The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
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I have to confess that I don't spend any amount of time using the app known as Blue Sky, which is the left's alternative to X. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that if I started posting on Blue Sky, my account would be nuked within about five seconds. It's an app that doesn't tolerate any kind of dissent from left-wing orthodoxy, an echo chamber in the purest form.
If you're not there to commiserate with self-loathing trans activists or to come up with clever new ways that a special counsel could remove Donald Trump from office, then there's just not much to do. In other words, It's what every social media platform on the internet used to be before Elon Musk got involved. Now, that being said, you can make the case that Blue Sky still serves a purpose.
It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election night, which is this. When left-wingers assemble and shut out everyone who disagrees with them, then at the very least, the meltdowns can be pretty entertaining. They can also reveal a lot about the left's thinking and what's going on in the institutions they control.
So case in point, if for some reason you found yourself on Blue Sky lately, then you know that, to the great surprise of left-wing activists, they're starting to lose control over one of the most powerful weapons in the culture war and in Hollywood, which is Disney.
The big story over on Blue Sky recently has been that Disney just pulled an episode of the Marvel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. According to leaked online footage, the episode is about a boy who identifies as transgender and wants to join a girls volleyball team.
The coach of the team is completely fine with this, either because he's a really enlightened activist or because he just wants to win really badly. Not exactly clear, but The coach of an opposing team, who looks extremely menacing and whose name is Greer, takes issue with this whole arrangement.
And as the episode progresses, the boy says lines like, I'm trans, my very existence breaks Greer's rules. He also wears pride-themed knee pads and has a trans is beautiful sticker on his water bottle. Other players, including one who identifies as non-binary, quote unquote, call Greer narrow-minded.
Ultimately, the evil coach uses some kind of magical curse to confine the boy and his teammates to the locker room. and basically kidnaps them and puts their lives in danger in the process. At one point, a character trapped in the locker room says, we could literally die. So not exactly a subtle piece of trans activism.
It's a transparent attempt to indoctrinate children into believing that there's nothing strange at all about a boy playing girls' volleyball or the idea that girls can transform into boys. And of course, the episode also intends to demonize any adult who says otherwise.
And by the way, in case you're curious, I watched some of the footage online that the episode ends with the boy player becoming really frustrated that he's trapped in the locker room by the evil coach who hates him because he identifies as trans. So he punches his fists really hard into the floor and breaks through the ground, revealing that it's actually an LCD screen.
So I guess that even in the fictional cartoon works of trans activism, so-called trans girls are prone to uncontrollable testosterone-fueled outbursts. But in any case, no part of this production is surprising in any way, coming from Disney. What is surprising is that At least for now, Disney has pulled the episode. For once, they've decided that the indoctrination is just too on the nose.
And over on Blue Sky, someone who worked in the show's art department named Derek Malik Johnson, pronouns he, him, posted this message to explain why. It's not the most grammatical post in the world, but I'll try my best to read it. So it says, so I guess I finally got hit with one of the projects episodes I worked on is getting shelved because of which party that won the recent election.
It breaks my heart knowing this impactful and amazing episode is now about to be considered a lost media episode. Now, with writing skills like that, I'm sure this guy will be hired by Disney to script the next Marvel film, but officially Disney has denied that they've pulled this episode because of the election or because people are tired of trans activism posing as children's entertainment.
They're also suggesting that they're not influenced in any way by the fact that female volleyball players have been severely injured by trans-identifying male players. But more recently, in the context of yet another programming change, Disney has been more forthright about their motivations. So they've just eliminated a so-called trans storyline in a different show.
This is an upcoming episode of their animated series Win or Lose, which is out early next year on Disney+. As The Hollywood Reporter put it yesterday, quote, Pixar's original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a later episode. The series follows a co-ed middle school softball team named The Pickles.
In the week leading up to their championship game, each of the eight episodes center on the off the field life of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach, or an umpire. Now, here's the statement that Disney provided The Hollywood Reporter to explain the change. And again, they're much more honest in this case about why they made the change.
Shockingly honest, you might even say, quote, when it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. You think? Now, just a few months ago, a statement like that would have been unthinkable coming from Disney.
They were promoting their bold decision to include non-binary characters with they-them pronouns in films like Elemental as recently as just last year. They had the same-sex kiss and light year and so on. And now they're coming right out and saying that, in effect, it's inappropriate to use cartoons to indoctrinate children into trans ideology.
