Bye Bye PBS and NPR Funding

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Cooner Country. Okay, a lot to talk about today,
but one of the most dramatic moves in the last
couple of days by President Trump has been his attempt
to rein in and defund the very corrupt fake news

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corporate media. And in particular, it's not just Doge, which
as exposed, as we've talked about on this show now
for a couple at least a couple of shows, a
couple of times, the illegal embezzling of money, misuse of
money meant for USAID that has been secretly used to

(00:44):
fund Reuter's, CNN, NBC News, numerous other media outlets. You
want to know why they can continue to have horrible
ratings and still financially survive. It's because they've essentially become
state run media. But Trump is now going from just

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exposing this to taking action, and in particular, he recently
decided to sign an executive order which cuts all federal
funding to two of the key fake news media outlets,
National Public Radio i E. NPR and PBS. They are

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now going to lose all of their taxpayer federal funding
and the media. Again, you would think that this is
somehow an authoritarian, dictatorial takeover of the country. The media
is going apoplectic. Democrats are now saying this is a

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constitutional and political crisis, and of course liberals everywhere now
say this says the rise of the fourth rike. This
says it here. It is, my friends, for all of
the hysteria, for all of the yelling, screaming and shouting.

(02:13):
What the defenders of PBS and NPR in particular, and
again I want to stress this, these are too far left,
anti Trump, pro Democrat propagandist outlets. Let's be very clear.
That's what they're trying to defend. Two mouthpieces for the Democrats,

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two mouthpieces for the deep state, two mouthpieces for the
liberal regime. That's what they're trying to defend. Why should
my taxpayer money, Why should your taxpayer money go to
fund and subsidize anti Trump left wing propaganda or as

(03:05):
the Russians would say, disinformaci, disinformation and misinformation. Now you
want to pedal that never Trump left wing drek, which
they do on NPR and NPR and PBS all day,
all night, all week, all year. That's their business. But

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don't do it on our name. Don't do it taking
our taxpayer money. That you don't have the right to do.
But it doesn't matter. They are now acting that Trump
is trying to control the press, that Donald Trump now
is trying to censor the media, that Donald Trump is

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now trying to control and take over the media. Listen
now to the CEO of NPR. She was on CBS,
Catherine Mayer, saying, this is about Trump trying to control
NPR and ultimately turn us into a media outlet that

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expresses only views approved by the president, in other words,
a dictatorship, state run media. Roll cut sixteen.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Mike, When you see specific editorial criticisms like that, what
do you interpret the intention of this being?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, I interpret the intention of this being trying to
create a narrative around our editorial independence, and as I said.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
It our to control it, to control it, and I.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Think that that is an affront to the First Amendment.
We have a independent newsroom and we will always have
an independent newsroom. From my perspective, part of the separation
of that the First Amendment offers is to keep government out.
In fact, the statue that was written when the Public
Broadcasting Act was signed into law was very explicit about

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interference from any member of the government, whether it is
elected officials, whether members of independent agencies, because it is
so sacrificed to that division between the state and independent
or media.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Right. Look, NPR was a propaganda shill, okay, a shill
for Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
It was.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Literally it was like it was another branch of the
DNC when Kamala Harris was running for the election. Who
are these people kidding? So don't tell me that somehow
you're independent. The last thing you are is independent. You
told the Democrat Party line that's number one, number two.
You want to have all the independence in the world.

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I don't care, but you don't have the right to
our money. And this is the argument now that they're
trying to make I'm not kidding. The argument now that
the media, the fake news media, okay, the left in particular,
whether it's the New York Times, the Washington Post, the
Boston Globe, the Globe is losing its mind over this.

