NASHVILLE, TN — After a string of controversial posts went viral online, commentator Matt Walsh took to social media to plead with people to stop taking his words in context.
The popular Daily Wire host responded to fury over a series of posts he made claiming mothers suffering from postpartum depression were just being lazy and selfish.
"Please stop interpreting the things I say the way I mean them," Walsh said on X. "When I write ‘war veterans are all faking PTSD and I think they just need to suck it up,' I don't actually mean guys coming home from war are wimps. Of course they're tough. You guys just take everything I say in the context I say it, and it's getting exhausting. Stop it."
Walsh went on the defensive after scores of social media users took issue with the exact words and context he used.
"I mean, I guess there's some nuance here, but when he wrote ‘I think moms who put their kids in timeout are hapless wenches who never should have had kids,' I dunno," X user Carl Sanchez wrote in a post. "I think most people are just taking his actual words for what they mean."
Walsh begged his followers to please stop reading the words he writes and interpreting them based on their basic understanding of syntax and lexical definitions.
"When I say ‘All puppies need to be drowned in the Mississippi River, no really I mean ALL PUPPIES,' I obviously don't mean all puppies. Chill out, you guys. You're being ridiculous."
At publishing time, Matt Walsh defended his post accusing kids with cancer of being wimps by pointing out he wasn't referring to kids with actual cancer, but meant it more as a metaphor about the current socioeconomic climate.
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