Now, of course, that statement doesn't go nearly far enough, and this should not be a revelation for them, but it's a start. It's another sign among many that we've seen in recent weeks that we're seeing a very rapid and profound change in American culture particularly as it relates to trans activism but All of that is not to say that we've won the battle for our culture, especially in Hollywood.
We're a long way from that victory, in particular in Hollywood and the film industry. And the other day we got a very clear reminder of that fact when my film, Am I Racist, the top documentary film of this year by a mile, the top documentary film of the decade, was snubbed from Oscar contention in the nonfiction category.
We didn't even make the shortlist of the top 15 films, which they eventually whittled down to the final five nominees. And so this is, they didn't announce the nominees yet. They announced that their shortlist, they're essentially their top 15. These are the 15 films in the category that they're going to choose from to pick their nominee.
And we didn't make the top 15 with the number one film in the genre by a wide margin. So as far as snubs go, objectively speaking, it's a pretty big one. Not a surprising one by any means. I'm not shocked by it, but it's still a big snub.
As Deadline reports, quote, Am I Racist, the controversial documentary that satirizes diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction features today despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year by far.
It scooped up more than $12 million in the domestic box office, but that wasn't enough to sway the minds of Academy documentary branch members who determined the shortlist, as well as the eventual five Oscar nominees. Yes, the minds of the Academy documentary branch members have apparently decided that documentary audiences don't know anything about documentaries.
Because we might have an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes above 95%. We might have exceeded box office totals for documentaries going back six or seven years, but... In the end, none of that matters. What does matter is what the Academy documentary branch members think.
And these Academy documentary branch members, according to the Academy, have, quote, demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures, mostly by producing their own documentaries. And they've decided that Am I Racist is not, in fact, an achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures.
Some of these branch members have even produced films that have grossed more than $50,000 internationally. So you know they're qualified to make these kinds of determinations. They have their finger on the pulse of audiences everywhere. So what films did meet the branch members' high standards this year? Well, it turns out that
To no one's surprise whatsoever, they rewarded a handful of films that address political issues from a left-wing perspective. This is from Deadline's report, once again, quote, Films that focus on political questions beyond U.S.
borders did get love from the DAC branch members, among them The BB Files, Alexis Bloom's documentary that serves as a brutal takedown of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No Other Land, a frontrunner for the Oscars, condemns Israeli government policy in the Occupied West Bank.
Union, the documentary directed by Brett Story and Stephen Meng, follows the first successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation, a facility located on New York's Staten Island. Ah yes, who could forget Union, the highly compelling documentary that followed the successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation. and make your Amazon delivery slightly more expensive.
It was a film that audiences just couldn't get enough of. After all, it's a documentary that grossed a whopping $47,000 at the domestic box office, which is more or less what we got with Am I Racist minus around $12 million. It's also a movie that no one has said a word about, and almost no one has seen. But who cares? In terms of cultural impact and relevance in the year 2024, union is it.
And then far down the list, you've got, am I racist? By the way, Another film, again, to no one's surprise, that made the shortlist is that Will Ferrell trans documentary, where he goes across the country with his trans friend. And that one also made, again, a documentary that probably no one has seen, but hasn't had no cultural impact of any kind at all, but also made the list.
Now, to be clear, of course, this is an entirely expected outcome. No one here has been out of shape in shock and horror because the Academy isn't celebrating us. We didn't make the movie in order to seek validation from left-wing activists in Hollywood. And it's no surprise that we didn't get it.
I mean, if we wanted to make a movie that would be accepted by Hollywood, we would not have made that movie of all movies. But two things can be true at the same time. This snub can be completely predictable and unsurprising. while also being still objectively outrageous and totally discrediting for the Academy Awards.
If a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past six or seven years, and yet still not even crack the top 15 by the Academy standards, that means that conservatives are simply excluded from having their work recognized by Hollywood. There's no other way to interpret it.
Again, not a surprise, but very discrediting. Now granted, box office totals and audience reception don't necessarily mean that a film is awards worthy. It'd be easy to point out that superhero films always, or at least until recently, always make billions of dollars and achieve high audience scores. Does that mean that Spider-Man should win the award for best picture? No, not in my opinion.
However, if there was a short list for best picture, if they whittled it down to the top 15, then yes, you would expect the highest grossing film of the year to at least be in the running for consideration. But more to the point, documentaries are a different animal entirely. It's very easy for a big budget superhero film from a major studio to earn a lot of money. It's basically guaranteed.