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And you know, whether it's CNN or MSDNC, you go
down the whole list. Okay, they're saying this is an
attack on the Constitution, it's an attack on the First Amendment,
it's an attack on the freedom of the press. In fact,
here don't even take my word for it. Let me
just give you a taste. This is Jonathan k part

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on PBS saying, oh my god, he's gonna defund PBS.
This is it, This is it. Here he's making his move.
Here it is again for the one hundred and forty
seventh time. This is Weimar. And now we're sliding into
Hitler in Nazi Germany. He's making his move. The fourth

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Reich is rising. Roll cut sixteen A a mike.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
It is a fundamental attack on our constitution, on the
foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember
there is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution,
and it is the free press.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It is the press.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
And why because the founders understood that the survival of
a democracy depends on an informed citizenry, and the citizenry
can only be informed by a press that can report
and do report on the affairs of the republic free
and unfettered. And whether they are come from the left

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or from the right, the government should not interfere with
that reporting. And so when you have a president of
the United States who is making it his mission to
attack the free press, we should all be concerned whether
we are at PBS or whether we are at MSNBC
because he's focused on us two.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, this is unbelievable, really honestly. Okay, first of all,
we're a constitutional republic and not a democracy. I mean,
I don't know how many times I have to keep
saying this. All right, that's number one, but let that go.
Tell me what conservative media outlet gets federal funding. Name
me one. Here, here's my challenge to the left. Okay,

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to all your moonbats out there, name me one one
conservative media outlet that gets federal taxpayer dollars. None you
can name me one. You literally cannot name me one magazine,
one media outlet, one TV network, one journal, one newspaper.

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One take one website that get a conservative website. Take
your pick, any conservative I don't care if it's TV, print, media, online,
It doesn't matter what conservative media outlet gets. A penny,
just a penny. I'm not talking half a billion dollars

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like every year the way NPR and PBS do. Okay, No,
I'm not talking to billions and billions and billions that
they've been raking in over the years. A penny, not
even a buck. A penny. You can't name me one.
So yes, the First Amendment obviously protects freedom of the
press from government censorship. But where does it say that

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you have the right to taxpayer dollars? Since when does
NPR and PBS have the right to claim our taxpayer dollars? Now,
if you want to donate to NPR at PBS, go ahead,
if some rich George Soros, because this is pretty much

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how the left wing media works. It's it's based on donors.
So if one wealthy billionaire left wing donor wants to
waste more of their money down a rat hole and
kick in millions of dollars to keep these you know, NPR, AT,
PBS afloat, go ahead. It's a free country. But you

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don't have the right to your money, my money, taxpayer
money to go and fund NPR and PBS. That's the issue.
Trump is not banning them, Trump's not abolishing them. Trump's
not quote unquote censoring them. What he's saying is, you

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guys are left wing mouthpieces, you're left wing propaganda outlets,
and we're not going to give you taxpayer money. We're
just not gonna We're gonna defund you. Period. Now. If
because this is supposed to be public broadcasting, Democrats, most

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of the corporate media, not all, but almost ninety percent
of it, liberals moonbats and I'm for whatever reason, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut,
obviously New York City, and California. I don't understand why,

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but those are kind of like the big blue strongholds
that are taking this very very hard and almost personally
that Donald Trump has now decided to defund and PR
and PBS, and now they're making this insane argument that
it's unconstitutional and why And it's illegal, and it's authoritarian,

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and it's tyrannical, and it's an assault on the free press,
it's an assault on the constitution. And so why is
it unconstitutional? Well, according to them, it violates the First Amendment.
Well what does it violate exactly, Well, freedom of the press.
But he's not banning them, he's not abolishing them. He's

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just cutting off the taxpayer money, our money. And by
the way, you know, I know we found out this
massive scandal about USAID and that's all illegal. But you know,
I don't do I get public money. No, I would
never ask for public dollars. Why because I don't think

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it's fair for liberals, socialists people on the left whatever
to have to have their taxpayer money fund my show.
If my show is to survive, let it survive with listeners, ratings,
advertisers and made the best media outlet win. You don't

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have a right to taxpayer money just because you happen
to be in the media, Like, how do you how
do we suddenly go to a constitutional right that we
have to suddenly fund NPR and PBS. So I want
to read this from six to oh three. You can
text the cooner man seven zero four seven zero seven

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zero four seven zero, and I think hits the nail
right on the head, Jeff, let's cut right to the chase.
We have wonted NPR, National Propaganda Radio, and PBS cut
off from the public doll for decades. And it's not

