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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 17 - Where The Real Cultural Battle Is Being Fought

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The ONLY meaningful dividing line in the culture war is this: those who defend morality, virtue, the family, and the sanctity of life on one side, and those who are hostile or indifferent on the other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7

Glee today because Kanye West is saying some things that they agree with. Even Kim Kardashian,

0:40.3

Scott, even Kim Kardashian has gotten favorable coverage from the right because of all this.

0:50.0

Now let's remember something about the right, the right of which I am a member. Unless

0:57.0

I'm imagining things, unless I've been hallucinating for the last 20 years or so, I'm pretty sure

1:03.4

that the right has spent a very long time insisting that celebrities are dumb and stupid

1:11.6

and they're morons and their political opinions don't matter. And they need to just shut

1:15.0

up and sing and entertain us. Because we don't want to hear them injecting politics

1:19.8

and everything, just shut up, just shut up, just shut up. That's what we've been saying.

1:23.9

We've said it a million times over and over and over again to these celebrities. It's

1:28.6

not, no, it has not been as much as we'd like to pretend otherwise. Our message to celebrities

1:35.2

and singers and pop stars, athletes. Our message to them has not been, oh, I disagree with

1:42.6

what you're saying. Let's have, let's engage. Let's have a discussion. No, that's, that

1:47.6

hasn't been our message. Our message has been very explicitly. You shouldn't be talking

1:52.6

about this subject. You don't know anything about it. Your job is to entertain us. So

1:57.3

just shut up. That's been our message. But then what happens? The moment one of these

2:04.1

celebrities says something we agree with while we're in the midst of shouting, shut up all

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