Matt Walsh

Matthew Walsh is an American conservative blogger, Daily Wire talking-head, former radio host, and career culture warrior who runs the eponymous Matt Walsh Blog. Most of his blog posts involve him mischaracterizing and insulting things that he doesn't agree with or like, especially trans rights and non-binary rights, trans people and non-binary people, as well as abortion, immigration, gender equality and feminist-oriented causes, such as the pro-choice movement.5 Reasons Why Abortion Never Empowers Women
On top of all this, he used to write for the far-right webshite The Blaze, although he left in 2017.https://www.facebook.com/GlennBeck/posts/matt-walsh-it-has-been-an-honor-for-theblaze-to-be-the-primary-destination-for-y/10155763605173188/ He runs a podcast, and is active on social media, mostly reposting articles from right-wing media on his favorite topics with short (often one-word) comments. He calls himself a "theocratic fascist" on his Twitter bio and has done so since 2019, although he started doing such in response to being called that by protesters when he was going to give a speech at Baylor University,WALSH: Yes, I Am A Theocratic Fascist along with calling himself a biologist and a scholar of women's studies, despite having never attended college and openly hating women and biology."Thank God I wasn't college material" - Matt Walsh's clog blog
Walsh currently hosts The Matt Walsh Show at The Daily Wire. The show was completely demonetized on YouTube from April–August 2023 due to transphobic rhetoric. According to the world's smallest violin, this was very bad for Walsh's wallet.Ari Drennen and Alyssa Tirrell (April 20, 2023). "YouTube strips ad revenue from The Matt Walsh Show after repeated vitriol against Dylan Mulvaney". Media Matters for America.(April 20, 2023). "YouTube demonetizes Matt Walsh after repeated transphobic vitriol". The Los Angeles Blade.Ari Drennen and Mia Gingerich (September 8, 2023). "Matt Walsh flouted YouTube guidelines with anti-LGBTQ hate after being stripped of advertiser revenue. The platform responded by restoring the revenue". Media Matters for America.
He's also a diaper enthusiast,Ari Drennen (July 27, 2023). "Sweet Daddy Walsh and the Sweet Baby Gang: Matt Walsh's dirty deal with diapers". Media Matters for America.Prem Thakker (May 26, 2023). "Matt Walsh Is Selling Plush Toys of Himself in a Diaper 'for Your Kids to Play With'". The New Republic. though "less enthusiastic about diapers when used for their intended purpose". (Women's work only.) One might not normally care that he leads a "Sweet Baby Gang" (his actual phrasing) of adult men who wear diapers for some kind of pleasure or other, except he's now boosted his career in large part by vigorously misconstruing LGBT people as perverted in any way he possibly can. There's something emblematic about it.
Walsh also thinks that public schools should be eliminated entirely.Matt Walsh: “The public school system should be totally abandoned” (07/17/24 3:01 PM EDT) Media Matters for America.
==Wingnuttery==
===Misogyny===
Despite claiming to be a scholar of women's studies, he perceives the only way to support women is to bash trans women, while still being completely misogynistic against cis women. Walsh presents a very cliched view of gender roles,An Actual Gender Studies Professor Debunked That Viral Hurricane Harvey Tweet often attacking men who he disagrees with as unmanly. On the flip side, he often expresses disdain for women in positions of authorityMatt Walsh: "Yesterday I said we shouldn’t have female cops out on patrol because they can be so easily overpowered by any male suspect. Lots of people were very upset and offended by this. After careful reflection I want to say that I don’t apologize, I’m right, and I don’t care how you feel" or making public statements.South Dakota’s Gov Kristi Noem accuses Conservative podcast host of misogyny Women becoming involved in many elements of pop culture such as music,Our Daughters Are Not ‘Empowered’ By Vulgar, Idiotic Pop Music entertainment, and sports,The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh Claims Women Sportscasters Want To ‘Feminize’ Sports and ‘Destroy the Primary Reason for Their Existence’ especially women's sports,Twitter postTwitter post he views as emasculating and threatening to the traditional place of men. He also supports cutting women's pay if they ask for a raise.Twitter post
On his blog, Walsh has said that married women owe their husbands respect whether they've done anything to deserve it or not. In the post, he explicitly states that "a wife ought to respect her husband because he is her husband" and that women should "respect [their] husbands whether he deserves it or not".https://themattwalshblog.com/your-husband-doesnt-have-to-earn-your-respect/2/
Walsh also believes that men and women cannot be friends,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sSWCGzimg and has called arranged marriages better than our current dating system.Daily Wire host endorses arranged marriages: “It is, without a doubt, superior to our system” Media Matters 25 January 2022
====Abortion====
He is anti-abortion, saying that "life is precious" (not quite).https://youtu.be/4RpV_LylisEhttps://web.archive.org/web/20211024020556/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1337413109603037185 He has supported Alabama's 2019 bill that outlaws abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, as he believes forcing 12-year-old rape victims to carry to term would help them get their crime discovered and increase the rapist's accountability, and abortion would otherwise destroy the evidence and encourage the rapist to continue molesting without consequence.Matt Walsh (May 15, 2019). Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20230408170940/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1128735398157594626. This fails to make sense once one remembers cases like Josef Fritzl, who was not caught for his crimes for years despite fathering seven children from the incestuous rape of his daughter.The Horrific Story Of Elisabeth Fritzl’s Children, Who Were Fathered By Their Own Grandpa
He bolsters such a terrible take with Planned Parenthood conspiracy theories such as linking to an article from a pro-life propaganda site that accuses Planned Parenthood of a sex abuse cover-up,Matt Walsh (May 15, 2019) https://web.archive.org/web/20230126132447/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1128737421368143873. Twitter. Retrieved May 16, 2019. and again using the same website to claim that "[r]apists use abortion to cover their tracks and Planned Parenthood helps them."Twitter post 15 May 2019. He also claims that "[t]he deadliest southern border in the world is the birth canal".Twitter post 31 Jan 2019. Walsh wrote an article expanding on this idea and arguing people should call fetuses "undocumented infants."WALSH: Please Stop Killing Undocumented Infants Who Are Just Trying To Cross The Border Of The Birth Canal Of course, given Matt has mocked the struggle of undocumented immigrants, him attempting to co-op the language of a movement he does not agree with in order to make his point just comes off as bizarre.
