The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1799 - The SPLC Hits An All New Low With Cringe Sex Scandal

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

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in many cases, to harass and censor anyone that they deemed racist. But in private, as alleged in this indictment, the SPLC was funneling huge amounts of money to people actually associated with the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations and National Socialist Party of America. In other words, because the demand for white supremacy greatly exceeds the supply in this country, the SPLC had to create some more supply. That's exactly what they did. By far, SPLC's most successful SIOP was the so-called Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which took place in August 2017. This event immediately became a central, part of left-wing mythology. It was their ace in the hole against Donald Trump,

proof positive, supposedly, that he was a white supremacist. The rally was allegedly the reason that Joe Biden ran for president. Kamala Harris repeatedly mentioned it. Every claim the left made about the event was, of course, a lie. First, they claimed that everybody in attendance was a white supremacist, but that was not remotely true. Most of the attendees were protesting the removal of a Robert Lee statue, which was a righteous cause, because we were, Robert Lee is a great man of history and an American icon. And as Trump pointed out, the left was never going to stop with his statue anyway. They were on a mission to destroy the statues of all American heroes, which is exactly what they did. Then the left claimed that Donald Trump called

neo-Nazis very fine people when he explicitly said the opposite. And additionally, the left pushed the narrative that a white supremacist had deliberately run over a crowd of protesters, even though evidence showed that his vehicle was surrounded by a mob and attacked, and he pressed the accelerator to escape the violence. The driver of the vehicle had entered his home address on his GPS. He was distraught to learn people had died. Responding officers believed the incident was an accident, none of which mattered to the media, which never reported any of this. But the SPLC's role in the rally, according to the DOJ's indictment, wasn't really understood until recently.

As it happens, one of the organizers of the Unite the Right rally was on the SPLC's payroll. And this informant helped plan the Unite the Right rally and, quote, attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. He also, quote, made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC. It helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. From 2015 to 2023, the SPLC paid this individual more than a quarter million dollars. Yes, the worst neo-Nazi rally in memory, really the only neo-Nazi rally in memory, which wasn't even really a neo-Nazi rally, the one that dominated the news cycle for weeks and became a permanent part of American political discourse was organized by somebody on the left's payroll.

For the SPLC and the Democrat Party, more generally, the return on investment was immediate and enormous. The SPLC's revenue ballooned from $51 million to $133 million, thanks to massive donations from Apple, J.P. Morgan Chase, other major corporations, Spotify and Facebook, along with other social media platforms, began crackdowns on so-called hate speech. And, of course, Donald Trump was forever branded as the new Hitler. someone who had publicly endorsed violent Tiki Torch mobs, even though he did no such thing. Only now, many years later, are federal prosecutors alleging that the SPLC was involved in this operation the entire time. And the process, according to the DOJ, the SPLC defrauded its donors. The donors were told their money was going to fight white supremacy, whatever that means. But in reality, their money was going towards Nazi fundraising and false flag operations.

All this to say, it would be difficult to imagine that the year could get any worse for the SPLC. The SPLC's entire racket requires that people can pretend to take them seriously as some kind of impartial arbiter of the truth when they decree that somebody is racist and dangerous or whatever. For example, when Joe Biden's FBI began investigating radical traditional Catholics, quote unquote, the FBI cited the SPLC. The FBI knew the SPLC was lying, but that didn't matter. All that mattered is that in the FBI's estimation, the SPLC was trustworthy enough to cite in a memo as a pretext to crack down on Catholics. And along the same lines, if you ended up on the SPLC's hate list, then many corporations and advertisers would avoid you. You'd get blackballed. And that's not even getting into the fact that once you were tagged by the SPLC, an army of angry left-wing nut cases would also descend on you.

