Ep. 1392 - Disney’s Not So Secret Anti-White Agenda
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we've heard about Disney's not-so-secret gay agenda. Now, thanks to James O'Keefe, we know more about their not-so-secret anti-white agenda. Also, MSNBC talking heads do their best to explain why classrooms should have pride flags but shouldn't have the Ten Commandments. Their argument is more revealing than they wanted it to be. And, can racism cause cancer? That was the premise of an episode of an NBC medical drama. It was not satire. Not intentionally, anyway.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we've heard about Disney's not-so-secret gay agenda.
Well, now thanks to James O'Keefe, we know more about their not-so-secret anti-white agenda.
We'll talk about that.
Also, MSNBC talking heads do their best to explain why classrooms should have pride flags but should not have the Ten Commandments.
Their argument is more revealing than they wanted it to be.
And can racism cause cancer?
That was the premise of an episode of an NBC medical drama.
It was not satire, not intentionally anyway.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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If you've been watching any significant amount of Disney content over the past few years, there's a question that's probably crossed your mind at some point.
As you gaze upon the two lesbian mothers in the kids show Young Jedi Adventures, or the non-binary Jedi in Tales of the Empire, or the gay kisses in Lightyear and Rise of Skywalker, Or the communist lesbian witches in The Acolyte.
Or the prominent trans character in Baymax.
Or the non-binary Lake character in Elemental.
Or the gay moment in Endgame.
Or the purple gay Cyclops police officer in Onward.
Or the first ever biracial gay cartoon character in Strange World.
You may have caught yourself thinking, what the hell is going on inside the company?
If this is what they're producing as entertainment for the millions of people in the audience, how dysfunctional are the inner workings of Disney exactly?
If they're so fixated on sexuality and race that they have to ram so-called marginalized identities into every orifice of their streaming and film shows, what would it be like to actually work at a place like this?
You may ask yourself.
We don't have to ask those questions anymore, though, because yesterday, James O'Keefe, formerly the head of Project Veritas and now the CEO of OMG Media, provided an exclusive window into the inner workings of Disney.
One of O'Keefe's undercover operatives recorded an intimate conversation with a senior vice president at the company named Michael Gardino.
And it's simultaneously an incredibly shocking piece of footage in some ways, as well as at the same time everything you'd expect it to be.
In this clip, Gardino appears to admit on multiple occasions that Disney discriminates against job applicants on the basis of their skin color and their gender.
According to Guardino, the company will look at a white man and decide, because of immutable characteristics that he can't control, that he is disqualified from employment.
In fact, on at least one occasion, this executive says that Disney higher-ups disqualified a half-black applicant because he didn't look black enough.
Now, I'll provide the usual disclaimer that, of course, I haven't personally seen all of O'Keefe's unedited footage, but here's some of what O'Keefe aired.
Watch.
Certainly there have been times where, you know, there's no way we're hiding a white helmet.
It's kind of unspoken.
There are times when it's spoken.
How would they say it?
There's no way we're hiding a white helmet.
According to these videotapes, Disney blatantly discriminates against whites, white men in particular.
I think I'm sort of, like, well prepared for it.
I'm well positioned for it.
But as far as Disney's concerned on the white male, that's not who they're looking to promote at the moment.
You know, I've been at the company 11 years now, so I have friends in HR, and I have friends in those divisions, and they're like, look, nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike, but they're not considering any white males for this job.
They're just not.
Like, that's...
They even passed over a qualified half-black person for a promotion because they didn't look black enough.
We wanted to hire somebody in our department a few years ago now who was half-black.
But didn't, like, appear half-black.
And, um, there was a creative executive who was like, we're not, like, that's not, that's not what's going on.
Like, they wanted somebody in meetings who would appear a certain way, and he wasn't gonna bring that to the meeting.
I mean, it kind of feels like we're, you know, at some point there's going to be a lawsuit.
That's kind of how it feels.
Now, when civil rights laws were first passed, laws that mandated that businesses stop discriminating on the basis of race, there were quite a few businesses in this country that had to close.
In some cases, the owner simply didn't want to serve black customers or hire black employees.
In other cases, the business did attempt to integrate, but their clientele wouldn't stand for it.
They wanted to see certain races excluded from the whole operation, and when that was no longer allowed, they stopped patronizing the business anyway.
And after watching this footage for the first time, it's not hard to see how a major entertainment juggernaut like Disney could someday meet the same fate as all those businesses that crumbled in the aftermath of the civil rights movement.
If what this executive is saying is true, then there's a very strong case to be made that Disney is flagrantly and systematically violating civil rights law.
Like, in the most flagrant way possible, actually.
In this country, in pretty much every case, businesses are not allowed to deny employment on the basis of race or gender.
Race or gender can't even be one of the reasons why an employee is promoted or rejected or hired or fired.
You're not allowed to consider it at all.
That's the way the law is supposedly set up.
And Michael Gardino appears to realize that, which is why he says on the tape that Disney is likely to face a massive lawsuit in the near future.
Now, will the law actually be enforced against Disney?
Well, that remains to be seen.
We all know that, for the most part, the civil rights law works in one direction.
It's rare, though certainly not unheard of, for white plaintiffs to successfully sue for workplace discrimination.
