Ep. 1387 - The Nation Rejoices As Another Left-Wing Smear Factory Suffers Mass Layoffs
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, first Media Matters had mass layoffs and now the Southern Poverty Law Center has followed suit. It's been a bloodbath for left-wing smear merchants in recent weeks. This is obviously cause for celebration. But why is this happening? And why now? We'll discuss. Also, Donald Trump is accused of saying unkind things about Milwaukee. The story is total nonsense, but it has forced the Left to pretend that they love Milwaukee, which has been funny to watch. Plus, a major scandal in the world of professional sports. And, an alleged "trad wife" becomes a viral sensation after saying the n-word. This is an important story, we're told. We'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, first Media Matters had mass layoffs, and now the Southern Poverty Law Center has followed suit.
It's been a bloodbath for left-wing smear merchants in recent weeks.
It's obviously a cause for celebration, but why is this happening and why now?
We'll discuss.
Also, Donald Trump is accused of saying unkind things about Milwaukee.
The story is total nonsense, but it has forced the left to pretend that they love Milwaukee, which has been funny to watch.
Plus, a major scandal in the world of professional sports and an alleged trad wife becomes a viral sensation after saying the N-word.
It's an important story, we're told.
So we'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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A couple of weeks ago, I covered the large round of layoffs at the left-wing activist group known as Media Matters.
Many conservatives celebrated the news because, of course, Media Matters exists for the sole purpose of smearing the opponents of the Democratic Party.
They misrepresent people's words, stalk them on social media, and so on and so forth, so on.
But Media Matters' dishonest attack on Elon Musk and Twitter appears to have been a bridge too far.
Elon Musk fought back with a massive lawsuit, which Media Matters' own management cited as one of the reasons for the layoffs.
Now, for my part, I wasn't especially thrilled with Media Matters' collapse because, as I said at the time, they essentially function as my PR agency.
They keep clipping segments from my show, broadcasting them all over the place, apparently thinking they've found a good gotcha moment.
But really, it's always something that my own team was going to post online anyway.
And they did all this without taking or even requesting any compensation whatsoever from me.
In fact, I never even really thanked them for the pro bono services they provided dependably and frankly obsessively over the years.
So Media Matters downfall was something of a bittersweet moment for me and I think for many other people in conservative media.
Fast forward just a couple of weeks and yet another left-wing smear factory appears to be on the decline.
This time it's the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.
And this is a collapse that I will openly celebrate because the SPLC is a substantially more effective organization than Media Matters could ever hope to be.
More effective at actually advancing left-wing goals.
Less effective as a de facto PR agency for us, so the worst of all worlds.
If Media Matters is kind of the B-team of Democratic Party hatchet men, then the SPLC is the A-team.
And by that I mean, they're very evil, but they have a lot more influence.
Thankfully, on Thursday, the SPLC announced it's laying off 60 workers, or roughly a quarter of its staff.
The union at the SPLC, because for some reason a non-profit has a union, has said the cuts will have a catastrophic impact on SPLC's day-to-day operations.
They won't be able to save democracy and fight white supremacy anymore, we're told.
This is an important story for two reasons.
First of all, Obviously, we're just five months away from Election Day.
Two of the Democrats' biggest propaganda outfits getting gutted at a pivotal time like this is a really bad sign for the party's messaging efforts and a great sign for the country.
It also suggests that there might be a lot more internal discord within the party and on the left than we realized, which I'll get to in a second.
But the other reason this is an important story is that the SPLC has a direct line to federal law enforcement and Joe Biden's DOJ.
We know that because the SPLC was one of the sources for the FBI's memo last year proclaiming that, quote, radical traditionalist Catholic ideology has attracted, quote, racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.
The FBI warned that these radical traditionalist Catholics, or RTCs as we're now called, can be identified by their, quote, frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.
The memo concluded by noting that these radical Catholic terrorists, quote, present opportunities for threat mitigation.
Now the FBI's memo, which was written by the Richmond Field Office, then went on to directly cite the SPLC, quote, following are the nine RTC hate groups operating in the United States in 2021, as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, followed by the location of their organizational headquarters.
The FBI then copy-pasted a webpage from the SPLC.
In other words, the SPLC functions a bit like the FBI's cutout.
They produce agenda-driven threat assessments or whatever, and then the FBI, pretending the SPLC is some sort of impartial arbiter, cites the SPLC to go after groups that the Democratic Party doesn't like.
Now when he was asked about this under oath last year, the FBI Director Christopher Wray said that he was aghast that the agency had cited the SPLC.
He said that he immediately had the memo removed from FBI systems.
Watch.
Director Wray.
I'm from Georgia.
You've been there the last several years.
20 years ago, if you looked at the list of groups, the SPLC would have said were hate groups.
Those groups would have been proud to have been named by them.
And I think most Americans would have agreed with the list that they put out.
Today, they put out lists with names like the American Family Association and the Alliance Defending Freedom.
And yet, one of their attorneys was just recently charged in Atlanta with domestic terrorism.
It bothers me to see them cited as a source from your agency on who is and is not considered a domestic terrorist.