I was on their list along with Turning Point USA. So was the Family Research Council, which was shot up by a gunman who was inspired by the SBLC's hate list. He explicitly told the police that the SBLC's hate list inspired his attack. Just a few years later, the SBLC is no longer trustworthy enough for any serious person to even pretend to take seriously. Their cover has been blown. If the FBI or a major corporation wants to harass you on the basis of some false accusation

of racism, while the SvLC. isn't helpful anymore. So really, they have no reason to exist. But as if that's not bad enough, somehow the case against the SPLC has become even more devastating and utterly humiliating. The DOJ filed what's called a superseding indictment in the case, which is basically an indictment that revises the original one. And in this new indictment, the DOJ alleges that a high-level SPLC official, the director of their intelligence project, was sleeping with an informant in a white supremacist group called the National Alliance. The group was founded by William Luther Pierce, who wrote the Turner Diaries, which inspired the Oklahoma City bombings for some

background there. On top of that, according to the indictment, the SPLC, was funneling more than a million dollars to this particular white supremacist while their intelligence director was sleeping with him. So here's a picture of the intelligence director, apparently. Also gives you an idea of the standards, of this white supremacist lowly standards. And now the New York Post reports that the SPLC official in question is, quote, believed to be Heidi Berwick, a 58-year-old fascism expert, who was the director of intelligence ASPLC between 2012 and 2019. Now, before we go further into the details of the allegation here, and the details are worth talking about. Let's just stop and think about this for a second. Think about how on the nose this is. The SPLC was going

around saying F fascists, you know, and what do you know, they were doing exactly that. They were effing the fascists. And they were funding them too. So there's a lot of F words getting mixed in. I mean, really, somebody needs to turn this story into a romantic, comedy screenplay immediately. Okay, if none of you guys will do it, then I'll have to do it myself. Someone's got to do it. And I've already started kind of pre-production in my mind. And the only snag I can identify, you know, admittedly it's a big one, is that Philip Seymour Hoffman is not alive to play the woman. That's the great tragedy here. Take a look at these at these two and tell me the resemblance isn't uncanny. I'm generally opposed to you to the use of like holograms

movies or AI, but in this case, it may be worth it. And it's not just because she looks exactly like Phillips Seymour Hoffman. The more you read the DOJ's allegations, which include a Watergate-style break-in, the more you'll agree with me that he's the perfect casting choice, even if he's dead. Quoting from the new indictment, at the direction of the SPLC, the informant infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance. While receiving donors' money from the SPLC, the informant was also fundraising for the National Alliance. The money, the informant raised, help the National Alliance carry out its extremist activities. So in other words, the SPLC was paying a guy to raise money for a Nazi group.

They're so opposed to Nazis that they install secret operatives inside Nazi organizations in order to help the Nazis raise money for themselves. Oh, and then they also, you know, sleep with the Nazis too. So you're probably asking yourself, what exactly makes this guy an informant? I mean, aren't they just paying a Nazi to be a Nazi? As it turns out, indeed, this informant did perform some undercover work, which appears to be very illegal. Quote, in 2014, the informant broke into headquarters of an extremist organization and stole approximately 25 boxes of documents. The informant transported those documents across state lines from West Virginia to North Carolina.

The informant broke into the headquarters again and returned the originals after copies were made. The SPLC official used the copies, knowing they were stolen, as the basis for a story published on hate watch. The SPLC used this story to solicit more donations. The SPLC official paid approximately $6,000 in donors' money to a separate individual to falsely take responsibility for the burglary. Okay, so these are like major crimes, by the way. This is a major criminal conspiracy. The woman allegedly used donor money to pay someone else to take the fall. for her boyfriend.

And the Hate Watch article that the SPLC wrote, allegedly based on stolen documents, is called Chaos at the Compound. It's still online. And according to the article, quote, Randolph Dilloway, 49, an accountant with almost a decade of experience,

was secretly hired by Alliance chairman, Will Williams, in December to conduct in a forensic audit of the organization's bake statements, member news documents, and federal income tax filings. Terrified as his former employer, Dilloway contacted the SPLC on May 6th. Active in the neo-Nazi white supremacist scene for more than a decade,

Dilloway moved to the N.A. headquarters compound last winter and was given full unsupervised access to offices, holding dozens of boxes of poorly filed financial documents and data disks associated with the group's various business entities going back to 1985. Among the thousands of pages of documents, database files, transaction records, and digital media provided by Dilloway to the SPLC, the disturbing email exchanges he had with Calamaro's and Williams outlining possible financial improprieties earlier this year seemed to suggest the Alliance attorney was advising them to ignore evidence of tax fraud and embezzlement to avoid being audited by the IRS. Okay, so you can see what's going on here. The SPLC is doing what it usually does. They're providing a pretext for federal agencies to shut down groups that they don't approve of.