But in this case, there's a Disney executive saying explicitly on tape that, in his estimation, the company discriminates on the basis of race and gender.
And as of now, the only response from Disney has been that Michael Gardino has taken down his LinkedIn page.
Rather than that, they haven't said anything.
They haven't put out any kind of explanation or statement one way or another about the fact that one of their senior executives says that the company is systematically discriminating against white people.
Of course, from internal Disney footage previously released by Chris Ruffo, we know that Disney executives generally want to advance a culture of racial equity and so on, so it's not exactly a stretch to assume that they're on board with this at the highest levels of the company.
This is a very big problem for Disney.
It only gets worse When you look closely at the content that they're putting out lately, it certainly seems to back up everything that the executive is saying, which is that Disney is a weirdly race-obsessed and anti-white corporation.
Now, when I last spoke about Disney's brand collapse a few weeks ago, I hadn't seen any footage from this latest disaster of a show called The Accolade because it wasn't available yet.
But now that the show is out and several episodes are available on demand, there really is no way of sugarcoating this.
Disney has produced a show that's so bad in every way that it's just totally unwatchable.
It has a 14%, 14% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
For the same reason that it has an 85% critics score.
This show is propaganda that's written for activists, people who care only about representation and feeling seen and all of that, not people who actually want just good entertainment.
I'm not going to go through a ton of the scenes from this show because several other YouTube channels have already done that.
The Critical Drinker on YouTube is maybe the single most effective critic of the plotting and characterization of this garbage show in case you're interested in that.
Instead, I'll show you just a few clips of some of the worst scenes, the ones that highlight the extent to which identity politics now consumes this company, Disney.
The scenes include a shackled white Jedi killing himself because of his guilt, a reference to another character's pronouns, and a lesbian cult's chant that has all the gravitas of a high school play.
Watch.
Forgive me.
We thought we were doing the right thing.
[Music]
[Music]
Who is that?
That's Buzzle.
Is he or they with us?
The power of one!
The power of two!
The power of many!
The power of one!
The power of two!
The power of many.
The power of two.
The power of many.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SWISH]
Now, I'll admit that I'm not up to speed, really, on my Star Wars lore.
I'm not exactly an expert on the canon, as they say, but as I understand it, this stuff is not exactly consistent with the original vision for Star Wars.
Basically, the Acolyte advances the idea that lesbian space witches are capable of conceiving a child With dark magic.
But previously in Star Wars canon, Anakin, who eventually becomes Darth Vader, was immaculately born through the Force, which is a fact about Star Wars mythology that I just learned as I was preparing this monologue.
It feels vaguely sacrilegious, to be honest, but anyway, that's apparently what made him special and unique, except that now the lesbian space witches are doing it just willy-nilly.
Not that this will surprise anyone, but I don't personally care about this show breaking Star Wars lore.
At the same time, I can understand how this whole debacle is frustrating to Star Wars fans.
Disney continues to pilfer and mutilate its own intellectual property for the sake of updating it and making it progressive and feminist.
Whatever made a pre-existing white male character special or interesting now needs to be undone, essentially.
Even if it completely upends the established narrative that people are supposed to have become invested in over the course of, like, 40 years of putting out this content.
That's because the people making these shows are not artists.
They are activists.
They view everything they do in the context of being brave resistance fighters against their white oppressors.
And we don't really have to guess or speculate about that.
Listen to Disney's own employees, and they'll tell you this.
And I'm not just talking about the vice president of, you know, in O'Keefe's video.
The lead actress in The Acolyte, Amandla... It is Amandla Stenberg.
There's an L. I don't know if the L is silent or what, but... So it's Amandla.
Amandla?
Anyway, she's responded to the poor audience reviews of the show, as well as her unearthed viral interview with Trevor Noah about wanting to make white people cry.
She's responded to that with some kind of bizarre song doubling down on her hatred of white people and of men.
So she posted this music video on Instagram to celebrate Juneteenth and to respond to all of the haters.
Watch.
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Interview from 2018 With Trevor the King
When I was 13 and I was running from City to city to speak on the story
You know the one The one who used to run around the blackboard
Yeah, my people cried in the theaters Find it really easy
White people cried they could see us as human beings Trevor asked what I want the people to know
I said white people cried, what's the goal?
If they could take one thing, what would it be?
I said empathy Oh, that's why they mad at me
They splice lines, make hate, they recognize Making love like the same propaganda they spew
'Cause they conflate our pain with violence And try to weaponize everything that we do
The desperation of oppressors is rising And now they holding on to any old thing they could use
And can you rely upon this information?
And that tells me you afraid of me If you could somehow get past just how truly god-awful the
song is just from an artistic perspective.
Really, really, really bad.
But the message is even worse.
This wealthy, famous actress is the victim, she says, and you, the audience member who just wants to watch a good Star Wars show, is the oppressor because you're downvoting her on Rotten Tomatoes.
She wrote a diss track responding to people who gave her bad reviews.
So she won't F with your discourse and your misinformation.
But it's not misinformation, and to demonstrate that, it's worth analyzing what Steinberg says about her interview with Trevor Noah.
She claims in the music video that her Trevor Noah interview is being taken out of context.