Can you speak to the relationship between the FBI and the influence the SPLC has?
Is it just a list that you look at from time to time or is there coordination?
Well, first off, just to be clear, I've considered Georgia my home since I first got married, you know, back in 1989.
So we have that in common.
Second, as to the product that you're referring to, the intelligence product, When I first saw it, and I said this yesterday, I was aghast.
It was a single piece of an intelligence product by one field office.
It did not meet our standards, and I had it immediately removed and withdrawn, and we've taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And one of the reasons I say that, one of the ways in which I say that is the sourcing To your question, the sourcing didn't meet our standards.
Thank you.
Okay, so we learned two things from that.
One is that Christopher Wray likes the state of Georgia.
I don't know what that had to do with anything.
He also says that it was just one field office making an innocent little mistake and that it won't happen again.
But no part of that statement appears to be true.
I mean, he might actually like the state of Georgia.
I don't know, it doesn't matter.
The testimony you just saw was from March of last year.
Seven months later, Senators Chuck Grassley and James Lankford found that, quote, FBI Director Christopher Wray has yet to fully own up to the extent of the memo's origins, even in congressional testimony.
During a September FBI briefing to Senate staff, it was clear the FBI still relies on SPLC information, close quote.
So, the head of the FBI admits under oath that the SPLC is a garbage source, but the FBI is still apparently citing the SPLC in private briefings with the Senate.
It's obviously a major problem, and it may constitute perjury by the FBI director, which is, you'd think, a significant thing, but it's not really surprising.
In an interview a couple of years ago, Wray admitted that the FBI also regularly works with another partisan and totally discredited left-wing organization called the ADL.
Here's Wray speaking directly with the head of the ADL Watch.
The one dot that maybe one of your members has is brought forward with the one dot that we might have so that we can disrupt the attack.
So the eyes and ears part is huge.
Well, I know many of us, you know, we look at the IMA bombing in Argentina or even the bombing in Oklahoma City.
We worry about this lone threat, whether it's Iranian sleeper agents or domestic extremists.
And when we've had so many, Thank you, Jonathan.
Thank you for what you do.
So you heard it there.
It is the FBI that works directly with the ADL every day.
And we could not do our job, if you will, of fighting anti-Semitism without them doing
their job of protecting our community.
So Director Wray, we are in your, we really, really have the deepest appreciation for you
and all of your professionals.
Thank you for the work that you do.
Thank you, Jonathan.
Thank you for what you do.
So you heard it there.
It's the FBI that works directly with the ADL every day, says the head of the ADL.
And the FBI director agrees, saying that the ADL apparently participates in law enforcement investigations.
This is the same ADL that sent out a memo warning about extremist parents at school board meetings who dare to question, quote, COVID-19 mandates and, quote, critical race theory.
You might remember that Merrick Garland's DOJ then began investigating these school board meetings, coincidentally enough.
This is the same ADL that published a definition on its website saying that it's impossible to be racist against white people.
According to the definition that was on the ADL's website for several years, racism means, quote, the marginalization and or oppression of people of color.
And white people have no color, as we have learned.
I could give many more examples, including the ADL's political targeting of Elon Musk on behalf of the Democratic Party, or their various calls to censor conservative commentators, and their lies about the so-called Great Replacement Theory, and so on.
The point is that this is not an organization that a non-partisan FBI would ever dream of working with.
But we don't have a non-partisan FBI, so instead the FBI director is openly bragging about working directly with left-wing activists to target the opponents of those left-wing activists.
And he only apologizes when he's caught.
Then he goes right back to doing the exact same thing.
Now, decades ago, back in the 70s, you could make a plausible case that the FBI would have a reason to be working with groups like the SPLC.
They were founded initially, supposedly, to fight various forms of discrimination in court, with the goal of alleviating the root causes of Southern poverty, hence the name, particularly in the black community.
But about a decade in, the SPLC decided to give up the idea of solving southern poverty, which, as you may have noticed, is still quite pervasive.
And instead, the SPLC morphed into a smear factory.
They've gone after pretty much everyone with a position on abortion, or immigration, or Islamic extremism, or really any other subject that they disagree with.
Some of the allegedly radical and hateful groups identified by the
SPLC include such well known domestic terror organizations as
the Federalist Society, Prager U, the Heritage Foundation,
the Center for Immigration Studies, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion,
the Family Research Council, which an SPLC follower targeted
and attempted mass murder back in 2012, you may remember.
These are all mainstream conservative organizations, as you probably know,
but that didn't phase the SPLC.
They've also targeted people like Ben Carson, Dennis Prager,
Franklin Graham.
Ben Carson, for example, appeared on the SPLC's hate list
because he holds the radical, unthinkable view that marriage is
between one man and one woman.
That tenet of Christianity that's also been a universal view for
pretty much all of human history, almost everywhere in the world.
They later half-heartedly apologized for the hit on Carson, saying that their smear job labeling him as an extremist didn't meet their non-existent standards.
And not surprisingly, the SPLC also has a page on their website dedicated to exposing and cataloging the crimes of the dangerous extremists whose show you're watching right now.
