Ep. 1429 - The Message From Democrats Is Clear: Real Men Aren’t Welcome
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media tells us that the Democrat Party is rebranding masculinity. Tim Walz and Kamala's husband are, they say, the new icons of modern manhood. They're the models for us to follow. I'll explain why that's a major problem. Also, Don Lemon releases a commercial for my new film, Am I Racist?,

It was an unintentional commercial, but a commercial all the same. And with the DNC finally and mercifully over, we can now say for sure the worst moment of the whole abysmal event was the slam poetry performed by acclaimed poet Amanda Gorman. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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Before it became a content farm full of AI-generated clickbait, Sports Illustrated was at one point a serious publication where major political figures discussed issues of national importance, if you can believe it. And

And that was the case in December of 1960 when Sports Illustrated featured an article from John F. Kennedy, who was the president-elect at the time. The article was entitled The Soft American, and it addressed the crisis in masculinity that America was experiencing in the post-war period as men took office jobs and adjusted to suburban life. In the article, Kennedy called on men to maintain their physical and mental fitness because the strength of the country depended on it, he said. As Kennedy put it,

"The knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation is as old as Western civilization itself.

It was a sentiment you're unlikely to hear from politicians these days, expressed with an eloquence and maturity of thought and speech that you're even less likely to hear these days. But it was a theme that Kennedy hit often. It was one of the reasons he was elected. For Democrats in the 1960s, masculinity was a virtue worthy of reinforcing and protecting as much as possible. Going soft, as Kennedy put it, it was tempting. It was the natural way forward for a lot of people in the modern age.

As you indulge in all the modern luxuries and all that sort of thing, but it would ultimately doom the country. And this was not an especially controversial point back then or at any other point in world history. But in the 1960s, Democrats were the political party that successfully communicated that message to Americans.

Six decades later, amid another genuine masculinity crisis, as evidenced by plummeting sperm counts, a rash of men who say they're really women, declining rates of marriage, rapidly inclining rates of fatherlessness and so on, Democrats are now taking a very different approach. They've realized that emasculated men are easier to control. Weaker men are much less likely to resist

wealth confiscation, gun confiscation, and many other indignities. And because the modern Democrat Party cares about control and really nothing else, they're not really taking JFK's approach. Instead, they're doing everything they can to make the masculinity crisis even worse. Specifically, Democrats are now pushing what they say is a new plan to revamp and update the entire concept of masculinity for the modern age.

This is being achieved through primarily their two new mascots of modern masculinity. Their geldings that they've been trotting around as a positive example for all men to follow. And those are, of course, Tim Walls and Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff. Now, this new ideal man personified by Emhoff and Walls

is a bumbling, ridiculous cornball. He's an obedient lackey who does not challenge anyone or anything, least of all the women in his life who he happily subordinates himself to. It's certainly no coincidence that the left's paragons of masculinity are men who play second fiddle to more powerful women. This might sound like one of those forbidden conspiracy theories that's definitely not happening, but

Pretty much the entire corporate media has admitted that it is happening. Here, for example, is CNN explaining that Democrats are intentionally trying to appeal to men who are not, quote, testosterone laden. But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them.

Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out at the RNC or might want to listen to that, but also, in addition...

understand that it's okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman. And that's something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base. Imagine the men that are watching CNN and like resonating with that. Yeah, you're right. It's good that someone's finally talking to us, us pathetic wusses of the world.

Now, when CNN comes out and states that the Democrats vice presidential nominee and the vice president's husband both have low testosterone, you know this is a message that the party pre-approved. At any other point in American history, this would have been as seen as insulting and condescending and rightfully so. I mean, to come out and say that this is the party for men who are not testosterone laden, like at any other point in history,

That's the best way to kill the party. No man is gonna wanna be a part of that if that's how you sell it. But Democrats no longer believe that it's remotely insulting or condescending to publicly state as explicitly as possible that someone is an effeminate, low testosterone wimp. And that's because they want to encourage that behavior as much as possible. And that's why CNN isn't the only media outlet doing this. The New York Times, for example, recently reported from the DNC that Tim Walz's primetime debut, quote,

offered football analogies and an alternative to Trumpian masculinity. The paper stated that, quote, Mr. Walsh contributed an idea of masculinity that contrasted with Donald Trump's performative pro-wrestling influence machismo. According to the Times, not all coaches are men, but there are few pop culture archetypes more male-coded. There's the coach as paternalistic strongman, the my way or the highway leader whom you obey or you're off the team.

