The Megyn Kelly Show - Best of the Week: Left's Censorship Regime, Veterans Speak Out on Walz, Harris' Debate Complaint
Episode Date: September 8, 2024Megyn Kelly highlights some segments from The Megyn Kelly Show this week, including Glenn Greenwald on the left's censorship regime, military veterans speaking out against Tim Walz, Matt Walsh on his ...new anti movie exposing DEI, and the RealClearPolitics hosts on the Kamala Harris campaign still complaining about a debate rule.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and this weekend, best of special.
We had a busy week on the show, beginning on Labor Day on Monday with a special edition of the program
and my interview with four brave veterans who
served our country. They spoke out together for the first time about the man who was the leader
of their National Guard unit in Minnesota, Tim Walz, who decided to retire conveniently right
before the unit was deployed to Iraq. I also spoke with our pal Glenn Greenwald about what we're
seeing from the
Democratic Party when it comes to censorship of those whose opinions they don't much like,
like former President Donald Trump, of course, but also those on the Dems side, like Jill Stein
and Tulsi Gabbard. She's now a registered independent, but they didn't like her when
she was an outspoken Democrat either. Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire was with me as well this week for the first interview about his new movie out next week called Am I Racist? You will see exclusive
clips and enjoy this interview immensely. The film is hilarious. It's going to make major waves when
it hits theaters this week. Get ahead of the curve by watching this interview. And I spoke with the
host of The Real Clear Politics podcast and Sirius XM show about the Kamala Harris campaign still whining about the
debate rules for Tuesday's debate and more. These are the polling gurus. They know tons about
elections and you will find them fascinating here as always. Enjoy and we'll speak to you on Monday.
Zuckerberg mentioned the pressure he was receiving over at Facebook from the government to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop, saying it's one
of the things he regrets doing. You still have some publications holding on to the fact, to the
lie, that this could be Russian disinformation. Those 51 intelligence analysts are still holding on to, well, you never
know. It's been verified. They can't admit their mistakes, but it's somewhat promising that you've
got somebody like Zuckerberg saying, I see now, I see what they did. And I see that I took the knee
too fast. And you've got Elon standing up like these social media companies maybe are finding their spines. Kamala Harris has a long
history of wanting to censor the internet, people on the internet who she finds objectionable,
even people who happen to be president of the United States. Here she was back in October of
19 when Donald Trump was in the White House and she was mad about his so-called perfect phone call that led to his first impeachment.
Listen to her.
I know you wrote to Twitter and the CEO, Jack Dorsey, and asked him to take away the president's Twitter handle, his account.
How is that not a violation of free speech?
How would that not just be a slippery slope where they have to ban half of the people on Twitter?
I've heard that argument, but here's the thing, Jake.
First of all, a corporation, which is what Twitter is, has obligations.
And in this case, Twitter has terms of use policy and their terms of use dictate who
receives the privilege of speaking on that platform and who does not.
And Donald Trump has clearly violated the terms of use.
And there should be a consequence for that.
I mean, think about that.
Trying to get the president of the United States banned from expressing his views on one of the biggest public platforms we have because she thinks this is an outside person at that point that he's violated the terms of use. And it was about six seconds because her campaign was such a failure in 2019 for the Democratic nomination.
She made as one of her central planks a demand that Donald Trump be banned from the Internet.
I remember very well she was on a stage with people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
And she said, Senator Warren, I challenge you to support my argument that Donald Trump should be banned from the Internet.
And even Elizabeth Warren was like, I don't know, that seems kind of radical to ban the elected president of the United States.
And remember, they did ban him. Twitter, Facebook, Google all got together after January 6th,
and they forcibly banned the sitting president of the United States to the point that even the
Western European countries who hated Trump said, this is alarming. This is scary.
This should not be happening.
Much of the world reacted that way.
And I think it's sort of the thing where we're all inculcated from birth to believe that
the United States is the home of freedom.
One of the things that distinguishes us is free speech.
But if you start gradually eroding that one incident after the next, after the next, you can get very, very far to a sort
of authoritarian or tyrannical situation without really realizing that you're there.
When you have people talking about banning, obviously they wanted to put their political
opponent in prison. They wanted to ban him from the ballot. But the first step was let's ban him
from the internet. Remember, these are the people saying, if you don't vote for us, democracy will die.
And yet every single thing that is the hallmark of tyranny in other countries with their political
opponents is everything they've been trying to do.
And in 2019, Kamala Harris led the way on that.
That was how she tried to distinguish her political campaign and gain support among
Democrats.
Absolutely right.
And here's that moment that you just referenced from that debate back in 2019.
Watch. Here we have Donald Trump, who has 65 million Twitter followers and is using that
platform as the president of the United States to openly intimidate witnesses, to threaten witnesses,
to obstruct justice. And he and his account should be taken down. We saw in El Paso
that that shooter in his manifesto was informed by how Donald Trump uses that platform. And this
is a matter of corporate responsibility. Twitter should be held accountable and shut down that
site. It is a matter of safety and corporate accountability. So look, I don't just want to
push Donald Trump off Twitter.
I want to push him out of the White House. That's our job. But the way-
Join me in saying that his Twitter account should be shut down.
Let's figure out- No.
Why it is that we have had laws on the book.
She's like, okay, crazy lady from California. Even I'm not that nuts over here in Massachusetts.
Yeah. You know, this is, I mean, this is incredibly alarming. If you look at polling
data, Megan, and you ask Americans, do you support either having big tech censored the
internet in the name of disinformation or the U S government censor the internet in the name of disinformation.
75% to 80% of Democrats want not just big tech, but the government to regulate and censor the
internet in the name of stopping disinformation, which is what George Orwell warned about,
the idea that the government becomes the minister of truth, no longer allows free debate because
they say, this is truth, this is false. That's the
basis of Brazil. Oh, Elon Musk is allowing opinions that are false and therefore that's
fake news and illegal. One of the things Zuckerberg said about COVID was that so much of what he was
being pressured by the US government, by the Biden administration to censor about COVID,
not only was entirely debatable, meaning they wanted him to censor things like it came
from a lab leak. And he was saying, obviously, at the time, there was no proof on where the other
people were debating it. They wanted to take down anything that might have come from the lab leak.
But he said, also, they ended up demanding we censor things that turned out to be true
about the efficacy of masks, the dangers of vaccines, the absurdity of social distancing.
