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Speaker 4: Fox News has severed bow ties with Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 2: After all these years.
Speaker 5: They are parting ways, which means he was fired.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really what parting weaves means.
Speaker 4: Keeth Tarker couldn't be reached for comment. He's already on
a plane to Moscow to meet with his manager. But
what a shock, I mean, what an absolutely delightful shock.
This is al Tucker can spend more time at home,
tanning his testicles and touching himself to that sexy green
M and M. Sadly He's probably not done poisoning old
people's brains.
Speaker 2: The question now is where will he do it next?
Speaker 4: Will he go to o An, Will he go to Newsmax?
Will he crawl back up Satan's fiery b hole?
Speaker 5: From whence he came?
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 4: One of the most despicable mother tuckers ever to appear
on American television.
Speaker 6: Scott Scott. But I'm not going to tell you anything
you don't know here. You sometimes offend people I hear
about it of the socials. Do you think that you
should then be held at the same standard that you're
asking for? That if someone says that you're offensive, that
you're not doing the civic discourse, that CNN should kick
you off. I'm not worried about you and that happening
to you in the present regime. But I am worried
about other people in this building.
Speaker 7: Things we're not We don't fall under the same statutory regime.
Ab I expect to get fired every day. This is
a tough business. And if I were Jimmy Kimmel, I mean,
I'm surprised that a guy who wants more blackface and
calls large breath women to jump on trampolines lasted this
long in the media business to begin with, he was
long past his cell date, and the fact that he
couldn't realize that and was going down this road of
partisan hackery, being unfunny and demon.
Speaker 8: N the chattering class is chattering away, my friends. Welcome
to the Thursday edition of bost Nervely's Rush Hour, the
fastest hour in American media. Of course, yesterday afternoon evening,
the news broke that Jimmy Kimmel would find himself off
the air decision. I'm just hesitating because the decision is
being blamed on Donald Trump. Go Carlos, please cut number two.
Listen to this from ABC News Elizabeth Schultz as she
reports on it.
Speaker 9: A spokesperson for the network saying Jimmy Kimmel will be
preempted indefinitely. President Trump now calling Carr's decision to cancel
Kimmel quote great news for America, turning his attention to
late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers on NBC,
the President writing that leaves Jimmy and Seth adding to
it NBC. An immediate response from leading Democrats, from Senator
Chuck Schumer to California Governor Gavin news.
Speaker 2: And they have been talking. We'll play some of those,
But what's wrong with that report?
Speaker 8: The firing did not come from Donald Trump, nor did
it come from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. These people in
the media apparently don't even understand the business that they're
end So let me explain something real quick for those
that don't know. There is, number one, a difference between
shows that are on network television and legacy network like ABC,
like NBC, like CBS, and some of the other networks.
These companies were granted access to the public airwaves. ABC
does not own its own airwaves. Neither does CBS. Neither
do the who owns them. They are the property of
the United States of America. They are the public's airwaves,
which is why the Federal Trade Commission has authority over
them as a federal entity. Yes, Carlos, is there.
Speaker 1: A network that does own their own their public airwaves
or how are you said it that owns the airway.
Speaker 8: I'm glad you asked a fundamental question, and this is
what Scott Jennings was referring to when he says we
don't fall under the same paradigm now, believe it or not,
Although you get the same sorts of programs now through
streaming or however you access through cable is a different matter.
Cable doesn't fall under FCC regulations. They are not public airwaves.
They are privately delivered through cable and now satellite services.
They don't fall under the same government restrictions. They don't
fall under, which is why you can use swear words
all day long on cable. In fact, if you've been
watching cable shows, cable shows recently, even from established brands
like certain news networks that are on cable, you hear
the S word pop up occasionally. Nobody they're not They
can say it all day long. They can have a
show that says SSS or f you, this, that and
the other all day long, and nobody has the authority
to stop them from saying it. The Internet does not
fall under FCC, they are not public airwaves. Say whatever
you want streaming and you hear whatever you want. But
those legacy media companies that have that fall under the
jurisdiction of the federal government because they're on public airwaves,
have a license to broadcast. Hence you hear FCC license,
you hear the President talking about maybe the licenses of
some of these companies should be removed because these companies
have been patently biased for decades, tilting toward one party
in this country for as long as anybody can remember.
Speaker 2: And they belong to the public. They don't belong to
the Democrat Party, which which seems to be what Democrats think.
They don't belong to the Republican Party. They belong to
the American Peoplember one, Number two, how are these shows
on networks? Networks like ABC, like NBC.