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just because these glorified wards of the state are anti Trump.
It's because they are absolutely one sided in their reporting,
always to the far left. And yet I someone on
the right has to pay for them to pedal their leftistrek.
Let these out let's find their own private funding, just

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like every other media outlet. And if they can't financially,
pass Mustard, sorry, pass must forgive me, then let them die.
On the vine like any other business or organization, bingo, bingo.
So if you can't survive without taxpayer money, then obviously

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you're not sustainable. And if you're not sustainable, you should
go under like every other media, like any other business
or private organization or media outlet in the country. Am
I wrong? Is six to ozho three wrong? Six one
seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Uh,

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let me just very very quick because Thomas on Messenger,
I thought, made an absolutely excellent point. Jeff. How about
these rich celebrities. They can fund PBS and NPR. Bingo,
where's the Hollywood a leap when you need them? Tell
these cheap skates cut a check, Cut a check. I

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don't know you love NPR that much. Cut a check
you love the biased left wing reporting on PBS. Cut
a check? One more, and then I want to go
to the phone line. Six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight is the number. And this is

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from Mark on Messenger, who, as usual, is on fire. Jeff.
First of all, we the taxpayers shouldn't be funding the
fake news media, period full stop. And why are taxpayers
funding the fake news media? And why doesn't the FCC

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hold them accountable for not reporting the news instead of
voicing their opinions. Real journalism is dead. Bingo, bingo. Now look,
I've said it before, if in theory, in theory, because

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this is supposed to be public broadcasting. And you know,
we were just talking about this off air when I said,
you know, you know, play the cut, Mike or whatever,
and they go, you know, you remind me a little
bit of Lawrence Welk. There was a Sandy was saying,
and your delivery, and you know the Lawrence Welk Show,
which was on PBS. I believe for what over sixty

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years my mother used to watch Lawrence Welk. Now, yes,
that was good, wholesome Americana, very good entertainment, a lot
of good folk music, American folk music. No, I get it. Okay, fine,
if you put out great quality documentaries, history films or

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history shows about America's past, yes, I'm open to mebe
having a public broadcasting system. But if you're gonna do
news coverage, do news coverage, not opinion, and you've got
to be right down the middle. Canada has a public

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broadcasting station. It's called CBC. They're horrible, far left Britain
BBC horrible far left. Well, if you're gonna go to
the hard left and you're only gonna be a mouthpiece
and a partisan for one side and demonize and attack
the other side, then you don't have any right to

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claim to anyone's money. I mean, I'm sorry, this is
just such common sense. Federal money comes with strings attached,
and one of them should be that you should be impartial, nonpartisan,
and objective. That's the last thing. NPR and PBS are
the last thing. They've been now for forty fifty years,

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and finally a president has had the guts to stand
up to these media monoliths who think they have absolute
power and an absolute claim on our money. They don't.
As I said in my opening monologue, you don't have
the right to taxpayer funding. There's no constitutional right that

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PBS and NPR have to keep being funded perpetually, ad infinitum.
So if you're a real news organization, then survive on
your own. By the way, they're always bragging that federal
funding is just a small portion of their overall budget.

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They keep saying it's been their propaganda for decades. Well,
if it's such a small portion, what are you whining
and crying about So go to your liberal friends, to
go down to Martha's vineyard with your cup in hand.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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is the number. Okay, President Trump now has done with
no other Republican president has been able to do. He
has now cut all federal funding to PBS and NPR.
And this is the kooner Man's take. Tell me, if
you agree or disagree, my taxpayer money and yours should

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not be used to subsidize pro Democrat, anti Trump left
wing propaganda. So now PBS and NPR are crying saying
it's quote unquote unconstitutional. Since when does the fake news
media have a right to our money? Agree, disagree? Dave,

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our Western PA constitutionalist correspondent, Thanks for holding Dave, and welcome.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
You mind, Jeff, Hey, you Lima, Charlie, Buddy lading Clear, good.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Morning, you're coming in great, Dave. What's Dave? What do
you make of this defunding of PBS and NPR and
now the media, the Democrats, the Libs. I don't even
think melting down is the right phrase to describe it.
They're going absolutely crazy and they're saying it's unconstitutional. And
it's an attack on the free press, and they're saying