On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to create a documentary that makes even a million dollars in the box office, let alone 12 million. And that's proven by the fact that our film is in the top 35 all time. I mean, among all documentaries that have ever been made, top 35 for domestic box office totals.
What that means is that in the nonfiction category, it is very, very challenging to tell a story and explore an issue in a way that a large audience finds compelling and interesting. But that is, after all, the whole point of a documentary. If your documentary doesn't connect with people, then by definition, it cannot be good and should not be in the running to win any award.
If it does not connect with the audience, it has failed to do the one thing that it must do in order to qualify as artistically successful. So the performance of our film, both in theaters and on our platform, proves that we succeeded not just financially, but artistically.
We explored an issue and told a story in a compelling and interesting way, which means, yes, at a bare minimum, we should be in the running for a nomination. By all rights, we should get the nomination and win. But none of those things happened purely because of politics. And whether you want to admit it or not, I mean, that does have larger ramifications for our culture.
It affects the kinds of films and shows that Hollywood produces. More importantly, it affects what our children see as well. Disney is relenting, as I mentioned earlier, but only to a point.
This is very much an ongoing fight because, you know, one thing I've learned and maybe the main thing I've learned after getting into filmmaking is that the left truly believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. Not just that it owns Hollywood, which it does, but that it owns filmmaking itself as an art form.
So any conservative who makes a film in any genre is an intruder, is a usurper, showing up in a place where he doesn't belong. That's the way they see it. So the truth is that the success of our films, and by the way, both of our films, both documentaries, are easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the decade. We have the top two. in this decade. There's really no dispute.
I don't think anything else is even close to in the running. But that actually makes it less likely that they'll be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it. They feel personally insulted by it. Now, if this snub tells us anything, it's that we're angering all the right people.
And unfortunately for the esteemed Academy documentary branch members, all they've accomplished this week is guaranteeing that we're not going to stop. Now let's get to our five headlines. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Shockingly, I haven't talked about this issue at all, I don't think, on the show, even though you'd think it'd be right up my alley. This is like... This is... This is... a story tailor-made for me. And so why haven't I talked about it? Maybe it's the contrarian in me. I talk about UFOs when nobody is talking about them or cares about them.
And then I don't talk about them when everyone's talking about them and cares about them. I didn't plan it that way. It's just how it worked out. But in any case, mysterious drone sightings all over the country. You're familiar by now with the basics of this story, starting in New Jersey and kind of branching out from there. at least along the East Coast.
There have been these drone sightings, hundreds of sightings. The Pentagon on Monday came out and said, everything's fine. Nothing to see here. These are all just commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones or stars or... you know, weather balloons or light refracting from Venus, you know, or any number of explanations. Basically, any explanation as long as it's boring and not scary.
That was their statement. We don't know exactly what this is, but we're sure that whatever it is, it's fine. You know, that's... Which is the kind of answer that you wouldn't accept in any other facet of your life. You know, if you...
If you went to the doctor because you had some strange thing going on in your body, you had some strange growth or something, and you go to the doctor, the doctor says, well, I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it's fine. You wouldn't accept that. He's like, well, if you don't know what it is, then how can you know that it's fine?
It's like the fact that there's something anomalous going on here is in and of itself is a pretty good indication that it might not be fine. And yet we get this kind of answer from the government a lot, and that's what they've been saying here. They don't know what it is, but it's probably fine.
Yesterday, Biden finally addressed the drone craze, I think for the first time, though very briefly, and talking to reporters, and here's what he said.
What's behind all of this? There's nothing nefarious, apparently. But they're checking it all out. I think it's just one... There's a lot of drones authorized up there. I think one started, and they all got it. Everybody's wanting to get in a deal. But we're following them closely. So far, no sense of danger. Will you speak to Prime Minister Netanyahu about a ceasefire deal in the next month?
I spoke to him. I'll speak again. When did you last speak? Thank you.
Okay, so he says nothing nefarious, apparently. Apparently he's doing a lot of work there. Not exactly instilling confidence, once again. Nothing nefarious, apparently. And the problem is that the official explanations don't really comport with some of what we're seeing. For example, the Express yesterday had footage taken by a passenger on a plane over what they think is Detroit.
It was on its way into Newark, but over Detroit. And this passenger saw these kind of glowing orbs in the sky. This was 10 or 12,000 feet in the air above the clouds. And let's take a look at that. So there are the orbs. You can see the glowing orb-like vehicles. This is an altitude well above where a commercially available drone could fly. And all right, that's good. That's enough of that.
