‘You Can’t Do That’: Matt Walsh Slams Leftist Media For Trying To Ignore Colorado Shooter Identifying As Non-Binary

Matt Walsh slammed left-wing media coverage of the Colorado shooting for ignoring the mass shooter’s alleged non-binary identity.

Appearing on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday, Walsh slammed the left-wing media for ignoring or trying to downplay the fact that the alleged shooter identifies as non-binary. Because the left-wing media has put so much stock into transgender identity, they cannot ignore the shooter identifying as trans, by their own rules, and must be held to account.

“Well, I mean, we’re all owed apologies, but — I’ve seen these people enough to know that I’m not going to sit around and hold my breath waiting for the apology,” Walsh told Carlson. “I think it’s just really kind of amazing to watch, especially … CNN, where they immediately just deny this person’s self-identity. And I think the point that we want to get across is if you’re on the Left, okay, you can’t do that. That is not available to you. You’re not allowed to do that, by your own precedent, by your own philosophy, by the rules that you have set, and we’re gonna hold you to them.”

“Now you and I, Tucker, we’re allowed to say that this mass shooter who calls himself ‘non-binary,’ we’re allowed to say, ‘that’s nonsense. Non-binary isn’t even a thing, you can’t even be that,’” Walsh continued. “But on the Left, they’ve made it clear that the only evidence that needs to be provided in order to prove that someone is non-binary is they say it. And what they’ve also told us repeatedly is that the idea that somebody would adopt one of these identities in a self-serving way, like for example, a convicted male felon who’s in prison who all of a sudden discovers his inner female identity. To speculate that maybe he’s doing that so that he could have access to female inmates in women’s prisons, we’re told that, ‘no, you can’t speculate, that’s an awful thing to suggest.’”

“So that’s them [the Left] saying that, which means they’re stuck with this. As far as they’re concerned, this person is nonbinary. Now, what is he actually? I don’t know, I think it’s pretty clear he’s just a crazy guy. That’s what actually happened,” Walsh said.

“What we need to realize with the left-wing media is that when there’s a mass shooting, if we don’t know everything about the person’s life and we haven’t seen all of their social media posts within the first two hours after the shooting, it almost always means that this is not a right-winger,” Walsh went on. “Like, if it’s a right-winger who committed the attack, we’re gonna know everything about them immediately. But it was very suspicious and conspicuous that up until two, three days pass, and we knew almost nothing about this guy. All we had was speculation from the media, and then this shoe drops telling us that ‘oh, actually, he identifies as nonbinary.’ So, that’s not a coincidence. They gave themselves time to get their preferred narrative out before the truth got out.”

“The left is determined to politicize these things immediately and use them as political ammunition,” he added. “What it means is that we can’t have any actual, needed conversations about why this stuff happens. As you point out, pharmaceuticals. Also, one of the few details we know about this guy is that he comes from a broken home, his mother has warrants out for her arrest, his father is estranged, he’s like a porn star drug smuggler. I mean he comes from this tumultuous broken home, which, of course, doesn’t begin to excuse it, but it does indicate that when kids are raised in that kind of environment, it makes it much more likely that they’re gonna lash out violently.”

“That’s a conversation we should really be having about the effects of broken homes and the disintegration of the nuclear family, and how that contributes to violence,” Walsh continued. “But we can’t talk about that, because as soon as the Left realizes that they can’t use it for their political advantage, we don’t talk about it anymore and it goes away. And that’s why this story is going away as far as media is concerned.”

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Body Of 20-Year-Old Female Student Found In New Hampshire Mountains On Her Birthday

New Hampshire authorities found the body of a 20-year-old female who had been reported missing after disappearing during a mountain hike in zero-degree temperatures last weekend.

Emily Sotelo, a sophomore biochemistry and chemical biology major at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, returned home to visit family for Thanksgiving break in Westford, Massachusetts.

New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division and Operation Game Thief Capt. Michael Eastman told local media Sotelo’s mother dropped her off for a solo hike around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning at Lafayette Place Campground in Franconia, New Hampshire, with the intent of hiking Mount Lafayette, Haystack, and Flume in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

By Sunday afternoon, Sotelo’s mother reported to authorities her daughter did not arrive at the meeting location they had arranged, about seven to eight miles from where her body was found.

“Her mother watched her go up the trail,” Eastman said. “Her mother was going to meet her further down the hiking route to meet her for food and provisions, but she did not arrive.”

New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division and Operation Game Thief dispatched search and rescue teams Sunday night.

The Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team, which coordinated the initial search and rescue efforts, said in a statement, according to ABC News, that the “temperature along the ridge [where she was hiking was] about zero, [and] 30 to 40 mph winds [made] the chill factor -30 degrees. The elevation of the mountain range is more than 5,000 feet at its highest parts.”

The rescue teams, which included 60 ground searchers and air support, spent the next two days looking for Sotelo until locating foot tracks and items belonging to the hiker on Tuesday afternoon at the headwaters of Lafayette Brook, which is a little more than three miles from the start of the trail where she was dropped off.

“It is strenuous to be up there,” Eastman told local media. “We have people coming down that can hardly walk by the time they get to the bottom.”

Authorities found Sotelo’s body next to the Brook, where she may have stopped after veering off the trail due to the harsh elements, on Wednesday morning — the same day she turned 20 years old.

Sotelo had previously hiked and enrolled herself in survival courses. However, authorities said she had only worn a jacket, exercise pants, and sneakers before leaving on her hike, which likely led to her death in the below-freezing temperatures and snow blowing up to 60 miles per hour.

Officials have not revealed a cause of death. However, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department examiner confirmed there was no evidence of foul play.

“The biggest lessons learned in a tragedy like this is when you’re hiking in New Hampshire, especially in the White Mountains, be prepared for the unexpected,” Fish and Game Department Major David Walsh told local media, adding to be prepared with knowledge of the weather conditions, wear protective gear, and have food and water on hand.

Conservation officers in New Hampshire looking for this overdue hiker, who hasn't been seen since yesterday morning. Her name is Emily Sotelo. pic.twitter.com/YtcOg9Xuwe

— Matt Fortin (@mattfortintv) November 21, 2022