argument that followed, Lopez grabbed Monzon and proceeded to slam him against the ground, according to the report, whereupon he continued beating the defenseless Monzon in the face.
Okay, that actually matches up pretty well with what Rubio said.
This is not a Jussie Smollett situation.
The assault happened, and the circumstances around the assault are similar in both accounts.
Neither contradicts the other.
There are details missing, which is usually the case in the days immediately following a violent crime.
So we'll find out more as they investigate.
But, in fact, based on the police report, You know, helps to confirm what Marco Rubio said.
As to the supposed white supremacist connection, this is what it has come to, right?
Digging up dirt on assault victims to justify the assault.
And that is why they're doing it.
I don't know if it's true or not.
I don't know anything about this guy's background or what groups he's been affiliated with.
I don't know.
I'm not going to believe anything just because the media says it, so I don't accept it as true, but it's also completely irrelevant.
There's just no reason to be talking about it.
It's got nothing to do with anything.
So why are they bringing it up?
Well, they're bringing it up to, again, justify the assault.
And justifying it, it's not as though the person who committed the assault knew that the person that he was assaulting was allegedly affiliated with the white supremacist group or whatever.
It's more the media saying, well, this guy's a white supremacist, so it doesn't really matter if he gets beat up.
Whatever the reason was, it doesn't matter.
His life doesn't matter.
That's why the left has spent so much time Labeling all of us white supremacists and Nazis.
Right?
We're all white supremacists and Nazis if we disagree with them.
And it doesn't matter our own ethnicity.
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, Hispanic.
If you're on the right, you're a white supremacist and you're a Nazi.
That has been made very clear.
And the reason why they do that is one, obviously, to try to discredit everything we say without having to engage with it.
But two, it is to set the stage for violence.
For all their talk about inciting violence, when you go around claiming that your political opponents are literal Nazis, you are inciting violence against them.
That's what you're doing.
And you're doing it on purpose.
That's the intention behind it, obviously.
All right.
Let's see what else we have here.
This is a report from the Daily Wire.
It says Sandy Hook families are asking a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay them trillions, trillions of dollars in damages in addition to the $965 million that jurors ordered Jones to pay the families.
The families claim that they are entitled to the money because they allege that Jones broke a state law that bans the sale of goods through the use of false statements.
Bloomberg News reported that the families arrived at $2.75 trillion by taking the maximum penalty allowed under state law, $5,000, and multiplying it by 550 million social media views that Jones got on his social media accounts in the three years following the 2012 shooting.
The family's lawyer said, Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason, greed.
Alex Jones will never treat them like real people because they're too valuable to him as targets.
So, 2.75 trillion.
This is obviously grotesque and absurd.
It's a joke, not a funny joke, but a joke.
Trillions of dollars.
And I say this as someone who, from the beginning, I was extremely vocally opposed to the Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.
The idea that it was staged or a hoax or whatever never made any sense.
There was never any good evidence to support it.
There was never any evidence at all, actually, good or not.
So you don't have to explain any of that to me.
Even so, what they're doing to Alex Jones here, Goes way, way, way beyond the Sandy Hook stuff.
This is transparently an effort to destroy him because he's Alex Jones.
Because he said a whole lot of other things that are even more offensive to the powers that be.
That's obviously the case.
No matter how you feel about Alex Jones, that's obviously the case.
And we know it's the case.
We know it.
Because if he was really being bankrupted, and to the tune now of, they're hoping, trillions of dollars, Of course, he doesn't have anything close to trillions of dollars.
Nobody on earth does, not even Elon Musk does.
But if it was really about misinformation or defamation, if we lived in a country where misinforming your audience or defaming someone actually led to you being utterly financially ruined and you end up in the hole by $2.75 trillion, Then CNN would be ruined, and MSNBC would be ruined, and the New York Times would be ruined, and the Associated Press would be ruined, and CBS News would be ruined, etc., etc., etc.
All of these institutions would be held accountable to the same extent.
In fact, to a much greater extent.
If we were the kind of country that treated misinformation that harshly.
A country that really had no tolerance for it at all.