So it would be one thing if the government were saying, we only want to censor things that are
demonstrably false. That would still be bad enough. That's what Orwell warned about.
But the censorship push is to censor things that are true or that are debatable. They really do
want an internet that is dissent-free, just like so much of their media is dissent-free.
And what is more alarming than trying to turn the United States or any democracy into a system of
closed information? What's crazy is a couple of the points you just mentioned are in the news today
and on my agenda to go over with you. But that's why this story about, you know, kicking it off
with what's happening with Brazil and X and then Kamala's position on censorship is so important.
It ties into so much of what's already happening in the United States.
So the Russia thing, right, like there's danger out there and therefore we must censor, whether it's the Hunter Biden laptop, which was censored wrongly, or, you know, these evil forces
who are trying to interfere with our election. Just Monday, this is in the news this week,
the DNC called the Democratic, well, the Green Party presidential nominee a useful idiot for
Russia, citing Jill Stein's upcoming event in Tampa, in which she is expected to lend her
support to three members of a black leftist group federally charged for allegedly acting
as malign foreign agents of Putin's government. The quoting here from the bulwark.com.
So they almost, they ignored this person for the better part of a year, Jill Stein. But now that
she's doing this thing, they're coming
out calling her a useful idiot for Russia. This is basically her own party. And this is what
they did to Tulsi Gabbard too. When she became a threat to their chosen nominee, she had to be
dismissed as a Russian asset, not to mention what they did to Donald Trump. This is their
favorite trick. And the Jill Stein thing and what we're about to talk about they did to Donald Trump. This is their favorite trick. And the Jill Stein thing,
and what we're about to talk about with respect to this CNN report,
it's just, this is their go-to bag of tricks, Glenn, that it's all the Russians,
anybody who gets under their skin or potentially takes away 1% of the vote in a critical swing
state is a Russian. And any problems of the the Democrats own making, that's a Russian as a
disinformation campaign. Yeah. So let me just mention really quickly this case of a black
socialist who are being now federally prosecuted because I covered it a lot. Tucker had put them
on his show quite a bit as well. Obviously, a lot of people's audiences would disagree with a lot of these people's views. But these are like 70 and 80 year old guys who are like old standard leftists who are spent their whole life opposing what they call NATO imperialism, U.S. militarism.
And of course, it follows that they are against U.S. funding of the war in Ukraine that's consistent with their lifelong beliefs. But because the tactic of the Democratic
Party now is to accuse all of their enemies, not just on the right, but as you see with Jill Stein
or anybody who threatens their power, they just accuse everybody of being an agent of the Kremlin.
They prosecuted these people because they were speaking out against the war in Ukraine
and they had these very tenuous connections to a couple of peace activists in Russia.
And it's so obviously an attempt to stifle free speech by saying that even if you speak out against our war, which is as foundational to the United States as possible, your right to oppose the government's war policy, we can now prosecute you.
And it was AOC who led the charge against Jill Stein because they're obviously petrified she's going to take away Democratic votes. And I've seen this now, Megan, for eight years. Our country from 2016
until 2018 was drowned as the main story in this false allegation that Trump conspired with the
Russians to hack into the DNC. They unleashed Robert Mueller, Superman, prosecutor, FBI director
with a team of unlimited resources and prosecutors.
And at the end of that investigation, he concluded there was no evidence to support the core central conspiracy theory that the media gave themselves Pulitzer's for ratifying that the two had collaborated.
And the media just moved on as if nothing had ever happened. And then in 2020, as you mentioned, the same thing.
Megan, there's not one media outlet that in 2020 put people on the air to say the Hunter
Biden laptop is fake.
It's Russian disinformation.
Every media outlet, once Biden was safely elected, not only admitted it was real, but
began using it in their reporting.
The FBI used it to prosecute Hunter Biden.
Everyone knows it's real.
Not one media outlet came forward and said, we got this wrong. Here's why we got this wrong,
because they're not in the business of telling truth. They will say what they need to say based
on whatever their DNC or CIA or FBI sources are telling them to say in order to sabotage Trump.
And that is the truth. Even those 51 so-called intelligence agents,
the FBI agents took the stand and under oath in the Hunter Biden trial, testified that the laptop
had been verified. Where was Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes? It can't be verified. It can't be
verified. Where was she saying, I am very sorry. Actually, I was wrong
and I was wrong at a crucial time in advance of that election. She's in the same bunker that Judy
Woodruff of PBS is in right now, trying to avoid the coverage of the fact that they got caught.
I'll be charitable, making massively consequential mistakes on the air and failing to own up to them.
So just to put some meat on the bones of the DNC versus Jill Stein attack, because
Stein, while nobody's talking about her, she does have something approaching 1% in a couple of these
swing states. And the Democrats fervently believe that she played a role in costing Hillary the election in 2016.
So the DNC releases this statement that reads it in part, quote, as follows.
Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia.
After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016, she's at it again.
This is from the DNC spokesman Matt Corradone.
Quote, Jill Stein, in a statement to
the Bulwark, Jill Stein won't become president, but her spoiler candidacy that both the GOP and
Putin have previously shown interest in can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for
Trump. So this is them going, I mean, truly balls to the wall against this woman, the DNC, because
they will kill any Democrat actor who deigns to get in the way of their chosen nominee's
clear path.
Ask Bernie Sanders, ask Dean Phillips, ask Tulsi Gabbard, ask RFKJ, and ask Jill Stein. This is the party of democracy, Glenn.
I think one of the things that reflects about the Democratic Party is that they have this
arrogant entitlement that they believe all of these voters are theirs. They also
still blame Ralph Nader for George W. Bush's victory in 2000 over Al Gore.
And all these voters for Nader and Stein will tell you until they're blue in the face
that even if Jill Stein or Ralph Nader weren't running, I still wouldn't vote for the Democratic
Party. I know it's a newsflash, but there are a lot of people in the United States who really
don't believe in our two-party system. Most democracies have a multi-party system. And Jill Stein is an outlet for a lot of people on the left who think that the
Democratic Party is not worth voting for, for all sorts of reasons. And they think if they get rid
of Jill Stein, those people will loyally march behind them. And also, I think the other important
thing to realize here, Megan, is that in 2016, the DNC cheated to make sure that Hillary
beat Bernie. That came from Elizabeth Warren and Donna Brazile. This is hardly speculation or a
conspiracy theory. Yeah, I mean, the WikiLeaks releases proved that the top five DNC officials,
including W. Wasserman Schultz, had to resign right before the DNC because they got caught
red-handed doing it. In 2020, Obama drove everybody out of
the race, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, to make sure Joe Biden won. And then this year,
not only did they say that they would not allow a primary or any debates, even though you had
RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips wanting to run against Joe Biden.