She said that she just really wants white people to feel the same empathy that other audience members are feeling.
That's all she was trying to express.
Of course, already she's saying that white people, solely by virtue of their skin color, lack empathy.
And yes, that's an explicitly anti-white statement and sentiment, obviously.
But if you put that aside for a second, and you watch a longer clip of her interview, you'll see that she's not even really upset that white people supposedly lack empathy.
Instead, she's actually upset that they don't buy the media's false narrative about black victimhood Watch.
Um, a young girl, play-by-yourself, who is friends with a young boy who gets shot at a police stop.
A story that we're all too familiar with.
And that's just really the beginning of the story.
So, it's based on this book by Angie Thomas, which is incredible, and I highly suggest that you read it if you haven't.
Um, but it's supposed to be a tool of empathy.
So, oftentimes, we see these events portrayed on the news and in media, but usually they're misconstrued They're at least postulated so they don't fully humanize the people of color who are killed and affected by these events.
And so that's what this is supposed to be a tool to do.
It's supposed to ground it in a personal narrative, and hopefully people will have a sense of empathy because of that.
And so far, it's been really successful.
We have a lot of white people crying after, which is great.
When you were filming the scene that we commonly refer to as the talk, it's a really interesting scene in the movie where, you know, you have your character's dad talking to the family repeatedly through their lives saying, this is how you conduct yourself around police.
This is always going to be a life altering experience if you handle it the wrong way.
You look at that story and you look at that scenario, there is a pain that comes with what happened.
And there are often people who say, well, if you conduct yourself the right way, it won't happen.
But unfortunately, that's not the truth.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, it...
It's tragic because we rob black children of their ability to be children, you know?
They have to be so careful about the way in which they act and present themselves from such an early age because they even understand that they are not afforded childhood in the way that, you know, their white counterparts are.
Right.
Looking at the film, looking at the response that it's gotten, what would you say your greatest hope and success would have been, beyond the white people crying?
When people watch the hate you give, what do you want them to walk away with?
Because I know everyone has a slightly different feeling.
Well, I mean, white people crying actually was the goal.
(laughter)
(applause)
It was the goal.
-Well, you know what, yeah? -We wanted to make sure that, you know, those who, you know, have been affected
by the way in which the media misconstrues these events actually have a real sense of empathy
and are able to place themselves into the shoes of our communities
and understand that these are not just news events.
These are happening to real people.
So we hear about the talk again.
I always love that when we hear this from the race hustlers, that black families have to have the talk about police, which this is always painted as this dramatic, really traumatizing thing when you have to sit your kids down and just explain to them that they should be respectful to police officers if they were stopped by the cops.
I mean, I had the same, my dad gave me the same talk when I first started driving.
I thought that's like, all parents do that?
Like, well here's, if you get pulled over, just, yes officer, no officer, be polite, don't fight with him, don't argue.
So I got the same talk, but I don't recall that moment.
Oh, when my dad sat me down and gave me the talk, I haven't forgotten that moment.
My innocence was robbed from me.
That's just like, that's called being a good parent, actually.
So anyway, in context, this footage is actually a lot more damning than the short viral clip where she says that she wants to see white people crying.
What Stenberg is saying is that white people need to accept the media narrative that black people are murdered by police all the time, even when they do nothing wrong.
And even when black people do everything right, the traffic stops.
They're gunned down by all those white supremacist police officers.
That's what she's saying.
Now, in order to think that, you'd have to be completely ignorant of the statistics on police use of force, as well as wildly misinformed about the handful of high-profile incidents where the police have actually shot black suspects during traffic stops.
But according to Stenberg, unless you agree with her on this point, as false as it is, then you lack empathy.
Like so many other vile white people who do not have empathy.
So this is apparently the only response we're going to get from Disney and the media about the disaster that is Acolyte or their race-obsessed company culture.
They're just going to continue to attack their own fans for being racist and ignorant and misogynistic.
And they have some support in the media for that position.
A black supremacist website called The Root, for example, just published an article blaming the low audience score on racism and misogyny.
Kathleen Kennedy at Lucasfilm has already said that fans are misogynists.
And now the lead actress is saying that she's oppressed by all these horrible bigots who misunderstood her when she said that she wants all white people to cry.
In reality, all she's really proven with the song is that her artistic mediocrity extends into multiple mediums.
That's if she's proven anything, it's that.
And to be clear, the only person that Amanda, Amanda La, sorry, Stenberg has to blame is herself.
She's the one who read these idiotic scripts with the fires burning in space and the emasculated Jedi and the space lesbians and she decided to appear in this thing.
And she's the one who decided to give this interview where she acted like a child and talking about, you know, about how gay Star Wars is.
I played the clip before, but it's worth repeating it and playing it again because future business school classes will study this footage to learn how quickly a brand can destroy itself.
So let's watch this again.
Here it is.
I want to ask you both because this is, I would say, arguably the gayest Star Wars I think by a considerable margin.
And are you excited about that?
Are you bracing yourself?
It's pretty gay, let's be honest.
Leslie, are you... how do you feel?
Am I gay?
Yes!
Well, no, I know you are gay, but I'm asking, are you excited about putting this... you know, this is gonna be a talking point.
Is it gonna be a talking point?