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it's an attack on the country itself.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
What say you, Jeff, I'll tell you what's unconstitutional.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Them keeping always going to the left hand side all
the time. I mean, Jeff is so far to the
left they make Joe Biden and Barack Obama look like
key party members. Buddy crazy, you know, a Jeff. How
about Karen Catherine. She was killed in Congress about maybe
a little over a month ago, if my memory shows

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me correct. And PBS was there and I forget the
gentleman's name of congressman from Texas and he was grilling
her about well did you really say this? And that
in one of her tweets to her ex posts was
that America is addicted to white supremacy, and she denied
it Jet even though the guy found it like from
ten years ago. However, she said it. She had a

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tweet on there, and then she says that their independent JET. Well,
if they're independent, I'm a monkey juncle, so I must
be a nuncle of a monkey jet. Dave.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Let me ask you this, do you think any media outlet? Okay,
let's because you're completely right. The NPR CEO. Catherine Mayer
is a joke. She's she's basically a Marxist. She's an
anti white, anti conservative, anti Trump, far left lunatic. That's

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what she is. Really Really, It's like if AOC or
Elizabeth Warren were running a media outlet, or Bernie. Really,
if Bernie Sanders was running a media outlet, that's Catherine Mayer. Okay,
so you're dead on, but let's just leave NPR and
PBS just for a second off the table. Should any

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media outlet in this country print media, I'm fucking you know, newspapers, magazines, journals,
radio shows, TV. Should any media outlet online new sites?
Should any of them receive a cent in taxpayer money?
In your view?

Speaker 8 (22:47):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (22:47):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (22:47):
I mean, Jeff, if I want to find NPR, which
I wouldn't do like you said, to be throw my
money down a rat ho or like the French say
and letoilette, Right, Jeff, But he has to think, jub
that wouldn't some of you like a James o'keies. Oh,
by the way, we'll have the barnshell coming out soon, Jeff,
about where the COVID nineteen thing came out. If you

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don't already know I've saved you some stuff a messenger
from some of my connections, Chef, and Jeff, I got
news for you here see the NPR station here in Vinsburgh,
w E SA ninety point five. Will disregard to the
garbage as throwing into the three risids here, Buddy, they're
not even you'll say they endorsed some A or O candidate. Jeff,

(23:31):
they're tapping their nose out of this fight because our
mayor Ed Gainey, who's you want to talk about? He
makes Michelle will look like a lookout conservative chef.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
All right, Not only.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Did he say he didn't want to help bite Jeff,
the other guy that's running against him, who's considered the
moderate Democrat. It's to the left, Chef. I mean, it's disgusting.
But anyway, Jeff, let me finish with this. I don't
want to still you gets under anymore, becaus the corner
man is the fact that Jeff, I don't think if
the rest of the media is gonna go apothlectic to
use you to your faith, Jeff, why does the pancy

(24:03):
shows further from the old York slimee that mack Levin
and your and your guy Michael savage, Jeff, why don't
they fund INTR if they're gonna go face.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
You bout it?

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Why can't ABC all the bull crap and then DC
nothing but craft and see the DS fund them, they
get they get a ton of money, Jeff. And like
you said, why can't they celebrities given to us? Oh?

Speaker 1 (24:24):
I agree? Oh you're dead on. Oh you're right. Well.
Bill Gates can write a check. Sorrows can write a check.
George Clooney can. I mean they're not Hollywood, but George
Clooney can write a check. I mean, I could go
on and on. I mean, it's honestly, the hypocrisy here
is so thick you can choke on it. No they
want our money. No, you're not gonna get our money anymore.