But all of those attacks pale in comparison to SPLC's efforts to defame Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Majid Nawaz.
They appeared in the SPLC's field guide to anti-Muslim extremists for the crime of denouncing violent Islamic extremism.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the leading human rights activists alive.
She suffered female genital mutilation at the hands of actual extremists, who are actually violent.
But according to the SPLC, she has no right to criticize the people who did that to her.
These claims are so absurd that the S.B.L.C.
pulled its field guide on extremism entirely.
They also publicly apologized for calling Nawaz an extremist, paid several million dollars in a settlement.
Again, this is the group that the FBI apparently still relies on for investigative information.
That's why we should all celebrate the fact that the S.B.L.C.
has been gutted.
It may mean fewer coordinated left-wing assaults on pro-life organizations and pro-life activists, for one thing.
Unfortunately, like Media Matters, or any other form of highly invasive and malignant cancer, the SPLC probably will not entirely go away.
It's not shutting down, at least not right now.
And they don't appear to be having financial issues either, since they're historically very well funded, and they reportedly still receive donations from liberals who think defaming innocent people is some kind of public service.
That's according to the SPLC's union, which tweeted yesterday, quote, Today, SPLC, an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by the Charity Watch for hoarding donations, gutted its staff by a quarter.
SPLC's decision has a catastrophic impact on the organization's work in support of immigrants seeking justice and its mission to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance human rights through support of educators.
So there's a bit of infighting going on at the SPLC, and that post does raise an interesting question.
If it's true the SPLC is financially sound, which again they probably are with all the donations coming in and all of the very wealthy funders that they have, why are they then firing a bunch of employees?
Over at Hot Air, David Storm theorizes that SPLC is laying off the far-left fringe of its workforce because they've become unruly, uncooperative, inconvenient.
That would explain why the SPLC's union is lashing out at the SPLC right now on Twitter, quote,
"As the Democrats rely more on radical activists, according to Storm, they can lose control of the
messaging and direction. Younger folks who are now getting hired genuinely believe the world is on
fire, that white supremacy is on the rise, that settler colonialists are oppressing the natives,
the borders must be open."
People at the top generally use the issues to collect money to help Democrats and slander Republicans.
Suddenly, they're facing revolts.
I suspect that that's part of what's at work here.
The SPLC isn't going broke, so it's likely that they're dumping the most troublesome employees under the guise of a restructuring.
Now, if that's the case, then unfortunately, SPLC will probably stick around.
But at least, like Media Matters, they'll have to orchestrate their smears from now on with a lot less manpower.
And that means I will have fewer unpaid PR representatives going forward spreading clips of my best moments all over the internet.
And yes, that's kind of a bummer, for me at least.
But it also means that without the SPLC running at full capacity, Joe Biden's DOJ will have a harder time cooking up fake justifications to harass their political enemies.
And with just a few months to go until the election, that is unquestionably a big win for the quote-unquote democracy that Media Matters and the SPLC pretend to care so much about.
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So we have a new fake Trump controversy.
It's been three days since the last one, so this is right on schedule.
A fake news journalist named Jake Sherman reported yesterday that Donald Trump said to House Republicans in a meeting This is what he said, supposedly.
Milwaukee, where we're having our convention, is a horrible city.
So that's the scandal.
He called Milwaukee horrible.
It's a horrible city.
Now the problem, of course, is that, and this was, by the way, this was big news.
This was treated as big headline news.
The problem is that, to begin with, it's not true.
Here's Breitbart.
House Republicans are refuting a report that former President Donald Trump on Thursday disparaged Milwaukee, the host city for the Republican National Convention in July.
Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman posted on X about the comments.
Media were not present for the meeting, so Sherman would have heard this secondhand.
However, he did not attribute the comment to any source, even an anonymous one.
And then we have a bunch of other representatives who are in this meeting who have since come out and said that they were in the meeting and it didn't happen.
So several people that were in the meeting actually there saying that he never said those words.
So people who were not in the room and who haven't even been named.
Anonymous people who were not there say that he said it.
People who were in the room say that he didn't say it.
And that kind of gives you the answer.
The Democrats, increasingly desperate as they are, of course can't let any fake controversy, no matter how fake it may be, no matter how unimportant and silly it may be, they can't let it go to waste.
So leftists have spent much of the last 24 hours attacking Trump for this thing that
he didn't say, while also performatively expressing their love for Milwaukee.
And it's been pretty funny to watch.
There's been lots of statements and tweets put out by Democrats and leftists talking
about how wonderful Milwaukee is.
Joe Biden tweeted, I happen to love Milwaukee.
The Lincoln Project even put, they put out a whole tribute.
They made a whole tribute to Milwaukee that they put out to defend the city against the
fake attacks from Donald Trump.
Let's watch that.
Milwaukee.
Our town.
The Bucks.
The Brewers.
Harley-Davidson.
Brats.
Cheese curds.
Best beer in the world.
We work hard.
We play hard.
We're damn proud of Milwaukee.
It's home.
And we love it.