The FBI presumably couldn't get a warrant to look into the financial records of this particular white supremacist group. So the SPLC steps up to the plate. They break into the offices, steal the documents, and then publicize them. And then once that happens, the FBI and the IRS have probable cause to get their search warrants and to launch their investigations. Now, this is something a lot of people don't understand about how the legal system works, but it's a very common tactic that's used by law enforcement. So the Constitution only bans the government from engaging in unlawful searches and seizures. If the government randomly breaks down your door on a hunch, then it doesn't matter if they find incriminating evidence inside your house. All of it will be thrown on court if they don't have a warrant.

On the other hand, if a random guy breaks into your house and finds, say, a stash of drugs, he's allowed to tell the police about it. And the police can then get a search warrant and raid your house based on that illegally obtained information. And everything they find in your house will then be admissible in court. court. And the same is true for confessions. So once you're in custody and you say you want a lawyer, the police can't question you anymore. If they ask you questions, uh, and even if you confess at that point, your answers can't be used in court. But if a jailhouse snitch asks you questions in your prison cell and you're dumb enough to talk to him, then everything you tell the snitch can be used against you. Why? Well, because the snitch is not a police officer. He's not acting on behalf of the

government technically. Technically, if the police direct the jailhouse snitch to get you to confess, or if the police direct someone to break into your house and look for evidence, then the evidence also won't be admissible in court. So what's happened is that groups like the SPLC have formed in order to do the police's job for them without an explicit authorization from the police. So it's like an unstated partnership. And therefore, it's a legal partnership. The SPLC can break into your business and post your private files on the internet. And then the FBI can use those documents to prosecute. you. As long as there's no smoking gun, there's no explicit order from the FBI telling the SPLC to raid you, then everything will hold up in court. This is why fake nonprofits like the

SPLC are so dangerous. I mean, this is fundamentally why they exist. They're an end run around the Constitution. Again, it's one of the main reasons that they exist. And that's what's actually being uncovered in this. This is not just a case of the SPLC inventing cases of hate crimes, you know, to get attention and to fundraise off of it, although it is also that. This is at a deeper level away for the government to, you know, especially under the Biden administration, to get around the Constitution. And what you have to understand is that groups like the SPLC, especially at their upper levels, aren't really ideological at all. That's why they're having sex with Nazis. They don't care about white supremacy. Apparently, like kind of,

turns them on. They know it's a complete lie to claim that white supremacy is a significant threat to anybody in the United States. It's not. Their mission is to serve as the hatchet men for the Democrat Party. So they are the fixers. It's the same reason why Democrats are rallying behind the welfare queen with the Nazi tattoo is running for Senate in Maine. The whole party is fixated on power and power alone. Principles really don't mean anything to them. Calling them hypocrites means nothing to them. They just want to destroy. They just want to destroy. you, break into your home, and have the cops haul you off to prison. And by the way, this SPLC woman wasn't just carrying on a romantic relationship with the Nazi.

According to this indictment, they were also sharing a house and multiple bank accounts. So this is getting quite serious. In fact, this is more, now this is turning more into like a sitcom. This is not just a romantic comedy. It's a romantic comedy, and then it can be a spinoff into a whole like King of Queen-style sitcom. You get nine seasons out of it. So this is not just a fling we're talking about here. Quote, the SPLC paid the informant for over 20 years.

However, in just the time period alleged in the indictment, the SPLC secretly paid, speaking of King of Queens, Kevin James, actually, that's who needs to play that woman. That's really, that's the doppelganger. Anyway, Kevin James is looking for a new gig. It could be this one. Anyway, secretly pay the informant over $1.2 million in donors' money.

The SPLC official oversaw the payments of donors' money, to the informant, the SPLC official was also in a relationship with the informant. During the relationship, the SPLC official and the informant shared a house, and two bank accounts, approximately $140,000 in donors' money was ultimately deposited in the joint bank account held by the SPLC official and the informant. This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. The SPLC official then used donors' money to pay the couple's personal living expenses. Now, keep in mind, this is just the Nazi fling that we know about.

We can assume based on the fact that this woman was a high-level SPLC official, this kind of thing happened all the time. everything about this organization is fake in addition to being evil. They're fraudsters in every imaginable sense and they got away with it for decades. They were so fake that they were literally having sex with Nazis. And yet everything they said, every word of it was taken as gospel by the corporate press. The fact that the SPLC was one of the main drivers of fake narratives in this country, the fact that they successfully pushed the Charlottesville hoax for the better part of a decade is yet another gigantic sign that almost everything you hear on the news especially from the mainstream press is fake.