===Anti-LGBT===
====Transphobia====
Walsh is also very well known for his fervent transphobia, believing that being trans is a mental illnessTwitter post 15 May 2019. comparable to schizophrenia,Twitter post 4 Apr 2016. stating that "[t]ransgenderism is a myth invented to legitimize sexual deviancy"Twitter post 9 Mar 2016. and advocacy of pedophilia,Twitter post 28 Nov 2018. claiming all trans people are narcissists,Twitter post 5 Apr 2016. blaming acceptance of trans people for suicide rates of trans people,Twitter post 22 Feb 2017. and considering trans allies to be "biology deniers".Twitter post 16 Dec 2016. He would "rather be dead" than have a transgender child.Daily Wire host: “I would rather be dead” than have a trans child, Media Matters for America Despite claiming that trans people are caused by "social engineering", he also suggests (in response to an audience question) that people being trans could in fact be caused in part by "biological and chemical changes" from modern medical drugs and genetically modified food.(November 18, 2022). "Matt Walsh claims genetically modified food is partly to blame for the existence of trans people". Media Matters for America.Alex Bollinger (November 26, 2022). "Matt Walsh says that GMOs are turning people transgender 'to a certain extent'". LGBTQ Nation. For those keeping track: it makes zero fucking sense to suggest that transness or gender dysphoria are both purely social phenomena and also that there could be biological mechanisms for inducing them.
Walsh supported a bill banning the transitioning of teenagers, greatly simplifying it as "a bill banning the genital mutilation of children".Woke Leftists Defend The Genital Mutilation Of Children He has also referred to gender-affirmation surgery as "surgical mutilation", accused the parents of transgender children of exploiting their children for attention and said that older children wanting to transition is difficult because it'll be "painful" to have to put your child into therapy.WATCH: Mother DEFENDS Transgender Transition of Minors He has also gone on record as stating that transition surgery should be illegal for everyone, also praising Russia for implementing that policy (along with a trans adoption ban) in 2023.https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-says-he-supports-universal-ban-all-gender-affirming-medical-care(July 26, 2023). "Russia gets it right". Matt Walsh on Facebook. (Archived version). If you were wondering whether he might also be against circumcision of newborn infants, he isn't.(November 4, 2013). "I've written a few blogs about parenting...". Matt Walsh on Facebook. Note his responses in the comments as well. (Archived version).
In one video for The Daily Wire, Walsh likened gender-affirming care to sexual abuse, saying that "a child who is put on hormones and who has their body being mutilated is being sexually violated in a way that is just as depraved or damaging as molestation or rape", and compared doctors who care for trans children to Nazi scientists.The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh makes extreme attack on trans kids Such doctors, Walsh believes, should be executed or imprisoned for life.(February 2, 2023). "Daily Wire host: Doctors who provide gender-affirming care should be executed". Media Matters for America."The Far Right Is Calling for the Execution of Teachers and Doctors" by Anya Zoledziowski and David Gilbert, Vice, 2023 February 22
In an act of staggering pettiness and audacity, Walsh rented a home in Loudoun County, Virginia because the school board meeting wouldn't allow non-residents of the county a place in discussing issues related to the school's residents and students. Despite having never lived in Loudoun County and having no family there who would ever attend that school's area.https://web.archive.org/web/20220106084801/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1441503734572277760 The issue being addressed? Transgender people being able to refer to themselves as their gender, and requiring staff to use their consistently asserted gender when requests of the parents are given.https://wjla.com/news/local/conservative-matt-walsh-rents-loudoun-county-home-school-board-meeting-tanner-cross-transgender-pronouns In part of his speech, he shows some self-awareness saying that the school board are poison, and undermining his own ignorance as a science denier on transgender people by saying; “If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless. Worse, it is poison. You are poison!”https://youtu.be/vGx7QJ17IHg
In late 2021, Walsh wrote a children's "book", titled "Johnny the Walrus".Here is Amazon's listing of the book. If you can guess what this book is about, given the section you are reading, congratulations, you have a brain. It's a story about a boy who imagines he is a girl walrus, and when the intertubes find out about it, they force him to go to the doctor to be surgically altered into a girl walrus. The most concerning thing about this book is that it implies men and women are as different from each other as humans and walruses, which is batshit insane. As part of a massive troll campaign, it ended up as the #1 LGBTQ+ book on Amazon, which would admittedly be kind of funny if it wasn't dedicated to spreading hate speech.