If Donald Trump says Milwaukee is a terrible city, imagine how little he thinks of the rest of Wisconsin.
Right, so Milwaukee, so wonderful.
The Biden camp put out another tweet saying, we think Milwaukee is lovely, by the way.
And so on and so on, just a lot of stuff like that.
Of course, they're not fooling anyone here with all this, Milwaukee's so wonderful.
No one really thinks.
Milwaukee is nothing special.
Let's be honest about it.
It has some nice parts.
And the nice parts are also surrounded by dangerous crime-riddled cesspools that you wouldn't even want your dog to walk through.
Like so many other major cities.
So it's similar in that way to other major American cities.
But even aside from the violent crime, you know, it's fine.
It's Milwaukee.
It's fine.
Nobody outside of Milwaukee loves Milwaukee.
And most of the people in Milwaukee don't love Milwaukee.
Like, you don't love it.
You might be fine with it.
You've never met one single person in your whole life who has ever said that Milwaukee is their favorite city.
It's never happened.
Or their favorite place to go on vacation.
Right?
When's the last time you heard of someone that you asked, well, what did you do on your vacation?
Oh, we went to Milwaukee.
It's never happened.
Nothing against Milwaukee.
It's fine.
It's whatever.
It's like the Applebee's of American cities.
Nothing against it.
I'm just saying, it's like if Trump allegedly said that Applebee's is a terrible restaurant, and then all the Biden drones came out and said, we love Applebee's.
Applebee's is the greatest restaurant.
Applebee's is delicious.
No, it's not.
You don't love it.
Nobody does.
I'm not saying you have to hate it, but it's Applebee's.
Calm down.
It's just Applebee's.
And the funny thing about this is that they're trying to make themselves seem like normal people, like the common man.
By talking about how much they love Milwaukee?
That just makes them seem even more out of touch than they already are, because normal people don't go around talking about how much they love Milwaukee.
Okay?
It's like if you wanted to prove that you are a working-class American, so you went to Walmart and started walking around and marveling at it.
Oh, wow!
It's beautiful!
Wow!
Look at Walmart!
Wow!
Say folks, what do you think?
This is pretty great here at Walmart.
That's exactly what a normal average Walmart shopper would never do.
You could not possibly signal yourself as an outsider any more than by doing that.
In fact, you make yourself seem more normal by walking around Walmart and complaining about it.
The lines are long.
They don't have the type of chip that I want.
Whatever.
That's what normal people do.
So, it's Milwaukee.
It's fine.
It's right there on Lake Michigan.
It's got some nice spots around the water.
A bunch of spots that aren't nice.
The food is okay.
You know, not great.
It's fine.
The traffic is, you know, not terrible by city standards.
It's not Washington, D.C.
or L.A.
as far as that goes.
Milwaukee's nicer spots are better preserved and have remained nicer than, say, a place like Baltimore.
So, it's fine.
That's it.
All right.
Here's a place that is not as fine.
Chicago.
NBC15 reports Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has spent over $30,000 in campaign funds on expenses related to personal grooming, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the National Desk.
Mayor Johnson was elected in April 2023.
His latest disclosure lists a payment of $4,000 to Anthony Jones Salon for event expenses Campaign manager Bill Neidhardt clarified in the Chicago Sun Times, the money was actually given to AJ Styles' barber and beauty salon and said the filing would be amended to reflect this.
So it wasn't that salon, it was a different salon, okay.
The expense is one of several over the last year and a half devoted to grooming.
Another report from the end of 2024 2023 discloses 13 transactions with makeup magic
amounting to almost seven thousand dollars.
Disclosures throughout 2023 show Johnson's campaign made repeated trips to this location and others amounting to over $30,000 in makeup expenses since taking office.
So makeup and hair and makeup are the two things.
Now, at the time of this report, the mayor's office had not responded to requests for comment, but the mayor did finally respond to a question about it.
Here he is at a press conference.
I believe this was yesterday.
Watch.
Let me ask you another question that will be the awkward elephant in the room, and that is about the Sun Time story last week, about your spending of $30,000 from your campaign fund for hair and makeup.
Can you respond to that and explain why you think that's an appropriate use of the campaign dollars?
To many people, it seems like a lot of money.
I think it's always appropriate to make sure that we're investing in small businesses.
Especially minority-owned, black-owned, women-owned businesses.
Our campaign spends money on food.
We support black and brown-owned businesses.
Women-owned businesses.
Printing.
There are a number of things that my campaign spends dollars on.
And I'm so committed to supporting small businesses that even as mayor, just made another announcement of another $34, $35 million available for small businesses.
That's that's important to people that we lift up, you know, small businesses that in particular that don't always get the attention and support that they deserve it.
And so we're going to continue to do that as a city.
And we'll make sure that, you know, I encourage all of you in this room, support small businesses.
Go get your hair and makeup done by black people in particular.
OK.
First of all, how did that guy spend that kind of money on his hair?
And I'm not saying, you know, I have a lot of room to talk, my hairstyle may not be extravagant itself, but where is that money, like, going?
Why would that hairstyle require that kind of money and that kind of upkeep?