I mean, all the outlets just mentioned, along with every other major corporate media outlet, have deliberately lied over and over again to feed many false narratives, including a racial narrative that has led to city blocks being burned and people actually dying.
Lots of people.
Let's start with that.
Far from the only example, but we could start there.
And that's not just misinformation either.
It's also defamation.
How many cops have been defamed, lied about, Had their lives totally destroyed?
Their family's lives destroyed?
How many left-wing media personalities had to pay a billion dollars to Officer Darren Wilson for repeatedly claiming that he shot an unarmed kid while his hands were in the air, begging, you know, begging for mercy?
How many billion-dollar judgments were meted out there?
Where's Officer Darren Wilson now?
Have we seen him at all?
We haven't seen him.
He's in hiding for the rest of his life.
His life is ruined.
Because he shot and killed someone who was trying to kill him.
It was a totally justified shooting, which on the local and federal level they found was justified.
Even Obama's DOJ tried to find a reason to file hate crime charges against him.
They looked at the ballistics, they looked at the evidence, and even they couldn't find it.
Doesn't matter.
This man's life is over.
His family's life is over.
I mean, hiding for the rest of his life.
Any billion-dollar judgments for that?
I mean, there's that infamous, now infamous, photo from, I think it was CNN.
And all of the CNN reporters and anchors are sitting around the table, and they've got their hands up.
And they're doing the hands-up-don't-shoot thing.
Every single one of them.
Every single one of them.
Misinformation, defamation, ruining somebody's life.
No accountability.
Not one left-wing media personality or outlet was held accountable for that or for pretty much anything else.
Possible exception would be the misinformation, the defamation connected to the Nicholas Sandman case.
But even there, you know, we don't know what the judgments, say he won some of those lawsuits, thank God, we don't know what the judgments were, but I think we can assume that it wasn't billions I think there's a pretty good chance it wasn't even millions.
So, when you look at the contrast, right, when you look at the people who can get away with misinformation and defamation, and the people who can't, it's very clear what the political agenda is, and there's just no denying it.
All right.
You know, we also have this clip, which I think we're going to have to save for tomorrow, unfortunately.
It's a weird thing.
I started hearing from people yesterday, or a couple days ago, that I appeared in a Hallmark film.
Without my knowing.
I made an appearance in a Hallmark film.
It's a film called Noel Next Door.
Because Hallmark, they're now, they started doing their 90 days of Christmas thing or whatever it is.
Where they start playing a bunch of original and originally terrible, uniquely terrible Christmas films in the lead up to Christmas.
And we know that Hallmark has long since gone woke.
And so apparently they had a character that some viewers figured seemed to be based on me, and it was kind of like a caricature of me.
And I wanted to go through that clip and watch it and just see if we could determine, is this supposed to be me or not?
But I think we have to save that for tomorrow.
So tune in for that tomorrow, because we have to get now to our comment section.
Do you know that name?
They're the Sweet Baby Gang.
Scott Slingerland says, I think it's a little unfair to talk about Cori Bush's poor book sales.
She did quite well when you consider how few of her loyal followers are actually literate.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
She probably sold more books than she has literate fans.
Or fans at all.
So I could see that.
But that's no excuse.
I mean, I sold a book that was intended for an audience of mostly illiterate people in Johnny the Walrus.
It was a kid's book.
You know, it was a kid's book for young kids, many of whom can't read.
And that book did, if I have to remind you again, extraordinarily well.
Because I am, if you hadn't heard me mention it before in the past, now a best-selling LGBT children's author.
Marco Curez says, my family and I drove 500 miles to be at Friday's rally.
I'm happy to report that after the event, those Satanists regrouped in a nearby park and cried their eyes out and consoled each other after the trauma of seeing you live in person.
They know they lost.
And did you get video of this?
That's, that is my question.
Is there a video?
So they were in a parking lot crying after the event.
I would love to see video of that.
You know, only so that I can extend my sympathies to them.
Yeah, I mean, well, for him it makes sense.
I guess Fetterman and Oz are going to debate tonight, and it's going to be a bloodbath.
tonight, but he had to basically be forced into it.