I'm sure some... Because nerds are gay.
Yeah!
Well, some nerds are very not gay and are very threatened by gay stuff.
Well, that's true, but in my world, nerds are gay.
Okay.
Was this the fun element of everything?
No!
I don't think so, and yet people have told me that it's the gayest Star Wars, and I frankly...
You're offended?
Into it.
I think that Star Wars is so gay already.
Okay.
I mean, have you seen the fits?
We'd be like, look how gay this is and then send each other a reference photo.
And are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight?
They're a couple.
That's what I think.
So there you go.
It's the worst possible content they could be making, and then they're marketing it in the worst possible way.
It's designed to alienate and annoy most of the audience.
The lesbian showrunner in that clip, Leslie Hedlund, is responsible for hiring all the incompetent writers on the Acolyte who don't remotely understand Star Wars or even pretend to.
They understand Star Wars even less than I do.
That's how ignorant these people are, and they're writing Star Wars shows.
She's the one who insisted on the diversity casting and who hid behind her boss's disgraceful attacks on her show's fanbase.
Shaw also happens to be a left-wing activist and former Harvey Weinstein protege.
Alongside Amandla Stenberg, she decided to make a show that leans into all the things that the audience hates about every Star Wars show or film since the prequel trilogy.
Now with the latest video from James O'Keefe, there's some consolation at least.
Now we have a better idea of how an artistic catastrophe like this may have occurred in the first place.
And if there's any truth to the claims in that undercover video, there's also some very good news for Star Wars fans.
Which is that Disney could soon face very real consequences for what they've done.
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It's a great law.
Totally constitutional law.
It can only have a positive effect on the educational environment for kids in the state, which of course is why the left opposes it.
Yesterday, the women of The View voiced their displeasure.
Whoopi Goldberg, in particular, was very upset.
She was very, very displeased.
Extremely worried about it.
Terrified at the prospect of children seeing the Ten Commandments and being exposed to such provocative ideas as don't murder people and don't steal and be respectful to your parents.
You know, those kinds of things.
You just don't want kids to be exposed to that.
The kinds of ideas that pollute young minds, corrupt the youth with things like that.
We have to shield them from these influences.
That's basically Whoopi's perspective.
Let's listen to this.
You're telling me you're concerned about children learning things.
One of the things that you don't seem to understand is I have the same respect for my child that I have for yours.
I'm not asking you to believe what I believe.
I'm not asking your kid to believe what I believe.
Public school is public school.
It means everybody can go to public school.
I don't understand why If you want your child to have a religious education, send them to a religious school!
Yeah.
There's nothing stopping you.
Get out of my pocket, get out of my body, and get out of my school!
Okay, so she says, get out of my pocket, get out of my body, get out of my school.
An interesting slogan, because here's the thing, Whoopi.
First of all, conservatives are not the ones who want to be in your pocket.
The people raiding your pocket and your bank account are on your side of the aisle, generally speaking.
As for being in your body, nobody wants that.
There is no one angling To get inside your body.
In fact, we're so opposed to it, I can't even say it.
It's quite disturbing and disgusting.
So, you're safe on that end.
You're totally fine.
You're safe.
Get out of your school.
What does that mean?
Get what out of your school, exactly?
Christians?
Do you want Christians out of your school?
Or do you want all mentions of anything religious out of your school?
The problem for you is that religion, faith, the Christian faith in particular, serves as the foundation of all Western civilization, whether you like it or not.
And I know you don't like it, but it's still the truth.
Which means that a child in our civilization cannot have a complete education, or even an incomplete one, that ignores the foundation of the civilization that he's a part of.
Art, literature, philosophy, history, You know, to remove religion from these subjects is to remove the subjects.
Joy Reid, also over on MSNBC, also struggles with this concept.
This was kind of an interesting exchange about this Ten Commandments law.
Let's listen to this.
Yeah, and you know, and it is ironic to me that these are the same people who will make the argument that a pride flag in a classroom is indoctrination, but they don't think the Ten Commandments is indoctrination.
Do you?
I mean, I see some irony there.
Yes, indeed.
I was just on a conservative talk show where they made that exact argument.
And there is no separation of flags in state.
There is no separation of sexuality in state.
There's a separation of church and state and it protects religious freedom for all of us.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I hate to break it to folks, but Moses was not a Christian.
That religion did not exist.
He was Jewish, and so it's the Torah that you want to be displaying if that's where you want to go with this, but that's not supposed to be in school either!
You're supposed to learn to read.
I just love when these smarmy, godless heathens do that.
She gives us the fact check at the end, debunking a claim that literally nobody has ever made.
Moses wasn't a Christian!
Hate to break it to you, you dumb Christians.
Oh, really?
Oh, really, Joy?
I had no idea.
I thought Moses was an evangelical Republican from Ohio.
That's what I thought.
So, it's news to me.
Thank you, Joy, for that stunning piece of information.
Of course, what's really going on here is that Joy Reid herself just learned who Moses was and where he lived on the timeline.
She just learned that.
The Ten Commandments are in the news, and she wants to cover it in her show that nobody watches, and she wants to be upset about it, so she probably went on Wikipedia and did like 30 seconds of research.
