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Speaker 2: Sure, the Oversight Committee is now engaged. We're going to
be launching and we're an investigation around not just ABC
and Sinclair and what happened, But we have a lot
of questions. Who ordered this and who ordered Sinclair to
take these actions? Was your communication from the Trump administration
to Sinclair or ABC? And this is again a pattern
of what's been happening. And we saw what happened to
Stephen Colbert, We're seeing what's happening to academic institutions, to
elected officials. People in this country have a right to
share opinions and of course also to be able to
denounce political violence.
Speaker 3: If you, my friends, didn't know better, you would think
that the House of Representatives is getting ready to do
an investigation. Did not. That guy speaking is a ranking
member of a committee. He has no authority to call
for one investigation into anybody. That's Robert Garcia, California. We're
gonna be doing, man, We're gonna be doing. When I
heard it, I'm like, when did Democrats take over the House.
They haven't, So I guess what he's saying is that
a bunch of Democrats are going to look at something.
They're out of power in the House. Doesn't matter what
they look at. They can talk and talk to themselves
in a chamber totally. Anyway, Welcome to, my friends, to
the Friday edition of Bust and Nervous Rush Hour with
the fastest hour in American media. The Chemo meltdown is
still underway. I even saw something from Ted Cruz. It's
posted all online, Ted Cruz bemoaning the fact that the
FCC commissioner said what he said and he thinks it's
going to be a dangerous thing for Republicans. I have
a respectful disagreement with that. I mean, Ted Cruz is
not the problem, but I do disagree with that a
little bit a lot, actually, and there is more. Let
me begin this way, my friends. I saw a post
on social media breaking breaking everything that is freaking breaking
on Breaking. The Late night Show avengers have formed amid
the firing of Jimmy Kimmel Late night show host Stephen Colbert,
Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, John Oliver All in unison with
Jimmy Kimmel. Despite blah blah blah blah, blah. And I
looked at this picture of these guys, and the first
thing that came to my mind is, gee, what a
lot of diversity we have here. They're all huddled together,
Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, John Oliphant,
five of them in a picture. All white guys, all
liberal white guys, no diverse city. These are the people
that have been preaching to us about DEI and all
the rest of it. And then I thought back about
the history. They did let one black guy in for
a minute. They kicked him out real quick. Remember do
you know who that was that had a black guy
that had You don't even know, Carlus because you weren't
even around. They had a black guy on late night TV.
Once he lasted for a year or two, then they
got rid of him. You know what. It was named
Our Sineo Hall. Yeah, and our our Sineo did a bang.
Nobody's reaching out to our Senio. By the way, notice
that nobody cares. Nobody's reaching out to old Ar Sineo. Yes,
he was Coming to America movie. That's him. He was
on the Coming to America movie. Our Sineo Hall. He
had a great show while it lasted, didn't last long.
But you would think, and this is just what I
want to talk about. First, they're all out whining about censorship,
and they are whining and moaning. They are gnashing their teeth,
they are stomping their feet, they are mad. They are
making all sorts of incendiary statements. By the way, speaking
of incendiary statements, today the House of Representatives voted on
a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk fifty eight democrats. Uh, there
were democrats. But but in that the story was that
took the headlines was Ocassio Cortes. Alexandria o Casio Cortes
did what she does. She went and gave a fiery
denunciation of Charlie Kirk. Uh. They just left many people
a very bad taste in many people's mouths. Up. This
is these people are the squad. This is what they do.
They I'm not gonna I'm not gonna play it because
I don't think she deserves the respect of having me
play her words on this show. Frankly, I play a
lot of liberal stuff, but I'm just not gonna stoop
to Alexandria Ocasio Cordotees there's no need not. And there
are stories out how she's positioning herself to run for
the president. Yeah, please, please, you and Gavin run for
the presidency. I hope you run on the same ticket
and see whether you can squeeze Tim Waltz in there
somewhere with you. Oh and by the way, you know
why we didn't get Peter did you hear? Did you
know why we didn't get Pete Boudagegg instead of Tim
Walls or John Shapiro. It's in Kamala's new book because
he's gay. Kamala didn't pick him because he's gay. Let
that sink in. She democrat, didn't pick somebody run because
she thought being gay would be a liability. Yes, are
you buying that book? Oh? Hale? No, but I will
read excerpts from it. Are you not here? No, I'll
read excerpts. I mean, I'll read excerpts if they pop up.