And there have been a lot of sightings like this, hundreds, as I said, across the country for several days now. And, you know, Pentagon and White House say it's nothing. They don't know what it is, but it's nothing. They're sure of that. Many other theories have been floated. Some have said that these are drones or aircraft from some kind of foreign adversarial power.
Chinese spy drones, I just read an article floating that as a possibility. I find that hard to believe because the whole point, and what do I know, but the whole point of a spy drone, I would think, is that it's not supposed to be detected. But these things are lit up like glowing like the 4th of July, you know? So, I mean, I don't think your enemies are trying to put on a light show for you.
So, enemy spy drones that thousands of people can see and that attract hundreds of headlines, there seems to be a concept problem. It's just not how that's supposed to go. So I find that hard to believe. The other possibility is that these crafts are part of some U.S. government operation. I find that explanation kind of unsatisfying. What would be the point?
I mean, a common variation of this theory that you've probably heard is that maybe the government's looking for something, and there's stories about a lost nuke, lost radioactive materials, and because there's no evidence of that. And once the sightings spread out across the East Coast, it becomes even less satisfying. What are they looking for 15,000 feet above Detroit?
And of course, you always get the people who say, well, this is a diversion tactic. They're trying to distract us. That's what this is all about. But as I always say to that, There will be no reason for the government to do anything so elaborate to distract us. They don't need to conduct some convoluted operation with thousands of drones across the East Coast to distract us.
We are already distracted all the time, constantly. You're distracted right now listening to me, okay? Everybody is always. So that's why I always get a kick out of this. They had to do all this to distract us. They could just point to a squirrel over there. We actually had a two-day news cycle about a squirrel. So anything will distract it.
They could, I don't know, make Taylor Swift break up with Travis Kelsey. That would distract the American public way, way more than 10,000 drones ever could. So I find a lot of the standard explanations unsatisfactory, which leaves us with the only remaining plausible answer, which is that, yes, these are aliens. Sorry, I know you expected me to say that. I know that I'm not surprising you.
I know as soon as you saw this, if you're a fan of the show, as soon as you saw the drone thing, you're like, oh, Matt's going to say it's aliens. Well, yeah, it's because that's what they are. I don't know what to tell you. So I can't surprise you. Because in order to surprise you, you have to be wrong. And that would be the most surprising thing, for me to be wrong.
But I need to stick with my boring habit of being right, which means I have to say, these are aliens. You know, one important fact here is that many of the initial New Jersey drone sightings were over the ocean or of what appeared to be craft coming off of the ocean. This is a common theme with UFO sightings. They're often seen coming out of or back into, seemingly, the ocean.
What's the significance of that? Well, I don't know, but I do know that the deep ocean is the last place on Earth that is mostly uncharted and mostly unexplored. The deepest parts of the ocean are less accessible to us than the moon. And meanwhile, people often ask, well, if aliens are coming here, where are they going?
Are they just coming and flying around a little bit and then leaving a minute later? That's a long way to go to just fly around and leave. Doesn't make a lot of sense. And you're right, it doesn't. So what if they're coming here and actually staying? What if they are establishing alien bases under the water? I mean, that would be one way to explain this. That's one explanation.
Is it the best way to explain it? Depends on what you mean by best. If by best answer you mean most exciting, most interesting, most fun, then yes, it's the best answer. The best answer is it's aliens coming out of their alien bases in the ocean. That's the best answer. Now, if by best answer you mean most plausible, well then, stop being a bummer. You have your drone theory, I have mine.
Nobody knows. So when it comes to this, you just got to go with the most fun possible answer. That's my version of Occam's razor, okay? That's my little twist on it. Only when it comes to mysterious things in the sky, only then will I say that I will choose the most fun possible explanation. And I'm doing the same here. I got to stick by my guns on this. I want to mention this story too.
This is from a few days ago at this point, and I missed it while I was away. Which, by the way, a lot of you in the audience were upset that I disappeared without explanation. And I also disappeared right when this drone stuff was going on. So you might have thought I'm on some kind of mission related to the drones. But that was not the case.
Actually, I left because of my surprise party for my dad's 70th birthday. And the problem is my dad listens to the show. So I couldn't tell you guys that I was taken off a few days because then he'd be suspicious. So for the sake of preserving the surprise, I had to spring this on you without notice. These are the moral quandaries that one faces while attempting to pull off a surprise party.
