Matt Walsh defending JD Vance in drag: Dressing like a woman is “absurd,” “hilarious,” “creepy”
Walsh called those accusing Vance of hypocrisy “a giant, slobbering moron”
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Citation From the August 13, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): You have got to be a giant, slobbering moron to not understand the distinction here. I mean to accuse J.D. Vance of hypocrisy for wearing drag at a Halloween party in college. And why is he hypocrite? Because he doesn't think that we should parade drag queens around children, and he thinks that men are men, and women are women, and if a man dresses up like a woman, he's not actually a woman. Like those are his two positions, broadly speaking, that lead to him being a hypocrite, because 12 or 13 years ago, at a college party, he wore drag.
So again, assuming those photos are actually J.D. Vance — and it seems like a safe assumption — so this was at a Halloween party in college. I mean, he's holding a beer pong ball in the picture you can see, and what does that tell us? Okay, it tells us that he dressed like this as a joke. It is a joke. The whole point is that it looks ridiculous. Okay, so if you're on the left and you saw that photo of J.D. Vance, and said you know, "we got him now, he's a hypocrite," again, I'm going to do you the favor of taking you at your word, and which would mean that you're just a total moron, and so I'm going to try to slow down, and I'll speak as slowly and clearly as I possibly can. If you really don't understand the distinction, let me try to explain it.
So this was pretty common back in the old days at frat parties. Halloween parties had guys dressed up like that. Why were they doing that? Were they expressing their true self? Was this something that they walked in dressed like that, and everyone applauded and celebrated, "Oh so beautiful! He is, himself — herself, sorry. No, what did people do? They laughed, because you're supposed to laugh. You're supposed to look at that and laugh. That was the point, it was a joke. The punch line is that it is absurd for a man to dress like a woman.
Why would a person at a college party do something intentionally absurd? I don't know. Welcome to college parties. That's — because it's funny. It's a Halloween costume. So especially, you know, as a man and this — maybe I got to back it up a little bit more explain to you what, how Halloween costumes work, right, is that, if you're a man and you're dressed in a Halloween costume — and I don't wear Halloween costumes myself as an adult, but you know, I understand the basic concept at least more than you people apparently do, if you're on the left, I mean — so if you're a man dressed in Halloween costume, there are really two possible reactions you're hoping to get. And one is that you want people to laugh because you're trying to be funny. The only other possibility is that it's supposed to be scary. The only two reasons any man really wears a Halloween costume is it's funny or it's scary. And so why was he dressed like that? I mean, I guess it could be a little of column A, a little of column B here. Either we're supposed to laugh, "Hey look, it's a man dressed like a woman that's hilarious," or, "Hey look, it's a man dressed like a woman, that's creepy as hell." Maybe it's supposed to be kind of creepy and funny.
Either way, this is not the same thing as a self proclaimed trans woman, quote, unquote, or a drag queen today. In both of those cases, those are males presenting themselves as females in a context that we are supposed to take seriously. You're not supposed to look at a trans woman, quote, unquote, or a drag queen and laugh. Are you? In fact, if you do that, right? You on the left, you would accuse us of unspeakable bigotry, right? If a trans-identified male walked into the room dressed like a woman, and I pointed at him and said, "That is hilarious. Good one. Wow. That is great. That is hysterical. Look at him. Look at him. He looks like he is like a clown. What a hilarious costume!" If I reacted that way, you would break. You would cry.