Show Rewind 09-24-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Iesuous. Hell yeah, America and LL for Regius one Nations.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
And morning to you. Welcome into Wednesday. It is the
twenty fourth day of the month of September. This month
is just about toast.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
The State Fairs starts two weeks from today.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Goodness, are you kidding me already?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm nice?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Stop with that.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, wow, two weeks in about five hours from now.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I guess they're setting up already getting ready to and
then by that way recently.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'll let you know after Saturday.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, I'm sure something will be upcome Saturday too. I'm
playing on by her. Wow. Wow, Okay, look there's a
commercial I'm seeing right now for the State Fair. There
it is all right. It is seventeen minutes after six o'clock.
Appreciate you being here this morning. We got a few
things to get into today, I think, don't we Probably

(01:17):
we usually do. We usually do a first up tropical
update again. Yeah, it's titled to mention the the back
half of the week here as we get into Friday
and such, we could see some some some pretty heavy rain.
I mean, there's like two systems right now. They could
could both become hurricanes that will come somewhat close but
not really make landfall. Is still the expectation for the

(01:37):
East coast. But it's kind of a weird setup. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
But that's not the reason we're gonna have rain this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, that's what that's next week. If if that happens,
Ah and Gabrielle, that the you know, cat for what
is going is turned is going the other way, going
back where it came from. Yes, So that's that's kind
of strange. It's been a weird hurricane season. But hey,
thanks that we've been out of the woods so far,
and hopefully it stays that way. All right. The rundown,

(02:04):
the big stories, the hot topics for Wednesday, September twenty four, Well,
we have a more information to impart today about why
the Elections Commission fired their director, Howard Napp. And it
didn't stop there. The agency's deputy director, Page Solonach Solonic

(02:27):
Solanach was also fired a variety of offenses, apparently including,
as John Monk states in the state newspaper, placing unauthorized
device in the Election Commission training room, caught on security cameras. Yeah,

(02:49):
a voice activated digital recorder. Yeah, recorded on agency security cameras. Okay,
now am I am I right here?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
She was loyal to Howie Napps, so she was trying
to figure out what the board was saying about him
and why they were taking up the issue of his leadership.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is that is that the I think that's basically yeah, okay, Yeah,
And there are some published reports that claimed that there
was maybe something else going on there, oh okay between
the two. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
And then she turned around and berated staff.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah yeah, inappropriate language that left other employees visibly shaken.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
What a mess?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Wow? So yeah, it's it's been a lot of drama
apparently over there.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, we'll get into some more of those details coming
up this morning for you all. Right, Lexington District one
confirming that a teacher is on leave and there's an
investigation going on into their social media posts. Don't know
what the post was. Again, I maybe it's out there
somewhere and maybe you've you've seen it, but I have not. Again,

(03:58):
there are some folks that are very upset. You know,
schools are discipining or even firing people. But again, let
we're not talking about you know, regular folks here. We're
talking about people who are teaching our kids right and
setting a good example, we hope, but not always. So
we'll see we get more detail on that richel in

(04:19):
one meantime, that the laptop saga continues. They didn't have
enough laptops to start school year. Well that was a
couple of months ago now right, well about a month ago,
month and a half whichever. They're still waiting on them.
They'd ordered four three hundred computers. So far they've gotten

(04:39):
fewer than nine hundred and forty delivered. And they these days,
I mean, that's just that's part of learning. So some
kids are being left behind. Eric Bowman, the Charleston entrepreneur,
the friend of Nancy Mace's ex fiance who is called
out by Mace on the house floor back in January

(05:01):
for you know, not good behavior, has been in jail
on a domestic violence charge. This is a charge that
stems back from a video that has surface of a
twenty sixteen confrontation between himself and his wife. He's still
behind bars and will stay there for some time to

(05:22):
come again. Not downplaying the seriousness of domestic violence. But
I don't know this, this is routine or not. Apparently
Judge figures this guy's a threat to the community in
some way, shape or form. Okay, I don't know if

(05:42):
the numbers are in yet or not. But Jimmy Kimmel
made his return to ABC last night, apologizing for you know,
the comments that he made.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Didn't exactly apology.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, I'm just saying he never intended to mock the
assassination of Charlie GRKs. Not really an apology.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
It was almost like you misinterpreted what I said.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, that's not what I said. Well, he also, in
his what thirty minute long monologue last night, as a
whopper right there for you, huh, went after Trump and
free speech and the FCC and everybody else. Be very
careful here, Jimmy, But he wasn't. Not in all markets.
We told you Sinclair Stations will not be airing the show.