I don't get it.
Is he going to a barber who, like, Uses trimmers made out of pure gold?
Scissors made out of endangered elephant tusks or something?
I don't understand that.
And this also seems to be a theme, if you're having a little bit of deja vu, this is a theme with Chicago mayors, to have these kinds of scandals.
Remember the old mayor, Mayor Lightfoot, had her own salon-related controversy.
She went to get her hair done, if I remember correctly, The controversy was that she got her hair done while the COVID lockdowns were still happening, so she forced everyone else to stay home while she went out to get her hair done.
And we all had the same question there.
Putting the ethics aside, putting the hypocrisy aside, why are you bothering to spend that money on your hair, and where is that money going?
Lori Lightfoot It looked like her hairstylist was the landscaper.
It looked like she just went outside while the guy had shears, he was pruning the bushes, and she just went outside, hey, can you take some off the top?
And she was spending all this money on hairstyles.
It was kind of strange.
More to the point, he's using campaign funds on his vanity like this, and then his excuse is that he's supporting small businesses.
That's why he was doing it, you see.
Not for his own sake.
He felt bad for these small businesses.
He was just supporting them.
Minority-owned businesses, no less.
That changes everything.
Hey, Mayor, why did you spend tens of thousands of dollars of campaign funds on your hair and makeup?
Oh, no, it's okay.
Black people were doing my hair.
You see?
Oh, okay, well, then never mind.
You should have said that to begin with.
So this is obviously a pathetic, ridiculous excuse.
There are a lot of ways to support small businesses.
Not that supporting small businesses is really the point of campaign funds.
People give money to your campaign because, for whatever ungodly reason, they want you to get elected.
Which means that, frankly, they deserve for their money to be wasted in this way.
So it doesn't really upset me that much.
But that's no excuse for Brandon Johnson.
He has no good excuse.
Can't come up with one.
He also doesn't need to come up with one, and he knows that.
Because there will be no accountability.
And even if there is, eventually, it's not going to improve anything in Chicago.
Because that's the other part of this, is that Brandon Johnson is everything bad about Lori Lightfoot, but worse.
He even has the same kinds of scandals that she had.
So they got rid of her and replaced her with a worse version of herself.
And now Chicago is in even worse shape than it was.
And its leadership is an even bigger joke than it was.
And that's how these things generally work.
Here's a report from the Tennessee Star as we continue to follow the revelations about the Covenant shooter.
And of course we had our report a few days ago.
Based on writings that were obtained by the Daily Wire, making the motives of the Covenant shooter, as the motives become clearer and clearer, and also the motives for covering it up also become clearer and clearer.
Well, here's another report.
This is the latest one.
It's from two days ago from the Tennessee Star.
It says, the headline is, 5th medication prescribed to Covenant Killer Audrey Hale was an anti-anxiety drug associated with mania, hostility, and irritability.
It says, a photograph of medication bottles prescribed to Covenant School Killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale reveals that she was given a fifth, previously unknown prescription.
This is in addition to the four medications previously reported by the Tennessee Star.
The image of the prescription bottles obtained by the Star, from a source familiar with the Covenant investigation, depict four orange, semi-transparent prescription bottles with blue lids and white labels.
All of the bottles are prescribed to Audrey E. Hale and bear the name of a psychiatric nurse practitioner who runs a practice based in Nashville.
An additional image of a receipt suggests at least one medication was prescribed by a Nashville psychiatrist who also operates his own practice.
The third and fourth prescription bottles bear the names of medications the star reported after obtaining the Metro Nashville Police Department affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Hale was a 22-year mental health patient.
However, the second prescription bottle is labeled lorazepam, which is also known as Ativan, an anti-anxiety medication.
Hale was not previously known to be taking this medication, and the partially visible instructions shown on the prescription bottle in the photograph suggest Hale took one tablet daily.
It was previously established by the Star that Hale was prescribed the anti-anxiety medication Buspirone, the allergy and anti-anxiety medication Hydroxazine, and the antidepressant Lexapro, under its generic name is Scatolopram.
Okay, so this is This is prescription number five.
And this is a drug, again, known to be associated with mania, hostility, and irritability.
Five prescriptions this person was on that we know of.
And all of them, or the majority of them, that we know of, We're apparently supposed to be helping with anxiety, are supposed to be helping with mental health issues.
And at the same time, these are also drugs, at least in particular this latest one, that has known side effects.
And one of the side effects is hostility.
You know, we've talked about this plenty of times on the show.
I did a big monologue about it several months ago.
This is a common theme.
We find this is very often the case, where you have these mass shooters, and you have to distinguish here because, you know, FBI data and the media, sometimes when they talk about mass shootings, they tend to lump together things like this, school shooting-type mass shootings.
With, like, gang violence in the city.
And those things are similar in terms of body count, similar in terms of, you know, how violent and terrible they are.
It's not like one is necessarily worse than the other.
Well, I mean, I think a school shooting in many ways is worse than gang violence, but in terms of body count, the number of people that are being killed, you know, those are where the similarities end.
I think we all understand intuitively that there is a distinction here.
