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Fallout from Kimmel Continues w Free Speech in the Crosshairs · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the issue that the media
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  Speaker 1: has decided to go all in on, and they're claiming
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  Speaker 1: that this is what dictators and tyrants do. They're claiming
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has gotten late night comedians fired Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, and they're saying, like, who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be next, And this is what a dictator and
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  Speaker 1: a tyrant does. That is a lie, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that lie. So you understand it. When
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert was his show was canceled, all right, And
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  Speaker 1: it's a different way than being fired. It was a
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  Speaker 1: canceling of the show for one reason. It was the
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  Speaker 1: canceling of the show because it wasn't making money and
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  Speaker 1: apparently it was losing listen carefully like forty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year. That is a lot of money. There was
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  Speaker 1: not pressure from the President the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: for Stephen Colbert's show to be canceled. There have been
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  Speaker 1: a lot in the media that are now rewriting history
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  Speaker 1: as we speak, and they're saying that in fact, the
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  Speaker 1: people that are in charge of the network have now
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  Speaker 1: explicitly said that CBS was not threatened or pushed to
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  Speaker 1: do what I just said, like that didn't happen. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you look at the facts, it was a
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  Speaker 1: money issue. The show costs way too much money to produce,
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  Speaker 1: and the ratings weren't there. Now, when Stephen Colbert was
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  Speaker 1: let go, I said this on CNN at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I made it very clear, and I said, what
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  Speaker 1: you guys are not understanding is this is not canceling
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  Speaker 1: of an individual because of what he said. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that CBS would love to keep Colbert on
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  Speaker 1: attacking conservatives as long as they could. In fact, they
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  Speaker 1: did it to the point where they were upside down
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  Speaker 1: losing money on this show and there was no way out.
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  Speaker 1: And so they had made the decision. They said months
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  Speaker 1: earlier now in interviews CBS executives, months earlier, they decided
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  Speaker 1: not to move forward with the show, not to renew
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  Speaker 1: the show. So when you look at this and you
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  Speaker 1: look at Colbert, it's a lie to say that Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Colbert was canceled because of Donald Trump. In fact, let
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  Speaker 1: me just let you hear from the ex Paramount chief
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  Speaker 1: who is insisting that Colbert's cancelation had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: was seeking the Trump administration's approval for what is being
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  Speaker 1: described as a mega merger. So this is again the
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  Speaker 1: grand conspiracy theory of the left. Listen to her tell
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  Speaker 1: the story in her own words.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of the settlement, there are other actions taken to
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  Speaker 2: ensure there would be regulatory approval. I think about rollbacks
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  Speaker 2: of DEI policies. I think about some things like the
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  Speaker 2: cancelation of Steve Colbert's show. You know that was never
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  Speaker 2: explicitly stated as being part of getting regulatory approval, but
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  Speaker 2: it's something that I think a lot of people assumed.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that they made the right choices to
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  Speaker 2: ensure that they got the regulatory approval.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to tie any of that to regulatory approval.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you that we had been looking at
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  Speaker 3: late night. It was financially not viable. It had been
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  Speaker 3: that way for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: We paused. Listen to what she just said. Her words
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  Speaker 1: right there was that I can and you know what, screw,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to back it up. I'm going to back
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  Speaker 1: it up so that you can hear her words again.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't viable, she said, and it hadn't been viable
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, meaning they let it go way
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  Speaker 1: past the expiration date because they loved the propaganda of
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  Speaker 1: their network attacking conservatives night.
