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He rented an apartment in Virginia for one day in 2021 to qualify to speak out against the Loudoun County School Board for allowing [[transgender]] students the use of restrooms matching their [[gender identity]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-28|title=Some Teachers, "National Agitators" Voice Concerns About Race Theory, Transgender Rights|url=https://patch.com/virginia/ashburn/rally-held-against-crt-transgender-policies-loudoun-county|access-date=2021-11-17|website=Ashburn, VA Patch|language=en}}</ref> In May 2021, Walsh called doctors who perform [[Sex reassignment surgery|gender-reassignment surgeries]] for [[transgender youth]] "[[Plastic surgery|plastic surgeons]] basically acting like Leatherface from [[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]."<ref name=":1" />
He rented an apartment in Virginia for one day in 2021 to qualify to speak out against the Loudoun County School Board for allowing [[transgender]] students the use of restrooms matching their [[gender identity]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-28|title=Some Teachers, "National Agitators" Voice Concerns About Race Theory, Transgender Rights|url=https://patch.com/virginia/ashburn/rally-held-against-crt-transgender-policies-loudoun-county|access-date=2021-11-17|website=Ashburn, VA Patch|language=en}}</ref> In May 2021, Walsh called doctors who perform [[Sex reassignment surgery|gender-reassignment surgeries]] for [[transgender youth]] "[[Plastic surgery|plastic surgeons]] basically acting like Leatherface from [[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]."<ref name=":1" />

In February 2022, Walsh invited dozens of trans people and doctors, including a fourteen-year-old girl, to participate in an anti-trans documentary under false pretenses.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|last=Baragona|first=Justin|date=2022-02-08|title=Far-Right Troll Tried to Dupe Trans People Into Joining His Anti-Trans Documentary|language=en|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-tried-to-dupe-trans-people-into-joining-his-anti-trans-documentary|access-date=2022-02-09}}</ref><ref name="lablade-8feb2022">{{cite news |title=Anti-Trans Matt Walsh tries to lure Trans people into fake documentary |url=https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/02/08/anti-trans-matt-walsh-tries-to-lure-trans-people-into-fake-documentary/ |access-date=February 8, 2022 |work=[[Los Angeles Blade]] |date=February 8, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Collman |first=Ashley |title=Trans activists accuse conservative podcaster Matt Walsh of trying to lure them into participating in an anti-trans documentary |url=https://www.insider.com/matt-walsh-accused-luring-trans-people-into-anti-trans-doc-2022-2 |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Eli Erlick|Eli Elrick]] and [[Kataluna Enriquez]] corroborated these accounts.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Collman|first=Ashley|date=2022-02-15|title=Conservative film crew continues to try and trick trans activists into appearing in mysterious documentary, Miss Nevada USA says|language=en|work=[[Business Insider]]|url=https://www.insider.com/miss-nevada-usa-also-targeted-by-anti-trans-documentary-crew-2022-2|access-date=2022-02-19}}</ref>


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Matt Walsh
Born (1986-06-18) June 18, 1986 (age 37)
United States
Occupation(s)Political commentator, media host, columnist, author
Years active2011-present
MovementConservatism
SpouseAlissa Walsh (m. 2011)
Children4

Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) is an American conservative political commentator who hosts The Matt Walsh Show podcast on The Daily Wire.[1][2]

Career

Walsh began his career as an AM talk radio host in Delaware and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, with NewsRadio 630 WLAP beginning on June 11, 2012.[3][4] He worked for The Blaze TV starting in October 2014.[5] He was also a contributor to HuffPost.[6] He began writing for The Daily Wire in October 2017.[7][8][9] Additionally, he has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight,[10][11][12] The Ingraham Angle,[13] Fox and Friends,[12][non-primary source needed] and Dr. Phil.[14]

Walsh has written three books: The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender (2017), Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians (2020) and Johnny the Walrus (2021). Johnny the Walrus, a children's book, attracted controversy ahead of its publication for allegorically comparing being transgender with pretending to be a walrus.[15] It was the best-selling LGBT+ book on Amazon in December 2021 before Amazon recategorized it.[16]

Public views

Walsh opposes abortion[17] and same-sex marriage,[18] and is a critic of the transgender community.[15][19][20] Walsh has suggested that Christians should not practice yoga, on the basis that it involves Hindu worship.[21] He has argued against the necessity of paid paternity leave[22] and defended the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha unrest shooting.[23]

Controversies

Views on Transgender people

In January 2021, Twitter suspended Walsh's account for violating its policies on hateful content, after he tweeted hate speech against the transgender community.[24]

He rented an apartment in Virginia for one day in 2021 to qualify to speak out against the Loudoun County School Board for allowing transgender students the use of restrooms matching their gender identity.[25] In May 2021, Walsh called doctors who perform gender-reassignment surgeries for transgender youth "plastic surgeons basically acting like Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."[15]

Kristi Noem

When South Dakota governor Kristi Noem declined to ban businesses from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine for their employees, he criticized her by writing that she was only considered a 2024 Republican presidential contender because of her physical attractiveness.[2] After Noem called his comment misogynistic, Walsh said he had no regrets but would "accept apologies from all of the performative idiots pretending to be offended by it".[26]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted photos of her grandmother's house in Puerto Rico that was unrepaired in 2021, four years after Hurricane Maria, and blamed former President Donald Trump for not doing enough to help the recovery, Walsh criticized Ocasio-Cortez for not providing the money herself. He launched a crowdfunding effort to pay for the repairs and raised $100,000 in the first 24 hours but the grandmother's family refused the funds, and GoFundMe shut the effort down.[27] Ocasio-Cortez responded to the criticism by saying, ""My abuela is okay ... but instead of only caring for mine & letting others suffer, I'm calling attention to the systemic injustices you seem totally fine w/ in having a US colony."[27]