Speaker 8: Originally, back in the old old days, they were allowed
to have O and os.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Owned and operated by.
Speaker 8: So you had companies like CBS, NBC, ABC they had
and even in radio this was the case they had.
It was limited at one time to thirteen O andos.
You can own thirteen of these stations. But to prevent
these companies from becoming monopolies, there was a limit on
how many stations and individual whether it's TV, radio, how
many stations in the public airwaves these companies could own.
So what did these companies do to become nationwide entities.
They had affiliates, affiliate stations that took their programming and
what grew out of that, companies like Nextstar, companies like
Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns these companies own a lot of stations,
and other companies in the local markets. Now, what happened
yesterday was this Disney at first didn't even make a
move on Kimmel. ABC, Disney owned company, didn't make the
move on Kimo. What happened was the owners of local
stations and Sinclair right behind it, said you know what,
we find this program so offensive to our were local stations,
that we are going to preempt it. We're gonna put
something else in its place. Now, how do these stations
get the programming. They pay for the programming. They pay
Disney ABC to carry the show in hopes that it's
so popular the revenue will help them their local stations
make profit. And these stations have the right, and it
is unprecedented what happened yesterday, and this Usually the affiliates
outside of the contracted time don't balk as much as
they may dislike something, as much as they may see
a programming a program sinc. They don't usually do what
they did yesterday. This was so offensive. What has been
happening on Kimmel's show was so offensive to these station
owners that own local stations that they said, you know what, no,
we're not putting this on and no market. And in
one case, to show you why tomorrow one of these
networks to Sinclair or either next door I think it's
one of them is having a special run about Charlie
Kirk's life. Why, because that's what they believe their audience
wants to see. Instead, this is now being turned into
a battle on the First Amendment. The First Amendment has
nothing to do with this, folks. This is a business
decision by people in the television business. And when Jimmy
Kimmel lost the major affiliates in major markets and say
we don't want to air the show, Disney realized they
couldn't continue with it, and that's when they made their announcement.
And no one said fired. Yet they're all sayings suspended
in different indefinitely when we get back. So many people
have weighed in, we'll hear from them. Among the people
that has weighed in is Lord Obama, Lord Barack Obama, Hi,
Emperor the Merciful, Praise be his name. He has weighed
in claiming that the Trump administration is threatening media companies
to muzzle or fire people after them complaining about the
care ancel culture for years. Let me just say this
before we take our break. You are not seeing a
cancel culture. What you are seeing take place before your
eyes and ears is a consequence culture. It's the same
as you hear in these memes that go around the
fa FO meme. It's the same thing that you have
when you hear people say play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It means that now there is responsibility being attached to
words from the left. They don't like it. We I'm
gonna take a break, usc not these rush our fastest
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Speaker 10: Let's zero in on what Kimmel actually said the basis
for his suspension. Here's the late night comedian on Monday.
Speaker 2: We had some new lows over.
Speaker 4: The weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize
this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than
one of them and do everything they can to score
political points from it.
Speaker 10: Kim Will appeared to be making a point about alleged
finger pointing by the right wing toward the left in
the wake of Kirk's assassination. What he said did not
appear to suggest that the suspect was a MAGA shooter.
Also important to note, ABC did not take action until
days after this aired. In fact, it came shortly after
the FCC chair.
Speaker 2: Do you hear this?
Speaker 8: You heard what you just heard, and then you heard
a CNN guy tell you you didn't hear what you
just heard. He expressly tried to link the shooter to MAGA.
He said it in those words you hear to see
ann guy, Well, he.
Speaker 2: Didn't what it is.
Speaker 8: They didn't appear, And I tried it, And that was
not the only thing he said. He also made a
comment about President Trump. He said President Trump was mourning
Charlie Kirk like a kid mourns his goldfish, equating Charlie
to a goldfish, a pet. It was a disgusting remark. Now,
of all people, well I shouldn't say of all people.
Speaker 5: Haraldo Horaldo, Heraldo.
Speaker 2: With vera is got's cut eight. It'll speak it for him,
He'll speak for him.
Speaker 11: Listen to this Jimmy kimlos the family of Charlie Kirk
and his wife Erica, two small children, and an apology.
You know what's he's saying that if you're if you're
a member of MAGA, and Charlie is a friend of MAGA,
then he had it coming. It just it's it's it's
in some way, it's very extremely, extremely insensitive. The country
is in a very tough spot right now. Everyone's walking
on egg shells. The First Amendment is not a license
to incite hatred. And you know, I think that we
can start the discussion once Jimmy Kimmel apologizes, then they
can talk about the business aspects and whether or not
he gets back on the schedule and so forth. But
there's got to be a recognition that a terrible thing
has happened here and that millions of Americans are grievously
hurt by what happened.
