"Queer Eye" host Jonathan Van Ness started sobbing on actor Dax Shepards’s podcast, "Armchair Expert," when Shepard asked about transgenderism. The pair also talked about media bias and Van Ness was adamant that conservatives are the ones who are brainwashed. It was hysterical.
Van Ness, “a non-binary f**king trans person" (as he so eloquently put it), thought the media was biased, but in conservatives favor. In the podcast, Shepard brought up the devastating fires in Maui and Biden’s horrible statement when he compared them to a small kitchen fire in his home.
“The fake news media,” Van Ness began, “But what if it was taken out of context? What if there was a video of him right before that video where he was like, ‘look I’m about to get f**kin crazy now with this comparison.’”
As we know, there is no video of the sort and Biden did actually make that insensitive and nutso comparison.
“The only context that could’ve possibly explained this,” Shepard replied, “would be, seconds before he walked out there [someone] like, ‘have this 13 ounces of mushroom tea and go address these people.’”
Still Van Ness said, “I’m just hoping the American public will be able to understand the nuance.”
“Nuance?” Seriously? There’s no nuance needed to understand that this wasn’t a lack of context type deal with Biden, that’s just Biden and how he is. Nonetheless, Van Ness said he’d “suck Joe Biden’s d**k.”
Van Ness and Shepard then started chatting about media bias. “I have so much love and compassion for even Trump supporters,” Van Ness said, insisting that the media pumps pro-Trump content and that he and Shepard aren’t Republicans because “we have brains.”
Here was Shepard’s response:
I don’t love how you’re framing it right now, which is, 'If the right was educated, they would pick our side.' I reject that. They are conservative. They don’t like how quickly the country is changing. I understand that. I can sympathize with that. They have different fears than we do. It’s not because they’re dumb or uneducated. They have a difference of opinion.
Still, Van Ness insisted the right is caught up in “misinformation and disinformation.”
Shepard then brought up the fact that even with COVID, when most outlets put out 50 percent good news and 50 percent bad news during COVID, The New York Times put out “78% bad news. That’s the left!”
Here’s where the drama came in. Get your popcorn out.
Van Ness, for some reason, thought that The New York Times shouldn’t be considered left-leaning. Sorry, but I laughed out loud at that part. Unless you live under a rock you’d know that outlet is one of the furthest left leaning news sites there is and always has been. Anyway, I digress.
Shepard felt the same way when he disagreed with Van Ness and said, “It absolutely is.”
Van Ness pointed out that sometimes the publication shares anti-trans content, “they platform multiple anti-trans people.”
“I don’t think that the entire news organization is no longer left-leaning cause they fall off on one area of this spectrum,” Shepard said. Then Van Ness replied, “how you do anything is how you do everything,” still arguing that The New York Times is somehow right-leaning - come to find out Van Ness was basing his ideas off of content from the Opinion section of The New York Times.
Soon after this interaction, Van Ness’ staged waterworks began to form.
“Some people are very uncomfortable about teenagers transitioning. They’re challenging that,” Shepard said. "[But] to even question it makes you an enemy. I don’t think that’s the way forward."
Van Ness was increasingly disgusted by the discussion, and even exclaimed, “I feel like I’m talking to my Dad.”
Shepard was skeptical about male to female trans people playing in women’s sports and was agitated that Van Ness had this sort of “all or nothing” type attitude.
“The thing that I’m bummed about, right, is that if you wanted to lay out your points where you’d say this would make you supportive of the movement and you laid out 10. If I’m along for nine of them and not the tenth, you file me in this enemy category,” Shepard asked.
Then Van Ness started crying. Try not to laugh.
I could cry because I’m so tired of having to fight for little kids because they just want to be included. I wish that people were as passionate about little kids being able to be included or grow up as they were about fictitious women’s fairness in sports. I have to tell you I am very tired.
The rest of the episode consisted of other topics like cougar-esque relationships, skin issues and cheerleading, but there were a few takeaways.
Van Ness is so brainwashed and delusional that he thinks that conservatives are the ones who are being misled and misinformed. He also thinks a very left-leaning outlet, like The New York Times, is NOT left-leaning. He would argue that trans women should get to play in whatever sports they want and we should just forget about how unsafe and unfair that is for actual women. And finally, as a cherry on the top, Van Ness is one of those leftists who is all or nothing. To him, you can't question any leftist talking points. You can’t have alternating viewpoints and if you do, you’re the “boogeyman.”
Kudos to Shepard for holding his ground. The episode was interesting to say the least.