She learned that Moses lived more than a thousand years before Christ, and she was shocked.
She couldn't wait to drop that bombshell on everybody watching her, which is why she shoehorns that in, regardless of how irrelevant that fact is to the conversation that she's having.
As for the rest of that exchange, it's pretty revealing.
Because we're told, you heard what the other woman, I don't know who that is, doesn't matter.
She says that there's no separation of sexuality and state.
But there is a separation of church and state.
Which by the way, that's very different from what these people were saying up until five minutes ago.
In fact, it's different from what Whoopi Goldberg just said.
Haven't they been telling us forever that the state has no business, you know, being involved in anyone's sex life?
Get out of my body, get out of my bedroom, right?
And now we've got Joy Reid and this other woman on MSNBC saying, well, there's no separation of sexuality and state.
Now, here's the issue.
The separation of church and state is not a constitutional concept.
It's not in the Constitution.
It's not in any founding document.
The phrase does not appear anywhere except a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a church.
And I know that this is, you know, I'm not trying to pull my own Joy Reid here and telling you guys something that you already know.
I think that most relatively illiterate people know this.
But that does not include the leftists that are upset about this law in Louisiana.
That separation of church and state is not in the Constitution.
And that in fact, when Thomas Jefferson used the phrase, what he was worried about was not the corrosive effect of religion on the government, but rather the other way around.
He was worried about what the government would do, how the government would affect the church.
And if you define church as just anything religious, then obviously, obviously you cannot separate church and state.
You cannot separate the state from all religious concepts.
And the reason you can't do that is because our country is founded on a religious concept.
The idea that human beings are endowed by the Creator with unalienable rights is a purely religious claim.
Purely!
It is pure religious dogma.
And yet, I think everybody would agree, at least, that the idea that human rights lay at the foundation of our country.
It's not scientific.
It's not a conclusion that you arrive at through an objective examination of the physical world.
Now, I think you can arrive through an objective examination of the physical world at the conclusion that there is a God, so you can arrive at that conclusion through looking at the physical world, but the bit about us being endowed with rights You don't see that anywhere, and you can't find that in a microscope.
You can't find any evidence of it.
It's pure dogma, and I don't say that in a bad way, obviously.
I don't use dogma pejoratively.
I mean, there's a lot of bad dogma and good dogma, but my point is that at the very foundation of our country, of our system, of our way of life, is a religious claim.
There is no way around it.
So, you cannot separate church and state in that sense.
What about separating sexuality and state?
Now, it's true that there's nothing in our founding documents prescribing a separation of sexuality and state.
That's true.
It's not said anywhere in the Constitution or anywhere else that the government should not endorse and promote homosexuality, gender fluidity, and so on.
That's not outlined in any— I'll admit that.
It's not in the Constitution.
The government is not forbidden from doing that in any of our founding documents.
Well, why is that not outlined?
Well, because our founders could not even conceive of a future where anything like that would happen.
Right?
The concept of gender fluidity and transgenderism just didn't exist at all at that time.
Most of the identities and sexualities in the LGBT alphabet soup didn't exist at the time.
Homosexuality obviously did exist, but the idea that the government would ever use a state-run school system as a vehicle for promoting it and celebrating it, I mean, that was just not on the radar of the men who founded this country.
I think we all know that if you go back in a time machine and ask them, right, how they would feel about that, I think we know what their view would be.
But that means that we're left to use our own judgment, God forbid.
We have to analyze this on its merits.
And like we talked about yesterday, what exactly are the merits of having pride flags in the school?
Of teaching kids about LGBT tolerance and so on at school?
I can easily describe it.
Many people who have defended this law in Louisiana have quite easily and simply outlined, whether you agree or not, We can at least tell you what the merits are.
Like, what is the benefit of having the Ten Commandments in the school?
We can tell you.
They serve as the foundation of our civilization and our way of life.
That's a pretty big deal.
It's a matter of basic literacy, of basic historical knowledge to know this.
The Ten Commandments also lay out very clear and basic moral principles, most of which most people would not disagree with, at least not publicly.
So, you know, there's a moral interest, there's a historical interest, an educational interest.
What about the pride flag?
What are the merits of that from an educational standpoint?
There are no merits to it.
What basic and clear moral principles does the pride flag represent?
Now, its advocates would claim that it represents all kinds of moral principles, but certainly not clear ones.
So, that's why the two things are very, very different.
All right.
I just want to mention this quickly.
The staffer for a Democratic congresswoman crowed on social media on Thursday about getting his student loans forgiven by the Biden administration, saying elections matter.
But it turns out his boss previously opposed canceling student loans.
Representative Marcy Kaptur's communications director, Ben Kamens, posted a photo of the letter informing him that his student debt had been forgiven.
Kamens wrote, quote, just got a call to let me know my student debt has been canceled.
This is why elections matter.
Thanks, Joe Biden.
The letter showed a total of $8,250 in student loans from 2010 were forgiven Kamens.
And then, you know, and then, yes, it turns out that this, that his boss opposed student loan forgiveness in the past.
That to me isn't even the interesting part of this.
I don't even care that much about that.
I think there are other points to be made.
One of them is you're thanking the wrong person because Joe Biden did not forgive your student loans.