Speaker 12: You know, there is a.
Speaker 11: Charlie Kirk was beloved by many, and to just tremble
over it he's not even buried yet, for goodness sake,
and to.
Speaker 2: Make fun of the flags and half staff and so forth.
Speaker 11: I just think that we've got to look at it
with a notion that the country has to be healed,
that we have to work to bring people together, that
we need to respect each other. You know, we don't
have to agree, but we have to respect. And I
think that, you know, the audience has deserted him for
a good reason.
Speaker 8: And by the way, that audience desertion that Herauldo is
talking about as well, the ratings. New York posted a
story on this today. The ratings for that show fell
forty three percent, another reason why certain companies may have said,
this is the last straw on top of falling ratings.
Speaker 2: We have to deal with this.
Speaker 8: Okay, I started talking about Lord Obama, the most Merciful,
Blessed be his name. When we get back, I'm gonna
go into a little bit of detail on what Obama
has said about all this and why I think it's
important to remember history.
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Speaker 13: In light of the censoring and cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel
for telling the truth, it should be clear to us
that it is happening and is happening completely, which means
we have one opportunity left before us, and that is
to use our collective power, all the power we have
left as a collective. If we all were cancel our
Disney memberships, if we were all truth can so our
table and ABC do it. If we were all to
actually put action behind our words and say no to
two corporate media structures that are too implicit in ms
authoritarian takeover, we might make a difference.
Speaker 2: But until we are willing to put our action where
our mouths are and do.
Speaker 13: Something, the snowball of momentum will continue to roll right
over us.
Speaker 1: The time is now, do it, Do it.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 8: Lloyd Barack Obama, the Merciful Praise be his name, slams
Jimmy Chimo's suspension, as do many other Democrats. Are whining
and moaning like you can't believe. He says, the Trumpet
administration is threatening media companies to muzzle or fire people.
After years of complaining about cancel culture, years of complaining
about the cancel culture, of the current administration has taken
into a new and dangerous livery by routinely threatening regulatory
action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters
and commentators it doesn't like he put on X. I
happened to work up many, many years, decades actually three
plus with the most famous radio commentator in American history,
Rush Hudson Lumbar iid. During those three decades, I saw
things happen and sometimes felt powerless as they were happening.
The lies, the smears from American politicians. President of the
United States Bill Clinton tried his best in a speech
that you can easily find if you google it in
the aftermath of one of the most at the time
the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the Oklahoma City bombing,
when he tried to blame Rush and talk radio for
creating that atmosphere that was meant to put pressure on
the radio stations, the outlets that carried rushlm bus program
and try to have that program canceled. He also went
on KMOX, the Rush affiliate station radio station, and complained
that Rush has a whole three hours to sit, as
he put it, and say things in him. Old poor
Bill Clinton, who had the bully pulpit, who had access
to every single news media outlet in America. Poor Bill
Clinton didn't have a chance to come on and tell
the truth, at which Rush responded, I do tell the truth.
In fact, I am the truth detector. I detect the truth.
And that was one of the many monikers he used
for years after that appearance by Bill Clinton on K. E.
Speaker 2: Mullwicks. But the left did not stop there.
Speaker 8: These same democrats, some of them are still sitting in
the House of Representatives, like Anti Maxie Waters. At the time,
there was Democrat Eloise I think is the first name
Slaughter from New York and a bunch of these Democrats
in Congress got together and seriously, despite the First Amendment
of these United States, seriously tried to push forth an
amendment that we called and we labeled the hush Rush Bill.
It would have pretty much silenced the Rush Loombaugh programming
by demanding that radio stations that carried Rush also then
had to go out and find three hours of liberal
crap to put on their airs to respond. That would
have crippled the show had that become law, in direct
violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States of America.
Speaker 2: They didn't care.
Speaker 8: These democrats and some of them Elizabeth Maxine Waters was
one of them. Back at the time mouthing off, and
over the years they have complained about Rush.
Speaker 2: Not one word.
Speaker 8: Disney ABC. Let's talk about what liberals did when they
actually did fire somebody, not in definitely suspendious, outright fired him.