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  Speaker 3: It was financially not viable. It had been that way
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. We had made a decision months
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  Speaker 3: prior to the announcement that we were not going to
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  Speaker 3: be going forward with that show. I love Stephen, he
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  Speaker 3: does a great job, but we really needed to be
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  Speaker 3: in a financially viable business and you saw we did
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  Speaker 3: that with James Corden as well. And in terms of DEI,
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  Speaker 3: I think the reasons why DEI exists matter and will
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  Speaker 3: always matter, and we need to continue to fight for
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  Speaker 3: those issues. But I think the way in which DEI
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  Speaker 3: has been executed has often led to more problems than
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  Speaker 3: it solved. So any of the changes that were made
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  Speaker 3: or continue to be made, but under us, I think
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  Speaker 3: we were trying to create an environment that would address
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  Speaker 3: the issues in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: So translation, this is all PCBs. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: back and I'm going to play for you what I
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  Speaker 1: said on Stephen on Stephen Colbert being canceled. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: was the night after Stephen Colbert was canceled. I said
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  Speaker 1: this on Abby's show on CNN, And this goes to
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  Speaker 1: the core of why his show was canceled because he
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  Speaker 1: lost his audience.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to get effected by some of this too,
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  Speaker 4: I would say s Letterman A Leno did a much
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  Speaker 4: better job of having on George Bush and then having
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  Speaker 4: on Bill Clinton.
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  Speaker 1: They actually did a better job.
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  Speaker 3: It was a different time, but it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: My point is if you stop doing it, and there
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  Speaker 1: are people like me that just we don't even care.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know when the show's on. That's how
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  Speaker 1: irrelevant it is. Because once he hate Once it was
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  Speaker 1: so clear how much sustain he had for conservatives, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't funnymore, you're gonna lose your show.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I really yeah, I honestly I'm with
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  Speaker 4: Cherrey on this one. I mean, I think you can.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a little speculative that Elizabeth Warren of
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  Speaker 4: it all, but there's no question that the direction of
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  Speaker 4: linear television is going in a certain place. So that
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  Speaker 4: is the by far, probably one of the bigger factors.
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  Speaker 4: Can I give you a quick on yeh.
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  Speaker 1: But I just love there how they will not accept
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  Speaker 1: the truth Colbert had made your disdain for conservatives and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't funny anymore, and he lost his audience, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what led to the cancelation. The ex paramount chief
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  Speaker 1: insisting Colbert's cancelation had nothing to do with seeking Trump approval.
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  Speaker 1: It was about the show was unsustainable. So now you
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  Speaker 1: fast forward to right now and they're all saying that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Stephen Colbert, and now you've got Jimmy Kimmel,
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  Speaker 1: this is all about a dictator. All right, Let's look
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  Speaker 1: at what Kimmel said. Kimmel said, quote, we hit some
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  Speaker 1: new lows over the weekend with a maga gang desperately
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  Speaker 1: trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as
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  Speaker 1: anything other than one of them. Okay, that's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: We know he wasn't a conservative. We know he's a liberal.
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  Speaker 1: We know he hated Charlie Kirk. We know that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to take out Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk was
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  Speaker 1: saying mean things he believed about his lover and he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't take the hate anymore, and so he said I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to kill him. That's his own words and his
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  Speaker 1: own text messages. So he's lying to you, and he
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  Speaker 1: knows that he's lying to you. When he says this,
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to say, this is somehow maga kid. Everybody knows,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I killed Charlie kirkis because he hated
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  Speaker 1: the maga kid. He hated him, He hated him. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the exact quote, Charlie Kirk is anything other than
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  Speaker 1: than one of them, and doing everything they can to
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  Speaker 1: score political points from it. That's also not just a lie,
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  Speaker 1: it's sick. And by the way, look at the time frame.
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  Speaker 1: By the time Kimmel did this monologue, it was already
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  Speaker 1: extremely clear from the governor, local law enforcement, and our
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  Speaker 1: federal government law enforcement that Charlie Kirk accused assassin and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, in his own words, was a leftist
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship with a furry transsexual. That's not a
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  Speaker 1: maga kid, okay. And knowing this, Kimmel still told tens
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of people who still watched the show that
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  Speaker 1: the alleged sassion was in fact magas. So it's his fault,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's fault, It's conservative's fault that Charlie Kirk was killed,
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  Speaker 1: which doesn't make any sense logically, but hey, who cares
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  Speaker 1: about facts, right, Let's not even care about facts at all?