Once they saw that Joe Biden was going to lose because of the polls after the debate,
they said in a back room, let's just get rid of him and impose on the party in the country
a candidate who never once campaigned to be president, who never got one single vote.
The anti-democratic entitled mentality in the Democratic Party is impossible to oversee.
Yes, we just pulled, I don't have the soundbite, but what they did to Tulsi.
And here's the quote. I don't know what article I'm quoting from. My team will tell me in a second.
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said the Russians are currently grooming,
that's a quote, a Democrat running in the presidential primaries. This was the 2020
primary back in 19. Grooming, the Russians are grooming a Democrat running in the presidential primaries. This was the 2020 primary back in 19.
Grooming. The Russians are grooming a Democrat running in the presidential primary to run as a third party candidate and champion their interests. The comment appears to be directed
at Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard. She's been accused of being cozy with Russia in the past.
Just being accused warrants it being raised again, right? Remember that time you were accused,
random person, of being a pedophile? And we'll just keep raising it in every article about you
as though it was actually proven. I'm not making any predictions. This is quoting Hillary Clinton.
But I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary
and are grooming her to be the third party candidate.
Clinton said, speaking on a podcast with former Obama advisor David Plouffe,
she's the favorite of the Russians. This is how it's done.
Now, first of all, let's just recall that that prediction was completely false. Not only didn't
Tulsi run as a third party, she endorsed Joe Biden
in the 2020 election, kind of a weird thing to do if you're a Russian asset.
But beyond that, I know Tulsi reasonably well. Look at it from her perspective, Megan.
She has been in the military since 2002. She deployed in combat in Iraq. She continues to be
in the Army Reserves, sacrificing to defend her country. And here she is being accused by the
Clintons, who famously avoided any military service, including in Vietnam, for all sorts
of strange reasons, who never once did anything to benefit anyone but themselves, questioning her
patriotism and her loyalty simply because she was a critic of the Democratic Party.
This is what they do now. When you start accusing somebody of being a secret agent of the Democratic Party. This is what they do now. When you start accusing somebody of being
a secret agent of the Russian government, working on behalf of the Kremlin, of course,
what you're saying is you're not just against us, you are a disloyal American.
And just like I was telling you before about Brazil, where they think that any criticism
of the government is tantamount to a criticism of Brazilian democracy itself and therefore a crime,
the Democrats believe that any opposition to themselves, any questioning of them,
even from somebody who four years before was the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee,
Tulsi Gabbard, that the minute you criticize them or don't fall into line, it means not just that
you're a bad person, but that you're actually disloyal and somebody who can be called with no evidence, a foreign agent of an adversarial power. It is remarkable how quickly and pervasively
this, this tactic has spread, not just among the party, but among all their media allies as well.
Okay. There was, um, another piece of information on Tulsi just recently,
this is reading from the daily mail. They, that Daily Mail, it was that she's on a government watch list in connection with all this nonsense.
She's been labeled a, quote, domestic terrorist, according to a whistleblower watchdog who's demanded an investigation into government surveillance on this. Okay. Empower Oversight said the U.S.
Federal Marshal Service was improperly targeting individuals for enhanced surveillance on flights
and named victims, including the former presidential candidate. And so this is the
allegation is that she has been placed under surveillance at airports and on planes per these whistleblowers who spoke to,
this is Daily Mail UK, the Air Marshal National Council saying her name appears on the Quiet
Skies program. Under the program, federal air marshals follow US citizens who pose an elevated
risk to aviation security through airports and on flights. As a result, there are
at least five agents stalking her on every flight she takes. This is incredible. This has not been
independently verified by us, but I remembered the report as we got talking about Tulsi.
And frankly, it's not hard to believe given the amount of crap they've thrown at this woman.
When you see somebody saying they are one, when you know they're not one, they didn't do all the sacrifice from the family and the personal time.
How does it make you feel?
It burns the command sergeant major corps, the E9 corps across all the military.
I think it'd be like, I reckoned it to the same as a person
that's like in a training to be a doctor
and they frock him.
He can wear doctor whatever badge in the hospital
and go through the halls and act like he's a doctor,
but he's still in training.
And then all of a sudden he decides he drops out of the school
because it's too much work.
I don't want to do it anymore.
But then he still walks through the halls and says he's a doctor.
I mean, if a civilian saw that, he'd get thrown in jail.
And, you know, this guy, he's a military impersonator with that.
It's like I'm using, you know, like you said, he's a retired command sergeant major.
He's said it so many times that it just makes a person sick to hear it.
Yeah, the state of Minnesota said that he can say he's, you know, he served as a command sergeant major, which he's never said.
I served as a command sergeant major.
He blabs that he was a retired one.
And that's where, you know, this originally came out with me like in 2015 and 16 because we had a veterans memorial that was getting dedicated.
And he came down as the congressman, spoke to the small town.
And it was just, I am retired. retired you know you've seen all the videos he said it six times six seven times it was in the paper and a neighbor that sang national anthem he he says god i got to meet
another command sergeant major so that's two of them i've met and i was like he's not a retired
command sergeant major i said he didn't do the school you know i went through the same things paul said i said the guy looked at me he goes we don't know that this needs to get out and i said well i
figured somebody above me whether you know whether at state level or you know somebody would have
corrected him and told him you know cease and desist from what you're doing you're lying you're
doing it for political gain it's making you look better than you are you're you're wearing a 12 point rack on your head but you got you got bambi's body basically is what what you're doing it for political gain. It's making you look better than you are. You're wearing a 12 point wrap on your head, but you got you got Bambi's body basically is what you're doing. You're not that.
Here's back to your friend, Adam Smith. And by the way, I mean, this guy's the ranking member, meaning the most senior member there is on the Democrat side because they're not the party in power in the House right now. So he's the ranking member on the Armed Services Committee,
speaking to this issue of Walls calling himself a retired command sergeant major. Here, watch it.