There's a certain type of mass killing.
Gang violence is one type.
And then there's this kind of mass killing.
And when it comes to this kind of mass killing, what you find so often is that these killers are on these kinds of drugs.
Antidepressants, anti-anxiety.
And very often, these are drugs that are known to have, as side effects, violence, aggression, hostility.
And then what do you know?
You have people that are taking these drugs that are lashing out exactly in that fashion, and yet the connection is never made.
At least it's not made in the mainstream.
It's not made by the corporate media.
We're not supposed to talk about it.
We're also not supposed to talk about the fact that, okay, you're giving somebody all these psychiatric drugs.
Apparently they aren't working, which is why you keep giving her more.
So when you have someone and they're on a psychiatric drug and it's not having the effect that you want it to have, and so the solution is, well, give them another drug.
And that's not working either, so just give them another drug.
And that's not working, let's do another one, and another one.
Let's just keep giving different drugs.
Even though it's clearly not working, which is why you keep giving them more and more.
This is extreme negligence at best.
When you have these doctors and psychiatrists who do this.
Just throw pill after pill at the problem.
When they're so clearly, there are all kinds of underlying problems here and issues, and just throw them pills at them.
And then when something horrific like this happens, there is no accountability for any of the people, you know, that were handing these drugs out like candy.
Let's move to this.
We have big news here at The Daily Wire.
As was announced just yesterday, The Daily Wire is teaming up with our good friends at Angel Studios for the release of the film Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot.
We'll go ahead and play the trailer and then we'll talk about it.
Here it is.
Are you sure these people want us?
I know they do.
You can call me Mama.
It's hard to feel like I'm the only one who sees these things.
70% of the kids in the system are there because of neglect.
The other 30% are put through hell.
We need your help.
Can you imagine our kids on their own?
We can't just look away.
The state ain't no family.
Are you sure these people want us?
I know they do.
You can call me Mama.
Oh, Lord.
No!
No, no, no!
If we can't wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what do we have?
Noise!
And the children can't take the noise anymore.
This is something that we must do.
22 families want to adopt.
The whole town wants kids now.
That's about right.
What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.
We want the ones that nobody else want.
Who hurt you, baby?
I'm not giving up on you.
You can't give up on me either.
What we gonna do?
Everybody's falling apart.
I'm doing the best I can!
A real world hits hard.
I don't wanna be here!
I can't give him back.
We gotta work on this together.
We your people now.
And love never gives up.
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So as you saw there, this is a true story about families in a small town in Texas who adopt 77 kids out
of the foster care system.
And I can tell you, this is not a movie that glosses over the challenges faced by those families.
It gives you a very raw, very honest, powerful look at the sacrifices these families made.
It's a highly effective movie, well-made, moving.
It's actually telling a story worth telling.
And that's one of the first questions you should ask about any new film.
I think, which is, why is this story worth telling?
Why did you want to tell that story?
And often the answer will be, well, it's not really worth telling.
And in so many cases with so many Hollywood movies, the movies that are getting made, they're not getting made because the story is worth telling.
Nobody involved in telling the story really thinks that it's worth telling.
You have all these stories being told by Hollywood, and the actual storytellers don't even care about the stories.
It's being made for other reasons, a cynical cash grab, a vehicle for, you know, political, ideological indoctrination and sermonizing, a way to advertise merchandise, as is the case with so many franchise films, sometimes all of these things combined.
But the good news is that this film is none of that.
It's a powerful, worthwhile story, told very well.
Daily Wire's teaming up with Angel Studios on the movie.
It'll be in theaters on July 4th.
Wide release.
I'm excited about the film.
I'm also really excited about going into business with Angel Studios.
I'm all about healthy competition.
The reality is that if we want to have a serious shot at taking on the big guys in entertainment, then the insurgents, let's say the rebel forces in this culture war, need to be able to work together strategically.
And that's what's happening here.
I think it's really exciting.
Let's wrap up with a very troubling story out of the world of professional sports.
Here's the story from The Daily Wire.
Hot dog eating legend Joey Chestnut signed with a vegan wiener brand, and now he's out of the annual July 4th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating competition that he wins every year.
California-born Chestnut, who recently signed up with a brand called Impossible Foods, won't be allowed to compete in the Coney Island tradition and defend the title he's won 16 times, including every year since 2016.
The food champ has completely dominated the competition, earning a world record in 2021 with 76 dogs and buns.
Last year, he kept the crown after chomping down on 62 wieners and buns.
But this year, it looks like he's not going to be in the competition because he partnered with this vegan hot dog brand.
So anyway, this is obviously a huge story, major scandal involving one of the most iconic athletes in the country.
And I don't need to tell you that Joey Chestnut is like Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps rolled into one except
with eating Undisputed champion of shoving food into his face and for
years now American families have gathered around the television on
July 4th to watch this man put his skill and athleticism on display
but it sounds like everything's gonna change now and this country will never be the same after it and
I do want to say something about this because the general public
seems to be rallying around Joey Chestnut
They seem to view him as the victim here.