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We're done. We're not gonna fund fake news period. Dave
love it. Thank you for that call. My friend David
in Shirley. Thanks for holding David, and welcome.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
Good morning, Jeff. Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
I show you are.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
A true patriot.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
I just wanted to say I listen to your show
every day at heading to work, and I also will
if I'm heading in early, I'll listen to NPR just
to listen to the opposition, because I understand what these
people's mindsets are. But for years they've been peddling lies
white supremacy. I would turn them on and within thirty

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to sixty seconds, every day after day would be the
lie about white supremacy being the largest threat to democracy.
They covered for Democrats for years, And honestly, I want
media funded, government funded media. I want reparations.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
I wanted to go to.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
A conservative show. Now, why don't we fund conservative pro
American media outlets? Which I'm just being facetious here, but honestly,
no media outlets should get any government funding whatsoever. It
should be a free market. There should be no funding.
So I'm just saying it couldn't be any obvious because
you'll never find a conservative viewpoint ever, in twenty to

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thirty years, I've been listening to NPR and BBC and
all this, All these outlets that are government funded ever
have an opposing opinion. It's all far left, and I'll
just leave it at that. But it's just it's just
the hypocrisy is unrailed. These people are insane. I swear
to God, they're truly insane.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh, you're dead on oh, David, you're absolutely dead on
And David, let me ask you something, because you're you're
on fire. Here the local NPR, PBS, just here in
the Boston or Greater Boston area. I'm gonna use them
as an example. I know them. I used to work
in a building when I did my show when I
was with Entercom, and so we were on different floors.

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But still I knew them, I heard them, I spoke
to them. They knew me. I knew them. They were
determined to take me off the air. They were jealous
of my ratings, by the way, they still are. I'm
not bragging. I'm just telling you the truth. And I
have a much bigger audience than they could ever dream of.
Yet they wanted to take me off the air. They
wanted to censor me, cancel me because they hated the

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fact that I was a conservative and I was pro Trump.
I never wanted to take them off the air. I
just didn't want them to take our money. So let
me ask you this, David, how come they claim to
be tolerant, yet they want to abolish and censor all
conservative media and we just don't want to fund them.
We just don't want our money to line their pockets.

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Can you explain that to me, David, Bert and Ernie
you name it? Six one seven through six sixty eight.
Sixty eight is the number. Okay, let's go right back
to David and Shirley. David, just to quickly reset. So,
I used to work in a building long story short,
when we were with Entercom before we got spun off

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and bought up by iHeart. This was years ago, but
I worked with people at NPR, and I worked I
was in the same building with people at NPR. Where
I worked there was PBS as well, and you know,
they would tell me to my face, they want me
off the air. They want all conservatives off the air.
They were on a jihad against Fox News. They were

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on a gihod at the time Rush Limbad was still alive.
They hated Rush. My god, they hate Rush. And so
these supposedly tolerant liberals who believe in compassion and diversity
didn't have any compassion for people on the right or

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with opposing points of view. They don't care at all
for intellectual diversity, and they certainly don't care for any tolerance. Now,
my position was always I don't care if you guys
have stations all over the country. I don't care if
you're on the air, just don't use my taxpayer money
to subsidize your left wing drek and propaganda. Sink and

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swim on your own, get your own money, don't keep
taking it. You don't have a right to our money,
to taxpayer money, and it would drive them nuts. I mean,
I would just say, I go, what other media outlet
is funded by taxpayer dollars except you two? And what
because you guys can't survive on your own? What makes

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you so special that no other media outlet. You guys
deserve money but no one else does. Since when do
you have a constitutional right to our money? Where does
it say in the Constitution that thou shall be that
shall there you know, there shall be NPR, there shall
be PBS, and we must pay, you know, fund for
the fund them with our taxpayer dollars. Forever I go,

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show me where it says that in the Constitution, I go,
You can't, and they would. And that's another reason they
say we have to get this guy off the air.
How dare we challenge us? So, David, my question to
you is this, we just don't want them to be
using our money They don't want us to have any

(30:05):
any airwaves, any space in the media, whatsoever. They want
us banned and censored. Why what do they fear about
us so much? What is it that we say or
do that in their mind justifies If they could, they

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would censor and abolish and eliminate all of us. No
conservative newspapers, no conservative radio shows, no conservative news websites, whatsoever.
What say you, David.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
An Nti and the far left had their way, you
wouldn't be able to say anything. I swear to God.
They truly hate the United States and everything that was
founded upon You write.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
The free speech and opinion, your Second Amendment, everything against
the United States, I mean, the core values of the
United States.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
They're anti Christian, they're pro Islam, they are far left Marxists,
they're pro illegal immigration. But they're anti white people. I
truly don't understand the mindset of the liberal who actually
think that white supremacy, which they've been selling for many

