Matt Bernstein
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6,267 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Matt Bernstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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mean, I I I want to provide compassion with the caveat that a lot of people do experience things similar to what he experienced and don't end up doing this.
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But at the same time, like the compassionate part of me is like, well, maybe if he wasn't abused by a priest when he was 13, maybe he wouldn't have flunked out of school twice.
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You know, and maybe he would have gotten a normal job instead of filtering into this like shock jock conservative media persona thing.
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And if that had all happened, maybe he would have had space to deal with this in a healthy way that could actually allow him to heal.
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But he didn't have any of those things.
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And perhaps because he was already down this
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Right-wing media persona career path, and this is all he could do, and perhaps also as a genuine coping mechanism that felt good to him at the time.
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In 2018, the following year, when Milo is decidedly out of work, he self-publishes another book called Diabolical: How Pope Francis has betrayed clerical abuse victims like me.
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Wherein he attempts to assert the discredited link between homosexuality and pedophilia.
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Milo blames systemic child abuse in the Catholic Church, not on closed rank power structures or a culture of Christian sexual shame, but on a pope he views as overly friendly to gay people and progressive bishops he refers to as the lavender mafia.
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Which is another good name.
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This comes up again in 2024 when he still seems to just be really upset about the things that he said, and I think specifically what they did to his career.
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He tweeted, At 13, I was raped by a priest.
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His name was Father Michael.
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He died years ago.
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I said some stupid shit trying to make sense of it, which was used against me in 2017.
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The idea that this translates to Milo is a pedo is so warped and dark.
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That anyone who says it is dead to me forever.
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Speaking of
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The 2017 pedophilia scandal was the effective end of Milo's short-lived relationship with the mainstream right.
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