But anyway... Which we did pull off, by the way. He was surprised. So this happened late last week. And I have to say a few things about it. You've probably already seen the clip. We'll play it anyway. This is Crystal Mangum, who's the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case, admitting in a podcast last week that she made up that rape claim almost 20 years ago. Now, I think it was in 2006.
So almost 20 years ago, it was all made up. And she finally admitted it. Let's watch the clip.
And I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't. And that was wrong. And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me. and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God. And I hope that they can forgive me.
So she made it all up. We already knew that she made it up. Any honest and intelligent person knew it at the time. It was always obviously a lie, and now she's admitting to it 20 years later, apologizing, hopes that they can forgive her. All she did was completely ruin the lives of three young men. All she did was have these young men or try to have them thrown in prison for decades.
All she did was tear the country apart over a lie that she made up. And now she wants to be forgiven. Forgiven with zero accountability, zero consequences, zero punishment. It's just obscene. Imagine the reverse of this. Imagine a man... raped a woman and got away with it. And then 20 years later said, yes, I raped her. I'm sorry. That was wrong. I hope she can forgive me.
And then imagine that was the end of it. No legal repercussions, no prison time, just an oops, sorry about that. I screwed up. And that's it. And it The apology almost makes it worse at that point because there's no accountability. It almost makes it worse because it just makes the lack of consequence all the more glaring and ghastly.
And this comparison works because, as I've said many times, falsely accusing someone of rape is just as evil as rape itself. These are two sides of the same coin, essentially. The false rape accusation is... basically the female version of rape. An evil pervert man who gets off on imposing himself on women becomes a rapist.
An evil pervert woman who gets off on imposing herself on men often becomes a false rape accuser. And the trauma suffered by the rape victim and the false rape accusation victim is is very similar, equally severe, equally devastating. And, you know, of course, when you say things like that, people will accuse you of downplaying the severity of rape.
But if you interpret it that way, it's just because it's not, this is not downplaying the severity of rape. You are downplaying the severity of falsely accusing someone. The point here is not to diminish the severity of rape, but to take this other thing and make a point about how significant that is. We're not bringing this down a level. It's this other thing.
We're bringing it up, making sure that it's on the correct level, bringing it up a level in terms of explaining the severity of it. When we say ruin the life of someone, that is what you are doing. You are ruining their life. And those guys who were accused, I don't know where they are today. Hopefully they've been able to pick up the broken pieces and build some kind of life.
Your life isn't literally over. You continue living, hopefully. But you have just sent their life careening off on a new course that it shouldn't be on. And you've done this all with your false accusation. And in the meantime, and we can't understate the point that you are trying to put them in prison. You're trying to have them locked up in prison on false pretenses.
So it's also kind of a form of kidnapping. I mean, that's what falsely imprisoning someone is, and that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to use the legal system to do it because you can't do it yourself, but that is what you're trying to do. Now, Crystal Mangum, I believe, is already in prison for second-degree murder.
I think she stabbed and killed her boyfriend, I believe, because this is just a wonderful person all around. But she's set to be released soon, and she should now be looking at another 20 years in prison, at least. Okay, you want... I mean, forgiveness... The guys that she victimized, I don't know if they... I think if I was in their shoes, I'd have a very hard time forgiving her.
I think, obviously, it'd be a very hard time. Whether I could actually forgive her or not, I don't know. And I don't know if they... If they can't forgive her, I... would totally understand that. It's not my place to forgive. This is one of the things people don't understand about forgiveness.
When you have someone who does something and then they go in public and say, oh, I'm asking for forgiveness. The forgiveness from the public, even if we could grant it, is meaningless. We were not the ones who were harmed by this. We're not the victims. So our forgiveness means nothing. We actually can't forgive you. We aren't involved in this.
The men that she victimized, they could choose to forgive her or not. But what I do know is that forgiveness is in effect a sort of one-way street in that way, that a person chooses to forgive or they choose not to. But reconciliation, having any kind of real reconciliation, that is not a one-way street. That, on the part of the wronged person, it involves forgiveness on their end.
On the part of the person who did the wrong thing, there must be accountability. You have to be willing to suffer the consequences and accept the consequences of the terrible thing that you did. And by the way, if you're not, then you're not actually sorry. So your apology is not real. And in this case, there's no consequence. No legal consequence, which is just crazy.