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years on my taxpayer dime, which is a complete lie.
And you know, it's kind of interesting. Back in the eighties,
I used to listen to them and they used to
talk about art, science, music, more interesting things. It was
probably like maybe sixty forty percent left wing stuff, but
sixty percent it was somewhat interesting dialogue or whatever topics

(31:50):
they discussed. But now it's just completely file left. And
I guess my question is when did they start getting
government funded money and weren't there any guidelines for receiving.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh you nailed it, No, David, They've been getting government
funding from their inception, but there were strings attached, right
and by the way, just to be fair, to be fair,
Canada has the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations called the CBC. You
have the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation in Great Britain,
Australia has it. New Zealand has it, France has it,

(32:27):
Germany has it. So countries have it and I and
look think about it. It was also, you know, we're
talking sixty seventy years ago, so it was a bit
of a different time in terms of technology and so
in theory, and this is the theory, I'll give it
to you in ten seconds. Well, there's a lot of
rural areas, you know, like in the United States, and
a lot of areas where you know, you don't have

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access to let's say, a big metropolitan radio station. So
people in more isolated rural parts of the community and
in the country, are in very small towns or you know,
areas where there isn't a big local market, they need
to have access to broadcasting, whether it be television or

(33:12):
whether it be radio. And I could understand that argument,
you know, I really I get that. But first of all,
it was supposed to be very good content, and you're right,
there was very good content in the past. You're right, Musical,
you know, music specials, documentaries, their science shows look to

(33:32):
be frank Sesamus Street was an outstanding kids show. I
know now it's gotten very woke and political, but look,
when I grew up, this was some of the best
wholesome entertainment a kid could watch. And you know, you
learned your ABC's, you learned your numbers. But the characters
are also endearing and frankly, they taught very good, old

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fashioned American values. So it was just a very good
kids show, a lovable kids show. So I'm not saying
they didn't have great content. They did, But their news
coverage in theory was supposed to be down the middle.
By the way, the same thing in Canada's hinting in Britain.
The same thing elsewhere, and after the nineteen sixties into

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the seventies it became increasingly left wing. But what they
still had, and I'll just give you an example. PBS
had a William F. Buckley Junior. He had a show
firing line. They'd give him it's an hour, an hour
a week. There were many more liberals who had shows
than Bill Buckley did. But what I'm saying is at

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least the conservative side and viewpoint was represented underrepresented. Yes,
the left was overrepresented, but still you could say there
are different points of view period. I mean there are
so okay. What happened was it became more left wing,

(35:01):
more left wing, more intolerant, no opposing points of view,
and then they began to, uh, I mean, just cannibalize
all of their programming. Everything became politicized. Their science, political, music, political,
Sesame Street, as I mentioned political, it's now, it's it's

(35:22):
it's it's a it's a left wing political, woke show
for kids. It's the LGBTQ agenda. It's climate change, it's
illegal aliens, it's open borders, it's DEI that's what Sesame
Street now pedals. It's not what it was thirty forty
years ago. Uh, you know, a politically free, innocent kids

(35:48):
show with some really good creative talent. Those days are
long gone. So what happened, David, is it just became
increasingly politicized, and as you rightly pointed pointed out, just
kept going more and more and more to the left.
And that's why most of the country is saying, amen.

(36:08):
I mean, the elites are freaking out, the Democrat elites,
the media elites, they're losing their minds. But eighty percent,
eighty five percent of the country is like, yeah, we
don't want to fund this, We don't want to pay
and fund this garbage anymore. I mean, NPR is MSNBC
without the yelling. That's what NPR is, PBS. There's no

(36:34):
difference between PBS and CNN. None, now, I'm telling you none.
There's no difference between PBS and CBS News, ABC News,
NBC News. There's no difference none, except they do the
whole is So is Trump hitler or is he Putin?