Now, if Biden himself reached into his own pocket and then gave you the money and said, here, you can use this to pay off your student loan, well then, yeah, you should thank him.
But no, who you should be thanking are just taxpayers.
Many of whom are in a lower income bracket than you, who had their money stolen to pay off your student loans.
That's who you should be thanking.
And also, I just think that... Now, we know why, of course, Biden is doing this before the election.
And if you want to talk about attacks on our democracy, things that undermine our democracy, it doesn't get much worse than this.
In the lead up to an election, stealing money from the taxpayers, from working families, taking food out of their children's mouths, to then redistribute it to college graduates in order to pay off loans that those graduates took on willingly, and doing all of this Blatantly, in order to buy votes for yourself.
If you want to talk about undermining our democratic system, well, there it is right there.
But at the same time, it's kind of like we talked about yesterday with the White House bringing the Queer Eye guys in and the guy in the dress and parading those guys around in the months before an election.
And I think Hey, if this is what you want to present to the public, if this is like your closing argument heading into the election, then great.
Go ahead.
And I'd say the same thing about this.
Because it's not even, you know, this was the communications director for a politician.
This is somebody who works in D.C.
bragging about having their student loans paid off.
Right?
It's not even like a construction worker or somebody like that.
It's not some blue-collar, middle-class person.
It's people in the political class who are bragging about having their student loans paid off.
Which really demonstrates, as I've said all along, that student loan forgiveness, quote-unquote, is a welfare system for the upper class.
That's exactly what it is.
And I don't think you can find that better illustrated than by someone in DC, a communications director, working on Capitol Hill, you know, waving their get-out-of-jail-free card around.
Okay, I'm not sure where this started or who posted it first, but this week a clip from an NBC medical drama called New Amsterdam has gone viral.
And the show apparently had its series finale last year, so it had several seasons and it's over now.
This clip is from, I believe, 2020.
But if you haven't checked in with network television at any point in the last 20 years, as I haven't, this just gives you a glimpse into just how woke things have gotten.
It's real bad over in network television land.
It's even worse than you think.
So if you haven't seen this clip yet, I'm going to play it for you.
And keep in mind that this is 100% real.
It is 100% not supposed to be a joke.
This is New Amsterdam.
It's the first I've heard of this show.
But it's not a satire.
It's a drama.
And so you're supposed to take this seriously as a dramatic moment.
Watch this.
Make yourself comfortable, there's a couch over there.
Hey, is he okay?
Yeah, yeah, he's okay.
I had CFIS answer some questions from a Harvard test known as UNREST.
It is designed to measure someone's level of social resistance.
Social resistance.
When people like us oppose the values and policies of the dominant culture.
That's right.
What does that have to do with... Your son, he feels threatened on a daily basis.
Like everything he's earned can just be taken away.
He's disenfranchised.
But because his life is seemingly free from all this, because he can't name it, he's internalizing it.
Name what?
Racism.
I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
[MUSIC]
So where do you even begin here?
I, I.
Well, let's start with a positive.
I'll start with a positive here.
Everyone is making fun of this clip and having a great time with it, as well they should.
I don't think there are enough people giving credit where it's due to the actor.
Uh, in this scene?
Because that was, I mean, you could make a very good argument that it was the worst dialogue ever put to film.
Whoever wrote that script for that episode turned in arguably the worst script of all time.
I mean, it's at least in the conversation.
You can make a good argument for it.
And yet the actor delivered it about as well as you could possibly hope.
So, how do you deliver a line like that?
Can you imagine you're an actor, you're on a serious drama show, and I know that the actors obviously probably woke also, but still, you're on a serious drama show, you're playing a doctor, it's a scene where you have to talk to a child's mother about the child's cancer, and the script requires you to say the line, I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
How do you say that with a straight face without laughing?
The other thing is that you're at NBC, and you can't even... Obviously, you can't laugh, and that's going to ruin the take, but also, no one around you on set can see you laughing at that, even though everybody else knows how funny it is.
If you even laugh at it in a bad take that they cut, you still might get fired for laughing about racism.
And so this is like, the pressure's on.
I mean, there's a gun to your head on this thing, and you have to deliver that line.
This is the challenge.
They're saying, here, we're going to give you the worst line of dialogue of all time.
And you have to deliver it well.
If you don't, you're a racist.
And I don't know.
He did pretty well, all things considered.
He did better than I could do.
I'm not an actor, but... Ma'am, your son's tumor was caused by racism.
I couldn't.
I can't.
I don't know.
How do you deliver that line?
I don't know.
You gotta take acting class for that.
But notice something else.
Everyone's so hung up on the racism causing cancer thing.
That they're ignoring the first part of that scene, and the whole first part is the doctor explaining that her son actually isn't experiencing any persecution, any oppression, any pushback for his race at all in real life, yet he still feels like he is.
It's internalized, right?
That's what they say, internalized racism, internalized oppression.
And that's the point of the scene, obviously.
So the woke lefty writers who came up with this scene, The whole point was just that.
They wanted to get this speech about internalized racism into the show.
But it's a medical drama, so they had to link it to a medical issue somehow.
Which again, that's a tough challenge too.
I don't know, how do you... So they want to give a speech about internalized racism.
It's a medical show.