There was a moment when Russi Lombaugh, aside from the
great responsibilities he had on radio, also took place on
a Sunday show on ESPN, some pregame football show. Yeah yeah,
he made a comment, asked a question about then quarterback
of the Philadelphia Eagles, Donovan McNabb. In essence, what he said,
it was that Rush said he thought that the American media,
the liberal media, wanted to see a black quarterback succeed,
so they were not going to be as critical of
McNabb as they should be. That's in essence what he said.
That was turned by the usual, the usual suspects in
the mainstream media and politics as Rush is racist and
he's being racist towards McNabb. They put cameras in front
of him. What are you thinking, Russian mbar racist? Rush
never said anything about Donovan McNabb's skill. Never, Oh I'm
getting that a mister Mike. Mister Mike just texted me
don't forget how we read mister Mike Rush's broadcast engineer
all these years. Oh, I'm getting to that. ESPN fired him.
They didn't ask any questions, There was no debate. The
affiliates didn't rise up and say, oh, you have to
take this off Disney. ESPN fired him on the spot,
even though the accusations were a not true and B
within the grounds of opinion, which is what they.
Speaker 2: Had hired him for.
Speaker 8: Not one of these damn groups out here complaining today,
sag an AFTRA, the union for these television people out
today complaining about Jimmy Kimmel. Not one of these damn leftists.
Not at the time senator before he became Lord Obama
Obama complained about it. Not one of them, sag after
none of them. Variety Magazine has a piece today about
how Jimmy or Jimmy Kimmel's express hope that if Trump
came after him, those on the right will support my
right to free speech. But the when has the left
ever supported anybody's right for free speech that they disagree with?
Speaker 2: Name me a time.
Speaker 8: Then you had the Senator, the Senate Majority leader, Harry
Reid send a letter to the owners the owners of
Clear Channel and got the name wrong, demanding that Rush
pretty much be taken off the air. And it was
a big deal, well publicized. In fact, we made a
parody song about it on the program, The Letter to
the Box Tops the Letter. Then you had Hillary Clinton,
who was the first Lady after first Lady, she became
a United States Senator and then Secretary of State. Hillary
Clinton's investment into media matters, which sole job was coming
after conservative targets trying to stir up and foment boycotts.
Speaker 2: In Obama's time, you had.
Speaker 8: Lord Obama, the most merciful praise be his name, attack
not just Rush. He even started his attacks.
Speaker 2: On Rush Limbah before he took office. He had a meeting,
he called.
Speaker 8: For a meeting before he was inaugurated at George Will's house,
conservative commentator George Will, and he told the conservatives in
that room, excuse me, including David Brooks, who from the
New York Times, who went out and praised Obama because
he had never.
Speaker 2: Seen the crease in a man's pants like Obama had.
Speaker 8: Obama had the damn finest crease in his pants of
anybody Lord Obama that ever lived.
Speaker 2: And David Brooks missed.
Speaker 8: The conservative couldn't get over the crease in Obama's pants. Meanwhile,
Obama sat there before he even took office and targeted
Rush Limbaugh and said, you people need to stop listening
to Rush Limbaugh. And he made it a point of
his administration every chance he got to not only attack
rushling BA, but to attack Fox News. And this man
sits on his most merciful asked today and starts talking
about Jimmy Timmel and how Trump is doing it, his
White House did it. And now, my friends, let us
remember a little bit of hissed wah, hissed wah from
the Obama days. There was a very famous comedian in America.
Her name was Roseanne Barr. Roseanne Bar, funny as it
may seem today, got fired from who the Disney people,
the ABC people.
Speaker 2: They floored the boom on Roseanne.
Speaker 8: And this is Roseanne cut sixteen discussing how the boom
got lowered on her.
Speaker 5: Can I say up the knees are my jokes?
Speaker 12: Because she's the one that got me fired, you know, Michelle. Yeah,
she's the one that called uh, ABC and said I
had to go you show racist tweet?
Speaker 5: Yeah really was this public information. I've said it, she
said it is too.
Speaker 2: I'm going to smack.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 4: I applaud you on when you're right, but when you
say things like Donald Trump is still the president and.
Speaker 2: There's not going to be an election.
Speaker 12: I said, Commander in chief.
Speaker 5: I respect.
Speaker 12: Change everything, say, I said, Commander in chief. Now listen.
Uh Bob Iger, who fired me, said his first phone
call was to Valerie Jarrett to apologize to her, and
that Michelle Obama also got on the phone with them,
and that Obama called him afterward to thank him for
firing me.
Speaker 2: So that's in the paper.
Speaker 12: I don't make it.
Speaker 2: I believe you.
Speaker 12: I didn't make it.
Speaker 5: That's something that sounds very incredibles.