Speaker 9 (37:03):
Is he not c or would you say more of him?
An authoritarian fascist? Let me ask you.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Uh, let me see Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic Magazine.
Uh huh, I mean that's literally that's what you get.
That's their idea of a wow boy, really a lot
of diversity on today's show. Is Trump Hitler or is
the Vladimir Putin? That's a holy oh boy, sophisticated conversation today.

(37:38):
That's that's the drek that passes for news at you know,
NPR or PBS, So you can get you know, we're
not funding at least in theory, we're not funding CNN,
we're not funding MSNBC, We're not funding CBS, ABC, NBC,
New York Times, Washington Post. So you want that kind

(37:59):
of garb there it is. Why should we have to
pay that, you know, why should we have to pay
for the fake news for constant left wing propaganda? That's
the problem. Now NPR and PBS has David final word
to you.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
Yeah, Jeff, he just made me laugh with that same
street intro. But anyway, I just wanted to say that
not only is NPR and these media outlets that the
government funded, you know, just you know, far left opinionated,
they suppressed news. So just for instance, I believe there
was a murder. I forget what stated was in, but

(38:39):
there was a I believe a trans person that shot
up a school. They would never tell you those details.
So they suppressed the truth while peddling the lie, and
we're paying for it. And that's my that's that's David Nail.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
David, your logic is perfect and flawless. David, thank you
very very much for that call. Really good call. He's
completely right. You see, they don't just do pro baganda.
They're not just shills for the Democrats. And really, honestly,
it's it's pro Trump, sorry, pro Democrat, anti Trump, left

(39:23):
wing propaganda. It's not just that here. They've never once
reported that the entire Russian collusion hoax was fabricated by
Hillary Clinton. That literally her people came up with that
fake dosier and then they gave it to the FBI
and gave it to the CIA, who then disseminated it
to the media. That this literally came from Hillary Clinton.

(39:47):
It was a lie, manufactured and fabricated by Hillary and
her people. To this day, NPR and PBS have not
reported that. To this day, p and PBS have never
retracted their lie after lie, their lies, their constant lies

(40:08):
that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian disinformation campaign,
as they repeatedly said during the twenty twenty election, I'm
just gonna I can go I can go on with
example here Nordstream two. Trump was asked about it just yesterday.
Who really blew up Nordstream two? All of the evidence

(40:31):
now it's come out. It was our CIA using Ukrainian
intelligence as the front. So we use some of Ukrainian
intelligence group as a proxy or affront to blow up
Nordstream two. But it was really our operation. Okay, So
we blew up Nordstream two, which by the way, was

(40:51):
an attack on Germany, which is a fellow NATO ally
in theory, the Germans could have said to NATO, we're
invoking Article five against the United States. That's how insane
Biden's foreign policy was. But let that go to this day.
NPR and PBS, they won't even talk about this. They

(41:12):
won't even talk about it. Not once I'm talking for
a minute, sixty seconds. Set the clock, you know, t
t sixty seconds. The twenty twenty election, all of the
voter fraud which has now been widely exposed and revealed,

(41:33):
the rampant voter fraud, the rampant election corruption, the rampant
theft that took place, not even a single minute, not
even a minute, and we got to keep funding this. Yeah,
I don't think so. Sixty one seven two six six

(41:54):
sixty eight sixty eight Bob in Plymouth. Thanks for holding
Bob and wealth.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Them, Joe, thank you very much for taking my call.
I really appreciate my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Bob.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
You know, I have been screaming for this for years,
and I am so happy to hear that Trump is
doing it finally. But the thing that shocks me is
what you told us earlier that CNN and all these
other NBC and MSNBC we're getting money also, which I
did not know. I'm so glad that he's you know,

(42:28):
exposed all of this.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Oh yeah, no, Bob. It's one of the big scandals
of DOGE. I mean, there's so many. They've uncovered over
one hundred and sixty billion dollars in waste, fraud and abuse.
RFK Junior now came out yesterday and said, just in
health and Human Services alone, they have found another one