In early 2022, Walsh attempted to recruit transgender people into being part of an anti-transgender schlockumentary. It would've been successful if it weren't for PhD candidate Eli Elrick exposing the front on her Twitter account.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1490799028401020932.html, archive.is snapshot Later, on June 1, 2022, Walsh released this schlockumentary, titled "What is a Woman?", on The Daily Wire's subscription service. Like other pseudo-documentaries proclaiming to speak the "truth," "What is a Woman?" is practically a 1-and-a-half hour gish gallop full of utter bullshit, pseudoscience, and logical fallacies.https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/06/what-is-a-woman-is-a-feature-length-exploration-of-conservative-ignorance-and-prejudice , archivedhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-asks-a-question/ archived Like his usual delusional self, Walsh has proclaimed that the film cannot be debunked and that "The Left is terrified of the film".
In early 2023, Walsh testified at a committee hearing in support of a bill banning "child mutilation" (gender-affirming care). When asked for his qualifications, Walsh ignored the question to waffle about "chemical castration" (a common and deliberate misrepresentation of hormone/puberty blockers). He stated that trans people should not receive treatment until they're 25 when they are mature enough, but when asked if the age of consent and the age to buy firearms should be raised he said no, like that doesn't require maturity. He is noted to take much pride in the fact that he is totally unqualified to talk about these issues.Twitter post 8 Feb 2023.
====="Inventing" transgender people=====
On 23 June 2023, Walsh posted on Twitter:
In the thread, the people he lists who supposedly "invented the trans agenda" are: John Money, Alfred Kinsey, and The only one among these who was highly foundational to transgender medicine or activism was Hirschfeld. He still did not "invent" transgender people, but rather described their existence and treated them decently, something that was not very common yet. Hirschfeld was far from the first to do so however, as scattered case reports from throughout the 1800s of transgender experience survive today, including some with an affirming approach.(September 26, 1885). "A Virginia Family With a Remarkable Characteristic." Western Kansas World, page 6 (via the Library of Congress). Provided by the Kansas State Historical Society. Hirschfeld and his staff more-so advanced the methods of an affirming approach (which could have been independently arrived at by anyone with a charitable view) than invented them; prior methods included simple castration. In 1921, a decade prior to the first known attempt at a full-on sex reassignment surgery, French scientist speculated whether surgeons might be able to switch someone's sex.(May 19, 1921). "Prof. Einstein's Clock". The Washington Times (1894–1939). Page 24.(May 10, 1921). "Changed Sex of Lower Animal". The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (or The Bridgeport Times). Page 7.
John Money was a conversion therapistTransEssays (April 7, 2022). "Conversion Therapy on Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children". Medium.David Allsopp (May 2, 2022). "No, Dr Money did not invent gender". Medium. whose brutally-failed experiment on David Reimer was intended to prove that gender identity was not innate (a premise necessary for conversion therapy on transgender people to ever be successful). Money's abuse was exposed in large part by John Colapinto (2013 edition; originally published 2000). "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl". HarperCollins. ISBN: 9780062278319 a much more pro-transCristan Williams (March 4, 2012). "Interview with Dr. Milton Diamond". YouTube.Truth Wins Out (May 2, 2013). "Dr. Milton Diamond Discusses Transgender Research With Truth Wins Out". YouTube. researcher who viewed gender identity as innate, and especially influenced by hormones in the womb.(December 7, 2000). "The Boy who was Turned into a Girl". Horizon (BBC Two).Jennifer Crites (January-June 2002). "Medical Change: Milton Diamond challenges gender reassignment". Mālamalama, Vol 27, issue 1 (via The Pacific Center for Sex and Society).Gerhard Schreiber (editor); Milton Diamond (2016). "Transsexualism as an Intersex Condition", from "Transsexuality in Theology and Neuroscience: Findings, Controversies and Perspectives". De Gruyter. (via The Pacific Center for Sex and Society). In contrast to Diamond's more affirming messaging, Money called transgender people "devious, demanding and manipulative" and "possibly also incapable of love".Matthew Wills (October 1, 2020). "A History of Transphobia in the Medical Establishment". JSTOR Daily.
Walsh cites the German sexologist Sigusch's coining of the term cissexual in the 1990s as a purported origin point for the term cisgender, even though the term cisvestitismus had been used in German since the 1910s (see Cisgender § Etymology for more information) and the term cisgender was independently coined in English in 1994.Avery Dame (May 22, 2017). "Tracing Terminology: Researching Early Uses of 'Cisgender'". AHA Today (Perspectives on History). The American Historical Association.Dana Defosse (February 18, 2023). "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means." HuffPost. Gohrbandt (the 'literal Nazi scientist' referenced by Walsh) made little substantial contribution to transgender medicine, performing part of a small handful of surgeries on commission from Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research, alongside one of the institute's in-house surgeons. Walsh does not even truly attempt to support his claim that Alfred Kinsey was foundational to transgender medicine or activism. Kinsey is known for his sexual orientation research, and Walsh cites his influence in sex education, making his inclusion in the list strange.
Despite Walsh implying Hirschfeld was a Nazi, he died in exile because of the Nazis targeting him. It is true that Hirschfeld advocated a form of eugenics (including, as Walsh says, against severely mentally disabled people),Vivian McCall (March 20, 2024). "Yes, JK Rowling, the Nazis Did Persecute Trans People". The Stranger. although he opposed the way it was applied by the Nazis. According to Ralf Dose: "The belief that public health could be improved through eugenic measures was at that time especially widespread among left-of-center physicians." Perhaps the most ironic thing here is that one of the groups who Hirschfeld advocated practicing eugenics against were in fact pedophiles, the people Walsh attempts to conflate with transgender people and their historical advocates in the medical profession. Many scientific fields began with glaring problems or imperfect advocates: or as H.P. Lovecraft put it, "no great discovery comes forth without attendant clouds of error & half truth."Lovecraft's September 1936 Letter to Kenneth Sterling. Einstein, Darwin, Newton, Aristotle — many fundamental contributors to science held some abhorrent or nutty views, or otherwise made factual errors. The founding father of modern dentistry advocated swishing your teeth with your own piss. Does that discredit tooth-brushing?
