The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1719 - IT'S TIME: We Need To Start Arresting Liberal Lunatics Like Don Lemon NOW
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What are the recent protests involving leftist agitators and Don Lemon?
Today on the Matt Wall Show, leftist agitators are now storming churches to protest ICE, and failed CNN anchor Don Lemon has joined them. They're also violating the same federal law that was used by Biden to throw pro-lifers in prison, which should now be used against them. We'll talk about it. Plus, one of the most viral ex-posts of all time promises to help you fix your life in one day.
Is this truly the key to a lifetime of success and happiness, or is it just more self-help bullcrap? We'll find out. All that, more today on the Matt Wall Show.
Chapter 2: How is the FACE Act being applied in current protests?
During the Biden administration, we all became very familiar with the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, otherwise known as the FACE Act. This was the Clinton era law that had been mostly dormant for the past two decades. Then Merrick Garland took over the OJ and the FACE Act was used to prosecute dozens of Christians who demonstrated in front of abortion clinics.
And in some cases, as you remember, as we talked about it on the show, pro-life demonstrators woke up to SWAT teams outside their homes. Meanwhile, the DOJ ignored the violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. And this was just a ruthless series of prosecutions that targeted Christians, including elderly women in their 80s, and threatened them with 10 years in federal prison or more.
But there's another element of the FACE Act that never gets mentioned. Because as it turns out, strangely enough, the FACE Act doesn't only protect abortion clinics. The law also makes it a federal crime to obstruct or interfere with anyone, quote, lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.
So, yes, the same law that bans protests at abortion clinics also bans blockades of churches. which seems a little strange. What are the two things have to do with one another? But then another way to think of the FACE Act is that, well, it protects leftists at their temples where they conduct human sacrifice and where they conduct their own kind of religious cult ceremonies.
And then it protects the actual religious ceremonies of Christians, supposedly. Because by the same token, with the same legal force, it's supposed to protect Christians when they go to their actual places of worship, their actual churches. That's supposedly what it's meant to do.
Now, that means that if we're still pretending that the rule of law means anything, well, FBI SWAT teams need to immediately conduct pre-dawn raids on the homes of everybody involved in the act of domestic terrorism that took place on Sunday at a Baptist church called City's Church in St. Paul near Minneapolis.
This was an attack that was infinitely worse, of course, than any peaceful pro-life demonstration at any abortion clinic has ever been. It's an effort by anti-American communists not simply to interfere with Americans' First Amendment rights, but also to wage war on Christianity and religion in general, which is always everywhere the primary nemesis of communists.
Marxists want you loyal to the state, not to God. The pro-lifers at the abortion clinics, on the other hand, they weren't seeking to dismantle Western civilization or prevent society from functioning. They were trying to save babies. On the other hand, this is what the left is doing, trying to dismantle Western civilization and what it's founded on, which is the Christian religion.
Acting on the assumption that the pastor of the church worked with ICE, Leftist rioters stormed into the church as people sat in the pews and began screaming and intimidating everybody inside. So they went inside the building during the church service.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the FACE Act for religious freedoms?
Did Jesus wear a suit? Did Jesus profit off the words? No! Jesus would die within words.
Well, I mean, I'll just say if Don Lemon is right and that's what the civil rights movement was, then in that case, it would mean that we shouldn't have listened to a word those people had to say. Okay, we should have thrown them in prison, which is what this guy, what should happen to this guy.
Instead of letting them engage in, you know, a campaign of anti-white discrimination that would substantially degrade every single aspect of day-to-day life in this country. But Lemon was not done there. He went on to berate another pastor in the church, not the alleged ICE employee, which I don't even know if the claim about the pastor working with ICE is true. It doesn't matter.
But who knows if that's even true? No reason to think that it is. But he berates the pastor about how the First Amendment supposedly protects his right to commit federal crimes. Watch.
What do you think of it? I mean, this is unacceptable. It's shameful. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. But there are folks who will say, I have to take care of my flock, my family. Listen, we live in a, there's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.
Yeah.
We're here to worship.
We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of these cities. That's the hope of the world is Jesus Christ.
I want to be very respectful. Please don't push me though. We're here. We're here to worship Jesus. That's why we're here. That's why we're here. That's what we're about. Don't you think Jesus would be understanding and love these folks? We're about spreading the love of Jesus. But did you try to talk to them as a Christian? No one is willing to talk. Okay.
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Chapter 4: What happened during the protest at City's Church?
And the angels of heaven would have rejoiced to see it, frankly. Because you don't owe these people anything. Don Lemon says, why don't you talk to them? Why don't you talk? First of all, yeah, that's what you do when you want to talk. So you've got a mob of people screaming at Screaming lies. And that's how you, I'm supposed to talk? What do you mean? How can I talk to them?
