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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 417 - Fighting The Coronavirus With Diversity And Tolerance

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.626.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As the gap between parody and reality narrows more and more each day, CNN complains that Trump's coronavirus task force lacks diversity. Also, a billionaire is donating millions to fight the disease and Gizmodo has found a reason to complain about that. Plus, we talk about an Orwellian brainwashing session at a pre-school in New York. And we continue the debate over spanking. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at dailywire.com/Walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. Welcome to the show, everybody. So you know how I always say, many conservatives

0:33.7

always say that the left is beyond parity at this point. Well, that's not a mere platitude

0:38.2

or a slogan. There is a deep and terrifying truth here. And the truth is that they actually

0:43.0

are beyond parity. As in, it's becoming impossible to satirize them because satire requires

0:48.6

that you take the idea you're satirizing and you bring it to an absurd conclusion so

0:52.8

as to highlight the flaws within the logic that you're trying to make a satire of. But if

0:57.2

the idea that is being proposed to begin with has already been brought to its most absurd

1:03.3

conclusion, then what can you do? All you can do to satirize it is to point to it and say,

1:08.1

look, and that's what satire is increasingly becoming. Case in point, CNN. I suppose

1:15.5

I could just stop right there. But let's, let me give you a specific example. Here's

1:19.2

a headline of a real article on CNN.com right now. This is real. I show you, written by

1:25.3

a certified genius named Brandon Tensley headline, coronavirus task force, another example

1:31.3

of Trump administration's lack of diversity. Now, it gets better, I show you. It's, it's

1:37.3

it, the expectations set by that headline are fulfilled within the text of the article.

1:43.2

Let me read it to you. It says, it's a statement that's as predictable as it is infuriating.

1:48.6

President Donald Trump's administration lacks diversity. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted photos

1:53.0

of a briefing he'd received on the new coronavirus spreading out of China. The president said

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