How do you create a scenario where internalized racism is a medical problem and this is the best they could come up with?
And that was the real point, though, was to explain that even if it doesn't appear that a racial minority is oppressed, even if they aren't experiencing any visible oppression, they are still oppressed.
Because it's internal, you see, it's all internalized.
And that's just as real as anything happening externally.
What does that mean?
It means that you may not think that you're oppressing a racial minority, you may not think that you're guilty of oppressing them, but if they feel like you're oppressing them, then you are.
And also you're giving them cancer.
So that's what we learned from that.
No medical misinformation there at all.
Well, if you haven't heard, Jeremy Boring announced an exciting partnership with Angel Studios and DailyWirePlus to bring you a brand new film called Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot.
It's coming to theaters this July 4th.
Last year, Angel Studios' movie Sound of Freedom made a profound impact by shining a powerful light on child trafficking crisis.
Well, now Angel Studios is back, continuing their fight for kids.
DailyWire is joining them in the fight.
Sound of Hope.
It's the true story of 22 families from a rural church who adopted 77 kids from the foster system, sparking a movement to save vulnerable children everywhere.
We have a trailer for you guys so you can get a feel for what this movie is all about.
Take a look.
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.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
70%.
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.
(dramatic music)
(air whooshing)
I have to say that it's incredibly moving, and it places strong family values at its core.
It's more than just a movie.
It's a call to action.
Right now, there are over 100,000 children in foster care that need homes, and they need our help to get there.
Raising awareness is how you can help today.
The best way to do that is by seeing Sound of Hope in theaters.
This is exactly how we start a movement to change culture.
Sound of Hope, it's coming to theaters July 4th, and tickets are on sale now.
You can get showtimes at angel.com slash Matt.
Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
[MUSIC]
Yeah, there are only two big corporations in the market for commercial airliner manufacturing.
One of them is the Boeing company, the other is Airbus, and together they have a duopoly in the industry.
If you had to look back at the past decade or so and decide which company has done better, Boeing or Airbus, it wouldn't be a particularly difficult call.
Boeing has had multiple planes full of passengers fall out of the sky, apparently because their automated safety features didn't work very well.
In just the past year, they've also had a door fly off mid-flight on a Boeing 737 over Portland, a wheel fly off of a Boeing 757 while it was preparing to take off in Atlanta, a tire fly off of a Boeing 777, uh, 777 over San Francisco, damaging several vehicles in a nearby parking lot, so there's like pieces falling off all over the place.
Airbus, meanwhile, certainly hasn't been immune from disasters, but things have generally gone a lot better.
Their most high-profile crash of the past two decades, Air France Flight 447, Based on this information, if you had to guess, what would you estimate the CEO of Boeing makes?
And that could be why Boeing's stock is down more than 50% over the past five years, while Airbus is up nearly 15%.
Based on this information, if you had to guess, what would you estimate the CEO of Boeing makes?
Would you estimate that he's taking home more or less than the CEO of Airbus, or about the same?
Well, as it turns out, the CEO of Airbus, who's had the job for several years,
makes around $4 million in total compensation.
Over the past few years, Boeing has had two CEOs.
One of them was ousted after the Boeing Max aircraft started crashing.
He took home more than $60 million for his golden parachute.
His replacement, Dave Calhoun, has announced that he's leaving the company at the end of the year after he failed to right the ship.
And in testimony before the Senate this week, Calhoun revealed his salary.
We played some of this on the show yesterday, but here it is again in case you missed it.
Watch this.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Calhoun, What is it that you get paid currently?
Senator, that's well disclosed in our proxy documents in each of the years that I've been employed.
Yeah, but what is it?
It's a big number, sir.
Well, let me help you out.
It's $32.8 million this year.
Does that sound right?
Yes, it does.
That's a 45% increase over last year.
Does that sound right?
Yes, it does.
What is it you get paid to do exactly?
I get paid to run the Boeing company.
You know, have you seen the reports that the subcontractor that you used to make that door piece that fell out of the sky, that when the FAA went and toured the facility, they found one door seal being lubricated with Dawn liquid dish soap and cleaned with a wet cheesecloth, and another was being checked with a hotel room keycard.
Does that sound like safety to you?
Senator, I think our relationship with that particular supplier has been well documented, reviewed by the FAA, and most certainly us.
And I'm very intent.
Really?
Because we've had whistleblowers, you said you'd listen to whistleblower testimony.
We've had multiple whistleblowers come before this committee and allege that Boeing is cutting every possible corner on quality and safety.
Not just in the past, but now.
They've alleged that you've eliminated safety inspections, that there are fewer inspectors doing quality inspections out there.
They've alleged that when they raised quality issues and concerns, they were reassigned, they were retaliated against, they were physically threatened.
So he's paid several times what the CEO of his major rival has paid and he's getting all that money to oversee a company where the doors are falling off mid-flight and the whistleblowers, at least the ones who aren't dropping dead, are flagging all kinds of serious compliance issues internally.
This is the kind of discrepancy that suggests that there are some very serious issues with the incentives and how the incentives work in the airline industry.
The executives who ensure safety should be rewarded, not the ones who are obviously doing a very terrible job.