There's the coach as icon, the Vince Lombardis and Tom Landrys, who fans hold equal to political leaders or greater. But there's also the coach as nurturer, mentor, character builder, surrogate father. Wednesday's production cast the Democrats as the party of both football and Oprah, balancing the ticket with a little inspirational male weepy sports drama. Yes, they wrote that Tim Walz adds male weepy drama to the ticket. And we're supposed to think that's somehow inspirational.

In fact, we're supposed to think that a weepy male is so inspirational that it makes Tim Walz the surrogate father of America. Who needs your own father when you have a phony, manipulative politician who's willing to cry a little on stage as he lies about every possible detail in his biography? Why not have Tim Walz raise your children?

That's what they're saying. And by the way, Tim Walz signed a law allowing Minnesota to effectively raise your children if he or she identifies as trans and flees to the state. So this isn't really even a rhetorical question. The Independent ran a similar headline pushing Tim Walz as the symbol of masculinity, which is, this is how you know this is all coordinated because it's just this onslaught of this sort of stuff all happening this week. Here's what they said, quote,

Tim Walls is clearly a Midwest man's man, but he's the antidote to toxic MAGA masculinity. The Independent wrote, quote, the image of a high school football coach is often one of a whistle-clutching Neanderthal. Walls and the Harris campaign are making a point of highlighting the ways the Minnesota governor has sought to break that cultural mold, like when the then football coach took the initiative to sponsor a gay-straight alliance at the school where he worked. Yes, because, uh,

Nothing says masculinity like a grown man who, for some reason, helped to organize a gay club at his school so that he could talk with children about their sexuality, all before he eventually put tampons in the boys' bathroom. That's what masculinity means to Democrats in 2024. It means that you're willing to advance left-wing politics at every available opportunity. It has nothing to do with your character or your physical attributes or anything like that. As long as you're a loyal servant of the party, that makes you masculine.

Now, for a white guy like Tim Walz, playing the role of a loyal foot soldier means that he has to be willing to be mocked openly for his skin color. So Tim Walz has happily played along with that. As I've discussed before, he appeared for this scripted moment with Kamala Harris in which she mocks him for being white. And he just sort of nods sheepishly and submissively. Let's watch that again.

I have white guy tacos and like black... What does that mean, like mayonnaise and tuna? What are you doing? Pretty much ground beef and cheese. That's okay. Do you put any flavor in it? No. Here's the deal. No, they said to be careful and let her know this, that black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota, you know. I'm the first vice president, I believe, who has ever grown chili peppers. I'm trying to expand my food knowledge. You know, we've got some cantaloupes. You'll be fine. Yeah.

Yeah, but all you eat is mayonnaise and tuna, you white bastard, you white devil. Yeah, all shucks. We white folks, we're a bunch of goofballs, we whites. Now at the Independent Women's Forum, Inez Stepman summed up what we're seeing here as well as anyone. She wrote, quote, the Tim Walz packaging is meant to present a welcoming invitation to white men as part of the Rainbow Coalition.

Join the DNC and become merely a joke, not a villain. As Steppen put it, Walls is playing the bumbling, useless, non-threatening white dad in your typical corporate commercial, which is the only non-oppressor role for the white men available in this worldview. Same reason it's white dudes for Harris and not white men. The latter too dignified, too threatening. There must be an air of degradation and court jester to the thing. Very, very well said.

And this is what Democrats are now presenting as what it means to be a man. Here's a top Democrat in the Michigan State Senate who's explaining, and this of course is a woman. So this is a conversation between two women, two liberal women, who of course we turn to to find out all about masculinity and what it means to be a man. And let's hear what they have to say. Do you think male voters in Michigan are ready to vote for Kamala Harris?

I think so. And I think her selection of Tim Walls as a running mate was a perfect choice. We saw white dudes for Kamala Harris, one of these Zoom calls, get organized. And I've seen some really smart commentary that Tim Walls presents finally a counter to this GOP hyper masculinity that they've presented as what it means to be a man. And what Tim Walls presents

is another version where you can be fun and joyful. You can love your daughter, you can be a family man, you can be a veteran, you can love football. And all of these things are acceptable as what it means to be a man. And frankly, this is the Midwest dad vibes that we desperately need versus the very weird vibes coming from JD Vance. And of course, these two women, they'd be the first to tell you that if a man talks about abortion, let's say, they'll be the first to say, no uterus, no opinion. You're a man, what do you know about this?