And all that does is encourage more of this kind of stuff in the future. When someone could come out years after the fact and say, yeah, you know what, I made it up. And there's no consequence at all. I find that, as I said, obscene is the best word I can think of for it. Daily Mail has this story.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality despite the city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described anti-waste-based discrimination expert, describes herself as a prominent advocate for fat positivity and body acceptance.
Announcing her appointment on her Instagram, she called it an absolute dream come true. I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city. I've called home for almost 20 years in this way, Tovar wrote. This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health. Okay, so San Francisco has a million serious problems.
The city's falling apart. Anyone who's been there recently, as I have been multiple times, unfortunately, knows that this is no exaggeration. I mean, it's a filthy, disgusting place. I can't imagine ever living there. If I was offered a job that pays 10 times more my current salary, but I had to live in San Francisco, I wouldn't take it. I wouldn't even be tempted to take it.
That's how revolting San Francisco is. San Francisco is so bad. That the fact that there are gay men walking around fully naked in the city is actually not even the worst thing about it, about the city. It's top five, for sure. I mean, it's probably three or four on the list. But it has so many problems that somehow there are things even worse than exhibitionist weirdos walking around. And...
In spite of all that, the city is taking the time to focus on weight stigma with their weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar. And by the way, here she is. This is a video making the rounds on X, but here she is introducing herself. Let's watch this.
Hi, my name is Virgie Tovar, and I'm the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, as well as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. When I think about what people might be surprised by or what you wouldn't think of when you think of eating disorders, I immediately think of being a kid. I was a kid in a larger body, a teen in a larger body, and also an adult in a larger body.
And the message I always got from my doctor was, shrink your body by any means necessary. And it really felt like there was a sense of a don't ask, don't tell. So because I truly, truly, truly believed, right? And this is where I think the surprise comes in. I really believed that this was about my health. I really believed that my doctor was right.
What I think of, what you think of when you think of eating disorders, I think of being a kid. That's a sentence that she just said there. A couple of things here. Number one, Yeah, you should make yourself smaller by any means necessary. That is correct. There's nothing sinister about that. By any means necessary, you should make yourself smaller.
If that's the message you get from doctors, that's the correct message. That doesn't mean that you should be bulimic or anorexic because those methods aren't necessary to lose weight. They're also not recommended from a health perspective, obviously, but the point is they aren't necessary.
So if you're hearing the message that you should lose weight by any means necessary, that is not an advocacy for eating disorders. The necessary means for losing weight is eating less and moving more. That is what is necessary. Those are the necessary means. And yes, that is what you should do. And second... She says she's the author of a book called You Have the Right to Remain Fat.
Which, by the way, I know I said recently that gag gifts are lame, but there are exceptions to every rule. And it would be very funny to give that book to somebody as a gag gift. Wrap the book, hand it to them, tell them, you know, you saw this book on the shelf and thought of them immediately. And you thought that they'd find it inspiring. Now, important disclaimer here.
This is a gag gift only for men. You as a man, give it to a male friend or a male family member who has a good sense of humor. I would not give this as a gag gift to a female. Okay, don't give it to your wife as a gag gift. That would be a very good way to ruin Christmas. A funny thing for me to think about, you doing that. But anyway, I looked at the book on Amazon.
Here's the description in case you're curious. It says, growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Just a side note, and you always hear this from morbidly obese people, that, well, I've tried dieting for two decades.
No, you haven't. Okay, two decades of dieting and you look like that? literally impossible, literally impossible to diet for two decades and end up looking like that at the end. It breaks the laws of physics. It cannot be done. Now, I mean, well, I guess it depends what you mean by dieting. You could just have a really, really bad diet.
I mean, your idea of dieting could be insane, but like actual dieting, where you're cutting down the calories, and again, you're moving more. The calorie deficit, two decades, and you're morbidly obese. Impossible to do. Cannot be done. So every time you hear this, I've tried dieting. I've tried everything. No, you haven't. I've tried everything to lose weight. No, you haven't.
Not only have you not tried everything, you haven't even tried the one single most obvious thing and the only thing that, aside from drugs, will make you lose weight, which is to cut the calories and to move more. So you haven't tried. You haven't tried everything. You haven't tried anything. Actually, you've tried nothing, basically. But there was also this line I liked.
She says, Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free for moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. Jiggle through life with respect. Those words that were written, and not to be funny. And of course, the whole premise here misses the point intentionally.