(42:53):
hundred and fifty nine billion with a beat in waste
fraud in abuse. Okay, so let's quibble over one billion.
So that's basically three hundred and twenty billion dollars and
that's just scratching the surface. And so what dog is found,
they found to me, I could do it. I could
do a whole show on this, but just very quick,

(43:15):
there are two I think scandals that scream at you
or at all of us from DOGE. One that we
were paying god knows how much. We're talking tens and
tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent checks social Security
checks to over fifteen million people over the age of

(43:37):
one hundred years old, who really many of them were
either they were scamming the government or they were illegal aliens,
and that part of that money that was being used
was to register illegals to vote, millions and millions of
illegals to vote. DOGE uncovered all of this and when

(43:59):
they checked had they voted, they did so. Doge, by
following the money, didn't just find billions and billions of
our money going to line the pockets of illegal aliens
who were using fake social Security numbers and collecting social
Security checks which they're not legally entitled to, it's illegal,

(44:21):
but that they were then using it as a part
of a larger scheme to register the Democrats were to
register them to vote and that they actually were voting.
So Elon showed the receipts to all of Trump's claims.
I'm not saying Trump didn't have a lot of evidence,
but it was always okay, but get us the receipts,

(44:42):
the hard numbers. Elon found the hard numbers. That's one
and then two we're talking about now that they used
USAID to fund. By the way, NGO's private groups here
in the political groups in the United States tied to
the Democratic Party, but in particular, they found billions and

(45:06):
billions and billions of dollars that were embezzled through a
slush fund, and that ended up for to Reuters, to CNN,
to the New York Times, to the Associated Press. So
we were funding the entire fake news media. Literally, they're
the state run media. I mean literally, they're taking money

(45:26):
from the government. That's why they were lying about Trump
the whole time. That's why their mouthpieces for the Democrats
and for the Deep state, because that's their billions of dollars.
Because I kept asking myself over the years, I'm like,
how to CNN, you can't with these ratings this low.

(45:46):
I mean we're talking now there in some areas. They're
under seventy five thousand. That's it. That's there's a technical term.
It escased me right now, but that's it's basically like
a scratch. It's so low you can't sell any advertising,
like none, like you can't even give it away for
free because it's that low. So they were in that

(46:09):
scratch territory. And by the way, so is MSNBC. And
I'm like so, And they're paying people millions of dollars
these outrageous salaries. Now I know how they were taking
money illegally from USAID. Now that's got to be all cut.

(46:30):
That's why they're going berserk. That's why it's all out
war against Trump. That's why it's destroy and demonize Elon
Musk because Elon Musk a cut them in a crime,
illegally misappropriating our taxpayer money. But he also proved, now
beyond the shadow of a doubt, how corrupt they are.

(46:50):
They they're no different than you know what you see
in Russia or China or Iran or they literally are
paid mouthpieces for the regime. So those were two of
the biggest scandals from DOGE, and Trump is now really
clawing everything back piece by piece by piece, and a

(47:12):
big piece is NPR and CBS, and Bob, let me
just one final point that I want to go to
you and I can read to you if you want
the press releases. It goes back thirty years. For thirty years,
NPR and PBS have said this you can and Chuck,
don't take my word for it. We only get one
percent of our funding from the federal government. One percent.

(47:34):
They kept saying one percent. So, in other words, they're arguing,
was it's such insignificant money, why would you want to
cut it? You know what they're saying. Now now they're
saying it's not one percent, it's fifty percent. Is it
one or is it fifty They change the numbers to

(47:55):
suit their political agenda. So now they're claiming it's an
existent She'll threat the NPR and pbscuse fifty percent of
our money comes from the taxpayer from the FEDS, when
for decades they said just one percent.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
It's nothing.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Why would you want to tink her with one percent?
Final word to you, Bob Jeffer.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Another reason I called I was hoping you talk about
on x There is a story where border patrol has
uncovered thousands of FEMA packages scattered in storage locations alone
the southern border. My food diverted from Tennessee, North Carolina,
and Georgia up to the Hurricane Helen. How awful is that?

(48:44):
I thought maybe you might have saw that on X.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
That's incredible, Bob, Well, nothing shocks me anymore. But no,
that's incredible.