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Read the classics, study the West. Start right now at Hillsdale.edu slash Walsh. For all intents and purposes, as of this moment, the SPLC is essentially defunct. again, their cover is blown. That's not to say that they won't resurface during a Democrat administration. They probably will. But because of this indictment, they don't have anywhere near the power that they once did. They're kind of lying low.

But that doesn't mean that the fake narratives are going to stop or even slow down. Consider this recent story out of Chicago. So a week ago, we were informed by the corporate press that a white supremacist had decided to burn across in the middle of a Chicago park in a brazen act of racism that's only, possible in Donald Trump's America. Watch. Chicago police released new photos tonight of the man they're searching for in connection with a cross-burning in Grant Park. Community leaders are blasting the display of the symbol and racism and white supremacy in this city. The FBI is now involved in the investigation. WGN's Dana Rebick joins us live in Grant Park with the latest on that, Dana.

Good evening, Micah. Well, we know there are cameras all over the city of Chicago. And in The latest picture that Chicago police released earlier this evening, you can get a very clear look at this man's face. Police say that he ran from Grant Park shortly after this cross was set on fire. We were feeling a variety of emotions because this is not something you know you expect to see here. Kanika Carlton and her daughter were driving down Lakeshore Drive near Balbo around 2.30 Tuesday afternoon when they saw flames coming from Grant Park. We thought it was just a tree branch burning, and we were going to call just 911 to say, hey, it's something burning. But as we got closer, that's when we noticed it was a cross. I was horrified. I was angry. This was very, very intentional.

You had to have made this cross, put it in some kind of vehicle, brought it downtown, carried it over to putting against a tree, which has another whole symbolism, and then lighting on a fire. You were sending a message. Chicago police releasing new images of a suspect wanted in connection to the arson. The man with dark hair first seen crossing a street, then running, wearing dark pants, white shoes and a black backpack with no shirt. People calling for the man to be charged with a hate crime. As a history teacher, I am very familiar about the trauma, the violence and the terror of a burning cross. This was a tactic use, you know, for probably my grandmother, probably have seen something like this, great-grandmother, you know, and this is something that's been using the South to harm and scare black Americans. So it was very distasteful.

We received this statement from Cardinal Blaise Supich today, saying seeing a burning cross in one of Chicago's most visited public parks was shocking, but sadly, not surprising. We condemn in the strongest terms this action and affirm that hate has no place in our country. our city and our hearts. Well, I was good to see the leadership of the church weighing in on matters of national importance like this. You know, I don't want to talk about how open borders are destroying the country or how foreign Muslims are beheading and raping white people in the UK. But if there's a fake cross burning, they're on it.

They have a statement right away. Very brave. Very brave of the good cardinal to speak out against. cross-burnings. It really takes moral fortitude in the year 26. I'm against cross-burnings. Wow.

Really important. Really important for you to come out and say that. Now, one of the really incredible parts of the footage, as you may have noticed, if you're watching the video podcast, is that they actually blurred the burning cross. They acted like it was a horribly disfigured body or something. Your sensitive eyes aren't even allowed to see a burning cross. That's how damaging and horrific and racist and traumatizing,

the imagery is. It's like the N-word in physical form. Not only do you have to assume that a racist white guy did it, you also can't even see the cross itself, which the whole thing is a total joke. And speaking of jokes, everyone the interviewed for the segment is a complete moron. There's the black history teacher who informs us that burning crosses are indeed a confirmed symbol of racism. And she knows that because she's extremely well educated. No one else was aware of this, you see. And then you have the random white guy in the yellow shirt, who as far as I know, was not identified in this segment, spending about 10 minutes informing us that someone had to make and transport that cross, perhaps in a vehicle of some kind, before setting it on fire.

Indeed, this was not an accidental cross burning. Case there was any doubt. Somebody didn't, like, they weren't walking along trying to light a cigarette and they tripped and fell and lit a cross on fire. No, it was intentional. So glad we cleared that up. Now, missing from this news report, of course, was any suggestion that a leftist might have burned the cross.