Yeah, I mean, well, for him it makes sense.
I guess if Federman and Oz are going to debate tonight, and it's going to be a bloodbath,
it just is.
And it would have been even before Federman lost his ability to speak coherent sentences,
if he ever even really had that ability to begin with.
But Oz has been on television for, say whatever else you want about him, he's got a lot of experience on TV.
And so he's been in this kind of environment many, many times.
Fetterman never has.
So it's already a mismatch.
And then you add on to it the fact that Federman legitimately has brain damage.
And so, yeah, I'm not sure how that's going to work at all.
So I don't, I actually don't, I think that the debate should happen.
I want the debates to happen.
But it's politics.
And if you can, if you're in Federman's spot and you can get away with not doing the debate, of course you would.
It would be political malpractice to do a debate if there was any way of getting out of it.
But there was no way.
So you had to do at least one.
That's what's happening tonight.
It's also it's an interesting strategy, too, by the way, for him.
He's doing one debate and he's doing it so close to the election.
You'd think maybe if you do only one, maybe schedule it for like a month ago.
So when it goes horribly, then you've got time to try to change the subject.
Or another way of looking at it is do it very close to the election so that if it goes horribly there's not a lot of time for that damage to, you know, there's not a lot of time for all the clips and videos of you choking to circulate.
I don't know, maybe that's the strategy they're going with.
Jack says, I've always avoided getting involved in activism because all the ones I've ever met have been really self-righteous and annoying.
But to be fair, they were all activists for leftist causes.
This is something I can get behind.
It's needed and it's time to save children.
I'm on board.
Well, I'm glad to hear that you're on board.
What you're saying is exactly what we talked about yesterday.
This is why the right doesn't get involved in activism as much.
They have this notion of it as this silly thing.
And we're suffering the consequences of that.
We're suffering the consequences of thinking that we don't have time to be activists and we've got jobs and everything else and so we can't do it.
And it's true, we do have jobs and that is another disadvantage because we don't, you know, you've got to take off work if you want to go to a rally or protest in the middle of the day.
But do we want to save the country or not?
Or are we just going to give up?
And activism, it's not the be all and end all, but there cannot be any political or cultural strategy that doesn't include any activism at all.
It does have an impact.
It does matter.
It's why the left does it.
M.I.
Prepper says, I've been a moderate voting for both Democrats and Republicans my whole life.
This year I'm voting straight Republican for the first time.
It's going to be a straight ticket.
I'm hearing a lot of that kind of thing, which leads again to the coming red wave, I would think.
And Jonathan says, Matt, as a Muslim, I support you and believe in your intentions.
I think everyone in the DW is working on what all of our faiths preach, and that is why Muslims like you and Jordan Peterson and secretly Ben Shapiro.
Yeah, there is, as I said yesterday, if you're a religious person, and I have to always stipulate an adherent to an old religion.
Leftism itself is a religion, so I don't mean that.
If you are a religious person in the other sense of the word, then you would think that there would be plenty of grounds for an alliance when it comes to these cultural issues.
And I think that there is.
Jill says, Matt, you've been chiming in on airplane controversies, but you haven't mentioned the biggest one, window shade up or down.
Please tell me you have the correct view, which is that it always stays down.
I think we have talked about this before, and unfortunately, That means that you're banned, Jill, twice over.
You're banned once for not being able to recall every single thing we've talked about, which tells me that you're not taking notes during the show, which is unacceptable.
And you're banned again for having the absolutely deranged and indefensible position that the window shade should stay down.
So I'm just going to say a few things to reiterate.
First of all, I am a frequent flyer.
I'm probably in the top, I don't know, 1% in terms of the amount of time spent flying in a given year.
And yet, even I, in planes all the time, I can still appreciate the fact that every time we fly, we are getting access to a view, to a physical perspective that nearly all human beings on Earth who've ever lived have never had access to.
Thousands of generations came and went without any one of them ever seeing the Earth from more than a few hundred feet up.
And most of them, it was never more than eight or nine feet up in the air, if that.
And we're able to see from 35,000 feet, and you want to keep the shade down?