Meanwhile, they're sitting there pontificating about masculinity. These two women in particular, if I were to make a list of all the people in the world who I would consider to be, let's say, authorities on masculinity, they wouldn't even make the top one million on the list. I would ask my dog about what it means to be a man before I would ask these two. Now, no one on the right, by the way, anywhere, just to react to what she actually said there, nobody on the right anywhere has stated that

That being a man means you don't care about your family. Nobody, at least no conservative, has ever suggested that real men don't love their daughters. In fact, we have always said exactly the opposite. Okay, are you paying attention? This woman, this is the problem. This woman, that woman, like anytime a man tries to explain anything, she doesn't listen because you're mansplaining. We clearly have not been listening at all to what we actually say about masculinity.

Because you're completely confused. We have always said the first thing a real man does is protect and care for his family. That has been our message all along. That's what we say. It's the left that condemns such ideas as paternalistic and patriarchal. Also, needless to say, nobody on the right has stated that men can't be happy or that men can't be veterans or that men can't love football.

Nothing she's saying there makes any sense. It's a complete straw man. She's lying because she wants viewers to go along with her framing, which is that Tim Walz is the definition of what it means to be a man. This is what the highest levels of the Democrat Party have told their lieutenants to push. So that's what they're doing. But if you're not buying the Tim Walz pitch, there's always Doug Emhoff, who was just forced to admit many years after the fact that he cheated on his first wife by having an affair with a nanny. He also refused to say what happened to his child after he got the nanny pregnant.

Stating only that he went through tough times because everything is always about him. But no big deal here, it's like potentially the husband of the president, if Kamala Harris wins, has a child and no one knows where he is. He could be dead. I mean, he could very well be dead. Was the child killed? Where is he? How is that acceptable? How are we just putting up with that? This guy wants to be in the way. He's in the White House right now, actually. And he has a child and we're all okay, like not knowing any, we don't even know if he exists. We don't know where he is.

Now, this is apparently another paragon of masculinity. According to Politico, they reported, quote, meet Doug Emhoff, dad-in-chief. The second gentleman's words aim to humanize Harris as not just a policymaker, but a successful woman who balances her career and family. The White House might be getting a wife guy as the country's first ever first gentleman. Yes, Doug Emhoff is a dad-in-chief. He's a real wife guy.

for cheating on his wife and lying about it for years. Time magazine agrees they reported on what they called the Doug Emhoff model of masculinity. They wrote after Emhoff's speech at the DNC that, quote, it was a relief to have an alternative model of manliness to admire and aspire to than the one often projected on the culture. These media organizations like the Democrat Party that controls them, they know exactly what they're doing here. They know that Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are not presenting an alternative model of manliness at all.

They are, in fact, projecting the exact opposite of manliness because they want to destroy the concept of manliness entirely. They are projecting cowardice and submissiveness because cowardly and submissive men are their core constituency. And that's why in a span of just 60 years, the so-called soft American has gone from the bane of the Democrat Party to their model for America. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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the dangers of Project 2025, and I made a website, project2025.com, to give them more information. Me and my team walked around the convention and handed out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of flyers directing people to go to project2025.com. And of course, as you saw yesterday, project2025.com is...

A beautiful website, state-of-the-art design from 1995, which has right in the middle of the website a trailer for my movie, Am I Racist? And a bunch of links that take you to buy tickets for the movie. Now, I showed you yesterday how Ben, one of the producers on the film, who's also in the movie,

had a chance to talk to Don Lemon about the website project2025.com. And Don Lemon was recording something on the convention floor and interviewed Ben about it. And we showed you footage that our team had shot of Don talking to Ben. We assumed that, of course, Don would never release the footage himself because he would find out what project2025.com is.

And when it released, I mean, you know, I've been talking openly about it for a whole day now. It's all over Twitter. So we thought, like, it's hilarious that Ben talked to him and we loved it. But there's no way it's like it's not going to come out. He's not going to release it. And yet still last night, Don Lemon released and then after a few hours deleted this video. And well, just watch it all the way to the end.

Do you think people are going to vote based on Project 2025 and how dangerous it is? People are talking about it. It has real resonance and salience among regular voters now. I'm worried about election integrity. I'm worried about women's right to choose and reproductive health. I'm worried about how we classify federal employees. It's a long list. Do you think people know enough about Project 2025? Project 2025 is...

relatively unknown. I think it's gotten a lot of buzz recently, but I think a lot of people don't want to read 900 pages of anything, so the really long format that the Heritage Foundation has put it in makes it so that a lot of people don't want to read about it. We've been talking to people about Project 2025. Do you think people know how serious that is? No. It's a comprehensive document that is quite lengthy.

And the reality is that most people won't really take the time to be able to read it. What do you want people to know about it? That it is everything that is against America. It is a blueprint for destroying our country. We have the opportunity to do something to make sure that this document never sees the light of day in our White House. I don't see me or you being included in that 25 in a positive way.

