The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the airline that just flipped upside down on a runway in Toronto has been obsessed with DEI for many years. They seem to have been more focused on “girl power” than on keeping their planes in the sky. Also, the Trump administration might ban food stamp recipients from using taxpayer money to buy junk food. Why isn’t that already the policy? The mayor of Los Angeles says she needs to investigate to figure out why she decided to leave for Africa right before the wildfires broke out. And a new debate is raging on social media: is it sexist for a dad to take just his son on a guy’s trip? The internet says yes. And the internet is wrong again. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1540 - - - DailyWire+: Don’t just watch CPAC—be part of it LIVE with Daily Wire Backstage TONIGHT, February 20, on DailyWire+! Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Done With Debt - Start building the life you deserve! Visit https://donewithdebt.com or call 1 (888) 322-1054 and talk with one of their strategists. It’s FREE! PureTalk - Switch to Pure Talk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/WALSH - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs
Chapter 1: Why did the airline crash in Toronto?
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the airline that just flipped upside down on a runway in Toronto has been obsessed with DEI for many years. They seem to be more focused on girl power than on keeping their planes in the sky. Also, the Trump administration might ban food stamp recipients from using taxpayer money to buy junk food. Why isn't that already the policy?
The mayor of Los Angeles says she needs to investigate to figure out why she decided to leave for Africa right before the wildfires broke out. And a new debate is raging on social media. Is it sexist for a dad to take just his son on a guy's trip The internet says yes, and the internet is, of course, wrong again. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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You know, it's not easy to find a lot of people who are willing to go back and revisit the early days of Barack Obama's presidency. Conservatives don't want to relive the whole nightmare for obvious reasons. And for their part, Democrats would rather move on, too. They don't particularly want to dwell on Obama's Russian reset, for example, where he told us that Putin wasn't really a bad guy.
That kind of thinking isn't exactly compatible with Democrats' current narrative. Nor are Democrats interested in reminding everyone of Obama's promises to lower health care costs or his promise to close Guantanamo Bay or his promise to stop the weather from changing. None of that happened and so on.
So if there's bipartisan agreement on anything, it's that Obama's presidency isn't worth talking about anymore. But there is one moment. from the early Obama years that has suddenly become relevant again. And I'm talking about the crash of a Colgan Air passenger plane, which was flying under the brand name of Continental Airlines.
The crash occurred in February of 2009, just a month after Obama's inauguration. It was the fourth in a string of crashes involving regional airliners from 2005 to 2009. 50 people died, including one person on the ground. And an investigation revealed that the pilots, one man and one woman, were overworked and underpaid. They were also objectively bad pilots, at least on that particular night.
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Chapter 2: How have diversity initiatives affected the aviation industry?
So when I talked about it with the fire chief, what she said is that we have warnings of Santa Ana winds a lot. But predicting this, and you saw... from the city, from the county, that level of preparation really didn't happen. So it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. Why didn't it happen? But to me, I don't know.
I mean, I think that That's one of the things we need to look at. So two investigations are taking place. One internal to the city, and that's the fire commission, because that's mandated by the city charter. So the commission will hire an outside entity to examine everything. The pre-deployment, you know, why were staffs, why were firefighters sent home?
You know, all of that that should have taken place that didn't. And then also the governor has contracted with the Fire Safety Research Institute, which is a national institute that investigated what happened in the fires in Maui. So everything that happened, including that, needs to be examined.
But I will tell you that I felt absolutely terrible not being here for my city and not being here for my family.
So she needs to investigate. She's going to investigate why she went to Ghana. And, you know, now we've we've heard politicians dodge responsibilities, responsibility many times by claiming that they're investigating something. But this is really on a different level.
I mean, this is beyond what we normally hear because she's she's in this case, she's investigating why she personally did something. So the question is, Mayor Bass, why did you do this thing? Well, we have to investigate to find out why I did that thing. Who can say, who can say why I did something? Certainly I can't.
So we can investigate and within the next 36 months, we'll be able to convene, we'll have enough information to have a hearing that will then have a further investigation to figure out why I did that thing. Now, the truth, though, is that voters in Los Angeles have no right to be shocked and appalled by the fact that that Karen Bass was overseas.
This has been the thing that has defined her political career for as long as she has had a political career. When she was in Congress, she was constantly jet setting around the globe. Constantly finding any excuse to be in any country but our own. So it was obvious that she preferred Africa to her own country.
She was always in Africa, always off somewhere, always on the weakest, most dubious pretense. And they voted her into office anyway. I mean, we played...
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