You know, the narrative is that, well, how dare the Nathan's Hot Dog Company exclude him from taking part just because he's partnering with this vegan hot dog brand.
I don't think that's the correct interpretation.
I understand why nobody wants to admit this, but the truth is that Joey Chestnut is the villain of this story.
I mean, he betrayed us.
This man is the king of hot dogs.
And that's the crown that he carries, but also the responsibility.
With great power comes great responsibility.
And yet now he's partnering with a vegan brand?
A competitive eating champion is selling out to the vegans?
That's what—and hawking vegan hot dogs, no less?
This is, I mean, this is one of the worst betrayals in American history.
He's a traitor.
He should have his citizenship revoked.
Honestly.
Look, obviously nobody knows what kind of meat they put in hot dogs.
That's the whole fun, right?
Nobody knows what, you have a hot dog, sometimes they say it's a beef hot dog, it's pork, but nobody knows.
What animal is it?
What part of the animal?
We don't know.
The people who make the hot dogs, they don't even know.
They just take random barn animals that are running around and they throw them into a meat grinder and whatever happens, happens.
And that's the whole point of it, right?
That's the whole fun of it.
But it's meat.
It's mystery meat, but it's still meat.
And you don't get that with vegan.
There's no such thing as a vegan hot dog.
Like, that's not a hot dog.
That's a carrot.
A carrot on a bun is not a hot dog.
So, they're appropriating our culture, and to think that Joey Chestnut, of all people, would be a part of this conspiracy.
It's outrageous, and frankly, it's demoralizing to somebody like me.
As someone who, I like to think, I'm one of the people leading the war against vegans.
I've been an anti-vegan bigot for so long.
It's one of the most important issues to me.
I've always considered, I always thought, I don't know him personally, but I've always considered him to be a compatriot in this fight.
And to see him go to the dark side like this is just really disappointing.
Pretty terrible stuff.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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This week, a woman named Lily Gattis went viral on multiple social media
platforms, primarily TikTok and Twitter.
What launched her into internet superstardom was a video where she stood in her kitchen wearing an apron and saying very naughty words.
Here it is.
Okay, this time I have a beef with the male community.
I give my criticisms to all because we are all about equity and inclusion here, right?
So, I'm sick and tired of all girls getting blamed, or like guys, certain guys, thinking that all girls are gold diggers.
I don't know if it's because you get your information from those street interviews in like Miami at 3am outside of a nightclub.
You're getting the opinion of some dumb whores.
And immigrants, fresh off the boat, looking for a green card.
Yes, they are probably gold diggers, but that's the exception.
I'm the rule.
Everybody I know who's married right now, they're married to broke-ass...
Um, and they don't care.
We don't give a f*** about your money.
I couldn't care less about your f***ing money, okay?
My type is broke mechanics and surfer hippie dudes who just want to live in a shack and surf and have babies.
All I ask of a man is that you're competent, you're, um, you're not a f***er.
If somebody broke into our house at 3 a.m., you would know how to grab a gun and shoot them.
That's pretty much all we ask.
That's pretty much all girls I know.
I don't know one girl who's a gold digger.
So stop throwing us all under the bus as if we're all gold diggers because we don't give a f**k. I don't give a f**k about your money.
So, there were several naughty words in that monologue, but the one that got all the attention was, of course, the N-word.
She referred to men who are, as she put it, in a term first coined by Shakespeare, I believe, broke-ass N-words.
And that was enough to provoke mass outrage and breathless accusations of racism.
Many headlines were published in the media about this random woman who used this jokey term in an obviously non-racial context.
Didn't take long before she was apparently fired by the home healthcare company that had previously employed her.
And Lily, to her credit, has been quite unapologetic in the aftermath, which has only made the outrage mob even more outraged at her, as this usually goes.
But that was not the end of the story.
Lily then began doing the right-wing media tour.
She was interviewed on various conservative podcasts, at least three in a couple of days from what I've seen, probably more.
But on Twitter, among some conservatives, she was embraced as a hero.
She was quickly accepted as the hot new conservative influencer on the social media market.
In fact, she even tweeted that the outrage had helped to launch her career in conservative media.
The tweet was, you know, I'm assuming tongue-in-cheek, but there was also truth in it.
The fact is that she is being treated like a conservative media star because of that video that you just saw.
Though not by everybody on the right.
Now if you click on her name among the trending topics on Twitter, you'll find a certain segment of the online right that has rejected her on the grounds that she is a PSYOP.
And for some of those people, another subset of those people, the evidence that she's a PSYOP is that she's Jewish.
Even though she isn't Jewish, apparently.
But this is the level of discourse surrounding this young woman.
Discourse that, by all appearances, she seems to be enjoying and encouraging.
Now, back over on the left, this story has become another excuse for left-wing media outlets to complain about tradwives.
Many headlines have labeled Lily Gaddis a tradwife.
There's this one in the Daily Beast.
Tradwife TikToker axed from job after casually saying N-word.
So let me make a few points about this.
fired over N-word did a soul search and couldn't care less about the backlash.
The Daily Mail quote, "White trad wife's African American boss breaks her silence after
influencer was fired for casually saying N-word while filming cooking video."