He was promoted to be a command sergeant major. So at one point, he served in that rank. Now,
the way it works, which is not something that people who aren't familiar with the military would be aware of, you have to do a little bit more to be able to retire at that rank. So it is not wrong to say that Tim Walz
was a command sergeant major. He was. It is wrong to say that he retired at that rank. And that came
out a couple of times and they corrected it. And you can see where, okay, he's both retired and he was a command sergeant major,
but he is not a retired
command sergeant major.
That is true.
And I think that is
a very innocent mistake.
You just had to do it.
You're laughing.
Why are you laughing?
Paul's not laughing.
He's going to have to touch one. Yeah, you're okay. Calm down.
No, but you know, that's the thing right there. Okay. Yeah. It's just a little mistake in there
that he did, whatever. I wrote this letter to Tim Walls back in 16. I said, you know,
thank you for your service. Thanks for what you've done for veterans. You know, thank you for your
24 years. But I said, you know, you were down here and you were saying you're a retired command sergeant major. You're
not. But I had the state, state command sergeant major personnel officer tell me that he can only
say he's a retired master sergeant. I mean, it was, it's all out there everywhere. He was officially
demoted just so people know it's in paperwork. You can look it up. He was demoted like his,
right. So he tried to retire as a command sergeant major, and they
caught him and said, no, that's not what you want.
I sent this letter to him.
It was like soldier to soldier.
I was like, give him a chance to just
come clean. Fix it.
Even Van Jones, I think
is the guy's name on CNN, said, just come
out and have a news conference and
come clean so we can get over this.
Whatever. Hell, he'll never do it.
He never did it back then.
He could have easily done it.
He could have said, yeah, I guess I screwed up.
I didn't know why it was that.
And I think it would have went on water under the bridge.
That's where Colonel Cove had to say, well, I sent the letter to the Armed Services Committee
then after I never heard nothing back from Kim Walz and the Ag Committee and everyone
he was on.
It was like, you know, this guy is lying about his rank. Nobody responded.
He still hasn't responded, which is why we're here together.
Exactly. I mean, it's like, well, he never will.
He'll have a spokesperson say he missed home.
Well, so, so here's, here's what he has said. All right.
We're going to play some of his sound here where he didn't really address it,
but after this all hit, where he didn't really address it.
But after this all hit,
he got out there and did a couple of announcements at various rallies.
And we'll take a look at one of them.
This is Sot 6 in his rally
right after the vice presidential announcement.
My dad served in the army during the Korean War.
With his encouragement, at 17,
I joined the Army National Guard.
For 24 years, I proudly wore the uniform of this nation.
The National Guard gave me purpose. It gave me the strength of a shared commitment to something greater than ourselves.
And just as it did for my dad and millions of others, the GI Bill gave me a shot at a college education.
That was before all the controversy.
He knew you guys were out there, but that's how he tried to spin it in his first appearance. Like, hey, here I am, National Guardsman, in response to which you felt what?
Just he's...
Grab his leg.
What does grabbing the leg do?
What do the pawns of dollars do? he he just said that it was the biggest commitment and his exact words i can't
it was bigger than himself right right bigger than himself and i'm like no it wasn't he he
is he is the pinnacle of everything right everything he does and says
a couple years ago I did an interview,
and in that, I said he's a habitual liar. He lies about everything. He lies about stuff that
doesn't make sense. And again, here we got the Chamber of Commerce coming out. Yeah,
you're in the Nebraska National Guard. You came to the Minnesota National Guard. Why? I don't know. Let's talk about, oh, he says all these things. Like I was a football coach. You were assistant coach and you were fired because of out of there. I mean, it's just one habitual lie after another, and they keep piling up.
And eventually you can't, there's not enough blankets to cover it up.
You heard Adam Smith suggest, there's a couple of times, you know, a couple of times he mistakenly
said he was a retired command sergeant major.
We put together just our own list that we could put that we could find of him saying
that he was a retired Command Sergeant Major. It's not just a couple of times. Here's here's
more than that. It's not one. I'm a retired Command Sergeant Major. This is Congressman
Tim Walz. He's a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army Artillery. As a 24 year veteran of
the Army National Guard and a retired Command Sergeantant major. I am a retired command sergeant major in the Minnesota National Guard.
I have a unique privilege in Congress is that by being elected from this district and being
a retired command sergeant major, I am the highest ranking enlisted soldier to ever serve
in Congress.
As a 24 year veteran of the National Guard and the Red Bull Division and a retired command
sergeant major. Congressman Tim Waltz, also a member of the Armed Services and the Red Bull Division and a retired command sergeant major.
Congressman Tim Waltz, also a member of the Armed Services Committee and Veterans Affairs,
Democrat of Minnesota, highest ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress,
enlisted in the Army National Guard at 17 and retired 24 years later as command sergeant major
and served with his battalion at Operating Enduring Freedom.
Retired out as command sergeant major.
So when you first came to Washington,
you were a retired command sergeant major in the Army National Guard.
Oh, yeah.
He misspoke a lot.
He misspoke a lot.
A lot.
And by the way, just so the record's clear,
September 2005, Minnesota National Guard discovered
that his paperwork was erroneous,
saying he was retiring as a, as a command Sergeant major.
And they updated it to show that he retired as an E eight master Sergeant
September, 2005. Correct.
So every single thing we just showed you was after September, 2005,
he knew that he had been demoted and he continued to say it over and over.
And then there,
there were some vets who went to his office in 2009
to say, stop saying that and stop saying
what you heard somebody else say in there,
which he has also said with his sign,
that you are a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,
which is saying you,
if you were a vet of Operation Enduring Freedom,
what are you saying?
What did you do? I was in Bosnia.
He doesn't have an expeditionary.
Anybody that was that that that would have at least had an expeditionary medal.
He has not. He he was not awarded.
The general public thinks if you say Operation Enduring Freedom that you went to Afghanistan.
Yeah.
That's literally what the civilians will say. That's what I thought.
I mean, if I say Operation Iraqi Freedom, you pretty much know what it is.
Operation Enduring Freedom covers Afghanistan.
And he's threw that spin on his thing all the time, too.
He's accepted both.
