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Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) is an American <!-- see #Views -->right-wing political commentator and podcast host. He hosts the podcast The Matt Walsh Show, and regularly appears on the American conservative website The Daily Wire. Walsh has authored four books and starred in The Daily Wire documentary films What Is a Woman? and Am I Racist?.
Walsh began his career in 2010 as a talk radio host for two stations in Delaware, before moving to Kentucky and launching his own website in 2012. In 2022, Walsh released Johnny the Walrus, a children's book in which he compared being transgender to pretending to be a walrus, Walsh has campaigned against several hospitals, comparing the transgender healthcare they provide to child sexual abuse, genital mutilation, and rape.
Life and career
Walsh was born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland.
He began his media career in 2010 as a talk radio co-host of The Matt and Crank Program on WZBH 93.5 FM in Georgetown, Delaware. In August 2011, he moved to WGMD 92.7 FM in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he worked for less than a year. In 2012, Walsh relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, where he joined NewsRadio 630 WLAP and launched a website, The Matt Walsh Blog, where he wrote on political and cultural issues from a conservative perspective. He has also contributed to HuffPost and began writing for The Daily Wire in October 2017. Walsh has appeared on television programs including Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Ingraham Angle, Fox & Friends, Dr. Phil, and on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. In April 2023, he announced that the show would move to The Daily Wire platform after his YouTube channel was demonetized for violating platform policies related to gender identity content regarding Dylan Mulvaney.
Walsh's work has received support from public figures including Elon Musk and some Republican legislators.
Cancellations
St. Francis Xavier College Church, at Saint Louis University, canceled a speech by Walsh that it had planned to co-host with Young Americans for Freedom in December 2021. The church said it had decided that Walsh's "provocative positions on immigration, on communities of color, on Muslims, and on members of the LGBTQ community" were "in contradiction to Jesus' great commandment to love God and love our neighbor". Walsh subsequently spoke at a different St. Louis venue. In 2023, the University of San Diego, a private Catholic educational institution, refused Walsh permission to speak on campus, describing his opinions as "grossly offensive".
Johnny the Walrus
On March 29, 2022, Daily Wire's DW Books published Walsh's children's book Johnny the Walrus, which compares being trans to identifying as a walrus. LGBTQ Nation denounced the book, calling it "anti-transgender" and a mockery of transgender youth, while PinkNews referred to it as "hateful" and "transphobic". It was listed as the bestselling LGBT+-related book on Amazon in December 2021 before Amazon recategorized it to Political and Social Commentary. Walsh called the recategorization "an unconscionable attack on gay rights and a horrific example of homophobia and gay erasure". Target removed the book from its online bookstore on the same day.
What Is a Woman?
Walsh's online documentary, What Is a Woman? was released by The Daily Wire on June 1, 2022, at the start of Pride Month. In the film, Walsh asks various people the question, "What is a woman?" while presenting his own views on the topic.