This kind of thing matters because there is a constant stream of near-catastrophes that are taking place in aviation.
It's been a while since we've talked about this, so I'll run down a couple of them very quickly now.
This is far from an exhaustive list.
So just the past three months.
There were two near collisions at Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C.
And in one instance, a plane was cleared to taxi across a runway where another plane was taking off.
And in another incident, one plane was cleared for takeoff while another plane was cleared to land on an intersecting runway, which is not how you want these things to work, generally.
Watch.
Blue 3 52 26, left turn at November behind the Embraer, ground point 7.
Left turn at November behind the Embraer, ground point 7, Blue 3 52 26.
Stop, Southwest 29 37 stop.
We stopped, we were cleared to cross runway 4.
And we stopped at JetBlue 15 54.
JetBlue 15 54, do you have room to get around the Southwest or even double back onto runway 4 full length?
[ Radio ]
Thank you sir, JetBlue 1554, left Alpha, back to Zulu, short of Runway 4 and advise ready.
Okay, left on Alpha, Zulu, short of Runway 4, we'll let you know, JetBlue 1554.
So that is two incidents at the same airport within a month.
Each one could have cost hundreds of people their lives, and that's just one airport.
It's an airport that I think I'm taking off from tomorrow, so that's a little disturbing.
Anyway, a couple of months ago, there was also a near catastrophe at JFK Airport, where multiple planes crossed the runway while a jetliner was preparing to take off.
Fortunately, the pilot saw what was happening and aborted the takeoff, but You know, if it had been a foggy day, there could have been a disaster there.
So we've come very, very close a number of times.
Given the unfolding nightmare in the aviation industry, you might hope that trade groups in the industry would be doing everything they can to prioritize safety, given what's going on and given what this all seems to be leading to.
You think they call for additional training for both pilots and air traffic controllers, for example.
Or maybe they'd demand an end to DEI hiring.
Or maybe they'd insist that CEOs stop making $30 million to run airlines where the doors are falling off mid-flight.
But none of that appears to be happening.
Instead, the Airline Pilots Association, the largest pilots union in the world, just instructed its members that it's vitally important that they stop using gendered language.
So this is what they're focused on.
And in particular, it's very important that they stop making jokes about the word cockpit.
This is the most pressing issue that they have identified at the moment, and now the pilots union is laser-focused on solving it.
Hopefully you feel safer already.
The Daily Wire reports, quote, the Airline Pilots Association International, the largest airline pilots union in the world, published a diversity, equity, and inclusion language guide to its members in 2021, instructing them to refrain from using words such as cockpit, airmen, and manpower in order to reflect the diversity we have at ALPA.
And to create a more inclusive workplace.
According to Breitbart, this inclusion guide states, quote, While the word cockpit dates back to the 1900s, it has been and may be used in a derogatory way to exclude women in the piloting profession.
Many women have heard a variation of, it's called a cockpit for a reason by a male pilot, suggesting that women do not belong in the piloting profession.
The Guide also warns against using terms like mother and father, which of course are very offensive, because those words, quote, may inadvertently ignore different family structures, such as caregivers, same-sex parents, step-parents, families with adopted members, and more.
Fox News reached out to the union apparently to determine if this could all possibly be real.
The union responded by stating that, quote, there are real threats to aviation safety like efforts to replace pilots with automation or lower training and experience standards, but opening the doors of opportunity to ensure we have a robust supply of qualified aviators isn't one of them.
In other words, they're suggesting that this robust supply of qualified aviators consists of applicants who would be turned off from a career in flying if they heard the words mother or father or cockpits.
This is the kind of emotionally fragile individual they're looking to hire, apparently.
And even as they admit that, they're claiming it's going to make flying a lot safer somehow.
Those airlines wouldn't have been on a collision course at Reagan Airport if only the pilot had never heard the word cockpit.
Maybe the pilots were distraught about having had just heard that term, and that's what led them to be so distracted.
This has been the dominant mode of thought in aviation for several years now.
In 2021, the CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby, gave his song and dance about the importance of hiring people who aren't white men.
Scott Kirby, of course, appeared immune to the irony of the fact that he is a white man, and yet he still has not stepped aside as the CEO of United.
Watch this clip and listen carefully to it.
How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviate Academy?
We have committed that 50% of the classes will be women or people of color.
Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country.
White males don't just dominate in the cockpits, also in the C-suite at United Airlines.
Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our C-suite.
I think if you look around corporate America, So as you catch that, the interviewer said the word cockpit there.
It was clear as day.
He said white males dominate in the cockpits.
And yet Scott Kirby said nothing about it.
He didn't correct the interviewer on his harmful language, which no doubt probably discouraged millions of highly qualified pilots from applying for jobs at United Airlines.
How can the Airline Pilots Association tolerate something like that?
I don't know.
Of course, this is all such a waste of time.
I've said many times that we are careening towards a major airline catastrophe, and all the while, the people who are supposed to prevent that catastrophe are making complete fools out of themselves.
They probably know that if a disaster does occur, you know, they'll walk away with $30 million golden parachutes, too, so that gives them some comfort, I suppose.
That's apparently their only real concern, not the safety of the public.
And that's why the Airline Pilots Association and its effort to ban words like cockpit and mother and father is today cancelled.