I've got a mob of people, all of them with IQs under 70. How am I going to, what do you mean talk to them? How can I talk? And more importantly, it's not, you know, as a pastor of the church, it's not his job. You came here to disrupt. You say it yourself. It's not my job to explain myself to you. And you can't have it both ways. Yeah, we're here to disrupt.
It can't be, we're here to disrupt and we just want to have a conversation. Well, which is it? Do you want to have a conversation or do you want to disrupt? Because if you want to disrupt, then we don't owe you anything. And there's no conversation to be had. The only option is to meet your force with force of our own. Because this, by the way, barging into a church like that is a violent act.
Inherently. You want to have a conversation with this pastor, you know what you would do? You'd wait till the service is over. You wait till he comes outside. He's greeting his congregants as they leave. You'd come up respectfully, not a whole mob of you screaming. One person would come up and you'd ask whatever question you want to ask.
So anyway, Don Lemon says it's traumatic for the children and the families. And apparently that's what protesting is all about. Really, so I guess, you know, protesting is all about making people uncomfortable. It's about disrupting. And Don Lemon says there's nothing in the Constitution that stipulates, you know, where or when protests are allowed to occur.
Because the Constitution doesn't go through an exhaustive list of all of the places in the universe where protesting is okay and compare it with a list of where it's not. Because the Constitution doesn't do that, that means you can protest any way you want, anywhere you want. That's what Don Lemon is saying.
In which case, I think Don Lemon would really support it and be perfectly fine if a bunch of those fabled MAGA Republicans barged into Don Lemon's multi-million dollar home in New York and began screaming as loud as they possibly could. Again, I'm not encouraging anyone to do anything. I don't condone violence.
But all I'm saying is that it seems to me, from what Don Lemon is saying, that he would really support if just a mob of people went to his house and barged into it. I mean, it's disruptive. It makes people uncomfortable. And the Constitution says that you can protest anywhere you want, any way you want. Seems like you'd really support that. I don't know. I mean, he just made the argument for it.
I think he'd welcome it. Seems like. What are the odds of that? What are the odds that Lemon would welcome the rioters? Because after all, you know, the whole point of protest is to make people uncomfortable. Maybe Don Lemon, I mean, this is an honest guy, right? I mean, if I know Don Lemon, he's an honest guy.
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Chapter 5: How does Don Lemon justify protests in churches?
Who doesn't? I do too. Everyone loves a shortcut. And here's an article promising to fix my whole life in one day. Wow. I mean, there's a lot to fix. So that's a lot of work for one day. Let's see. You know, I got to click on it and find out what's going on. And then you click on it. You see that it's very long. So I can't read it. to you. It's a very long thing.
It's probably, I don't know, it looks like it's like 10,000 words. Not especially well-written, I have to say, but I'll read the opening. So this is the intro from Dan Coe on this article that last night had been read 160 million times. Now it's probably more than that. If you're anything like me, you think New Year's resolutions are stupid.
Because most people go about changing their lives in the completely wrong way. They create these resolutions because everyone else does. We create a superficial meaning out of status games, but they don't meet the requirements for true change, which goes a lot deeper than convincing yourself you're going to be more disciplined or productive this year.
If you're one of these people, I'm not here to talk down on you. I tend to be a bit harsh in my writing. It's just bad writing. It's pretty bad writing, I have to say. That's okay. I've quit 10x more goals than I've achieved. I think that should be the case for most people. But the fact that people try to change their lives and utterly fail almost all of your time holds true.
However, as much as I think New Year's resolutions are stupid, it's always wise to reflect on the life you hate so you can launch yourself towards something that much better, as we will discuss.
So whether you want to start the business, transform your body, or take the risk toward a more meaningful life without quitting after two weeks, I want to share seven ideas you probably haven't heard before on behavior change, psychology, and productivity. So you can do just that in 2026. Okay. So that's the promise, the pledge he makes to the reader.
And he says that he's going to change your life. That's what he's going to do. And the article continues with a number of little lessons, like little insights about life, trying to explain why you're not as successful as you want to be. That's really what this is about. And he says, fix your life. I mean, really what we're talking about, make you a more successful person.
And there's many different ways to measure success, but in every way, make you more successful. And then he goes through kind of this list and he extrapolates on all of them. But I'll read the list. of the little life-changing insights, I guess. You aren't where you want to be because you aren't the person who would be there. You aren't where you want to be because you don't want to be there.
Third, you aren't where you want to be because you're afraid to be there. Four, the life you want lies within a specific level of mind. And then five, intelligence is the ability to get what you want out of life. And like I said, he elaborates on each of these at length. But basically, the idea is that you're unhappy and unsuccessful because you have the wrong mindset. That's the idea, right?
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