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  Speaker 1: The second reason why he was fired is because already
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  Speaker 1: the show was losing money. And so you had two
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  Speaker 1: of the country's biggest affiliates. And again, this is not
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  Speaker 1: cancel culture. This is this is Nextstar in Sinclair Media
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  Speaker 1: who had had enough. Both of those networks that are
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  Speaker 1: affiliates told Disney and ABC that they were done during
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  Speaker 1: airing a late night show that is attacking literally their audience,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a show that is only pleasing to LA
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  Speaker 1: and New York viewers and maybe Boston and some other
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  Speaker 1: places like that. But in normal America, no one is
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  Speaker 1: watching Jimmy Kimmel anymore for the reasons that I just stated.
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  Speaker 1: And he had lost his audience in the core demographic
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  Speaker 1: that you need. With an audience, okay, in a core
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  Speaker 1: demographic that you need, it is a the younger generation,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how you buy ads. He was down to
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty something thousand. He was over
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  Speaker 1: a million a decade ago. This was a massive drop
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  Speaker 1: in audience size. And so when you have Nextstar in
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  Speaker 1: Saint Clair, who are about to make him even smaller,
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  Speaker 1: both of them telling were done with the show because
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  Speaker 1: we're done with him attacking Americans never forget if this
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  Speaker 1: was really about cancel culture. Is that is the left
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  Speaker 1: trying to claim that this is like a dictator and tyrant,
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  Speaker 1: like getting people fired in media. Jimmy Kimmel would have
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  Speaker 1: been fired, okay when he said that people that went
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  Speaker 1: to a hospital and if it's overcrowded, they hadn't gotten
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  Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine deserved to die and not get care.
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  Speaker 1: He did not get canceled, and he said that why
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  Speaker 1: because I believe ABC and Disney love this guy. They
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  Speaker 1: held on to him while he was losing money for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. Yes, they were then finally at
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  Speaker 1: the point where they were looking for an out Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Colbert was not fired for censorship. It was because the
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  Speaker 1: show sucked. He wasn't funny anymore. He hated half American
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  Speaker 1: alien of them, and there wasn't enough audience left to
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  Speaker 1: cover that. That is a very risky bet now, per
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter, Disney asked Kimmel to address the lie
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  Speaker 1: he told in a way that quote would take down
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  Speaker 1: the temperature what he planned to do, by the way
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  Speaker 1: we were being told on Wednesday night. Instead, the report says,
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  Speaker 1: was going to fan the flames with the Maga fan base.
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  Speaker 1: Someone who worked on the show basically confirmed this while
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  Speaker 1: claiming to deny it. No, no, The source said Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: was not planning of making it worse, but he also
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  Speaker 1: wasn't cow telling to Maga. Okay, so now we know
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  Speaker 1: now by the time all this had happened, so you
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  Speaker 1: understand the timeline, sixty six big affiliates of the roughly
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  Speaker 1: two hundred affiliate stations had said they would not carry
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  Speaker 1: the episode, and that's when ABC announced it was suspending
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  Speaker 1: the program. And that's when the left and the crazy
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  Speaker 1: media started to blame the FCC. When the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: had allowed ABC Disney to brazenly violate the public interest
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  Speaker 1: clause in the broadcast for five years, four years in
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  Speaker 1: the Trump's first term and nearly a year into Trump's
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  Speaker 1: second term. That is how you could argue this right.