You get the idea.
So let me make a few points about this.
First of all, this woman is not a trad wife.
The very phrase "trad wife's boss" is a contradiction in terms.
A headline that declares, trad wife fired from job should be treated with skepticism right out of the gate.
Because trad wives, if they are indeed trad, that is to say traditional, don't have jobs to get fired from.
We seem to have reached a point In our culture where any young attractive woman with right-of-center politics who makes a TikTok video in an apron is automatically a trad wife.
That's all it takes now to be a trad wife.
But that's not really the case.
I have no use for the term personally, but if the term means anything, that cannot be the definition.
Actual tradwives are homemakers and stay-at-home moms who are focused primarily on caring for their families.
Actual tradwives are not trying to be TikTok influencers.
Any woman who wants to be a TikTok influencer is, by definition, not a traditional wife.
Also, for the record, traditional wives, along with not having TikTok accounts, also don't use vulgar language, especially in public.
Lily drops four or five F-bombs in a 90-second video.
That's not how traditional conservative women speak.
In fact, most real tradwives have never even heard the term tradwife and are not familiar with the discourse around it because they're busy actually taking care of their families, not following social media trends.
So, based on everything that we've seen from this woman, no matter what else you might say about her, she is not, by any stretch of the imagination, traditional.
And therefore, not a tradwife.
Second point here, just because somebody manages to make a video that upsets the left, that doesn't mean that they should be embraced as a hero of the right, or as a conservative influencer.
I have been saying this for years to no avail, but I'll continue to say it.
That's not the way that it should work.
No, I have no problem with Lilly.
I don't think the mass outrage against her is at all warranted.
I'm sure she's a perfectly nice person.
I have no issue with her.
But I'm also not looking to her for moral or political leadership.
We use the word influence.
I'm not influenced by her in any way.
Are you?
When you see a video like that, and you've never heard of this person before, and you see that video that we just played, are you saying to yourself, oh, I've got to hear what other insights this person has?
This is a leader.
This is someone I want to follow.
Right?
This is someone who's influenced.
I want my life to be influenced by this person.
Is anyone saying that?
I'm not turning to her for insights, and I haven't heard her say anything that would qualify as an insight.
And for a very long time now, the right has been in the habit of trying to make a star out of anyone, especially any minority or any attractive woman, who manages to attract negative attention from the left.
But the problem is that it's very easy to attract negative attention from the left.
These people who get upset, if you say something like, Men can't have babies.
So the bar for provoking left-wing outrage is, like, buried 500 feet under the surface of the earth.
You don't have to lift your feet to get over it.
Which means that a person's ability to upset the left does not indicate that they have any of the qualities that we should want the leaders of our movement to possess.
And this should be obvious.
I think it is, to intelligent people.
Third point, finally.
I must say again, the n-word is a word.
It is not a magical spell.
It is a word.
It is made up of vowels and consonants.
It's a vulgar word, yes, which means that it's impolite to say it in public.
And she also used several other words that are impolite to say in public.
It's not any more impolite than any other vulgarity.
And just like any other word, because it is, again, just a word, The precise meaning depends on the context and the intent of the person using the word.
So we're supposed to believe that the N-word, when used by a person with lighter skin pigmentation, is always maximally offensive regardless of the context or the intent.
But that is absurd.
It's nonsensical.
It's incoherent.
It would mean that certain rules apply to this word which do not apply to any other word that exists in the English language or any other language on Earth.
But that's not true because the n-word is, once again, a word.
Saying that the n-word is always racist no matter how it is said or for what purpose, it's like saying that the word kill is always a threat no matter how it's said or for what purpose.
It doesn't make any sense.
The word kill can be a threat.
If I say, I'm going to kill you, then I have made a threat.
And the operative word in that threat is kill.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to kill you.
But if I say, Bob said he's going to kill you, then I haven't made a threat.
In fact, I'm warning you about what Bob is going to do.
So it wouldn't make any sense to say, you threatened me, and then I say, no, I didn't.
Well, you said the word kill.
Well, yeah, but I'm telling you what someone else is going to do.
I didn't say I'm going to do it.
And so it is with the N-word.
If I say it in the context of expressing racial animosity towards black people, then obviously it's racist.
But if I say it in the context of quoting somebody else who said it, or in the context of referring to the word for a discussion like this one, then it's obviously not racist.
And if somebody says it in the way that Lily Gaddis did, as a vulgar, colloquial, non-racial way of referring to people in general, then it is obviously not racist.
It can't be racist because it's not even referring to any specific racial group.
It's not possible to be racist against all races at once.
It's not possible to be non-racially racist.
You can only be racist if you mean to express animosity towards a certain group.
If you don't mean that, then you can't be racist.
You can be other things.
You can be vulgar.
You can be ridiculous.
You can be cringy.
But you're not racist.
Lilly Gaddis isn't racist.
She also isn't a conservative influencer or a right-wing hero.
And she certainly is not a trad wife.
She's just a woman who made a video and that's about it.
Anyone trying to make more of it than that is today cancelled.