The Trump plan has nothing that is beneficial for black men, but to put us back where we came from many, many years ago. We gotta go and vote. The excitement's great, but this excitement will mean nothing if we don't win. So let's just keep the momentum going and then go and vote. I would love for you guys to go to project2025.com and learn a little bit more about Trump's absolutely radical agenda. There it is.

There's been with, and that's how the video ends. We didn't even end it there. It's like, that's how it ends. With project2025.com, Don holding up the card to the camera, very last shot of the video. So Don Lemon agrees. Go to project2025.com and buy tickets to my new film, Am I Racist? This is Don Lemon, folks, telling you to do it. And I have to tell you, at first, this was so perfect. It was so great that

I really wondered whether Don had done it on purpose. Like, is Don Lemon secretly based? Did he intentionally go along with the joke? Is that what happened? Because how else do you explain a supposed journalist airing the footage, that footage, a day after I told everyone on Twitter what we did? And it was trending and thousands of people were talking about it. Now, okay, maybe Don Lemon doesn't follow me, fine, but even just like five seconds...

Five seconds of due diligence. I mean, you're editing the video. Nobody even goes to the site. It only takes one second on the site to see that, or did they go to the site and say, well, it looks right now. Okay. Wow. Project 2025 is worse than I thought. I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know how this happens, but-

It does turn out, though, that Don Lemon is not based. This was not intentional because he deleted the video. So clearly this was not any kind of signal that he was sending to the rest of us, to the right, to let us know that, hey, guys, this has been a one long, deep undercover operation. I've been with you the whole time. I wanted to believe that. I really did. But he deleted it. Unfortunately for him, the Internet is forever. So sadly, Don, you are...

or not really sadly, I think it's great for you that you are our number one spokesman now for project2025.com, whether you like it or not. And I think it's the most significant thing you've ever done in your career. You should be proud of yourself. And you should be proud of yourself because the work that we're doing at project2025.com is so important. And so I thank you for your service in that regard. And by the way, on another note, I actually wanted to play the whole video because I wanted to just see the parts leading up to it.

None of those people have any freaking clue what Project 2025 is. None of them. This is Don Lemon. He's on their side, clearly. And he talked to a bunch of people down on the floor about Project 2025. None of them demonstrated even the slightest bit of knowledge. What do you think of Project 2025? Oh, well, it's really bad. It's terrible. What's so bad about it? Well,

No, it's gonna destroy America. It's gonna be the end of America, yeah. But what is Project 2025? Well, it's a document. It's comprehensive. It's lengthy. It's long. I would even say it's very long. Some would say that it's very, very long. And it's all in there, the whole thing. So none of them have any clue, which is maybe why, I don't know. I'm

You can never underestimate the stupidity of these people. I wonder for how many of these people did the joke just go completely over their head? How many of them went to the website and still didn't get the joke? It's unthinkable for you and I, but I bet you a lot of these people, we hand out these cards to everybody. A lot of them probably went to the website and still don't know that they were trolled. They were at the website looking at it and they still don't understand. Amazing, amazing.

Not that I'm admitting that it was a troll. It was not a troll. This is all very serious work that we're doing. By the way, I also want to mention that's sort of on the same subject that now that I'm back from the DNC and we do have our film, Am I Racist, coming out September 13th. Tickets on sale at amiracist.com or project2025.com. But all that's coming up and I'll be doing my first all access on Daily Wire today after the announcement of the film. And this will be the first time that

I'm going to answer really any questions about the movie. I haven't done, I don't think I've done any interviews or anything since we announced the film. That'll be coming in a couple of weeks. So this is your chance to, if you want to talk about the film, you want to talk about our adventure at the DNC or anything else, make sure you're, if you're a member, make sure you're at dailywire.com at 3 central. If you're not a member, then you should become one. Okay, Kamala Harris spoke last night.

Who really cares? The speech was, it was whatever, standard Democrat political speech. And she's fine on teleprompter, not brilliant, not great, not terrible either. I'm not gonna say she's terrible, she's fine. It's fine. My favorite part of the speech, and I didn't watch it, I only saw some clips. But of the clips that I saw, this was actually my favorite one. Here it is. And the freedom that unlocks all the others the freedom to vote.

With this election, we finally have the opportunity to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Wow. Yeah, so brave. So incredibly brave. I mean, can you imagine the courage it takes to stand on that stage and defend the right to vote? Just the absolute bravery, the boldness, the balls, if you'll pardon the expression, to stand up

And loudly proclaim that you believe in people having the right to vote. Defending the right to vote. I mean, it's, my God, stunning. I'm blown away. I'm shaking. I am actually shaking from the sheer awe of this. I can't believe it. Because think about it. Think about what kind of politician would ever be brave enough to defend a right that literally nobody is trying to take away.