We have this view of the Earth that almost no one's ever been able to see, and you don't even want to look at it?
Do you go to the Grand Canyon and just keep your back turned to it the entire time?
You probably do, because that's what people do now.
They get their back turned so they can take selfies.
So they experience the Grand Canyon through the phone behind them.
And then they fall off and die.
It happens every day.
Second, you are not the only one in your row, Jill.
Just because you're closest to the window does not mean that you own the window.
You don't pay for the window.
You pay for the seat.
Just like if you sit near the wing of the plane, you don't own the wing.
If you sit closest to the engine, you don't own the engine.
You don't own the window.
You don't own that part of the plane.
It's the seat that you paid for, not the window.
Okay?
We all pay for access to the row.
We share the row.
You have your own seat.
The window belongs to the row.
And so if you want to put that window shade down, you need to get permission from the other people in the row.
Third and final point.
I need to be able to see out of the window so that I can keep the plane in the sky with my brainwaves.
That is science.
All right?
I can't explain it.
It's just I feel like the plane's more likely to crash if I can't look out the window.
It's literally science.
It is a scientific fact that if I can see out the window, the plane is less likely to crash.
It's been tested by scientists who are doing science, and they determined this.
Media Matters can quote me on this.
I want this to be the next reason that I am trending on Twitter.
Matt Walsh says that he keeps planes in the sky with his brainwaves.
I am actually saying that right now.
Make that trend.
Do it.
The whole world needs to see and know about this.
Well, now feels like a good time to read another email the Daily Wire was cc'd on in an ongoing ad segment called Breakup Letters.
No, these are not Tom Brady and Gisele's hacked emails, but real messages from former Harry's Razors customers who canceled their subscriptions and switched to Jeremy's.
Today's letter is from a man writing to Harry's, quote, I've been a subscriber since 2015, but I'm canceling because I'm one of the knuckle-dragging savages that believes in traditional morality.
I stuck with y'all after the Gillette razor snafu, but I'm leaving because of your treatment of Daily Wire.
Delete my account.
Well said.
When it comes to all these woke virtue signaling companies, delete my account is the new lose my number.
And frankly, the only acceptable response to a partner who hates you.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
Now, right after Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars at the behest of his emotionally abusive wife, legions of apologists on social media came up with a brilliant excuse in the form of a whataboutism.
They declared that criticism of Smith and his eventual banishment from the Academy was hypocritical, was even racist, because John Wayne assaulted a Native American woman on stage at the Oscars and never faced any backlash.
Now that claim dates back to 1973 when a woman named Sasheen Littlefeather took the stage in her buckskin dress and Indian getup to turn down the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando.
She explained that Brando couldn't accept the award for his performance in The Godfather because of a long list of grievances having to do with Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.
The complaints went beyond Hollywood, actually.
It went all the way back to Wounded Knee in 1890.
Now, why a massacre in South Dakota in the 19th century would prevent Marlon Brando from accepting an Oscar in Hollywood in the 20th century was never explained.
The greater point, as far as the social media peanut gallery was concerned, is that John Wayne was never held accountable for his vicious assault of the Native American woman.
Of course, John Wayne didn't assault anyone on stage.
The story, which grows with each retelling, much like the eight-pound bass I caught last June, which was a five-and-a-half-pound bass as recently as last month, is that John Wayne had to be held back by security because he tried to rush the stage and assault the woman.
That's the story.
Now they say it was an assault.
Before it was he was trying to rush the stage.
Turns out that the story about him trying to rush the stage is also an exaggeration of the original story, which was that John Wayne was fuming backstage and ranting about how he wanted to go up there and pull her off the stage, but that he never did.
And yet that story, too, as far as we could tell, was also made up.
There's no evidence that John Wayne did anything of note that night.
Nothing actually happened.
This is an urban legend that started to gain steam back in the 70s and has taken on a new life in recent years whenever the racial grievance peddlers can make use of it.
But the story, it turns out, is even faker than we thought.
Not only did John Wayne never try to assault the Native American woman, But, evidently, there never was any Native American woman to assault in the first place.