But what I my money on a Kamala Harris book? No, anyway,
I did not lose my place, Ladies and gentlemen, I
remember what I was talking about. I was talking about
the diversity of late night television and all the complaints,
all the complaints about censory before I make some of
those things. Actually, we were talking about Kamala. Let's go back.
Let's recall first. Let's roll down memory lane. Let's stroll
down memory lane and visit Kamala Harris when she was
talking about Donald Trump being thrown off social media. And
there are a few other voices in there. You might
recognize Senator Wowren and some others. But that's cut too.
Let's hear from oh, Kamala.
Speaker 4: All of these social media companies and these online platforms
which are so powerful in their ability to impact perception
about an issue and to influence behaviors.
Speaker 2: Let's be clear about that.
Speaker 4: There have to be standards, and he and his account
should be taken down. We saw an al Passam that
that shooter in his manifesto was informed by how Donald
Trump uses that platform. And this is a matter of
corporate responsibility. Twitter should be held accountable and shut down
that site. It is a matter of safety and corporate accountability.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Senator Warren.
Speaker 6: You can respond, So lork I don't just want to
push Donald Trump off Twitter.
Speaker 7: I want to push him out of the White House.
Speaker 8: That's our job.
Speaker 4: But the way join me in saying that his Twitter
account should be shut down. Let's figure out now why
it is that he has lost his privileges and it
should be taken down. And the bottom line is that
you can't say that you have one rule for Facebook
and you have a different rule for Twitter.
Speaker 3: All right, there you go. That's Kamala Harris on Freedom
Take Trump, Shut Trump up. She's out there complaining, one
of the ones complaining about Kimmel, but she wanted to
shut Trump out of a president of the United States,
shut him off of social media. The president of the
United States, shut him down. Let's go to a montage
of Jimmy Kimmel cut one. Let's hear from mister Kimmel
himself on this and very much.
Speaker 5: Think quiet over the past few days because Trump has
been banned from Twitter permanently. Trump has been suspended for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,
and even Snapchat. But don't worry, mister president. There's still
plenty of apps you do have access to.
Speaker 9: You still have.
Speaker 5: Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people
cheering as you leo, we don't make up lives. In fact,
we have a team of people who were very hard
to sift through facts and reputable sources before I make
a joke, and that's an important descision. A joke about someone,
even when that someone is doning trumps because they drink,
still matters. And when I do get something wrong, which
happens on rare, I do I apologize.
Speaker 3: Had some new lows.
Speaker 5: Over the weekend with the Maggi gang desperately trying to
characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other
than one of them. And when everything they can to
score political points from hospitals get any more over proud of,
they're going to have to make some very tough choices
about who gets an ICU bet, And that tally doesn't
seem so.
Speaker 6: Tough to me.
Speaker 5: Vaccinated person having a heart attack, yess, come right on
and we'll.
Speaker 3: Take care of you.
Speaker 5: Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goop rests in peace. Weazing honest.
Speaker 3: It was a terrible night last night.
Speaker 5: It was a terrible night for women, for children, for
the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make
this country.
Speaker 10: Go for healthcare for all.
Speaker 3: Election night, Enough of family. This is a long pattern,
a long pattern. Democrat another Democrat wouldn't take a break.
I didn't forget I'm talking about this when I'm going
to get to it, because folks, this is important. I
am so wound up over these liberals whining about censorship,
government censorship, the censorship in media. How dare Trump? He's
this one? Senator Chris Murphy, This is to me the
kind of dangerous demagoguery that they continue to float, the
dangerous rhetoric that they're unhinged followers listen to and in
some cases may try to act on. This is Chris
Murphy from Connecticut. Disgraceful. That's cut number four.
Speaker 8: M the truth, and the truth is hard to hear
right now. The truth is is that Donald Trump is
trying to destroy our democracy. He is trying to silence Crispy.
She is acting in a way that is scarily similar
to many would be despots all across this world, all
across history, who have tried to transition a country from
democracy to autocracy. And so we have no obligation to
sugarcoat the gravity of this moment. The only way we
save this nation is if the people of this country
rise up in peaceful protest, if they mobilize all across America.
These companies won't really think twice about their money grab
until they know that the American people are firmly, firmly
on the side of protecting free speech. And so the
only way that you build that kind of mobilization is
to tell the truth. So this is another tried and
true tactic of despots is that they label any criticism
of them as hate speech or terrorism or incitement to violence.
This is how democracies disappear, is that you allow the
regime to create terminology that actually invalidates the ability to
speak truth to power. And we're just not gonna We're
not gonna let them silence.
Speaker 3: It's just such garbage. Okay, I'm going to talk about that,
wouldn't we get bet because everything this guy says is
what democrats have done to the media for decades.