Well, I want to take it away. I mean, I do want to take away the right to vote from millions of people who are too dumb and don't deserve it. So I would, in fact, like to disenfranchise millions of people, millions. I would like to. But aside from me, nobody else is. I'm the only one. So was she just talking? I mean, I'd like to think that the the.

I know I hijacked the DNC already, it can't all be about me. So I'm gonna assume she's not referring to me. And if she isn't, then there's nobody else. No one else is talking about taking away the right to vote from anyone. Putting me aside, no Republican is proposing legislation of any kind that would strip away the right to vote from anyone at all. It's a total non-issue. So obviously, to defend this right that is not being threatened in the slightest bit,

Well, that is something else. That is pure heroism. Pure heroism. What next? I mean, what is she gonna do? I expected that next she was gonna start talking about how it should be legal to wear shoes or eat breakfast. When I am president, every person will have the right to wear shoes when they go outside. We are gonna pass the Shoe Freedom Act of 2025. Now is finally time.

basic shoe wearing rights for all Americans. That'll be a great follow up. It really would be. I need Kamala Harris to pass a law to protect my right to do every single thing that I already do every day without a problem. I sat on my couch last night. I need a couch access law, ensuring that nobody will ever tell me that I can't sit on my couch. These are the issues we need the president to focus on. We need the president to work on issues that are not remotely issues at all, like at all.

That's what we need. And that's what we'll get with Kamala Harris. And that was the speech. Standard Democrat boilerplate stuff. But the media was blown away, of course. I want you to listen to this. I'm going to read a little bit. This whole thing is just, it's nauseating to read. But here, I think this is kind of representative of the media's reaction to Kamala's speech last night. This is the Daily Beast.

They saved the best for last. In a week of speech making like none of us have seen in our lifetimes, with one barn burning or heart tugging or inspiring address after another, electrifying the crowd at the Democrat National Convention. The biggest question confronting Kamala Harris before she took the stage for the final keynote of the event was how can she top all of that? How do you top the fire of AOC? How do you top the resonance of Hillary Clinton? Wait, what? The resonance of Hillary Clinton? Resonance?

Of all the words you could use to describe Hillary Clinton, resonance would be like the last word that I would use. Right after like beautiful and relatable.

The eloquence of Pete Buttigieg, the love-filled words of Doug Emhoff, the gut-wrenching testimony of the women who had suffered due to Donald Trump's assault on their fundamental rights and bodily autonomy. The compelling remarks of one Republican leader after another, from Olivia Troy to Adam Kinzinger, who said that this year they would be voting for Kamala not as Democrats but as patriots to protect our democracy.

Michelle Obama described it as magic. Everyone spoke of the joy that lifted everyone's remarks even more effectively and consistently and higher than even the expertly crafted playlist that accompanied the ceremonial roll call vote on Tuesday night. All of it rose to a crescendo that itself was capping off the most remarkable month of spontaneous nationwide momentum building in US political history. Which meant that for the Vice President of the United States, the pressure was on. Could she be worthy of the week of praise? Could she live up to the expectations of the crowd or the audiences watching at home?

Harris had to top it, and then she had to make the ultimate call to action. What is remarkable and deeply consequential is that she did just that. Even if she did not reach the highest highs of the Obama's remarks or the emotional depths plumbed by a simple cutaway from Tim Walz to his son Gus, she delivered not only the speech of her life on Thursday night, she delivered one that in substance, tone, and historical significance surpassed all those that came before her during this week that would have had Daniel Webster sitting up and taking notes.

You get the idea. I mean, that's just a leg. It goes on and on and on. I mean, it is just it talk about overcompensating. And I read this kind of thing. And the really scary thing is that to me anyway, is that the dork who wrote this actually believes it. Like, I want to be clear. I don't think that he's pretending to have been that swept up by all this. I think that he actually was. I believe that he is so shallow and so spiritually and intellectually bankrupt that

That he watched a bunch of Democrat talking point speeches at a convention and felt deeply moved inside the depths of his soul. And he's not the only one. Every convention you get stuff like this, right? I mean, it's more over the top for this one than usual. But you have people claiming they've been moved, shaken to their core, inspired, brought to tears. And I don't get it. And I'm not just saying this because these are Democrats. Honest to God, I have never in my life

never in my life heard a speech from a politician that came anywhere close to getting that reaction out of me. I mean, contemporaneous, like I'm saying, I have never heard a modern politician currently giving a speech. Now, I mean, there have been great political speeches in history that I've read about and that I've thought, wow, I would have liked to be there for that moment. But I've never actually heard it from a modern politician

And, you know, it's hard to give a good speech. It's very hard to give a speech that genuinely evokes emotion, one that is truly captivating and profound. And the reality is that the vast majority of speeches you will hear in your lifetime are really bad. Most people are very bad at giving speeches.