Both have been said about him in introductions that he served in Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, and he hasn't corrected. He's accepted both. Both have been said about him in introductions that he
served in Iraqi freedom and enduring freedom, and he hasn't corrected. He's allowed it to stand.
Well, exactly. And that's the sad part about the lies that he spends is that he's out there.
He allows things to get said that are lies. And there was campaign publication sent to him. I'm
in the first district there. I'd get him in the mail and I'd look at it and just be like, you got
to be kidding me. I mean, can the guy just have some some loyalty and some integrity and and do the right thing
when nobody's looking I mean that's the thing that I've always no integrity is being on a deserted
island as a soldier and shaving your face with a seashell if you got one so that if you get
if you get rescued you look like a soldier I mean that's doing the right thing when nobody's watching
and he does the wrong thing when everybody's watching, trying to get away with it and putting a spin on it so he can
get another vote and hopefully get in the next level of office. And that's what's just sad about
this situation. You know, the whole point of us coming forward is it's not just, it's everything together.
It's not just that he misspoke about being a command sergeant major.
It's not just that he lied directly to my face and other sergeant majors and officers' faces about his commitment to going to war with his unit. And also the confidence that that brings to soldiers that are going to
be in the trenches with you. It's not just, it's everything. It's about him.
Weapons in war.
Yeah. We're going to make sure that the weapons that I carried in war don't fall into the hands
of civilians or whatever. And I'm like,
you never were in war. Hope woke up like many of you did five weeks ago and said, Dad, you're the
only person I know who's in elected office. You need to stop what's happening with this. I'll take
my kick in the butt for the NRA. I spent 25 years in the army and I hunt. And I gave the money back.
And I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've been voting for common sense legislation that
protects the Second Amendment. But we can do background checks. We can do CDC
research. We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states. And we can
make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are.
And he says things to Gold Star families that lets them elude. Like when I came back, they told us to watch the horse
whisper and move on. And I go, yeah, because you were in Italy. Okay. No offense to anybody that
was in Italy, but when you're sucking down a latte and people are getting shot at, there's a big
difference. Okay. And everybody has a role to play. Don't get me wrong. Everybody has a role
to play. But the point is, is that take honest accountability for the role that to play. Don't get me wrong. Everybody has a role to play. But the point is, is that
take honest accountability for the role that you play.
But most guys who did not actually serve in Afghanistan or Iraq
would never say they served in Afghanistan or Iraq.
I don't know anybody that's done it myself, just on the civilian side, let alone somebody running
for an office at all. And absolutely not at national level.
This is just unbelievable that somebody can have that lifespan and still be doing it.
I mean, it comes out that he has a coin that has the CSMI on it, but he gave out to Congress
for people.
That he misspoke there.
Yeah.
He was saying retired command sergeant major on the Harris Walls website.
Right. She had to pull that. He's still saying, the sergeant major on the Harris walls website.
She had to pull that. He's still saying the Minnesota governor's office is still saying it.
Right. I mean, he's held onto this, even though, uh, you know, people like Adam Smith suggest, Oh, it was a mistake. And he didn't, it's been brought to his attention
for every year he's been doing it and he continues to do it. It must mean something to him. I do want
to tell you, we interviewed, uh, we interviewed the cast of the movie Reagan, which is hitting this weekend. And one of the
cast members is Dan Loria. He played the dad in Wonder Years. And in this movie, he played
Democrat Tip O'Neill, who was friends with Reagan, even though they were across party lines.
And the real guy, Dan Loria, served in Vietnam. He was, he was in the Marines, but he was quick
when I said that to, to point out, and he's always quick to tell you, he didn't actually fight in Vietnam. He was stationed
over there. He got sent over there and then they got pushed to Okinawa. And then there
were all sorts of reasons why. But he wants people to know that.
Exactly.
And that seems to me the default. Most guys are trying to make sure if you ever overstate
what they actually did, they correct you.
People understand it's not just, we don't want to overstate our importance or the commitment that we made to the country or the things that we did for the country and ourselves
and our families.
But for what, I don't understand this.
When you say that you served in a function that you didn't, if you served in combat, let's just go there.
I served in combat here or I did this there. Lobbing that suffering and that commitment and trifling it down for all the men and women that we have sent in harm's way and have not come back or have come back less than the people that have their tortured memories. And everybody that did that commitment, you've belittled it.
You're taking a piece of their thunder and you're trying to capture it and putting it in a bottle for yourself and use that for your own benefit. That's why, like I told these guys, he is a self-licking ice cream cone. If
anything he says can come back to him, he will do it in a heartbeat.
Let's start with Liz Cheney. Tom, I bet Team Trump is quaking in its boots. This is the ultimate, you know,
dog bites man story. Like, what is the news here, really? Right? We know Liz Cheney is not a fan of
Donald Trump. That's obvious. And so the idea was, I mean, she made this big announcement that she
thought deeply about this and she was going to go ahead and vote for Kamala Harris. I mean,
I just don't know what the, obviously it gets play in the media and on MSNBC because it's bad news for Trump or it's, you know,
it's a bad headline for Trump or whatever. But to your point, Megan, like, who's this going to
convince? How this is this is really not much of a story at all, in my opinion.
And yet people are excited about it. I don't know. Here she is. Here's Liz Cheney explaining her reasoning.
Sat 10.
I think it is crucially important for people to recognize not only is what I just said
about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for
him.
But I don't believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names,
particularly in swing states.
And as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution,
I have thought deeply about this.
And because of the danger that Donald Trump poses,
not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.
All right. And yet, Carl, you've got tweets all over the Internet, including this one from August 2020, where Liz Cheney wrote Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes,
take away guns and health insurance and explode the size and power of the federal government.
She wants to recreate America in the image of what's happening on the streets of Portland and Seattle.
We won't give her the chance.
So which which constitution is governing right now in Liz Cheney's mind?
Well, Megan, I understand why some of these establishment Republicans dislike Trump.
They know people like, you know, you know, the names Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney
and other people, some people, some of them are my friends.
You know, Donald, it was like a hostile takeover of their party in their minds.
So the way some of them talk about Trump is angrier than the Democrats.
I understand that.
But so then you think, are they, some of them want Trump to lose so that they can reconstitute,
you know, bring back what they would call the norms or whatever, you know, bring back
the old coalition.
Maybe.
But she didn't say that.
What she said was that Donald Trump is a threat to the Constitution.