It should also be noted that actual Nazis, who blame transgender people on Jewish influence (a narrative which Walsh in fact partially feeds into by claiming trans people are "invented" rather than observed and described), also think Matt's statement makes no sense.Right-wing dating podcast Fresh & Fit embraces Holocaust denial Neither of the two groups Matt tried to connect think he has a valid point.
====Homophobia====
Walsh is anti-gay marriage, claiming that the legalization of gay marriage is part of a left-wing plot to destroy America by eroding and corrupting marriage via the legalization of sexual deviancy.
He has also claimed that same-sex marriage is invalid because gay people can't produce children (despite having no problem with infertile straight people getting married).FACTS, LOGIC & MATT WALSH: Gay "Marriage" By Definition Cannot Be The Same As Real Marriage In one article of his discussing how certain media outlets have reported positively on an incestuous relationship, Walsh argued that same-sex marriage and transgender people were worse than incest, polygamy, and pedophilia, writing:
Walsh specifically calls out conservatives who are drawing the line at polygamy, writing that "At least a polygamous marriage can still be procreative, and at least there’s some historical precedent for it." Of course, we also have evidence of unions between same-sex couples in the ancient world.The History of Gay Marriage: from the Ancients to Gen Z! [AD]
Likewise, he opposes granting gay people the ability to adopt children, believing that homosexuality is a "sign from nature" that a person is unfit to raise a child.MATT WALSH IS INSANE | The Kyle Kulinski Show, YouTube, 07 December 2023
Walsh believes in the gay agenda conspiracy theory that states children are being brainwashed into becoming LGBT:
He claims you can change your sexuality and that the idea of gay rights is "preposterous and insane".Gay Marriage Still Doesn't Exist, No Matter What The Supreme Court Says He endorses conversion therapy as a method to achieve this, stating that it's a feasible method of changing one's sexual orientation since "no sane person thinks" there is any such thing as "homosexual infants".(October 10, 2023). "Matt Walsh discusses the sexuality of babies". Media Matters for America.Amelia Hansford (October 11, 2023). "Matt Walsh argues in favour of gay conversion therapy as he claims sexuality is a 'choice'". PinkNews.
Walsh has also blamed the infamous Catholic Church scandal on "gay priests," a defense which could be viewed as homophobia, pedophilia apologia, or even both. (Even thought the Catholic Church bars homosexual men from becoming priests,Vatican affirms ban on gay priests but that is neither here nor there.)
Regarding gay couples' adoption of children or utilization of surrogacy, Walsh compared it to cutting children's arms off, going as far as to say that it's actually worse than that:
Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Walsh went on his podcast and whined about how it was a result of the White House recruiting lesbians into the military and therefore making it more feminine.No, really
After a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado in November 2022, Walsh blamed the LGBTQ+ community for the shooting, going on a hateful rant about drag queens in which he claimed that drag shows were inherently sexual, and that drag queens who performed in front of children were pedophiles who are trying to make children queer. He stated that in order to end violence against LGBTQ+ people, drag queens should simply stop performing. https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/11/23/matt-walsh-colorado-springs-shooting-club-q-drag/
After CNN criticised the Kenyan president for his country's ban on homosexuality, Walsh accused them of molehill mountaineering and asked "What happened to respecting other people's cultures?".Twitter post One wonders if he would have the same attitude if it was Christianity that was illegal in Kenya.
====Miscellaneous====
Walsh's opinion on pansexuality is about what you would expect, and then some. Here he explains that pansexuality doesn't exist, yet this thing that doesn't exist is also "scary":
Regarding asexuality, he calls it a "dysfunction of the brain" caused by "spiritual despair".Ana Valens (October 26, 2022). "Yes, Christian Fascism’s Anti-LGBTQ Hate Extends to Asexual People, Too". The Mary Sue. Coming from a mental illness denier, this argument is somewhat peculiar; it certainly demonstrates that Walsh is willing to weaponize the social stigma of mental illness against people he dislikes when it suits him. His statements, which were largely overlooked elsewhere, prompted extended responses from Annamarie Forcino and The Ace Couple.Annamarie Forcino (March 27, 2023). "Matt Walsh is Clueless About Asexuality". YouTube.(May 10, 2023). "Matt Walsh ALSO Hates Asexual & Aromantic People...". The Ace Couple. The Mary Sue points out that his position could be interpreted as an extension of his Christian fertility fetish:
====Creepy Uncle Matt's hypocrisy====
Despite his constant fearmongering about the LGBTQ+ community being filled with sexual predators, Walsh has espoused a number of very creepy opinions regarding human sexuality. 