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  Speaker 1: And the arrogant Jimmy Kimmel is the one who got
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  Speaker 1: him suspended. And it wasn't for what he said the
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  Speaker 1: other night. It was for alienating and attacking over half
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  Speaker 1: the country every chance he could. And then when he
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  Speaker 1: had his screw up, he refused to do the decent
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  Speaker 1: and honorable thing, and that's when affiliate said, we're done, right,
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  Speaker 1: we are done until Jimmy Kimmel agrees to retract his
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  Speaker 1: lie and tell the truth. We're done now. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Kima will ever apologize, because he's got a
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  Speaker 1: money where he can just say, here's a middle finger.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care, but I do think it's interesting how
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  Speaker 1: the media is trying to protect him. All the other
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  Speaker 1: late night hosts, by the way, they're a narcissists, trying
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  Speaker 1: to make it about themselves too in this big kumbah
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  Speaker 1: Yah United moments, And I'll read you some of that
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  Speaker 1: in a moment so that you can hear what they're saying,
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  Speaker 1: because it is pretty disgusting. But Jimmy Fallon, responding to
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  Speaker 1: Hanimmel situation, said quote, I know Jimmy Kimmel and he's
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  Speaker 1: a decent, funny and loving guy. That's not true. If
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  Speaker 1: he was, he wouldn't have said that people deserve to
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  Speaker 1: die if they didn't get the COVID vaccine. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to call bs there. And the way that they
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  Speaker 1: did their monologue was like this me too type movement. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll stand with you, We'll stand with you, And it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty pathetic, but also I would say not surprising, because
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  Speaker 1: this is what the Democratic Party has become. They have
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  Speaker 1: become a group of radical extremists, and a small group
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  Speaker 1: of them are just i would say, straight domestic terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what they believe. All right, I want
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  Speaker 1: to take a moment and I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you real quick about what you can do to help
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  Speaker 1: the people in Israel. It was nearly two years ago
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  Speaker 1: that the terrorists murdered more than twelve hundred innocent Israelis
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  Speaker 1: and they took two hundred and fifty hostages. Today it
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  Speaker 1: seems as if the cries of the dead and dying
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  Speaker 1: have been drowned out by the shouts of anti Semitism
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  Speaker 1: and just pure hatred, not just in America but around
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  Speaker 1: the world. And the most brutal attack on Jewish people happened.
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  Speaker 1: It happened since the Holocausts, and now it's like they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to act like it never happened. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: where it is important for us to stand with the
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  Speaker 1: people in Israel. It's a movement of love and support
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  Speaker 1: for the people of Israel, and this is where I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get involved. It is called Flags of Fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: It's being organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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  Speaker 1: On October fifth, you can stand with Israel and the
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  Speaker 1: victims proudly. Just a few weeks away, millions across America
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  Speaker 1: will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity
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  Speaker 1: with the victims of October the seventh, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and stand with their grieving families. You can be a
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  Speaker 1: part of this movement as well. And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: love about what IFCJ does. They're making sure that the
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  Speaker 1: world knows there there are lots of people of faith
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  Speaker 1: in this country and friends and advocates for Israel. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to stand with them. You can get more information
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  Speaker 1: about how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement,
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  Speaker 1: including your church. There are going to be countless churches
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  Speaker 1: around the country they're going to plant flags as well.
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  Speaker 1: So all you have to do to get involved with
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  Speaker 1: Flags of Fellowship movement is go to if CJ dot org.
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  Speaker 1: That's if CJ dot org stand with Israel on October
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  Speaker 1: the fifth. It's just a few weeks away. And if
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  Speaker 1: your church you think would want to be involved, you
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  Speaker 1: can also find out more about how to get your
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  Speaker 1: church to be involved on a special Sunday at IFCJ
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  Speaker 1: dot org. That's if CJ dot org. I've also one
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  Speaker 1: other point I want to make on this is I've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of people saying that this is like
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  Speaker 1: consequence culture, that's like some of new things, It's like
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  Speaker 1: happen in the last twenty four hours. I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: that that is what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that it is actually as simple as they were losing
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars on a show that no one was watching,
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  Speaker 1: and they saw an opportunity to get out. If he
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  Speaker 1: was making the money, he would still be in the
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  Speaker 1: ar right now, even after what he said about Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: because he's been able to say things like that for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. A great example is just rewind
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  Speaker 1: to when he said it COVID. If you hadn't gotten
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  Speaker 1: the vaccine and show up at a crowded hospital, you
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  Speaker 1: deserve not to get treatment, you deserve to die. And
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get fired then, So this is not a consequence.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that ABC News here is doing the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. This was a financial decision. I'm also not
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  Speaker 1: in favor of limiting free speech, okay, but if you
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  Speaker 1: cheer and mock a violent assassination of someone like Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: should there be a consequence for that? If you're employed
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  Speaker 1: by a private company like ABC and Disney, even as
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  Speaker 1: woke in liberal and radical as they are, you would
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  Speaker 1: hope there'd be a consequence. I do not believe ABC
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  Speaker 1: News did this as a consequence for him. It was
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  Speaker 1: a business decision. They had lost a bunch of affiliates
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  Speaker 1: from two different affiliate groups, and they said, well, now
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  Speaker 1: this is beyond unsustainable, so I will not give ABC
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  Speaker 1: News credit. By the way, they still air The View.
