WALSH: I would thank you all for allowing me to speak to you tonight. But you tried not to allow it, yet here I am. Now, you only give us 60 seconds, so let me get the point. You are all child abusers. You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult — a cult which holds many fanatical views, but none so deranged as the ideas that boys are girls and girls are boys.
By imposing this vile nonsense on students to the point even of forcing young girls to share locker rooms with boys, you deprive these kids of safety and privacy — and something more fundamental, too, which is truth. If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless. Worse, it is poison. You are poison. You are predators.
I can see why you try to stop us from speaking. You know that your ideas are indefensible. You silence the opposing side because you have no argument. You can only hide under your beds like pathetic, little, gutless cowards hoping we shut up and go away. But we won’t! I promise you that. Thank you for your time, and I’ll talk to you again very, very soon.
CLAY: (laughing)
BUCK: I feel like they probably don’t love Matt at that school board, but I think the folks outside cheering for him were fans.
CLAY: Yeah. Look. He lives here in the Nashville area with me, but they changed the rules to assure who was allowed to speak and who was not allowed to speak. And my understanding is he had to have proof of property, basically, in the county in order to be able to speak at the hearing, at the school board there, but this is part of a bigger picture, Buck.
Because we have an election going on in Virginia right now, and Democrats — Terry McAuliffe in particular — are getting super nervous that they are going to lose this election. It would be a massive upset because Virginia has tilted, as you said, towards the Democrat Party over the last decade plus or so. So if Republicans could punch back and Youngkin — who we’re gonna have on the show at some point — could win this election, it would be a major statement going into the midterms.
And they had a debate, and I think this is pretty significant ’cause it ties in with what Matt was saying. They had a debate about whether or not parents should be able to be involved in what their kids are hearing inside of their public schools. I believe we have cut 29 here from that debate, which I think is gonna be a pretty significant statement that was made by Terry McAuliffe as he is trying to win not reelection ’cause you can only serve one term in Virginia, but he’s already been the governor of Virginia. He’s trying to become the governor again. Listen to this.
MCAULIFFE: The parents had the right to veto books, Glenn, not to be knowledged about it, also take them off the shelves. And I’m not gonna let parents come into schools and actually take the books out and make their own decisions!
YOUNGKIN: You vetoed it.
MCAULIFFE: So… Yeah! (snickers) I stopped the bill that… I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach!
BUCK: Oh, I don’t think parents should be talking to the schools that their taxes, by the way, support and pay for.
CLAY: That’s a big statement.
CLAY: He actually understands how business works, unlike almost every Democrat.
BUCK: Very savvy guy. I think he’s got a really interesting political future and obviously beating Terry McAuliffe… (chuckles) I will support a whole range of folks if it means that Terry McAuliffe gets an L. But think about this. Terry McAuliffe just says it, ’cause this is an unguarded moment where he lets out what he really feels.
(summarized) “Oh, these stupid parents telling the school boards what their kids should and shouldn’t be taught when it comes to indoctrination.” Yeah, dude. The parents should be able to weigh in on what their kids are learning in school.
CLAY: Yeah. No. My wife was a guidance counselor was public school here in the Tennessee area, and one of the number one things that dictate whether a school is going to be successful or not, Buck — in fact, the number one thing — is how involved parents are. So, the schools that fail the most are the ones where the painters care the least about what their kids are being instructed.
So what McAuliffe argued there is not only saying the quiet part out loud, but, Buck, it’s actually a direct repudiation of parental involvement in schools, which has been shown to be overwhelming important in terms of having a successful school. So I want parents engaged in what their kids are learning. I know we’re all busy. I’ve got young kids in school.
I know how challenging it can be to make sure and keep tabs on what your kids are learning, but I think, Buck, to your point — and I think this is true. So many parents were stunned by what they saw their kids learning when remote schooling was going on and everybody was locked down that many of them said, “We’ve gotta fight back.”
BUCK: And the media’s tried to come to aid of the critical race theorists and leftist indoctrination machinery of the public school system in this country. Now, look, I know some areas of public schools that are not doing quite this level of stuff. Although it would be surprising to folks, I think, to hear just how many school districts across the country are engaged in teaching some form of what could be called CRT. You know, Chris Rufo — who, of course, the lib education apparatus lives in constant fear of Chris Rufo over at the Manhattan Institute.