That would just be unthinkable. even though literally every single time something like this has happened this century, it has been a hoax. Anytime there's a noose or racist graffiti or a burning cross or like a racist note left on somebody's car or on a receipt at a restaurant, 100% of the time, it's either a black guy or a left-wing activist behind it, 100% of the time. But to this day, despite the absolute certainty that this Burning Cross was yet another hoax, the media plays it straight. Every major local media outlet in Chicago did this, by the way. Here's how the local ABC affiliate covered the story, quote, while the motive behind the Burning Cross was not immediately clear,

cross-burnings in the U.S. have historically been seen as symbols of hate that are inextricably intertwined with the history of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision written by the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The Justice's rule that the First Amendment allows bans on cross-burnings only when they're intended to intimidate because the action is a particularly virulent form of intimidation. 22-year-old Aliana Carlton said she never thought she would see something like that in her lifetime. Kind of really opened my eyes, had me realize that I'm not that far removed from the past. Again, the assumption is that the KKK is alive and well in Chicago.

That's certainly how the Socialists in Chicago viewed the story. It is MAGA country, after all, as we learned from Jesse Smilett. The Socialist Alternative Newsletter, which used the cross-burning to recruit new members. Quote, on June 9th, just 10 days before Juneteenth, a burning cross was discovered in Chicago's Grant Park. Cross-Burnings in the U.S. have been symbols of racism or its supremacy ever since the Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror in the early 20th century. There's no reason to think the cross burning in Chicago has any other intent. This disgusting act comes just six weeks after the Supreme Court gutted what remained of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This cannot have failed to boost the confidence of violent elements of the extreme far right.

Imagine the audacity to hoist a burning cross at the center of Chicago in broad daylight. The cross burning in downtown Chicago is a terrifying reminder that racism remains a threat as long as capitalism exists, as do all forms of oppression. We want to dismantle systems of oppression and police brutality, end attacks and immigrants and transgender folks, prevent union busting and stop environmental destruction. We need an organized mass revolutionary movement against their common root, capitalism. Oh, yes, because we know that before modern capitalism, nobody was racist. Nobody except everybody. Before, you know, the modern free market capitalism in the West, racism didn't.

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Until right now, the young shirtless man running from a burning cross in Grant Park was a nameless person of interest in a Chicago police arson investigation and subject of a possible FBI hate crime case. NBC5 Investigates has now interviewed the man who admits burning the cross. University of Illinois Chicago's senior Merlin Liu says he knew the implications of a burning cross and had placed a MAGA hat atop the cross, explaining his motivation was to protest Trump administration injustice, not something racist. How did you land on a burning cross? It came up to my head one day. I wanted to find something that I could do by myself, like no organization, no friends, no. I did know about this historical relevance beforehand, but I didn't know the severity,

how how racially motivated it may seem from what I did. I put a red hat to signify the MAGA hat, the Make America Great Again hat. So that that was, yeah, that's what I tied on top. But that's not visible in the one video that was taken by a motorist. Lou says he was protesting what he calls MAGA Christian nationalist supporters and the Trump administration ruling class. You're just scamming people.

We're just scamming out of money, right? And I think that's a great reflection of how this country works right now, where money controls everything. Money has power over healthcare, money has power over transportation. But it's a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. I mean, that really is where it started. Nobody ever taught you that? No. You never read it in a history book.

Nobody... I just saw the Wikipedia page with the movie with the... I think it's called like Under One Nation or something like that. The birth of a nation is a famous 1915 silent film that romanticized the KKK and showed a cross-burning. Was it a hate crime? No, for sure not. In no way possible, was that a hate crime. Well, it was still a hate crime, by the way.

So, I mean, you hear the news report that, well, they thought it was a hate crime. No, it's still a hate crime. This should still be prosecuted as a hate crime. It's a hate crime against Christians. It's a hate crime against conservatives. I mean, you're burning a cross. you're trying to frame conservative Christians

that should still be prosecuted as a hate crime against the group that he admits he was trying to target him and he's sitting there saying oh no no no I was doing this was supposed to be a message against you know conservative Christians

okay well you should go to prison for hate crime then maybe the DOJ should get on that and this was the result that we all this is 100% I mean if you don't know by now with 100% certainty, if you didn't already predict this ending before we showed you that clip,

then you're too stupid to even breathe. I don't know how you get out of bed in the morning. And he's obviously lying about not knowing anything about cross-burning. His motive was the same motive we've seen hundreds of times at this point, including in Chicago.

