Matt Walsh was apparently triggered
by a sports reporter out of Georgia
by the name of Lyndsey Gough.
She reports for WTOC 11 in Georgia,
and she was pretty uncomfortable
and felt violated by football fans
as she was reporting the Clemson
game on Saturday night.
Now before we get to exactly why
Walsh is triggered,
why don't we watch what happened to
Lyndsey Gough?
This was something that she posted
on Twitter.
>> Hello.
>> Please don't touch me.
[NOISE] Excuse you.
[NOISE] They're hitting
defensive slugfest, and
the dogs ran away with it,
a 10-30 win.
[NOISE] How long do I have?
[NOISE] Please don't touch my
equipment, please don't.
[NOISE] >> All right, so look, I
think this is pretty simple stuff,
doesn't matter what the environment
is, doesn't matter what the
location is, don't touch people.
Just don't put
your hands on people,
especially someone you don't know.
It hasn't been clarified if they
touched her in,
you know, they touched her,
that's it, but don't touch her,
she doesn't like it, don't do it.
It's common sense and
I'm actually- >> She's in public,
so isn't it okay?
If she goes outside into
the public place, and
what if you're in a crowd, if
you're in a crowd, you can do it.
What if you're hyped for the team,
then you can do it.
>> No, don't touch people.
>> Come on, if you're in public and
you're hyped for the team.
>> It applies to everyone in
different contexts, right?
If you're a dude at some sort of
sporting event, don't
touch a woman that you don't know,
that doesn't want to be touched.
If you are a woman and
you see a black woman,
don't touch her hair.
That's the thing,
don't touch people, don't do.
This is common sense stuff.
It's not that difficult, but
apparently Matt Walsh
took something else away from that
video.
Now before I get to Matt Walsh,
Lyndsey Gough in posting that
video on Twitter also wrote,
after the first guy touched me,
I started rolling.
This isn't even all of it.
So uncomfortable, can we please
respect people's space?
That's it, that's all she's saying.
Respect my personal space.
I'm just here to do my job.
Matt Walsh apparently didn't
like that.
Here's what he had to say.
>> This situation only demonstrates
why I personally prefer for
sports broadcasts,
especially football broadcasts
to be handled mostly by men.
Lyndsey though,
worse than the average, even as
far as female sports reporters go,
is definitely not the only female
to enter into this mostly male
space and seek to feminize it.
She wants the football stadium to
be quiet and gentle, considerate,
respectful of personal space.
She wants it to be a more feminine
environment.
She's not trying to assimilate
herself into
the culture of football fans,
she is rather hoping that they
assimilate themselves to her.
This is a problem
across our culture.
Sports just happen to be an area
where the problem is
especially pronounced and obvious.
Females enter into areas that have
typically catered and
mostly belong to men.
And then, often quite successfully,
they try to change them to
emasculate them and thereby destroy
the primary reason for
their existence in the first place.
>> So let me just explain something
to you all.
Sporting events are supposed to be
safe spaces for people like me who
are very masculine.
I love to be very expressive with
my hands, can't put them down.
Sometimes I do this to look like
I'm smart, but I'm really not.
And the fact of the matter is that
I think that men are savages and
they can't control themselves.
And my idea of feminizing
an environment is preventing people
from putting hands on individuals
they haven't received consent from.
Think about what he's saying there,
right?
He's saying, men are grabby savages
who can't control themselves,
and they should be that way.
That's who they are and
that needs to be protected.
They need a safe space where they
can be as grabby as they want.
And if a woman happens to
be in that environment, well,
she deserved it.
She deserved to be touched
in an unwanted way.
That's what he's saying.
>> Yeah, I think you should give
him credit though.
At the very least,
he operated in good faith.
He presented what she was doing as
going there to ruin things.
>> Feminize it.
>> She wasn't working.
She's not a fan of the sport or
anything.
She went there to ruin it for
the guys because that is how
people act.
It's just amazing,
I get that their audience that
their trying to appeal to are not
necessarily the brightest people.
They're young,
they're immature, or whatever.
But that you could talk in such
ridiculous straw man ways and
your audience would enjoy it,
they would buy it.
They would think, yeah,
you really owned the real thing
they were saying and doing.
She's working.
That's what she does.
Lots of women actually
enjoy sports.
Lots of women want to work in
sports.
My wife was a court reporter for
the tennis channel,
mainly there to destroy tennis.
Obviously, she liked tennis.
She wanted to work in sports,
lots of women do.
I don't understand why that's so
difficult for some men,
smart men who clasp their hands and
call women females can't understand
something as simple as that.
>> It's interesting, I've been to
many sporting events and
I'd like to think that the majority
of men are actually great and they
do respect your personal space and
they don't get grabby and
are totally fine with having women
at the sporting event, either with
them or with other people.
I don't think that men are the
brutal savages that Matt Walsh
would have you believe they are.
But unfortunately,
there are some people who take
the liberty to put their hands on
others when they should, and
they should know better than that.
That has nothing to do with
feminizing the environment or
the sport itself, but
Walsh goes even further.
He argues that this local sports
reporter out of Georgia has
incredibly nefarious purposes.
What is it?
What is she trying to
do to the sport?
Let's watch.