And at writing speeches, modern politicians in this country are terrible at it. They simply lack the intellectual depth to come up with anything truly compelling and insightful to say. And on top of it, they're not even trying to be compelling or insightful. 99.99999% of political speeches you hear are

are first of all delivered by midwits who have no insights to offer. None, they have nothing interesting to say. It doesn't exist in their mind. There is nothing interesting happening in their mind at all. And second, they're not even trying to be insightful. Actually offering like a real insight is sort of the exact opposite of the goal of almost any political speech that you hear these days. Because a real insight will be, you know,

It'll be interesting. It's not always like the best applause line because audiences are trained to applaud the stuff that they already believed. If you offer a real insight to make people go, hmm, yeah, I gotta think about that. Well, then you don't get the applause because they're actually thinking, God forbid. So these speeches aren't even intended to be that. So being this moved by a political speech,

especially one as dull as that, it really speaks to intellectual and moral deficiencies on your part. There is something wrong with you if you're actually that taken, swept up and swept away by these kinds of speeches. There is something wrong with you. And what's wrong with you, I'm not saying that you have some sort of mental illness, although you might. What's wrong with you mainly is that you're just like a dull person.

You're at least as shallow as the politician that's speaking to you, if not more so. You are a, let's say, you're a very shallow vessel. And so there's not a lot that needs to be poured in for you to be like, to feel like, oh my God, I'm overflowing with inspiration. Like a lot of these people, especially these ones in media writing these fawning pieces, they have the depth of like a thimble.

And so it only takes a thimble worth of insight or whatever to make it so that they're overflowing. And I think that's what's going on here. Quite sad. All right. In fact, we'll have a little bit more on that theme in the daily cancellation. Before we get there, though, one other story. A controversialist from the Daily Mail, a controversial linen shroud regarded by some to be the one Jesus was buried in.

has baffled the world for more than centuries. When it was first exhibited in the 1350s, the Shroud of Turin was touted as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the mutilated body of Christ after his crucifixion. Also known as the Holy Shroud, it bears a faint image on the front and back of a bearded man, which many believers say is that Jesus' body miraculously imprinted onto the fabric. Research in the 1980s appeared to debunk the idea that it was real after dating it to the Middle Ages, hundreds of years after Christ's death.

Now, Italian researchers used a new technique involving x-rays to date the material have confirmed it was manufactured around the time of Jesus about 2,000 years ago. They say the fact that the timelines add up lends credence to the idea that the faint blood-stained pattern of a man with his arms folded in front were left behind by Jesus' dead body. The Bible states that Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus in a linen shroud and placed it inside the tomb. And...

And now these researchers have come out and have used, as I said, new technology. They studied eight small samples of fabric from the Shroud of Turin using X-rays, and they say that it was dated back to 2,000 years ago. So fascinating results here. I absolutely believe that the Shroud is legit. I think it's real. I've always believed that. I think it's, you know, the actual image of Christ.

Because the shroud presents you with a situation where you have to assert something essentially miraculous either way. Because either some incredible genius who lived centuries before the invention of modern technology was able to get this image onto the shroud in a way that would stump the best minds in science for decades, centuries even. Was able to create an image in a way, like we can't even figure out how the image was created.

And at the earliest, this thing was created, as I said, like people debunking it, say that it was created in 1350, right? So well before anything resembling modern technology existed. And so you have to think that some sort of genius was able to pull off what would be the greatest hoax of all time. I mean, hands down, or it's actually the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

And the only reason to rule out the latter possibility is if you have ruled out ahead of time the possibility that the biblical account of Jesus is true. But it's irrational to rule that out ahead of time, you know, just right out of the gate to say there's no way that's true. That's not a rational way of approaching this. And if you haven't ruled it out, then, you know, you have something where all the signs point back to that.