You know, these fat acceptance people always go on about how all bodies should be valued equally, which, yes, true. If you mean that all people, regardless of their size, should have equal rights and moral dignity as human beings, that's true. But that's also exactly why you shouldn't be fat.
If you value yourself and your body, you should not be doing something that destroys yourself and your body. Fat acceptance is no different than the idea of cancer acceptance. Imagine a movement that tells you to embrace and enjoy having cancer. Imagine a movement that says we shouldn't negatively judge people who do things that cause cancer. We should encourage them to keep doing it.
Write a book called You Have the Right to Die of Cancer. Now, of course, this analogy doesn't actually work because there can be a point with cancer when you do have to basically accept it. If you're terminal stage four, cancer is untreatable, inoperable, then at that point, basically, you should be in the acceptance stage.
Although even then, it'd be perverse to insist that somebody love and embrace the cancer itself. It's a tragedy. at this point, unavoidable. So hopefully you can find happiness and peace in spite of the cancer, but you don't find it in the cancer or through the cancer or because of the cancer. On the other hand, there is never a point with fatness where you should just accept it.
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It's been used in cases where, say, the Biden administration invites TikTok influencers to the White House or when Eric Swalwell starts crying in Congress because of a meme that depicts Donald Trump rescuing cats from Haitian migrants. These are situations in which Democrat politicians act like theater kids or when they promote influencers who seem like theater kids. But
In general, no one is actually suggesting that theater kids are literally occupying the government and conducting its day-to-day operations. It's an expression. It's meant to parody Democrats in exaggerated terms to highlight how absurd things become when they're in power.
But by this point, we're all very familiar with the Democrats' uncanny ability to turn absurd and exaggerated situations into reality. They're becoming impossible to parody. And as if to prove that point, a Democrat on the Supreme Court has just decided to embrace her inner theater kid in the most literal sense.
As you may have seen, Kentonji Brown Jackson had her debut on Broadway on Saturday night, appearing in the musical And Juliet, which apparently is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She plays a character called Queen Mab, who, according to a poster from the production, has she-her pronouns.
And she appears in two scenes that were written specifically for her for a one-night-only performance. Here's some of the promo video that they released after her appearance. Watch.
Female empowerment.
Sick. Welcome to the first day of rehearsal. Thank you.
I'm so excited to be here. This has been a dream of mine. Tonight, we have a very special guest, Supreme Court Justice Katonji Brown Jackson!
Now, just from the short clips that appear in the promo, you can already tell that she can't act. She actually managed to bungle one of the few lines she had when she gets interrupted by the crowds and just stops mid-sentence. And other clips from her performance demonstrate that she can't really sing either.
But before I subject you to that footage, I need to make the point that even if Quintanja Brown Jackson could act and sing, She still shouldn't have made the decision to appear in this play for several reasons. For one thing, it's completely unwatchable political propaganda.
In particular, it's a full-on embrace of every ridiculous tenet of gender ideology, including the idea that people can be non-binary. That's notable because gender ideology is currently before the Supreme Court in the case pertaining to Tennessee's ban on child castration.
During oral arguments in that case, Ketanji Brown Jackson compared Tennessee's ban to a prohibition against interracial marriage. made it very clear that she's a partisan on this issue, and now she appears to be openly celebrating that fact in a play centered around these kinds of ideas, which should be disqualifying all on its own.
Now, to give you some idea of what this new version of Romeo and Juliet is like, there's a character called May, who apparently is Juliet's best friend and who identifies as non-binary and uses he, she, they pronouns. Watch.
Don't tell me what to believe. I'm just trying to find a woman in me.
Hi, I'm Justin David Sullivan. I use the pronouns he, she, and they. And I play Juliet's best friend, Mae. While I'm in between. Mae goes on a journey of self-discovery, finds love, and explores their gender identity.
So just to restate, this is the play that a sitting justice on the US Supreme Court decided to participate in. The justice who couldn't define the word woman during her confirmation hearing, saying that she's not a biologist, is now endorsing propaganda about gender that's written by activists on Broadway.
But again, even if this play wasn't a piece of lazy activism, even if it were the best play on Broadway, there's still no justification for a Supreme Court justice to appear in it. I mean, at the same time, it's obvious why Kataja Brown-Jackson decided to go through with this, as if you couldn't tell from all the praise and applause she received in that clip.