You know, this will be the last election we ever have.
These, you know, these ideas about that Donald Trump is an authoritarian, that democracy is actually on the ballot, there's no evidence for that.
And the Democrats ran on that in 2020 in the midterms, and it helped them.
They're running on it again.
I don't understand why people believe that, but that's what Liz Cheney said. And so, you know, once you get to
that point, I guess then you think, gee, Kamala Harris would be a terrible president and the
Democrats are, their policies are awful, but I'm doing this to save my country. I think they've
convinced themselves of this. I just don't think that this is going to have influence over a single
American. Absolutely not one, not one. All the people who are going to vote for Kamala will say, great, Liz Cheney is on board. And all the people are going to vote for Trump will say, who cares? We know Liz Cheney hates Trump. And the undecided four people who live in these swing states will say, who, what? I don't know why Liz Cheney would. But let's talk
about the biggest news that's coming in the next week or so. And that's the debate. Apparently,
Andrew, there will be mics turned off during the other person's turn. So while Trump is speaking,
her mic will be off while she is speaking. Trump's mic will be turned off. This was the subject of debate for weeks.
And the reports are that her team is very disappointed about this because she was looking
to have what they're calling a Brett Kavanaugh moment with her where she got up in Brett
Kavanaugh's face during the confirmation hearing.
So how big an impact, if any, will this have on our experience of this debate on Tuesday night?
Well, I guess marginally, people are saying it's a victory for Trump.
I don't think it makes any difference at all.
I think they were going to debate no matter what.
They both need the debate.
Trump has been practicing and practicing for this. Every time he goes out and speaks to
someone on a podcast or a town hall or with a press conference, he's practicing. So I think
he's ready for the debate. The big question is, is she ready? There'll be no notes that you can
bring. It's a stand-up debate, I believe still. So it will be all the rules that applied
during Joe Biden's debate. And we saw how that ended up for Joe Biden. So, um, if, if, if,
if I had to bet, I think he probably will have a good night and, uh, she's going to be,
the bar's pretty high for her because she has not been doing any press talk to anybody been
challenged in any way other than that CNN interview.
So we'll see what happens. But, you know, the stakes are pretty high, I guess.
Yeah. Well, meantime, NBC News reporting earlier this week that this is how she's preparing,
that she's being coached to avoid being pulled into Trump's personal attacks by remaining calm.
She and her team are focusing on how to needle Trump and rattle him.
In that sense, the source said, it's going to be less about substance and more about showcasing
Harris as a woman who is not scared. Okay, so that's what we're looking for in a president now.
A woman, she's a woman, so check, who is not scared of Donald Trump. That will earn you the presidency
in the eyes of her team, Tom Bevin. But the plan to rattle and needle Trump is a good one.
And we'll see whether they're able to do it. That was what they did throughout the
DNC, making fun of him not being a billionaire, his money, the criminal cases against him.
And he held his fire. He did not start spouting off on Truth Social in the middle of the night
face to face across from her. Can he do it? Yeah, we'll find out. I mean, look, the reason
she wanted these mics on is she wanted to pull that same shtick that she did with Mike Pence
in 2020. You know, excuse me, excuse me, I'm speaking, stop speaking over me, sort of, you know, that whole thing.
Totally.
And there was a report by, I think, CNN, who had a source, the ABC News, saying
that the campaign, Kamala Harris's campaign, had gotten assurances from ABC
that if there was some crosstalk, that the mics would be
turned on and that the moderators would help inform the public about what was being said.
So, you know, that was sort of a curious report. I'll be interested to see when this actually goes
down, whether those mics are fully turned off the entire time or whether they, you know, they might
be left on on occasion or how they handle the cross
talk between these two candidates. But you're certainly right that, you know, she's going to
try and get in his head and say some things and, you know, try and get him to overreact and then,
you know, play, perhaps play the victim or whatever the situation is going to be.
And Trump has to be aware of that and has to basically not fall for it. And we'll
see whether he's able to do that or not. You never know. I suppose it'll depend on the mood he's in
on the night of the debate. He's had far more experience with adversarial media than she is,
which is to his advantage, Carl. Well, yeah. And you've reminded me of something.
The first person who showed on a presidential debate staff, the debate stage, that they could be simultaneously a woman and unafraid of Donald Trump was Megyn Kelly.
Doesn't qualify me for president.
I think it does. And in terms in terms of that microphone, I'll take you guys back when a couple elections even
earlier al gore's debating george bush and they're and al gore bush is talking and gore was sighing
so loudly into the microphone those of us who were in the hall there couldn't hear bush and i i was
sitting next to frank bruni of the new york times i said frank is the air conditioning broken what's going on and he turned to me said i think that's gore and the neck and on tv it wasn't as bad but the next
day barbara bush and then gore you know stalked across the stage um at bush and bush kind of
smirked at him like he was you know bring it on boy and the next day barbara bush was clutching
her pearls and on one of the morning shows and she she said, I thought he was going to hit George. And, you know, so some of these histrionics,
these subtle movements, you know, when Bush's father looked at his watch during a debate,
they can matter. And so I, you know, so I think the mics turned, I guess I kind of prefer him
just to be on all the time. You guys remember when- Remember that moment in the New York, in the New York state Senate race?
New York Senate race?
Go ahead, Tom.
No, Rick Lazio marched across the stage
with a piece of paper
and sort of waved it in Hillary Clinton's face.
But that's, Gore did that.
Backfired on him.
Gore did that two weeks after.
You thought he would have been warned.
Yeah.
He just figured because he was up against a male opponent,
he could get away with that.
But certainly that male-female dynamic will play. And given the rate, the gender divide
in this election, Trump does have to be careful. Like he can't do anything too aggressive,
even though she'll be aggressive against him. She's called him a predator.
She's gotten as aggressive rhetorically as you can. He there's just a dynamic. I'm sorry. It's
there. He would be completely reckless to get in her face
physically in any way. And I don't think he'll do that.
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apply. Your matter of fact responses to people saying the most outrageous things and your slow
boil provocateur approach to these people.
It was true genius, so congrats.
Well, that's great to hear. I really appreciate it.
And slow-boil provocateur is probably a good way of describing it, actually.
That's a great description of the approach we take in a number of the scenes in the film.