It's like to become an epicenter of really obvious hate crime hoaxes. He wanted to frame Trump supporters and Christians as white, as white, supremacists. As the AP reports, quote, the man interviewed by the TV station said he was protesting the ruling class and Christian nationalists who support Trump, said he put a red hat on the cross to signify a maga hat worn by the president's allies. But there was something else the AP reported too, which didn't seem like it could possibly be real. The AP added that even

after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had seen this Asian guy's confession on television, he still acted as if the black community had been horribly victimized in some way. In other words, even after everybody knew, even though we all knew ahead of time, beyond any doubt that this was a race hoax, Brandon Johnson stuck to the script, as they always do. But I had to go verify this for myself, and indeed, it's very true. Brandon Johnson kept pushing this race hoax even after it collapsed on live television, even after he had an Asian guy saying, oh no, I was going after a conservative report. Republicans, he still kept going with it. Watch.

It's at a time in which this country has demonstrated its proclivity to cause harm on people and particularly black Americans, that symbol of hatred is one that we must continue to reject and I wholeheartedly reject it. I can't speak to anyone's motives. We can only speak to the impact and the impact was devastating and so the investigation that is surrounded that is surrounding this cross burning and this evil symbol of hatred I fully expect that the investigation will unfold in whatever consequences that come out of this investigation I hope it matches the level of not just discomfort, but pain that it caused. He's so sad.

He's so disappointed. He saw that Burning Cross. He was so excited. It was Christmas morning for him when he saw people like they saw, he saw the Burning Cross. And he said, finally, finally, a real one. It was the greatest day of his life when someone told him there was a burning cross. And he said, really? For real? Yes.

And then it turns out I was an Asian guy and he was so sad. It was the worst day of his life. But he's not going to let go of the narrative. He says, I can't speak to anyone's motives. We can only speak to the impact. And the impact was devastating. Well, actually, you can speak to somebody's motives. The guy who did it can speak to his motives.

And he did. He told us. He told us why he did it. He wasn't trying to harm black America. nor did he actually harm black Americans. If he hurt anyone, it was the people that he was trying to target, which are white people. All of the local news stations in the city ran the fake story that white supremacists are burning crosses to terrorize black people. It's the kind of story that could easily motivate a black supremacist to start mowing down white people.

I remember the mass shooting in Dallas back in 2016 when a black supremacist specifically targeted white police officers killing several of them because he hated white people. He was on a suicide mission to kill as many white people as he possibly could. The police had to use a robot equipped with a bomb to blow him up. That same year, a black separatist named Gavin Long, furious about a fake BLM narrative, shot six police officers in Louisiana, killing four of them. There were several more similar shootings and stabbings in that period, and in the year's sense, of course, all motivated by anti-white hatred.

So this is not some academic point. Democrats promote false narratives of white supremacy because they want to, want to see more white people get murdered. Now, the SPLC is presumably too busy getting investigated and having sex with Nazis to assist in that mission, at least for the moment. But the SPLC is just one propaganda outfit among many on the left, all of which have the exact same goal. When one falls, the others pick up the slack.

When their narrative is exposed as fraudulent, they just keep pushing it as if nothing happened. And the media will go along with it every single time. From the national networks to the local news stations. We are up against people who are so fixated on the elimination of their political enemies that they've lost all sense of self-awareness and shame, if they ever had any to begin with. And while they think that's a strength, and historically it has been, the truth is it's now become a massive liability as well.

Once you start ignoring Nazi tattoos on your Senate candidates, once your anti-hate group is having sex with Nazis, and once your mayor is pretending to weep about a gay Asian communist lighting a cross on fire, the shark has officially been jumped. People can't possibly have patience for this kind of overt, shameless lying anymore. And with just a few months until some very important elections in this country, and a rare bit of good news for conservatives, that's a very good place for us to be.

That we'll do with the show today. And this week, talk to you next week. Have a great weekend. Godspeed. Last month, we judged Martin Luther King, Jr., not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. American school kids spend a lot of time hearing about MLK and Rosa Parks. Have you noticed no one ever asks what Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery are like today? The legacy of the civil rights movement wasn't a racially harmonious utopia.

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