>> This phenomenon is so far
reaching in football, especially,
that they're even changing
the rules now, to make the game
itself more gentle and feminine.
Football is still violent, but it's
less violent than it used to be.
This year they're even focusing on
penalizing players who say mean or
rude things to each
other on the football field.
They've been doing this during
the preseason in the NFL.
All of this, along with the token
female sideline reporters and
the female analysts at halftime,
it's an effort to make the game
less appealing to the people
the game was invented for
to begin with.
>> It's just such a smooth brained
way of looking at the world.
>> [LAUGH] Right?
>> Yes, yes, the NFL's goal is to
make it less appealing.
That's why this corporation is
doing what they're doing.
They're not trying to
appeal to women.
They're not trying to expand
the bounds of who watches as a fan
and buys the merchandise and
goes to the games and purchases
the network on TV and all that,
they just want to ruin it.
They're interested in destroying
it for everyone so that their
corporation will shut down.
That's how people act.
>> But he wants the game to be
more violent?
Why?
>> He doesn't know,
he doesn't care, I don't even know
if he watches football.
>> I mean, look [CROSSTALK] >> Has
anyone seen him outside of that
studio in ten years?
I have no idea. >> To be quite
honest with you,
and I know, I get it.
I know, I'm on the left I'm
supposed to pretend I don't
notice these things and
I'm a goody two shoes and
I never hit below the belt.
No, I'm going to hit
below the belt.
He talks about the game becoming
more gentle and feminine,
I'm sorry, he himself looks pretty
gentle and feminine.
>> Sure, I don't care about that,
but- >> Just keeping it real,
there's nothing wrong with that,
but I do think there's something
wrong with it when
he essentially purports to be this
masculine figure and
this warrior of maintaining
traditional masculinity.
So honestly,
when you present yourself that way,
you're opening yourself up to
that kind of criticism.
>> Sure. >> So I'm sorry,
you're not a tough guy.
You're embarrassing,
what are you doing?
What are you doing, right?
>> What he's doing is what he
thinks he needs to do to get people
to pay attention to him and have
the right wing billionaires to fund
the site that he works for continue
paying him, which is to tell, I
know we talked about this here and
we talk about it all the time.
It's to get these aspiring young
conservative guys who have
these dark emotions, and
why aren't women nice to me?
Tell me they're bad.
Tell me women suck, tell me I'm
always going to be better, tell
me that me thinking that I'm better
than them is what makes me great.
Just tell me that.
Matt Walsh doesn't care
about football.
They're they're changing
the rules of the game.
Yes, sports have never done that.
They've never changed the rules of
football in any way, or baseball.
They always do.
That's what happens.
Has he ever watched football or
baseball or basketball anything?
Does he have any idea what it's
actually like?
>> Baseball, I mean, for
the longest time had the strictest
rules on unsportsmanlike behavior.
Where if,
let's say you hit a home run,
if you were showboating afterwards,
it was severely frowned upon,
right?
They started to loosen that up
after Yasiel Puig,
he was definitely a showboater and
people were like, just let it go.
>> Don't make up names, anyway.
>> What? [LAUGH] >> Yeah, no,
that was feminized.
You know why, Barbara Bush.
It was her, she wanted to ruin it.
That's why it was like that,
it has to be a conspiracy.
And again, it's the the
conspiracist way of thinking.
It can't just be that the NFL wants
more fans and so it's trying to
broaden its appeal, they have to be
doing something behind the scenes
to ruin it, to take the vigor out
of your testicles.
That's what they have to be doing
because everything has to
be some sort of conspiracy.
>> Yeah. >> That's why the movies
are putting someone other than
Tom Cruise, because they want to
make nobody watch the movies.
Who thinks this way,
no serious thinking person actually
thinks this way.
That's certainly not how
corporations work.
They want to make money.
That's what they're doing,
whether it's Hollywood,
whether it's the NFL, the MLB, or
whatever.
That is what they're doing.
>> Yeah.
>> But he has to try to appeal
to those people.
>> I just like that the end result
of this is calling for
a safe space for men, right?
The big tough guy wants a safe
space for
guys where they can be the brutal
savages he thinks they are, but
again, I just want to be clear, I
don't think most men are like that.
But there are a few who just,
again, feel entitled to touching
people who don't want to be
touched, and don't do that.
It's that simple, has nothing to do
with feminizing anything.
It has everything to do with
respecting your fellow human
beings, whether they're male,
female, what have you.
Yeah, right.
Don't touch people.
Pretty sure Matt Walsh wouldn't
like random people running up from
behind him and just touching him
wherever they want.
>> Or just he was getting all mad
that they're not going to be
able to like yell rude things at
each other.
How would he like if
everywhere he went,
people yelled rude things at him?
>> I mean, we already know.
>> Why are trying to
feminize the world?
>> We already know,
we saw how they reacted to someone
approaching Tucker Carlson calmly
to tell him he's one of the worst
people in the country.
Remember [CROSSTALK] >> Shouldn't
bass shops be safe spaces?
That guy was totally nice, yeah.
>> No, he wasn't nice, but
he definitely eviscerated him in
hushed tones.
>> I know, and Tucker Carlson has
thus emasculated the bass shops.
There's no place sacred anymore.
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