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  Speaker 1: Let's also be clear about that. Now, there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot that has been said in the last twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to forty eight hours about the FCC and the fact
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  Speaker 1: the SCC should be looking into these shows like The View.
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  Speaker 1: I want to caution you on that, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to make it very clear why I want to caution
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  Speaker 1: you on that. Okay, I know that there are ebbs
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  Speaker 1: and flows in politics. Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan,
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  Speaker 1: then he gave us then we got Bush, and then
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  Speaker 1: we got Bill Clinton, and then we got Bush, then
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  Speaker 1: we got Barack Obama and then we got Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: then we got Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. I am a
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  Speaker 1: history of the presidency and the history of politics, guy,
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  Speaker 1: and I can promise you Democrats in my lifetime will
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  Speaker 1: be back in power multiple times. And if we start
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  Speaker 1: using the sec to go after our political opponents, who
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  Speaker 1: by the way, are dying on their own on the
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  Speaker 1: air because the audience is disappearing, because the American people
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  Speaker 1: are starting to reject this woke, radical ideology of the left.
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  Speaker 1: If we start advocating for people to get fired, then
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  Speaker 1: when they're in power, they are going to come after
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  Speaker 1: us tenfold. They already did it. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: last time they had conservatives like myself that were canceled
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  Speaker 1: on social media, they had kick Donald Trump off of
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  Speaker 1: social media platforms, all of them where he had to
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  Speaker 1: make his own. We saw the government conspiring with private
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  Speaker 1: sector to silence and censor into throttle conservatives. We do
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  Speaker 1: not want to play that game. We do not want
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  Speaker 1: to play that game. I'm actually don't think they should
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  Speaker 1: have fired him a long time ago. I like knowing
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  Speaker 1: that their radical leftists out there that are alienating a
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  Speaker 1: lot of America and bringing them to the conservative side
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  Speaker 1: of things. I actually like that there is Ilama Omars
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  Speaker 1: out there and the aocs because I actually think that
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  Speaker 1: people are just realizing how crazy the left has become
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  Speaker 1: and how hateful they are. Jimmy Kimmel wasn't funny. He
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  Speaker 1: was mean spirited man like. I think he did more
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  Speaker 1: harm on TV than good for the Democrats that he
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  Speaker 1: had on his show. I think it destroyed late night television.
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  Speaker 1: And there's just a certain point of being like those people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be associated with this. People are
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  Speaker 1: sick and that's what he'd I think, become to represent.
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  Speaker 1: So I actually liked him on the air. And look, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he quote got fired. Okay, he got fired because of
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  Speaker 1: what he said about about Charlie. No, he got fired
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  Speaker 1: because his ratings sucked and they looked for an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of him, and this was the one
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  Speaker 1: they could do it on. And I'll give you this
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  Speaker 1: scenario on this so that people understand it. Several years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats pushed hard to get rid of conservative talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was unfair that there were so many
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  Speaker 1: conservatives on talk radio and there weren't enough liberals, and
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  Speaker 1: they were talking about equal time like they wanted it. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: if you had three hours of Limbaugh or Levin or Ferguson,
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  Speaker 1: that you had to have three hours of counterprogramming of
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  Speaker 1: a left a lefty. That's what they were. That was
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  Speaker 1: their argument. They wanted to shut down conservative talk stations.