I mean, I wondered whether you were getting worried at all about somebody blowing
their top because you were very respectful. You weren't in people's faces, but you would keep
asking questions when you were told to stop. You would keep pressing little buttons when you could
tell they were on their heels wondering what the hell had just walked into the room. And you didn't stop once they were clearly uncomfortable.
So when you were doing all of this, was there ever a moment where you were like,
okay, now I might be in trouble?
There was never, I mean, there wasn't a moment where I ever felt
sort of that my safety was in jeopardy or anything like that.
But I guess, you know, a lot of people ask when we,
on this film and also with What Is A Woman, that one of the main questions that I often will get
is, you know, how do I keep from laughing? How do I keep a straight face when I'm in these rooms?
And the truth is that it's, you know, stopping myself from laughing is pretty easy, it turns out,
because when you're actually in the room doing this and you're in the room with these people in real
time, obviously this is a movie, so we take, this could be like a two hour interaction
that I have, we take, there's five minutes that appear in the movie because it's a film.
But it's pretty intense and these are really unpleasant people most of the time so um it's it's looking
back at it of course it's quite humorous but when you're in the moment uh it's actually not all that
funny to me when you're when you're really there and you're watching these people especially these
grifters who uh who you know this is their whole this is what they do they they take normal people
and they try to break them down.
And it's like this brainwashing session that you see in the movie that goes on over and over again.
Yes. It takes almost all of the things we've heard about the craziest DEI pushers and puts
them together in one movie. So you can see this is real life. These people exist. They've been doing this.
They are doing this right now. They hate America and they really don't much like white people
and they would like all of us to feel the same. So of all people to infiltrate their spaces,
Matt Walsh gets in there and he finds out soon into this film,
Matt Walsh is not going to be able to do this as Matt Walsh. He's too well known at this point.
People are onto him. And that brings me to one of the scenes that has been released and that's in
the trailer. This is Matt after he had attended a white privilege grief workshop and he gets up to
leave the room for a moment and he comes back and
realizes they've figured it out. Here's a bit in SOT 32. I did everything I could to fit in.
I opened up. I was raw and emotional. I told them about my black friends.
It was no use. They rejected me, and they called the police. My mere presence in the room caused them
pain. I'll never be accepted if I look like this. If they know that I'm Matt Walsh, I'll always be
an outsider. I need to go deeper undercover, a whole new identity. If I want to be an ally,
I need to look like one, like someone who is progressive, tolerant, enlightened.
Let me think.
Have I ever met anyone like that?
Ah, yes. Yes, I have.
What is a woman?
Why do you ask the question
it's just a listening audience that's Matt getting dressed up just like, well, you described the look you were going for there.
Yeah, that's the thing.
You know, one thing I recognize about this film, and many people have pointed out just based on the trailer,
is that it's not the most convincing disguise in the world.
It's not like, this is not exactly a CIA-level operation where I'm going in and facial prosthetics and, you know, a fat suit or something.
We talked about doing that. Maybe we talked about we first started making the film.
You know what? What should I do to change my appearance?
Of course, the idea of me shaving my beard was was floated, which that's off the table immediately.
Other kind of things you could do. and we didn't do any of that it's just a wig and you know uh and
a bun and a man bun right uh skinnier jeans than i would normally wear and you know white shoes
it's like that's the whole thing but and then the question is well how did that fool anybody given
that that everything's still the same you still sound like yourself and I think one of the answers to that is that for a lot of these people,
they live in such a bubble. They live in this bubble. They never really encounter in their
everyday life anyone who disagrees with them. They never intentionally put themselves in a room
with anyone who would ever challenge them. Robin DiAngelo appears later in the film, which
you could see in the trailer. And I would venture a guess, I don't know this, but I would guess that
Robin DiAngelo has not intentionally been in a room with someone who doesn't already agree with
her in like 20 years. I don't know. So I think that's part of it, that there's a certain arrogance
that comes from being in this bubble. And they just never could imagine that anyone like me would ever be in their vicinity.
And so they kind of gave me the benefit of the doubt.
And the disguise didn't need to be all that convincing because we're sort of using their arrogance and their kind of false sense of intellectual security against them, I guess. You've got your skinny jeans,
your man bun, and your murse, into which you put How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi.
And when I saw it, I have to say, I really thought your inspo might have been a character from a
different Daily Wire production, Mr. Burcham, in which I play Adam Carolla's wife. He's Mr. Bircham, in which I play Adam Carolla's wife. He's Mr. Bircham.
And it's the school DEI policeman named Mr. Carponzi.
Here he is.
My name is Mr. Carponzi.
My pronouns are he, him, and z.
I'm a heteronormative, cisgendered white male,
for which I apologize.
What?
Even got the scooter, which I saw you on in this movie.
Tyler Fisher plays that role. Any, any connection? No, it's actually, I was amazed when I,
when I saw that also in, in the show, because that's, that's just parallel thinking. I don't know. These two shows are being, these two things are being developed at the same time, you know, and and I don't know.
I guess it's just if you want to play a crazy leftist.
Well, you got to have the man bun. You got to have the scooter.
So I don't know. It's pretty amazing.
Yeah. OK, so you so in the movie and I won't give away all the spoilers because it's fun to watch it unfold and realize how you threaded the needle, but you go quote undercover and you are on a mission to figure out this DEI world.
And one of the greatest themes that just keeps, we just kept laughing was you get
your DEI certification at like a workshop. And then you're very proud of your card and use it
in a way that is just so perfect, Matt, because you show it to everybody. You're so proud of your card and use it in a way that is just so perfect, Matt, because you show it
to everybody. You're so proud of your DEI certification card. Not everybody has one,
as you claim. Not everyone has it, you keep telling everybody. And the joke of it is so
on the nose for those of us who have been following this nonsense, which is, of course,
anyone can get one. And yet there are all these people who are purported experts in this field
who will grift you to the nth degree because
they have the little card or they have some diploma that's given them an official education
in this nonsense, and they go out there and continue the grift.