And you can either read the signs or refuse to read them because, and if you refuse to read them, it's because you don't like where the signs lead. And the interesting thing to me is that a lot of secular people will say that they don't believe in God, they don't believe in the Bible. And one of the reasons they don't believe it is because if all that stuff was true, then they say that God would make it more clear. He would perform wondrous acts to let us know that it's all real. That's kind of the thinking. But

What we discover from the reaction to the Shroud of Turin is that even when these miraculous events occur, they still don't believe it. And so, you know, the honest truth is that I think God could appear in the sky above the earth for all of us to see and speak to us directly from the clouds. And lots of people would still refuse to believe it. I mean, they would say that it was a hallucination or some kind of trick or something.

something created by technology. Maybe it was a bunch of drones. Maybe it was a drone display of some kind. They would even say that it was aliens or something before they admit it was God. And I say that as someone who, as you know, believes that aliens exist. My point is simply that the people determined not to believe will not believe. And I think that's what's happening with the Shroud of Turin.

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You know, I was going to let this slide. I wasn't going to cover it on the daily cancellation. But then I realized that the entire reason I do a daily cancellation, canceling someone every single day, is that I don't believe in letting anything or anyone slide ever. And so I must cancel, probably not for the first time, Amanda Gorman.

Now for those blessedly unfamiliar with Ms. Gorman, maybe you haven't heard me complain about her in the past. She is tragically, horrifically, the most famous and celebrated poet in the country. She has performed her poetry at Joe Biden's inauguration. She's performed it at the Super Bowl. She's been showered with praise and critical acclaim. She's written bestselling books of poetry. She was the first person to ever win the title of National Youth Poet Laureate. She was listed by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in America.

She has reached a level of success that relatively few poets in the history of the world have ever reached. And one that poets in the modern world basically never reach at all. And the problem is that her poetry is very, very, very bad. Her poetry by all rights would not win a fourth grade poetry contest. It's the kind of poetry that if written and submitted for a grade by like a child in high school,

it would earn a C minus at best, if not a failing grade and a concern note home to her parents. She is terrible at poetry. Her poetry is so abysmal that it doesn't even qualify as poetry. But that hasn't stopped her from being celebrated as the greatest poet alive today. And it didn't stop her from performing at the DNC this week. Now, before we listen to her latest piece, I'll tell you ahead of time what you already know.

which is that the media loved it. She was praised effusively, but then again, of course, she could stand on stage and read from her CVS receipt and she would be praised effusively, so that doesn't say much. But with that set up, let's watch the performance that breathless media headlines have described variously as captivating, powerful, passionate, and otherworldly. Here is Amanda Gorman with her new poem titled This Sacred Scene. We gather together

At this hollowed place, because we believe in the American dream. Okay, let's stop there for a moment. Two problems quickly. First, she called it a hollowed place, which actually is a powerful and poetic description. I was there myself. I mean, it was indeed hollow in both a spiritual and intellectual way, but she didn't mean to say hollowed.

Hallowed, we can assume that she meant to say hallowed. I mean, the title of this poem is This Sacred Scene, so hallowed would fit the title. It would not, however, fit the event she's trying to describe. What exactly is hallowed about the United Center Arena in Chicago? It's a fine arena. Like, it gets the job done.

I mean, the outside is terrible. It smells like fecal matter everywhere, by the way, in Chicago. Can I just say, especially around that arena? I don't know if it's because probably a bunch of Democrats were in town. There's always a bunch of Democrats there. But anyway, I would stop well short of hallowed to describe it, is what I'm saying. So the arena is not sacred. And a political convention itself is not only not sacred, but is one of the least sacred things I can possibly imagine.

Especially a convention that has a drive-through line for abortions outside. So we're one line into this thing and already she's using the wrong word, which is actually the right word, while the right word is actually the wrong word. So we're all kinds of confused, but let's keep listening. We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country.

I'm not going to keep interrupting, but I do have to just pause again just to say one thing, which is what? This is a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country. What? What is that supposed to mean, Amanda? How can the earth perish from the country?

Perish from the earth is not a phrase that you can reverse and still retain any meaning. It's like saying, we will find out if the house is going to burn down or if the down is going to burn house. Which is a phrase that I guess you can also turn into poetry by saying with very serious tone and pausing for dramatic effect. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt here. Let's, you know, maybe...

Maybe she was trying to say that if the race doesn't go their way, the earth will be killed by our country. It will perish from our country as in like the way that something would perish from cancer, which is just it's a really confusing and clunky way of putting it.

And it also makes no sense on multiple levels. For one thing, our country isn't killing the earth. No country is killing the earth. But if any country was killing the earth, it'd be a country in Asia, maybe like a country like China, not us. Second, if losing the election means that the country is going to perish, which is what you said at the beginning of that line, then how can the earth also perish because of the country? The country is gone, I thought. It perished. How can it kill the earth when it no longer exists?