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Speaker 11: Meanwhile, ABC still has more questions to answer, but whether
it plans to bring the show back in some form
at some point, we don't even know if Kim would
want to do that. By the way, his contract was
coming to in a few months and he had made
some noise about wanting to retire, so right now, in
some ways the ball is in Kimmel's court. But there
are some very serious questions for all Americans about how
the government is jawbony pressuring media companies into changing coverage
and content.
Speaker 5: Do we have any idea, Brian, when Jimmy Kimmel will
actually make a statement, release a written statement, or make
a public statement.
Speaker 11: No, we have no indication yet from his camp about
that he was about to tape the episode last night
when he was yanked off the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Brian Stelter and Wolf blitzed. Let me, is
James Flipping available our Red Apple Audio Network's news director,
James Flipping? Is he in the house? Hello, Bo, Hello there,
James Change. I've got a question for you. Lay it
on me. Here's a question I need to ask you this.
I assume that you have followed late night television, maybe
not watch it, but you're aware of late night television,
maybe going back a few years, perhaps even longer. Correct. Yes, Okay,
can you name me one late night television host in
the history of late night television host whose show was
openly leaning toward conservative.
Speaker 9: Are we going to include Greg Gutfeld on Fox News
or not necessarily no.
Speaker 3: No, no, on the television networks, the over the air television,
the ABC's, NBC, CBS, the quote unquote late night shows
of those evers. Although I'm glad you mentioned Gutfeld because
he was beating out Kimmel and has been beating out Kimmel. Right, yeah,
But on the three airwaves, the three FCC regulated television
public airwaves of America. Can you name me one?
Speaker 9: No, I really can't unless unbeknownst to me MERV. Griffith
was like, you know, right wing or something like that.
Speaker 3: But unbeknownst to you unless let me go through a
few names. Jack Parr, did we know what he was about?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: No, I mean I know that name, and I feel
like he was kind of the og in that field.
Speaker 3: He was, He was the og of OG's even before
Carson exactly. Yeah. Okay, so then you had Johnny Carson.
Did you know his political bent?
Speaker 9: I mean, I think I know that he was a Democrat,
but I know he tended to not necessarily lean in
on that when he was on.
Speaker 3: Air, didn't lean in on politics. How about how about let's.
Speaker 9: See what about is Leno kind of a little more.
Speaker 3: Conservative, Leno nobody. Sure, yeah, but in the history of
late night TV, can you name me one openly conservative guy? No, no,
I can't okay that question. Thank you, James. You're welcome
bo that question. Ladies and gentlemen, I have for every
single one of you, name me one late night TV
hosts that has been a conservative.
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Speaker 7: Cancel everything, Cancel everything. This year. I canceled Target, I
canceled Spotify, I canceled Amazon last night, I canceled Disney Plus,
ESPN and Hulu. I have you any canceled my hairdresser?
Just cancel it.
Speaker 3: Liberals are mad. James Gonder is starting with your hair
fastest our on American media. Okay, let me get to
the point on this, folks. Look, liberals are whining and
moaning about this horrible censorship. Trump's a dictator. He wants
to decide to the public airwaves are supposed to belong
to who are supposed to belong to? All of Americans? Right, everybody?
It's the public airwaves. The public airwaves have networks, television networks,
among the biggest of them ABC, CBS, NBC. There are
of course the public PBS people. They're out there hanging around.
And then you had the you know, the television network
versions on when Fox came into being as the Fox
Network of the affiliated Fox stations, and then you had
these Warner Brothers what else that you know, some of
these networks that do the this that network. But the
big ones on public television have been around since They
certainly big in this country since the nineteen thirties, going
into the nineteen forties, there's growth and they owned and
dominated not just television but radio as well. You had
big networks there over the public airwaves. You had the
Westinghouse Network, the same ABCCBSNBC. Then you had all these
other mutual broader You had all these networks that were
out there. But television had the biggest draw, has the
biggest draw always has in the history of broadcast television networks.
I asked you a question, name me one conservative host
openly conservative on the show. Now people said Dennis Miller.
Was Dennis Miller's show actually moving to conservative? It doesn't matter.
Dennis Miller. You can say one that do we even
people even remember he had a show? And I know,
by the way, that is no slight on Dennis Miller.
Very talented man. But you can look through but all
the big names. You can go through. Carson. We didn't
know his politics. Let him, let him, we know his politics.