Exactly. It's not a real subject. That's the thing. DEI is not a, it's not a real, uh, intellectual pursuit. It's all completely
made up and phony. And so being an expert in that is just being an expert in nonsense. Anyone can do
it. You'll see in the film that the process that I go through to get my, uh, certification is it's,
it's not a very, it's not a very grueling process. in fact it took about i think not rigorous i took about
it took about 30 minutes i think to get the uh to get the card and then what once it's not like
anyone can say oh but you just got that one on a fake website that's not a real one there is no
real one there's no such thing as being really certified in dei it's all completely uh made up
and and you know you just really all it's about is just showing ideological
alignment with these race hustlers. And if you do that, then you can you have as much a claim
to being an expert as anybody else in this field does. Yes. So you I love it because it's not
everyone has one. You're very proud. And you then go and introduce us to some of the characters that we've heard of on the
news who are pushing this craziness.
You mentioned D'Angelo, which everyone must see.
If you watch this movie for another reason, watch it to see the scene where Matt Walsh
in his man bun sits down with Robin D'Angelo.
I died.
I honestly, there were so many great moments in there. Again, we'll keep them a secret. But one of my favorites was when the issue of what
is mansplaining. What is mansplaining? And let's just say you're going to laugh just as hard as
Doug and I did when you get to that scene. But you did meet a different person who I'd never
heard of before named Kate Slater.
So before I run this clip, tell us who is Kate Slater?
Well, she's one of these.
She's an anti-racist educator.
She is very proud of innovating something, I believe, if I remember correctly, is called the anti-racist roadmap, I think.
And so she's the first person we talked to in the film.
And that's why you see
in the movie i'm not in the whole costume when i talk to her because we wanted to start the movie
by just well she has a road map we want to talk to someone who can kind of i'm just starting out
uh introduce me to the basics of what this stuff is and tell me where to go next
and you know you'll see in that interaction she sort of lays out a map for me and tells me,
here's what you need to do. Here's where you go next. Here's what you should be doing.
And we set out to put that into practice in the film.
Yeah, you did it. But you clashed a bit, not really, but you highlighted an issue that actually
someone I know actually had in their life. They're not woke, but they were
getting shamed for this Halloween costume because it's a white family. So you raise this. Let's
watch SOT 31 with Kate Slater. My daughter's four years old. I am an anti-racist educator,
quote unquote. She's still watching Disney movies and she is choosing a white princess over
princesses of color.
Have you talked to her about that?
All the time.
My three-year-old daughter is very...
Her favorite princess is Moana.
Love it.
It's a good sign.
Yeah.
But then I also thought, you know,
there's a little bit of cultural appropriation here.
She wants to be Moana for Halloween.
Mm-hmm.
So how do we navigate that?
Do I go and buy the Pacific Islander native attire
for my white three-year-old?
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
But I guess what we might call the Moana problem here
is what, on one hand, is cultural appropriation.
On the other hand, there's gravitating
towards white characters.
Right.
So it's almost like no matter which way you go, you end up back in racism.
We think every space belongs to us because we live in a white supremacist society.
Is America an inherently racist country?
I think the word inherent is challenging there. If we say fundamentally, fundamentally,
yes. America is racist to its bones. All of the inherently. Yeah.
Oh, my gosh. I mean, it's it's so perfect. You your child must love Moana over any other Disney
princess. However, not to the point where she would ever actually want to dress like her or model her behavior because then you've crossed into cultural appropriation.
See rule book section 40 footnote 10.
Right.
You're that's why that's that's why we now call it the Moana problem, that you're racist no matter what. And the thing is, it's one of the many moments in the film where it's funny watching it, and we're supposed to laugh at it.
And I think that mockery and laughter is an appropriate response to absurd things, and what you just saw there is absurd.
But then on the other side of it, once you go a little bit beneath the surface on this thing, you see that it's actually awful, too, along with being funny.
Because this is the damned if you do, damned if you don't situation that these people set up, where no matter what, you're racist.
So they start by saying, you're white, you're racist.
And then once they have you,
you say, well, what do I do to not be racist anymore? And they tell you what to do.
And after you do that, they say, well, good job for doing that. But by the way, you're still
racist. And this is a message that they do send to kids. I think I said earlier in that interview,
before this moment, I asked her, what's the right age to start talking to your kids about their racism?
And she says, basically, from birth.
Like, as soon as they're born, start letting them know that they're racist.
And again, we can laugh at that as sane people because we realize that it's completely ridiculous.
But she's serious.
And there are people out there that take that advice and start hammer you know, hammering this into their kid's head from birth.
And it's just it's horrendous.
It's abusive. I mean, you can see she's happy about it.
She's proud that she's and she's disgusted by her child who likes white princesses.
She's turned herself into a racist of a different kind.
I mean, that's obviously she's got some, I don't know, internalized hatred.
Her problem is her problem,
unless it winds up in my kids' schools, which it has. This is why the movie was so necessary. So
was there one thing in particular, Matt, that made you choose this as your next
subject after the huge success of What is a Woman?
Well, it's hard to say one thing in particular. I mean, I guess if there was one thing, it would be the big thing, which is in 2020 when just the kind of racial insanity that took hold in 2020 after George Floyd.
And a lot of the things that we saw after 2020, none of it was new, really. I mean, even the riots we'd seen before, but it was ramped up to the nth degree.
And so that's one of the, probably the main thing that had me thinking about it.
And beyond that, it's just, it's cultural, you know, like noticing that I kind of, I say earlier in the film, you see here in the preview that I can think of myself growing up in the nineties
and it was not a racial utopia. I'm not claiming that. I realize that
you had the OJ trial, you had the race riots in LA and that sort of thing. But that sort of stuff
was happening. And we're never going to live in a utopia. We're human beings. We're tribalistic
by nature. We're flawed. You're always going to have things like racism. That's always going to
be a part of the human experience. But my own anecdotal experience growing up in a racially diverse area and
going to public school and people of all different races, it was like you noticed when people
were a different race, but you weren't focused on it intently all the time. And you weren't
sitting around thinking about, oh, am I racist? Was that a racist interaction? It just was, that wasn't a part of what you were doing.
And recently that's been the case.
So it seems like we're very much going backwards
and we are, and that's because people like these grifters
that we expose in the film, that's what they want.
They very intentionally, they're taking people
who otherwise wouldn't be that
focused on race and they're telling them that no you have to focus on this you should be
focused on this all the time you think you're not racist because you don't hate people of
other races but actually you are and in fact if you say you're not racist and think that
you're not racist then that means they're even more racist than than than anybody else
and they just get people in up in their own heads.
And it's like this cycle of confusion and resentment
that everybody gets caught up into.
And it's just evil.
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