Which is it, Amanda? Is the country going to kill the earth? Which is it? You're not making any sense. If you're going to recite the most rote, banal, simpleton poetry of all time, the least you could do is have it make sense. This is the worst of all worlds. It's boring, cliched, trite, and also incoherent, which is an impressive feat. Continue.

It falls to us to ensure that we do not fall for a people that cannot stand together, cannot stand at all. We are one family, regardless of religion, class, or color. For what defines a patriot is not just our love of liberty, but our love for one another.

This is loud in our country's call because while we all love freedom, it is love that frees us all. Yeah, just stop it. I can't. I gotta tell you, slam poets on the hierarchy of artists, they are below ventriloquists and mimes. That's how low on the totem pole they are.

They're below porn stars, okay? It's like ventriloquist mimes, porn stars, and then slam poets all the way at the bottom of the artistic rankings. So I must insist again that this is not poetry.

There is no real rhythm. There's only sporadic rhymes. No metaphors are being used. No evocative imagery. She isn't finding poetic ways of expressing her ideas. She's just stating them plainly and in the least imaginative language that she can. The whole thing is absolutely pockmarked with cliches. Cliche is the death of poetry. And literally every single line of this godawful travesty masquerading as a poem has a cliche or is a cliche. So this is just a political speech.

The only thing making this a poem instead of a speech is that she's reciting it in a slightly halting way. But if that's all that's required to make poetry, then every speech Joe Biden has given for the past five years is poetry. Now granted, I don't claim to be a poetry expert, far from it. But I think that's why I'm a pretty reliable judge of these things. Because my first litmus test for good poetry is this, could I have come up with that?

And Amanda Gorman has never penned a single line, not a single one, that would make any halfway intelligent person say, wow, how did she come up with that? Mind-blowing. How did she think to phrase it that way? So take this line, for example. We are one family, regardless of religion, class, or color. For what defines a patriot is not just our love of liberty, but our love for one another.

There's nothing even remotely clever about those lines. It is an utterly bland collection of platitudes. It's not interesting, it's not beautiful, it's not poetic. This is the stuff of a campaign speech delivered by a high school sophomore running for student government. It is boring hackneyed, it's bad, I hate it, I hate it so much. But that line is actually a brilliant bit of wordsmithing compared to this clunky lumbering hunk of eighth grade vocabulary words.

Quote, empathy emancipates, making us greater than hate or vanity. That's the American promise. Powerful and pure, divided we cannot endure, but united we can endeavor to humanize our democracy and endear democracy to humanity. I mean, that is vapid, stale, and so awkwardly worded. It lacks any resemblance of rhythm, grace, wit, or

I want to vomit reading sentences like these. I might throw up on camera right now just from reading those sentences. That's how bad the sentences are. We can endeavor to humanize our democracy. Leave aside the fact that it doesn't make any sense, right? The message doesn't make sense.

It doesn't even sound good. It doesn't flow. Endeavor to humanize is a combination of words that should never appear in a poem ever under any circumstance. It's ugly. It sounds ugly. And there's no artistry in using those words in that combination. And that is, again, entirely putting aside the fact that humanizing democracy is an incoherent concept.

So it's just bad all around. I hate it very much, very, very much. Now, you might think that I'm overreacting. And sure, it's terrible poetry. Sure, it's relentlessly cliched and corny. Sure, the poem is so bad that it probably causes cancer. But what's the big deal? You might say, there's a lot of bad poetry out there. True enough.

But the fact that this kind of poetry is so revered and so celebrated means not that poetry is dead or that art is dead. It means something worse, that we are rapidly losing our ability to identify good art when we see it. So I don't have any contempt for Amanda Gorman just because she's a terrible poet. I want to make that clear. That's not her fault. And I'm sure she's a nice person, right? And she thinks that she's a great poet because that's what she's been told.

She's been told that since she was like 10, right? The first time she wrote, roses are red, violets are blue. Everyone's like, oh my God, what? How did you come up with that? And so her whole life, she's just, she thought like I'm an amazing poet because that's all anyone's ever told her. So I don't even really blame her. I don't. I have instead seething contempt for all of the people in the audience who listen to this bilge

and applaud and say, that's incredible. Did you hear how she said we should endeavor to humanize democracy? I mean, just what beautiful, beautiful language, stunning. Those are the people that I blame for this. They are the reason that art really will die in this country, not because people stop making great art, but because everyone else can't even recognize great art anymore. That's the tragedy here. Not that Amanda Gorman, as awful as she is,

maybe the best poet in the country, but it's that she definitely isn't the best. Yet she's good enough for so many people. They turn their back on art to guzzle this sludge instead. And so that is why Amanda Gorman and all of the people who applaud and praise her are all today canceled. And that'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. I'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

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