To blame someone else is to rob me of my free will

January 28, 2016 11:05 AM

Conservative commentatorc Matt Walsh is one of the many Republicans who don't want Donald Trump to win their nomination. Unlike them, however, he has issued a condemnation of himself and others - including non-Trump supporters who apologize for Trump supporters - who allowed it to happen in America Is Falling Apart And It's Your Fault.

"But there is no accountability. We all say we want accountability, but what we really mean is we want everyone else to be accountable. Very few people will actually hold themselves accountable for anything. Our Republic crumbles while we all sit around pretending we’re victims of a culture we’re actively creating and politicians we actively vote into office. We put torches to our own home and wonder why it’s on fire.

And then, surveying the destruction we wrought upon ourselves, we weep like damsels in distress, crying out for a white knight to save us. Inevitably, a charlatan in a suit of armor comes along and promises to do just that. We faint and fall into his arms, and he proceeds to immediately betray us. Then we weep again for another white knight to save us from the last one, and another comes along, and he betrays us, and we weep again, and another one comes, and so on and so on and so on and so on unto infinity."

posted by corb (12 comments total)

Why do like five people in the "file photo" that accompanies the article clearly have the same face photoshopped onto them?
posted by to sir with millipedes at 11:09 AM on January 28, 2016

Commentatorc is a good description of Matt Walsh.
posted by miyabo at 11:10 AM on January 28, 2016 [1 favorite]

Conservative commentatorc Matt Walsh

He's a commentator AND an orc?
posted by w0mbat at 11:11 AM on January 28, 2016 [2 favorites]

And it's posted on Glenn Beck's site?

Is this Walsh's resignation letter from the Blaze, or is Beck going to step forward with a mea culpa of his own?
posted by ocschwar at 11:11 AM on January 28, 2016

Why do like five people in the "file photo" that accompanies the article clearly have the same face photoshopped onto them?

I thought this was cheap snark, but no, it's accurate. And really weird.
posted by explosion at 11:14 AM on January 28, 2016

This appears to be the non-Photoshopped version of that pic.
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 11:14 AM on January 28, 2016

I'm not quite sure I see the equivalence of Trump and Sanders that the author implies.
posted by LastOfHisKind at 11:15 AM on January 28, 2016

Beck already came out against Trump in the National Review. Which to my way of thinking just confirms that Glenn Beck doesn't fully understand the ramifications of his own rhetoric.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:15 AM on January 28, 2016

populist con artists like Trump or Sanders

lol this guy seems insightful
posted by RogerB at 11:15 AM on January 28, 2016

I’m at least not intent on voting for a socialist, a reality TV game show host, or a criminal.

One of these things is not like the other...

Also, just in case you're worried it's actor/comedian Matt Walsh, you can relax, it's not. This Matt Walsh is quite the ill-informed charlatan himself.
posted by zombieflanders at 11:16 AM on January 28, 2016 [3 favorites]

I'm not quite sure I see the equivalence of Trump and Sanders that the author implies.

If professional conservative and libertarian commentators couldn't make false equivalences, they'd fast be out of a job.
posted by Gelatin at 11:16 AM on January 28, 2016 [1 favorite]

Not to be confused with the Matt Walsh who had the titular line in Star Wars.
posted by Atom Eyes at 11:17 AM on January 28, 2016 [2 favorites]