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  Speaker 1: Now luckily it didn't happen. I believe now that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they would do if they got power. If we
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  Speaker 1: start abusing the power at the FCC to start silencing
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  Speaker 1: people that we disagree with, there will be precedent and
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  Speaker 1: there will be hell to pay, and you will watch
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  Speaker 1: the number of news talk stations disappear overnight, or they
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: will start mandating that you put on the liberals to
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  Speaker 1: counter the conservative programming, and that also would kill conservative
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. You don't weaponize the SEC. It is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be non partisan. It is supposed to be non political.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the point that everybody needs to just
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: keep their eye on the ball here and understand that
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  Speaker 1: this is a terrible move by us if we want
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  Speaker 1: to weaponize our government to go after them, because they'll
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: do it right back to us. And there's an argument
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you'll go, well, they already did it to us, So
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it's fair game. You cannot get this back in the
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  Speaker 1: box if you use it to start getting people fired,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: because and they will use it ten times harder on
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: us than we ever could have imagined before. That's how
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  Speaker 1: extreme they are, So don't give them the opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe this is abuse of the airwaves, as some
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  Speaker 1: have tried to describe it. I don't believe that. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be clear. I think this was just a
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  Speaker 1: scumbag whose ratings were down forty three percent. Long before
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  Speaker 1: Charlie kirk Lie happened. You had only one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine thousand viewers, and the coveted Demo and Jimmy
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Kimmel's ratings have been in the toilet for years, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: finally it got to the point where they just said,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: we went out and they and he gave them a reason,
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  Speaker 1: and Disney said, yay, we're going to save a bunch
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of money. At the beginning of the year. At the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year, Kimmel had one point nine five
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  Speaker 1: million total viewers. By the end of August, two weeks
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  Speaker 1: before his long overdue suspension, all right, the number had
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: plummeted to just one point one million viewers. How did
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: he lose nine hundred and forty thousand viewers in the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: first half of the year because he'd become so mean
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: spirited and hateful towards Donald Trump in his monologues that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: they basically conservatives and even moderates like, I'm done with you,
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  Speaker 1: like you've gone crazy, right, you've gone nuts. You're nowhere
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  Speaker 1: close to being funny where you were The post, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and your post pointed out those rating slide
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  Speaker 1: is down forty three percent from January, that is at
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: one point nine to five million. His August household rating
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: was a zero point three to five. It marked the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: weakest showing of the year, and that what would be
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: most concerning the ABC Disney is if the corporation driven
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  Speaker 1: by profit, decided to stay with hate right, because we
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: were seeing the collapse of Kimmel's viewers. The eighteen to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: forty nine age demo, which sets the advertising rates, the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: number was at two hundred and twelve thousand and January.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: By August that number had dropped to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine thousand, and so Stephen Colbert, by the way,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: he was, you know, they cancel the show. He's still
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in the air, but he's gonna be It's at the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: end of the year. It's gone. He was some said
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: fired by CBS. The show was just canceled. It lost
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: around fifty million dollars a year. It currently attracts, by
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the way more viewers at two point five to seven
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  Speaker 1: million total viewers and two hundred and eighty one thousand
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  Speaker 1: and the demo that is coveted for advertisers. So just
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to put it in perspective, Jimmy Kimmel was way I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: mean one hundred and twenty nine thousand and the key
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: demo compared to two eighty one for Stephen Colbert, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Colbert was losing them money. The Late Night is done
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: with because they were so hateful for so long that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the that half of America will never watch them, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the other half of America has a lot of other
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: options to watch, streaming shows, on demand shows. The list
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: goes on and on and so the audience is smaller.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: There's more people that spend time on social media than
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: ever before because of the phone that's in her hand,
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  Speaker 1: so grabbing viewers is extremely hard. He took them for granted.