Speaker 12: Many interviews where he talked about it on.
Speaker 2: The subject of terrible things posted online.
Speaker 4: The biggest story of the day today was Roseanne. Roseanne,
You're not gonna believe this, but she tweeted something outrageous.
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, right, the president did it too. It's crazy. Anyway.
Speaker 4: ABC decided to cancel their highest rated show, Roseanne, following
following a tweet in which Roseanne compared an African American woman,
a former advisor to President Obama, to an ape, which
did not sit well with ABC management or anyone with
a brain really, so they announced that this first season
the show is also its last, which is a huge
blow to Busy. I mean, we don't have much on
this network. We're hoping the NBA Finals goes eleven games
this year. We're still airing America's funniest home videos. Okay,
Roseanne was very bigly hit for ABC and we needed it.
But I say, why just get listen hear me out.
Just because Roseanne is gone doesn't mean the whole show.
Speaker 2: Has to go.
Speaker 5: The show must go on.
Speaker 2: That's what we say in show business.
Speaker 5: And with that said, I have an idea that.
Speaker 2: I think makes this work for everyone.
Speaker 5: America's favorite working class family is back with all the
cast members you love.
Speaker 8: Okay, clans a chemo gig, So it's not really funny.
Let's just move past that. Obama call ABC to congratulate them.
Michelle Obama through Valerie Jarrett, Roseanne's gotta go.
Speaker 2: They did it.
Speaker 8: Obama didn't complain. Obama said, damn worried about freedom of speech.
In fact, he got on the phone with the head
of Disney and congratulate him. Thank you for getting rid
of that broad Okay, so I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to
hear all these whiny cries about Trump, this that the
other you people have owned in these major networks. You
have owned the three networks ever since their inception, ever
since they were really two networks. Many people don't even
realize that at the time of their creation, ABC and
NBC were owned by the same company, and there was
they had the Red Network the Blue Network, but they
were both owned by ABC. They split off so with CBSABC, NBC.
Ever since they have been created, they have been down
right hostile to Republicans. I told you earlier this week,
I played went through the history of how Harry Truman
was the first one started calling Republicans nazi and fascists
three years after World War One, after World War Two ended.
Speaker 2: Ever since.
Speaker 8: These networks have been created, they have hated Republicans and
they have done everything they can to the Republican careers.
Speaker 2: Of duly elected Republicans.
Speaker 8: And I have zero sympathy at this time or any
other time when a member of the mainstream media, the
stations that have to air their crap.
Speaker 2: Besides they don't want to air it anymore. We gotta go.
Speaker 8: There is nothing First Amendment about this. This is all
to use a coin of phrase, using the hood, this
is all about business. It's all about business coming back,
don't go away.
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Speaker 8: Sure you know on the RUSHLMBA point, Mike, thank you
for reminding me exactly of what it was. The phony
soldier bit, the claim that Harry Reid made against Rush
that Rush had said something that basically denigrated members of
the military. Now, Rushlimbaugh's whole entire career has been about
nothing but helping and supporting not only the American military,
but the American people, and he and his wife have
donated so much money to help fallen members of the military.
It was a disastrous ploy by Harry Reid to lie
about Rush and the majority of it. But I want
to remind you something else. Rush tried to join a
group that was going to purchase the LA rams and
they these media outlets, some of these same media outlets
today published things that were created online that were some
of the most horrid things about Rush and supposedly from
Rush that were totally made up by leftist activists, and
as a result, that didn't happen. Russian ever went on
the end complained about it. He never complained about this
stuff that was done to him from these people. Let
me tell you something. They were vicious then and including
from the top down, from Obama, from Clinton to members
in Congress. They have all tried to stifle his career
and did for the entire time he was on the air.
They have tried to take Fox News out, they have
taken out they tried to take out Tucker Carlson. They
tried to take out anybody that poses a threat to
their power. So these crocodile tears that they're crying today.
And for the record, you have never heard me gloat
over Jimmy Kimmel or anyone else losing their job. I
don't gloat over people losing their jobs. But I'm not
gonna sit here and watch what's happening now and not
comment on how hypocritical it is. This is the day
that Jimmy Hendricks joined the twenty seven Club in nineteen seventy.
So we leave you with some Jimmy today. May God
blessed protect each and every single one of you, your family's,
your loved ones. Love and gratitude my friends always for
your being here with me and allowing me to be
with you. God willing, Almighty, God Willing. We're back tomorrow
for the Friday edition of both Nerdley's Rush Hour. Until then,
I bid you, I do.
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