Look at this bunch now, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Seth Myers,
Colbert h Fallon, all of them, and then go back,
go back when you look at the quote unquote other
names that are famous in this especially among the comedians,
the John Stewart, we know his politics. Are there no
conservative comedians in America? Are there? Is there? Not one?
Are there no conservative? By the way, why are they
all men? Why you have what women are relegated to
the afternoon? Joan Rivers briefly when she came was on
the scene back in the day. But seriously, these are
the people that preached us about diversity, and what have
they done with the public airwaves. They have a monolithic
ownership of the public airways and they're complaining now because
someone has threatened one of their liberal voices because stations
made a choice. We don't want him. And yes, there
is there are. I am not going to look at
what is obvious and say it's not obvious. Yeah, part
of this is about business. It could be also very
well about potential mergers that are going to come up
before the government. That's got to be in the thinking.
But why is that in the thinking? Because something is
fundamentally and has been wrong with America's media landscape, and
it has been wrong for decades and it has been
accepted as the way it should be, when in fact
it is a violation of the public trust and has
been since the beginning. Are there no conservative comedians in America?
Of course there are. Why is not one of them
has ever had a show on any of these airwaves,
on the public airwaves? Are there no conservative journalist in America? Then?
Why have all of the network news shows featured nothing
but liberal points of view from liberal journalists and liberal
managing editors who control what gets in the newscast since
the time of Walter Cronkite to now. You can't identify
and points to one openly conservative and look inside any
of these newsrooms on network television. You can't look on
late night television, you can't look at the shows that
they serve up in the middle of the day and say,
here's an openly conservative person with an openly conservative point
of view on the air on Who's or the American
People's air and the American people are not all liberal.
Yet every representation that is supposed to be of a
nationwide opinion or comedic or news show is dominated by liberals,
open liberals who are hostile to your values, who are
hostile to you, who make fun of you, who make
fun of your values, who make fun of who you are,
who make fun of the people you that represent you
in government. And they dare to complain now the democracy
is being overturned that Donald Trump's a despot because because
now some of the local stations have risen up and
say we don't want to air this. And by the way,
you just got through hearing them when they were demanding that,
in spite of their control of all of the public
airwaves with liberalism, that the taxpayers have to fund their
liberal public broadcasting on NPR and PBS, where you also
find no openly conservative voices. They have owned and ran
a monopoly on liberalism in all over the public airwaves
that are supposed to belong to the public. To Americans
that are liberal, to Americans that are conservatives, to Americans
that don't care one way or another. Yet it has
been dominated by liberals in the late night shows have
been dominated by liberal white men who have the same
liberal white male mentality in this age of diversity, and
nobody gives a rats ass because they are liberal white
men spouting a liberal white man line, and that's all
that they care about. You don't have any liberal women
capable of, or conservative women or any other women capable
of doing the late night show. You don't have room.
You keep talking about the browning of America. America has
been browning. Ain't no browning happening in late night television
over there, all liberal white guys, but nobody cares. And
then how dare you? How dare you fire a liberal
white guy? People get fired in America every day for stuff.
And now you have all this crying and moaning and
moaning and crying about how unfair it is because some
multi millionaire with a bad attitude who hates conservatives. At
least that's the appearance that they give off on these shows.
And it's as disrespectful as he can be, and joking
about a man when he's assassinated, joking about the circumstances
of it, and you have people like Dana Bash on
CNN defending it. Cut ten really quick because he had
a guest. Listen to the way they even talk about
this guy.
Speaker 2: Listen to it not just a business decision, uh, where
they are getting necessarily getting complaints from some viewers.
Speaker 10: It is a business decision and what they need from
the government, which is being very clear the Trump administration
that they don't want Jimmy Kimmel on the air.
Speaker 6: I think it's more than that. I think that we
live in a world where a meaningful percentage of people
now believe violence is legitimized, and they get it. He
didn't legitimize. They didn't put those comments blaming MAGA for
the death of Charlie. It's not what he did. Listen,
I'm not here to.
Speaker 8: How I did.
Speaker 6: That's how I interpreted it, but it's not what he said. Well,
I gasped when I read last night, and I read it,
I gasped, and I.
Speaker 10: Read did you feel the same way when you heard it?
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean I did.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 6: I don't think this is happening because he's criticized President Trump.
No one has been criticized more, I think in American
history than President Trump. But belittling and making light of
what happened to Charlie Kirk and who did it as
I think, very dangerous for all.
Speaker 11: And when.
Speaker 3: He didn't say that, we all heard him say it.