In response to the allegations of incest and child molestation leveled against reality star Josh Duggar and the eventual cancelation of his family's TLC show 19 Kids and Counting, Walsh all but defended Duggar in his May 2015 Blaze article "The Duggars aren't Hypocrites. Progressives are", where he downplayed the accusations made against Duggar and claimed that because Duggar supposedly "repented long ago" for his "sins", what he allegedly did doesn't matter anymore while the Left and other "anti-Christian folks" are somehow "hypocritical" for criticizing the Duggars for how they covered-up their son's crimes and conservative Christianity as a whole for acting as the moral fiber of society when cases like this occur.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/28/2125650/-Before-Matt-Walsh-led-anti-trans-campaigns-he-claimed-Josh-Duggar-only-committed-sins-not-crimes Two months after the article's publication in August of that year, Walsh seemingly reversed his stance in a Facebook post where he admitted he was wrong about "the Duggar situation" (his words) and realizing Josh Duggar was in no way sincere in his so-called "apology" to his family. Even here, Walsh still tries to handwave the seriousness of the issue, as he continues to refer to Duggar's alleged crimes as "sins" and "mistakes" (as if raping children is an easily forgivable mishap that can dissolved through prayers and confessions) and stands by several portions of his essay, including part of it where Walsh justified Michele and Jim Bob's decision to hide their son's abuses from the authorities when they became aware of them.
In June 2021, Walsh reviewed a children's book intended to teach children about consent, with the message being not to show physical affection (such as hugging or kissing) without permission. Walsh dismissed the book as "woke" and called it "the worst one yet", and stated "I violate my kids' consent all the time".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icPDEmizDAA Matt Walsh Reviews A Woke Children's Book (C is for Consent) (To be fair to Matt, he likely meant doing things like telling his kids to clean up after themselves and not the worst things possible, but that begs the question as to why he specifically called the idea of consent sexual earlier in the video. Even if you deny this means the worst thing possible, it still shows his own ideological incoherence.)
In a clip unearthed in October 2022 by Media Matters for America, Walsh stated that teenage pregnancy is not only acceptable, but ideal, as long as the girl is married. He stated that that's when they're "technically most fertile". In response to people being disgusted by these unearthed comments, The Daily Wire spent roughly $100,000 running ads defending him and claiming he was a victim of "cancel culture" due to the incident.Catherine Caruso (May 3, 2023). "The Daily Wire is on a six-figure Facebook ad blitz to downplay Matt Walsh’s old teen pregnancy comments". The Daily Dot.John Russell (May 4, 2023). "The Daily Wire spent $100K on ads defending Matt Walsh’s vile teen pregnancy comments". LGBTQ Nation.Kylie Cheung (May 3, 2023). "'Daily Wire' Blew Six Figures on Ads to Brush Off Matt Walsh’s Comments on Child Rape". Jezebel. He has also gone on record as stating that 13-year-olds are pretty much adults and called the concept of adolescence a "modern plague", despite also claiming that under-25's are pretty much children when talking about trans issues. He further stated that 17- and 18-year-old girls who are "still in high school … want, biologically and metaphysically and with everything in their body, they want to settle down, they want to start a family."https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/deleted-matt-walsh-blog-post-calls-concept-adolescence-modern-plague
In November of 2022, a clip of Walsh espousing some quite messed up views on rape and consent in general was unearthed by The Serf Times,The Serf Times, YouTube. including of Walsh defending convicted or alleged child sex abusers such as defrocked Cardinal, Theodore McCarrick.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9PfeI3XIQ8Rant starts at 1:30 and is continued in the video, although interrupted by reactions from Seder and his co-host Emma Vigelandhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230901195332/https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1577500016494903298 Walsh has defended American actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson, arguing based on a highly inaccurate retelling of events that he was wrongly convicted. This was for seemingly no reason other than to make a point about false rape accusations which would then allow him to defend anti-establishment podcaster and former comedian Russell Brand, who has also been accused of rape.Matt Walsh DEFENDS Masterson Even After Conviction!!!
===Racism and colonialism===
====Great Replacement conspiracy theory====
Following the committed by a white supremacist against black people in a supermarket, there was public discussion about the shooter's belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory (a key motivation for the shooting); the conspiracy theory proposes not only that racial demographics are changing and that this constitutes "replacement" of white people (see also: "white genocide" theory), but that there is a plot to cause this to happen. Walsh responded to this by claiming that the "so-called great replacement theory … isn't a conspiracy theory. There's nothing wild or speculative about it. It's just a fact. And one of the ways you know that it's a fact is the left and the media — The New York Times, CNN — they've been very open about it, many times. So if it is a theory — if the great replacement theory is a theory, then it's a theory propagated by the left.""Matt Walsh". Southern Poverty Law Center. Quote: "Walsh hosts 'The Matt Walsh Show' on the Daily Wire and has written several books that promote anti-transgender pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. ... Walsh further cemented his rhetorical embrace of white supremacy when he espoused the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory[.]"(May 16, 2022). "Daily Wire host says the white supremacist great replacement conspiracy is 'just a fact'" Media Matters for America.
====Colonialism====
In 2023 Walsh released a video in which he stated that the people who colonised the United States were "heroes" who should be celebrated, and that the colonisation was an unambiguously noble action. In fact, the only kind of colonisation that he considers wrong is what he describes as "cultural colonisation...when Western governments fly the pride flag on their embassies and export the LGBT agenda and gender ideology into Africa and other regions that don't want it."Jason Campbell on Twitter: "Matt Walsh says, 'The conquest and colonization and settling of this land was, overall, a good and noble and courageous thing'". (Archived video-only version).Never mind that there is a long history of LGBTQ+ people existing, and in many cases being widely accepted, in various African societies. Ironically, it was Western colonialism that exported modern homophobia to Africa and led to decreased acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. In other words, "Native genocide good, promoting LGBT rights bad".