As a report in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals this week, only a few weeks after her death, Sacheen Littlefeather, who died earlier in the month and had become a prominent Native American activist after that incident at the Oscars, spoke out about Native American issues for decades, was not actually Native American.
The Chronicle reports, quote, According to her biological sisters, Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, Little Feather isn't native at all.
It's a lie, Orlandi told me in an exclusive interview.
My father, who was who he was, his family came from Mexico, and my dad was born in Oxford.
It is a fraud, Cruz agreed.
It's disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people.
And it's just insulting to my parents.
Little Feather's sisters both said in separate interviews that they have no known Native American slash American Indian ancestry.
They identified as Spanish on their father's side and insisted their family had no claims to a tribal identity.
Quote, I mean, you're not going to be a Mexican American princess, Orlandi said of her sister's adoption of a fraudulent identity.
You're going to be an American Indian princess.
It was more prestigious to be an American Indian than it was to be Hispanic in her mind.
So this news has been devastating to those who championed her as an activist for all those years.
Yet it's a great relief to Elizabeth Warren, who is practically an Apache warrior in comparison to this woman.
At least Warren is 1,000th Native American or whatever it was.
Little Feather, whose real name was Marie Louise Cruz, didn't even have that much.
Uh, claim.
The article goes on to provide a possible reason why Cruz decided to play dress-up.
Quote, news coverage of her burgeoning attempts to make a name for herself in the entertainment world hint at a possible reason for assuming a Native identity.
About four months before Littlefeather appeared at the Oscars on September 28, 1972, legendary Chronicle columnist Herb Kane wrote a piece about a turn for the worse in her modeling career.
Quote, Sasheen Littlefeather, the Bay Area Indian princess, and nine other tribal beauties are sore at Hugh Hefner.
Playboy ordered pictures of them riding horseback nude in Woodside and other beauty spots, and then Hefner rejected the shots as not erotic enough.
Why do them in the first place?
Well, explain Little Feather.
Everybody says black is beautiful.
We wanted to show that red is too.
Like many aspiring actors, this was assuredly not how Little Feather's dream of stardom was supposed to go, but perhaps it was better than being ignored.
Better than being ignored.
Really sums it up, doesn't it?
It should come as no surprise that even back in the 70s, professional victimhood was already becoming a lucrative career.
I mean, that is the decade after all when the boomers came of age, and they are the ones who invented the field of professional victimhood.
They created this industry and the marketplace that demands it.
And it also comes as no surprise that neither this San Francisco Chronicle article nor any other article or commentary in the corporate media about this fraud actually grapples with the fundamental question here.
And that question is, why is victimhood so profitable?
Why is it desirable in our culture to be a victim?
How is it that people can establish long and distinguished careers for themselves as professional victims?
The Chronicle comes up with an individual explanation for Cruz.
She was failing as an actress and as a model and looking for another way to get attention.
But they don't widen the lens and look at the bigger picture, because they never do, because they know that if they did, they would see what they do not want to see.
Namely, that the desire for victimhood is a culture-wide disease.
Sachine Littlefeather and Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal and all the rest of them, the many, many, many rest of them, didn't come up with this on their own or in a vacuum.
It is a societal phenomenon.
We are conditioning people to desire control and power for its own sake and to attain it in the most shameful, passive-aggressive, manipulative way possible, through emotional blackmail and the exploitation of misplaced sympathies.
Now, of course, people in all cultures and all periods of history have desired power and control.
That's part of the human condition.
But there are good and bad reasons for wanting it, and there are good and bad ways to try and obtain it.
In times past, whether power was desired for a good or bad reason, most often the way to achieve it was through success, through greatness, through achievement.
If you wanted to be somebody, you had to do something, you had to accomplish something.
Now we've created a society where a lack of accomplishment is an accomplishment.
The less you do, the more you can claim you are oppressed.
You just need to belong to the right demographics.
And if you don't, that's an easy fix.
You can just lie about it.
That's what the character known as Sasha Littlefeather figured out, and many young people today are discovering the same thing.
And so, as it is probably redundant at this point to cancel a woman who just died, instead, I think today, we will again say to all victimhood merchants that you are cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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