We heard exactly what he says. But this woman has
your audacity to tell us, just like so many other
leftis he didn't say it. They are hell bent on
defending this. Look, folks, these people have been running a
scam on Americans through public broadcasting, through the public airway
for years. Only only their voice, only their point of
view counts. Like there's no conservative news people out it,
Like there's no conservative comedians, like there's no conservative please
and the one breaks through. When Rush had his TV show,
you know what they did, some of these same independent
liberal they put it on two three in the morning
because they didn't want it competing, and that show even
then was killing in numbers. But out of that came
Fox Network because the executive producer of that show was
Roger el So, and he saw what the need was,
the vacuum. And look what happened when Fox came on
the scene against all these three networks that for years
have been claiming that they represented the public service view
of America. It cleaned up because it wasn't. That entire
marketplace of people had not been served. And to this day,
in terms of the programming that comes from these late
night hosting, these comedic shows, it's still not being served.
Hella got so bad when John Stewart left Comedy Central.
What'd they do? They had the export out to South
Africa to ship in one of their comedians, like there's
no conservative voice here, and that guy kind of bombed out.
I think Trevor what's his name? Terror Noah? Is he
still around? No? They brought to your back. Oh so
John Stewart is back in that show being not funny again. Okay,
at any rate, my friends point made. I think the
public airwave should belong to the public. They have not.
And so all this noise that you're hearing now about censorship,
why aren't they asking the same questions of any of
these people that are complaining about censorship? Why have you
been censoring and allowing these networks to censor out conservative ideas,
conservative political thought, conservative comedy, conservative entertainment from America? For
over fifty years, because that has been censorship by omission.
We don't put it on. They won't hear it, they
won't listen to it, they won't like it. What is
happening now are the beginnings of a correction in American media,
and long overdue correction when some liberals are being being
how to account for the horrible things that they say
about people that they obviously hate or have ill will for.
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Speaker 3: Sure, Ladies and Gentlemen. Timothy Cardinal Doland was on Fox
and Friends earlier today and he had a few words
to say about Charlie Kirk. We thought you'd like to
hear them.
Speaker 10: I thought, I got to learn about this guy, and
the more I learned about him, I thought, this guy's
a modern day Saint Paul. He's a missionary, he's an evangelist,
he's a hero. He's one. I think that knew what
Jesus meant when he said the truth will set you
free and to do it. No, I understand he was
pretty blunt and he was pretty direct. He didn't try
to avoid any controversy. He didn't even try to avoid confrontation.
The difference is the way, the mode, the style that
he did it always with respect. And not only was
that a gracious, kind of virtuous thing to do, it's
effective because when your opponent see, this guy kind of
respects me. We kind of disagree here, but he kind
of enjoys me, and he's thanking me for being here,
and he's telling me he appreciates the trust I have
in him and sharing my views. I thought this guy
can teach us something.
Speaker 3: I've been now across America when we've been playing some
of them, there were people I don't even know their
names because they don't post their names. They are They
go make posts on social media very often, they don't
introduce themselves. So there are a lot of people that
are making comments. They don't have the kind of distinguish
track records that some people like like Timothy Cardinal Dolman have.
They're not known, but their voices are being heard too,
and I'd like you to hear just another first on
somebody that says at the beginning, he didn't like Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 12: Before this happened, I did not like listening to him.
I did not from a distance. I thought he was
just being contentious.
Speaker 3: Reviews changed it all after.
Speaker 12: Literally that fire, that ball was fired, everyone changed. He's
there with Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated for his
political beliefs. Abraham Lincoln tried to mend the gap. He
tried to unite people. Charlie I now know for myself
after listening to reports of him, not what other people
have said about him in the telephone game, but rather
watching what he said Riley, how he treated other people
that were different than him, differently than him, He treated
them with respect to his consistent The humanity in him
is worth being, is worth remembering, because we're all humans.
Speaker 3: Well, those are just some of the voices. All right Now,
tomorrow morning, I'll be back God willing Saturday morning, vibe
and all, and hopefully Princess Doana will be joining us,
as well as America's small caffeinated mom, Rondas Rock and
our very dear Lizzie. But we have some longer formed
things that we're not able to get to today and
hopefully tomorrow will find the time to do so. Ah
Man Bill Medley, singer, one half of the Righteous Brothers,
was born on this day in nineteen forty one of
the great groups of the nineteen sixties. Happy birthday, Bill Medley.
May God blessed protect each and every single one of you,
your families, your loved ones. Love and gratitude always for
you being here with me and I me to be
with you. God willing, we are back in the morning
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I told in my friends, I bid you I do Bye.
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