====Genocide denial====
Unsurprisingly, Walsh is a frequent denier of the multiple historical cases of ethnic cleansing of Natives in North America. He believes Andrew Jackson was a great man who deserves to be honoured,Matt Walsh on Twitter: "The question isn’t whether Harriet Tubman should be honored but whether Andrew Jackson should be dishonored. To that I say no." in spite of his many crimes such as the and the destruction of .Massacre Unveiled: Remembering the Negro Fort
More recently, Walsh became an ardent defender of the Canadian residential schools in which hundreds of indigenous children were murdered,Remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children found at former residential schools in Canada claiming that a mass grave is a completely normal thing for a school to have.Matt Walsh on Twitter: "Yes, death among children was extremely common prior to the advent of modern medicine. That's probably why the schools had cemeteries. I'm really not sure why this concept is difficult to grasp."The RationalMedia Foundation apologizes for once again subjecting you to Matt Walsh's Twitter He has also called the story a "nefarious hoax",Matt Walsh Excuses Native Genocide thus putting his name next to that of asshole extraordinaire William Donohue on the list of people who claimed the deaths were fake news.
In November 2024, he released episode 1488 of his podcast, "Why We Should Stop Apologizing for Our History" that was a screed against indigenous rights and naturally had a lot of Nazis cheering him on in the comment section.Why We Should Stop Apologizing for Our History, Matt Walsh, YouTube 22 November 2024
===Mental health===
====Anxiety and depression====
Walsh does not seem to believe in the theory that chemical imbalances substantially contribute to depression,https://web.archive.org/web/20220615174912/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1019583626244222976Walsh, M. Robin Williams didn’t die from a disease, he died from his choice. which it is strongly implied that he denies that antidepressants can treat it.Tom Cruise Was Right About Anti Depressants, Matt Walsh on YouTube.https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/959220 While claiming that suicide is a choice, he also claims that the notion of chemical imbalances causing depression has supposedly been "thoroughly debunked over and over again", then proceeding to cite how drug companies bring in hundreds of millions of dollars treating it, with Walsh not even bothering to explain how what is supposedly a lie can make companies that much money. 
====ADHD====
He is also an ADHD denier, trotting out the usual old canards of the "environment filled with distractions" and that, like depression, it's just an invention of Big Pharma (never mind the processes of what actually goes into DSM-5; it's not easy).@MattWalshBlog. (March 13, 2020). "It’s insane that we’re diagnosing people (especially kids) with “ADHD” in a culture where ...". Twitter. Accessed March 17, 2022.@MattWalshBlog. (August 2, 2023). "You don’t have ADHD. You just get distracted because you live your life surrounded by distractions ...". Twitter. Accessed August 8, 2023. There's a bit of Boomer-esque griping about humanity's declining attention span, posted on Twitter, a site about short, shallow distracting soundbites. Never mind that having been documented since at least the early 18th century.
====DID====
Walsh's disbelief for DID primarily comes from a belief that some of the people who claim to have it are lying. One segment from 2022 sees him claiming that Shirley Ardell Mason of Sybil fame did not have this disorder, which he uses as a jumping off point to call the entire illness fake.TikTok Is Making Mental Illness Trendy Although this is certainly possible, this also holds no relevance to if this specific disorder exists. All it would mean is that one person lied about having it. 
In 2012, both raocow and ProtonJon played a rom hack called Notte Luminosa at the request of the romhacker, named Yanama, who claimed to be dying from leukemia, even though this was a lie.Tear Jerker / raocow
Heartwarming / ProtonJon But this obviously does not mean that leukemia, which causes the death of over twenty thousand people a year,Key Statistics for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) does not actually exist. It just means that Yanama specifically was lying about having it. In the same regard, one person lying about having DID does not mean DID does not exist, just that one person lied about having it.
===Authoritarianism===
Walsh shows many signs of being a wannabe dictator. He staunchly endorses stripping people of the right to vote if he considers them to be "ignorant" or "non-contributing"Twitter post 8 Jun 2019. or feels that they "don't deserve it",Daily Wire Host Says Voting Isn't A Right | The Kyle Kulinski Show, YouTube, 25 Septemeber 2023 and specifically only wants people to vote if they pay taxes and have passed an 8th-grade civics exam.Twitter post 8 Jun 2019. Walsh has accused activists who want voting to be universal of voter fraud,Daily Wire host: Voting is not a 'God-given right' to be shared by all people and tweeted that it should be easier to buy a gun than vote.Right-Wing Pundit Claims “Gun Ownership Is A More Important Right Than Voting” He also supports criminalizing adultery, drag queen story hour, and critical race theory."The Texas abortion ban is great. Every red state should copy it. But it shouldn't stop there. Stay on offense. Ban critical race theory in schools, ban gender theory, ban drag queen story hours, criminalize adultery. Do everything the Left fears you might do. Do it all and more."