Church cancellation of Walsh event

St. Francis Xavier College Church, at Saint Louis University, cancelled a speech by Walsh that it had planned to co-host with Young Americans for Freedom in December 2021. The church said it had decided that Walsh's "provocative positions on immigration, on communities of color, on Muslims, and on members of the LGBTQ community" were "in contradiction to Jesus' great commandment to love God and love our neighbor".[28] Walsh spoke at a different St. Louis venue.[29]

Personal life

Matt Walsh is married to Alissa Walsh, and they have four children together.[30][31] He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.[32]

References

  1. ^ "Rightwing blogger launches gofundme for AOC's Puerto Rico grandmother in latest personal attack". The Independent. June 5, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Oliver Darcy. "Kristi Noem slams right-wing media personality Matt Walsh for 'horrible misogyny'". CNN. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "NewsRadio 630 WLAP - Lexington's News Talk Radio". NewsRadio 630 WLAP. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  4. ^ "I Didn't Get a Job Today, and it was Awesome". May 30, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "Popular Conservative Commentator Is Officially Joining TheBlaze". TheBlaze. Archived from the original on August 25, 2018.
  6. ^ "Matt Walsh - HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  7. ^ "WALSH: Please Don't Act Shocked And Appalled By Harvey Weinstein If You Celebrated Hugh Hefner". The Daily Wire. October 16, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Walsh, Matt [@MattWalshBlog] (October 16, 2017). "I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined The Daily Wire: https://t.co/1EEEskWvWr" (Tweet). Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2022 – via Twitter.
  9. ^ "Matt Walsh". The Daily Wire. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  10. ^ Stabile, Angelica (July 7, 2021). "Why aren't America's classrooms fitted with cameras? Matt Walsh weighs in". Fox News. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  11. ^ "Matt Walsh: Masking no longer about COVID, it's a symbol of 'wokeness'". Fox News. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Matt Walsh". IMDb. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  13. ^ Brown, Jon (September 28, 2021). "Conservative commentator accuses Loudoun County school board of being 'child abusers'". Fox News. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  14. ^ Rogers, Zachary (January 20, 2022). "'What is a woman?': Controversy after Dr. Phil puts non-binary guests against conservative". Sinclair Broadcast Group. Retrieved January 21, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ a b c Migdon, Brooke (December 9, 2021). "Amazon bestseller compares being trans to pretending to be a walrus". TheHill. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  16. ^ Migdon, Brooke (December 10, 2021). "Amazon recategorizes book comparing being trans to pretending to be a walrus". TheHill. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  17. ^ Mayberry, Carly (December 1, 2021). "Catholic church cancels YAF-sponsored anti-abortion talk by Matt Walsh as faculty protest". Newsweek. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  18. ^ Walsh, Matt. "Gay Marriage Still Doesn't Exist, No Matter What The Supreme Court Says". The Blaze.
  19. ^ SAEGERT, RHIANNON. "Thousands petition Baylor to recognize LGBT groups". WacoTrib.com. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  20. ^ "Dad Defends Makeup Artist Son Against Homophobic Tweet". HuffPost UK. January 16, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  21. ^ Burton, Tara Isabella (February 3, 2018). "A Catholic blogger says Christians shouldn't do yoga. Does he have a point?". Vox. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  22. ^ Shannon Carpenter. "These stay-at-home fathers tell you why paternity leave is important". CNN. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  23. ^ "Opinion | Kyle Rittenhouse's story is a tragedy. The right thinks it's a triumph". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  24. ^ "Twitter Suspends the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh over Transgender Tweets". National Review. January 8, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  25. ^ "Some Teachers, "National Agitators" Voice Concerns About Race Theory, Transgender Rights". Ashburn, VA Patch. September 28, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  26. ^ "Gov. Kristi Noem slams podcaster Matt Walsh for "horrible misogyny": "Eyes up here"". Newsweek. August 26, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  27. ^ a b Dzhanova, Yelena. "A right-wing writer who crowdfunded $100,000 to repair the Puerto Rico home of AOC's grandmother says she declined to accept the money". Business Insider. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  28. ^ Mayberry, Carly (December 1, 2021). "Catholic Church Cancels YAF-Sponsored Anti-Abortion Talk by Matt Walsh as Faculty Protest". Newsweek. Retrieved January 21, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ Hecker, Caroline (December 1, 2021). "Daily Wire's Matt Walsh invited to speak at SLU, sparks protests in the streets". KMOV.com. Retrieved January 21, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ^ Walsh, Matt [@MattWalshBlog] (October 9, 2019). "Now that we have four kids, we're already getting disapproving looks and comments from people. But four kids is not a lot. The fact that our culture treats a modest sized family as some sort of Ripley's Believe It Or Not display just shows why the West is dying" (Tweet). Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2022 – via Twitter.
  31. ^ "Alissa Walsh - Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  32. ^ Pfleger, Paige (October 12, 2021). "Far-right friendly social media website Parler will move its headquarters to Nashville". WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio. Retrieved November 19, 2021.

External links

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