She gave an interview with CBS where she explained her reasoning
It's a story about female empowerment and, you know, women's ability to do what they want to do to control their own destiny. I think it's a wonderful message and obviously very fun. Other justices actually have done somewhat similar things.
I just also think it's very important to remind people that justices are human beings, that we have dreams, and that we are public servants, and we're not so detached from the people that we serve. I guess this moment reinforces for me that anything is possible.
You know, I didn't let anything sort of hold me back or stop me, the obstacles that I would think were pretty obvious based on my background. And so I think the lesson is don't give up and don't be deterred.
So there's a lot to think about here, but maybe the best part is when she says that she's appearing in this Broadway play with a scene that was written just for her because she wants to remind everyone that she's a public servant. going out of her way to appear in a play so she can attract as much attention as possible and fulfill her childhood fantasy. But it's really for your benefit, peasant.
So just shut up and clap as she breaks the glass ceiling or whatever. Then she goes on to say that it's shocking that she was able to achieve this lofty goal given her background and how all these obstacles were stacked against her. But... Here's the thing. No obstacles were stacked against her. Solely on account of her race and gender, she was admitted to a prestigious law school.
Then she became a Supreme Court justice after just one year of serving on an appellate court because Joe Biden needed to nominate a black woman. And now she's a Broadway actress because, once again, she's getting preferential treatment instead of being assessed on merit. So the total lack of self-awareness here and the all-encompassing narcissism
is almost as bad as her decision to appear in this play in the first place. This is not a woman who should be deciding cases at traffic court, much less the highest court in the country, but she says it's totally fine because other justices have kind of done similar things in the past.
She was apparently thinking of this moment from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career when she did a poor job of reciting some feminist propaganda at the opera one time. Watch.
The best of the house of Krakentorp. have open but not empty minds. The best are willing to listen and learn. No surprise then that the most valorous Krakentorpians have been women.
Now, the whole clip is even longer, but no one should have to be subjected to it. It goes without saying that this is not the kind of thing we want Supreme Court justices to emulate. It's just painful to watch. In the case of Ketanji Brown Jackson, some people have tried to defend this as a harmless, if deeply cringey, hobby.
Maybe we should overlook this, they say, because after all, Scalia liked going to the opera or whatever. But even aside from the fact that attending the opera is nothing like what Jackson did, Scalia was also a skilled and competent jurist. Ketaja Brown Jackson is not. Her opinions are riddled with factual errors, for one thing.
At one point, for example, she stated in an opinion that white doctors are significantly more likely to kill black babies than black doctors are, but she overlooked the fact that white doctors are typically better trained, so they tend to see babies of all races who are in critical condition, the worst cases. On top of that, Ketanji Brown Jackson also got the numbers completely wrong.
She said that according to a study, the survival rate for black infants who have black doctors was more than double their survival rate when they have white doctors. In reality, the study showed a difference of survival rates of less than 0.2%, which is essentially nothing, especially when you factor in the different levels of experience the doctors have. This wasn't some trivial error.
This was contained in Jackson's dissent to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that overturned affirmative action. Her reasoning for trying to uphold affirmative action was based on obvious lies. But she never apologized for that. She never demonstrated a hint of self-reflection in this context or any other context. Instead, she's now feeding her ego on Broadway.
By the time she spent practicing for her Broadway performance, would it have been better to utilize reading and learning how to do the job she's been assigned? Of course, if she did that, then she wouldn't get to do a media tour to promote herself and her new book, which just came out a few months ago.
Somehow, Ketanji Brown Jackson secured a million-dollar advance for that memoir, even though nobody read it, and it fell off the New York Times bestseller list in like a month. Sales figures haven't been released, but as we all know, books written by famous leftists are a bit like Hunter Biden's paintings. They have no value, but strangely, someone is always willing to pay a lot of money for them.
Now, I'm not suggesting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is getting money from some nefarious source. I have no idea. What I am suggesting is that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been given an awful lot of attention for someone as thoroughly unintelligent and mediocre and narcissistic as she is. And her latest turn as an actress on Broadway, a bad one, is just the most recent example of that.
This is the Hamilton phenomenon all over again. It's yet another occasion for rich New York elites to feel virtuous by applauding mediocrity in the name of social justice. And above all else, the reason this whole farce is so galling is that we used to expect just a certain amount of decorum and dignity and seriousness from people who hold important positions in government.
And we should still expect that, or else we'll just never get it. And that is why Katanja Brown Jackson and the queer-themed Romeo and Juliet remake that she just appeared in are both today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.