Not only did Walsh condemn businesses that required masks to be worn during the COVID-19 pandemic, he believes that face masks should be made illegal.Twitter post
After Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended an elected prosecutor for not prosecuting enough abortionists or gender-affirming care providersRon DeSantis Oversteps His Authority by Suspending Tampa's Elected Prosecutor and arrested several people for legally voting,The revealing details of Ron DeSantis’s voter fraud crackdown Walsh endorsed him for President explicitly because of his dictatorial actions.Matt Walsh on Twitter: "DeSantis 2024"
In 2023, Walsh called for the US government to arrest and imprison all suspected criminals without due process, championing the use of this approach in El Salvador and commending the country's use of inhumane prisons. Walsh acknowledged that many innocent people would likely be caught up in this blatantly unconstitutional solution to crime but declared that it was worth ignoring the due process rights of ordinary people to deter people in San Francisco from shoplifting.We Should Consider Dealing With Criminals This Way, The Matt Walsh Show, 23 August 2023 He's also advocated for the use of torture against petty criminals and the execution of drug dealers.Matt Walsh's Fascist Mask Slips On Twitter | The Kyle Kulinski Show, YouTube, 25 January 2023
As a self-described theocrat, Walsh has defended the , which he believes "gets a bad rap".Social media post He has not yet explained his reasoning, leaving us to conclude that he supports the persecution of all non-Catholic religions.
===Firearms===
Although he has quieted down in recent years about guns compared to his younger self, it's unlikely his views have changed, due in no small part to what he advocates would be acceptable punishment for petty criminals:https://web.archive.org/web/20230514051147/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1617611007949668353
 
After being called out for his horrific ideals by the public, he later doubled down on his radio show, saying things somehow more deranged than the aforementioned material:
Walsh said this implicitly criticizing the country’s first attempt at a multiracial democracy after the Civil War.
===Hit pieces===
Walsh spends much of his bandwidth attacking a handful of progressive figures, such as Bernie SandersTwitter post and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,Ep. 651 - AOC Attends The Jussie Smollett School Of Victimology and organizations that back progressive causes or, in some cases, simply do not hold positions as extreme as his own. Bizarrely, he has also repeatedly tried to smear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as radical Marxist extremists,Matt Walsh on Facebook when a cursory look at their actual records and agendas would leave genuine Marxists sorely disappointed at best; in Walsh’s mind, everyone who doesn’t support the GOP is a commie, no matter how staunchly pro-capitalist they’ve always been.
===Defending insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt===
Walsh has compared unjustified shootings of black people to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, a right-wing insurrectionist who was killed after charging a police officer while storming the U.S. Capitol, calling Black Lives Matter hypocrites for protesting over the deaths of unarmed black people but not protesting over the killing of a white insurrectionist. He also JAQed off during one of his videos on the subject, suggesting that the officer shot an unarmed woman out of partisan hatred for Trump supporters.BLM HYPOCRISY: Analyzing the Ashli Babbitt Shooting
===Climate change denial===
In addition to the above video, Walsh has suggested without evidence that climate protestors are nearly all mentally ill, and responded to an incident in Panama where two protestors were shot dead in cold blood by blaming the victim, saying that it was their fault for blocking the road and suggesting they had it coming.Fed Up Man Shoots Climate Activists Blocking Highway, The Matt Walsh Show, 9 November 2023. (Archived video-only version).
===Vaccines===
Despite claiming to have "no stance" on vaccines,https://web.archive.org/web/20220615175040/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1389632418479583236 Walsh, in all seriousness, accused the Sesame Street character Big Bird of being a drug dealer with the voice of a 'child molester' for telling children to be vaccinated.Matt Walsh Calls Big Bird a ‘Drug Dealer’ with the Voice of a ‘Child Molester’ for Doing CNN Town Hall on Vaccines for Kids by Michael Luciano. Mediaite. He also released a video in which he discussed why he refused to vaccinate his children against COVID-19, complete with a segment of him spreading FUD about the vaccine's long-term effects.Why My Kids Aren’t Getting The COVID Vaccine | The Matt Walsh Show Ep. 813
===No fun allowed===
====Satanic anime====
In October 2022, Walsh argued that all programs (Japanese-animated cartoons) are Satanic, in an effort to own the libs. He stated: "I have no argument for it. I have no argument for why it's Satanic. It just seems that way to me."Candice Ortiz (October 17, 2022). "Matt Walsh Declares Anime 'Satanic' But Admits He's Not Sure Why". Mediaite. He later added that anime will "literally lead to demonic possession in upwards of 87 percent of cases, studies show." The Church of Satan was not amused with Walsh's antics.
This claim is especially stupid since there are some Christian animes like Superbook and as well as a few that contain Christian themes such as (whose creator, Yasuhiro Nightow, is even Catholic), and some anime doesn't even contain any fantasy or supernatural elements- for instance, 
====Recreational drugs====
Walsh is opposed to cannabis use, but supports tobacco smoking. His argument regarding this turns on an appeal to productivity, that is, if everyone smoked cannabis they would be less economically productive, and if everyone smoked tobacco they would be more productive. He adds: "Without a tobacco plant, this country doesn't exist. So it has been crucial, central to this country from its foundation. The same cannot be said for marijuana. Tobacco is as American as apple pie."(November 20, 2023). "Matt Walsh: 'Societally, the effects of cigarettes are actually pretty positive'". Media Matters for America. However, if all he cared about was economic productivity, he would in turn need to reconsider his anti-LGBT,Keyvan Vakili and Laurina Zhang (March 23, 2018). "Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation". Harvard Business Review. (Of course, this particular research also directly contradicts his claim about cannabis and productivity as well.)Kathleen Pearson (June 6, 2023). "Making the Business Case for Supportive LGBTQ+ Policies". Society for Human Resource Management.Scottie Andrew (June 2, 2020). "Same-sex weddings have boosted economies by $3.8 billion since gay marriage was legalized five years ago this month, a new study says". CNN. and anti-immigration positions.
====Video games====
Walsh has argued a number of times that video games are harmful; he refers to video games as a "sacred cow".