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  Speaker 1: He hated on too many people for far too long.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where you get yourself in the situation that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he's in right now. So I don't feel sorry for him,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But I'm also not giving praise to ABC News like
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they quote did the right thing. I'm not buying that
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  Speaker 1: at all. And the rich narcissists, they're all getting together
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: right now. John Stuart, Stephen Colbert make Jimmy Kimmel's suspension
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  Speaker 1: all about Stuart, by the way, and Colbert, they're all
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: like woe as me?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: If you're looking for an oasis away from the left
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: bitter and divisive politicalization of Charlie Kirk's brutal murder, former
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: comedian John Stuart and Stephen Colbert were not the place
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to go. John Nolte's saying this and Breitbart both once
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: again bus abused their late night purchase to make the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: long overdue suspensions of Jimmy Kimmel all about them. Stuart was,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: so you go to make it all about John Stewart.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: He rushed into the studio on Thursday, even though he
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: normally only works Mondays. John Stewart returned the Daily Show
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: with a government approved program and referred to President Donald
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Trump as a great father and dear leader. He joked
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: about Trump's recent visit to the UK and played a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: clip of a reporter's question about Kimmel and whether free
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: speech was under attack in America. How dare you, sir?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: How dare you sir? Stuart yelled, what outfit are you with? Sir?
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  Speaker 1: The Antifa Harold Tribune. When the audience, Booter expressed this
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: may Stewart, in a panic, tried to shush them. A
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: group of correspondents delivered a message in unison and showered
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the president with over the top praise as though they
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: lived in a dictatorship. Naturally, these soon to be well gone.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert did the same thing, saying, quote, tonight, we
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: are all Jimmy Kimmel. That's when he said the start
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of his monologue before decrying the suspension is quote blatant censorship.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: With an autocrat, you cannot give thee an inch, he said.
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  Speaker 1: If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, again,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: this is how you have people trying to kill the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: president and people trying to kill Charlie Kirk because of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: this type of rhetoric. When you have an autocrat, you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: cannot give an inch. If ABC thinks this is going
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to satisfy the regime. They are woefully naive and clearly
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they've never read the children's book If you give a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Mouse a Kimmel and did Jimmy. Let me just say,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I stand with you and your staff one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them, by the way, are lying with a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: claim that the FCC had something to do with Kimmel's suspension,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: when it was the affiliates who on the local stations
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that said we're not airing the show anymore. And Kimmel's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: ratings were in the basement in which he lives. When
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel said that Charlie Kirk's accused of sassion was MAGA,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that was a clear lie. It was a violation of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: public interest right and the public interest clause in my opinion.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But again, that is not why they fired him. They
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: fired him because it was insensitive. They fired him because
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: his ratings were in the tank. They fired him because
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the money was that the show was unsustainable financially. That
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: is what it boils down to. And anyone else saying
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: anything else on one side or the other outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: you're just wrong. You're just wrong. And I go back
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to what I played for you earlier with that x
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Panier chief. She said it clearly, this is a business decision.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Outside of the settlement, there are other actions taken to
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: ensure there would be regulatory approval. I think about rollbacks
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: of DEI policies. I think about some things like the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: cancelation of Steve Colbert's show. You know that was never
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: explicitly stated as being part of getting regulatory approval, but
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it's something that I think a lot of people assumed.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Do you think that they made the right choices to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: ensure that they got the regulatory approval.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to tie any of that to regulatory approval.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I can tell you that we had been looking at
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: late Night. It was financially not viable. It had been
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: that way for a long time. We had made a
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: decision months prior to the announcement that we were not
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: going to be going forward to that show. I love Stephen,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: he does a great job, but we really needed to
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: be in a financially viable business and you saw we
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: did that with James Corden as well. And in terms
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: of DEI, I think the reasons why DEI exists matter
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: and will always matter, and we need to continue to
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: fight for those issues, but I think the way in
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: which DEI has been executed has often led to more
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: problems than it solved. So any of the changes that
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: were made or continue to be made, but under us,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I think we were trying to create an environment that
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: would address the issues in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: That is the narrative that they don't want you to know.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: CNN Brian Skelter on the cancelation of Cobert the Late
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Show another form of he said capitulation by CBS to Trump.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: There's no indication that that is true. That's another lie
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: put out there by Brian Skelter on cancelation of Colbert.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And now they're doing the same exact lie, the same
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: exact lie when it comes to why Kimmel's gone. Kimmel's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: gone because they were losing too much money, and Kimmel's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: gone because the show sucked. Don't forget Share this podcast
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  Speaker 1: please with your family and your friends whereover they are,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and I will see you back here tomorrow