The Matt Walsh Show
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Ep. 1844 - The Media's Latest Lynching Hoax Is Unraveling In Real Time

September 23, 2026

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The Media's Lynching Narrative: A Case Study in Manufactured Crisis

The Associated Press recently reported on the death of 29-year-old Tazia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, in terms that strongly implied a racial lynching. What the AP's engagement editor Sarah Jones Smith omitted from her report was the photo of the man arrested in Fortune's death—and the photos of the two subsequent suspects. All three are Black. The AP never mentioned their race, despite prominently featuring the victim's race, and never acknowledged that the case appeared to be a domestic dispute rather than a hate crime. This pattern—presenting hanging deaths of Black people as possible lynchings while withholding exculpatory evidence—has become a recurring media tactic.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (01:05) **Fake Lynching Epidemic as Midterm Propaganda** - Matt Walsh introduces the claim that media and the left are manufacturing a lynching epidemic for political purposes
  • 2 (04:17) **Case Study: Tazia Fortune in Mississippi** - Walsh debunks the AP's reporting on a black woman found hanging from a tree
  • 3 (08:02) **AP's Malicious Journalism and Doubling Down** - Walsh excoriates the AP's engagement editor for omitting the suspect's race and later doing the same with a second arrest
  • 4 (12:30) **Historical Lynching Facts That Undermine the Narrative** - Walsh corrects the record on lynching history using Tuskegee Institute data
  • 5 (14:39) **The AP's Additional Cases Fall Apart** - Walsh examines the AP's list of supposed lynchings and finds no evidence
  • 6 (17:43) **Trey Reed and Ben Crump's Ghosting** - Walsh details how civil rights attorney Ben Crump parachuted in for Trey Reed's case, then vanished after an independent autopsy confirmed suicide
  • 7 (19:44) **The "BYOR" Lynching: Man Caught on Camera Bringing His Own Rope** - Walsh highlights a case where a black man was filmed carrying rope and materials to the site where he hanged himself

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Show Notes

The lying media is blatantly ignoring facts in order to incite racial unrest before the midterms.


Ep. 1844


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