In 2018, he wrote a column for The Daily Wire titled: "Stop Pretending Violent Video Games Are Harmless Just Because You Like Playing Them". In this column, Walsh asserts that the claim "the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts" is an "extremely logical and irrefutable argument"; he claims this right after stating that it is a straw man to claim that anyone "blames mass shooting on video games". He then argues that violent video games are not healthy for children (or anyone) to play, and anticipating his opponents citing studies that show no causal link between violent video gaming and real-life violence, argues: "You can cite the studies 'proving' that violent video games don’t contribute to violence in kids. I can cite the studies 'proving' they do. And we can go round and round, throwing studies at each other until it finally dawns on us that maybe some things can’t really be proven or disproved with a study." He then appeals to "common sense" as an alternative, and argues video games should only be played in moderation.
Then he insults people whose hobby is playing violent video games: "Your favorite recreational activity is to pretend that you are killing people. You probably will never kill a single person in real life, but it’s still not good; it’s still unhealthy; it’s still pretty disturbing that you find so much joy in simulated death and destruction. … [Violent video games and movies] feed the twisted part of [one's] brain that delights in ugliness. We all have that in us, to some extent, in one form or another. But we should not indulge the instinct. We should not embrace it and fuel it. We bring ourselves into dark places when we do. Even if the dark place does not involve shooting up a school, it is still a dark place, and it is better to be in the light. … Social media. Movies. TV. All of these things have interfered with our ability to react and respond like human beings. So, video games are not the only culprit. But they are a culprit. And for some people — the people who play a lot of video games, and especially a lot of very violent video games — they probably are a major culprit."Matt Walsh (March 9, 2018). "Stop Pretending Violent Video Games Are Harmless Just Because You Like Playing Them". The Daily Wire. Thus he ends the column by making an argument which, at the beginning of the column, he claimed nobody ever made.
In 2019, he wrote another column, going further: he claims that most studies have showed a link between real-life violence and playing violent video games. He also argues that the "real danger of video games" isn't violence but instead "the same sort of danger inherent to television and to the internet. These things, if consumed immoderately, cause isolation and loneliness." However, he then turns around and states that: "The Sandy Hook shooter was obsessed with video games, playing them for up to ten hours a day. Gamers who suggest this fact is completely irrelevant and utterly disconnected from his eventual burst of murderous violence are defying common sense." He adds that he is not in favor of censoring video games, but rather parents "strictly regulating" how much their children play them.Matt Walsh (August 6, 2019). "This Is The Real Danger Of Video Games. It Has Almost Nothing To Do With Violence." The Daily Wire.
====Yoga====
On the just downright silly side of Matt's opinions, he does not believe Christians should be engaging in Yoga, and expressed this view in an article with the headline "Yoga Is A Pagan Ritual. Maybe Christians Should Find A Different Workout Routine."WALSH: Yoga Is A Pagan Ritual. Maybe Christians Should Find A Different Workout Routine. Funnily enough, despite Walsh being a practicing Catholic, one of his sources is Albert Mohler, who has said the Catholic Church "is a false church and it teaches a false gospel."SBC leader denounces papacy
===Homelessness===
Walsh believes that homelessness is a lucrative industry which allows homeless people to make hundreds of dollars a day and that the majority of homeless people are "crazy, violent drifters" who are homeless because they spend all their money on drugs.Matt Walsh complains many unhoused people “make more money than people that work minimum wage and have been living in apartments”, Media Matters for America
==Stopped clock moments==
*Walsh has criticized Donald Trump numerous times.http://archive.today/2024.01.13-051351/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1021368235957063681http://archive.today/2024.01.13-051554/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1040260750017744896https://web.archive.org/web/20220615170602/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1042110298742775810http://archive.today/2024.01.13-051808/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1084810933095018496
*He has criticized young Earth creationism and the belief that the word "day" in the book of Genesis absolutely must refer to a literal, 24-hour day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG8JihEKrUI
*He supports restoring voting rights to convicted felons.https://web.archive.org/web/20220615170340/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1060163307422789632
*He has shown awareness of police brutality,https://web.archive.org/web/20220615170400/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1070060706261807105 making a surprisingly levelheaded, nuanced videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_mKEe_gfw where he:
**Admitted to dismissing the issue in the past
**Acknowledged that the hysteria surrounding the issue was not as prevalent as he made it out to be and that there are still concerning trends within the police force
**Dismantled common excuses that are often used to downplay or even excuse the issue.However, he threw all this away by claiming that George Floyd died of a drug overdose and using the police killing of Daunte Wright to make a point about female police officers.
*He argued with prominent alt-righter Nick Fuentes.https://web.archive.org/web/20210307061807/https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1159107666930733058
*He knows the Apollo missions have happened and that humans have indeed flown to the moon. In light of this, he published a video criticizing moon landing hoax conspiracy theories.https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1752090483319263594
*Not a big fan of raw milk.Matt Walsh (September 1, 2024). "Raw milk is disgusting. We live in a first world civilized society and people are actively choosing to consume milk riddled with E. coli and listeria. Pasteurization is not some evil sorcery. It just kills the dangerous bacteria you morons." Twitter. (Archive 1). (Archive 2).
==External links==
*Matt Walsh's garbage dump itself
*The Anti-Matt Walsh Blog, a temporary blog dating from 2014 dedicated to documenting and refuting the views of Matt Walsh
*His YouTube channel
*"The Sad, Unremarkable Mind of Matt Walsh - Part 1", and Part 2
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