(06:26):
Then we found out yesterday that the next Star stations.
Remember these were the first two that pulled out that
forced Disney's hand to at least for a few days,
to spend Kimmel. Well, both of those ownership groups sticking
sticking by their their their their commitments and did not
so some sixty six markets Kimble was not in on ite.

(06:49):
That doesn't help your ratings at all, now, does it?
Not much? All right? Kamala Harris meantime making the rounds
hawking her new book that hit stores yesterday one hundred
and seven days. And this is this is just this
is this is hard to watch.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Man.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Now the spin is I thought you understood I hated
Joe Biden. You couldn't figure out what I was saying
when I was on the campaign trail.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh she's I mean, she is blaming everybody betterself for this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Her her vice presidential pick, her book, revealing that she
moaned to her husband during Wals's disastrous VP debate. She's
got not too kind words to say about mainstream media,
The Washington Post, the LA Times over not endorsing her.
She's got all sorts of things that the degree from

(07:41):
losing to Donald Trump compared to the day that her
mother died. Oh, this is this is hard hard to watch. Meantime,
Democrats all like, this is not the time for this. Okay,
We're already in trouble as it is not the time.
All right, we've got some more of the amazing things
that Kamala has had to say about her is that. Oh,

(08:03):
by the way, she called that election loss one of
the tightest races, and that's what.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Okay, at least she qualified it by saying in the
twenty first century, at least he did it. I thought
she was just going to leave it as is. I thought, okay, wait,
what say it?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Ryan Ruth found guilty yesterday in a courtroom in Florida
of trying to assassinate Trump and then immediately tried to
assassinate himself and that didn't work out so well. Well,
neither one did, thankfully, trying to jab a pin in
his neck after hearing he was guilty. He'll be sentenced
later on this year. By the way, the New York

(08:41):
Times accidentally pre publishing the wrong verdict for that trial. Ye,
there's a screenshot out there at the Times publishing the
headline man found not guilty of trying to assassinate Trump
in Florida. Wow, okay, number one, why'd you even pre
write that headline anyway? Did you really think that was

(09:02):
gonna be the Wow? Whatever? Trump at the un we
got some things to talk about on that front yesterday,
including the other stuff. I like the elevator not working,
but teller prompt are not working. French President Manuel mccron
getting stuck in a traffic jam calling Trump helped me
out here, buddy. Wow, it was a total disaster. And
then the more serious side of all this, aside from

(09:24):
what Trump had to say, was the story that broke
yesterday morning at the Secret Service that had busted a
network that was capable of crippling the cell phone system
in New York City and LinkedIn to nation state threats. Yeah,
all right, we'll get to that. We'll get tomorrow coming
up on this. It is the Wednesday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News, and it is terrific to have you with.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Us celebrities who know not a darn thing other than
you know, singing and dancing on stage.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Clay Travis said, Buck Sexton What on three point five
FM and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's
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Speaker 2 (10:10):
It is six forty three Good Morning, Wednesday, September twenty fourth.
We appreciate you being here. We'll get to this story
out of New York City here about this telecom threat
in a second. But first up nah NASA announcing that
they have plans to send astronauts on a ten day
trip around the Moon as soon as February. Okay, you

(10:32):
know this is going to get my attention, right, I'm
that guy, I'm the space nerd. They had previously said
they would do it no later than the end of April,
but they're bringing up the mission, bringing it forward. It's
been fifty years, right since anybody has flown a accrued
lunar mission. This is not going to land on the Moon,

(10:54):
just going to go around it, go out there, test systems,
come back. The uh acting Deputy Associated Minister Administrator that
is of NASA saying, we together have a front row,
front row seat to history. Now that was a long
time ago. We've been there, and we've we've done that.

(11:18):
We don't we don't, we don't. We no longer have
the intestinal fortitude to UH to to to make it
a go for launch unless everything is perfect. If we'd
had the same attitude back in the late sixties, early seventies,
we had never gotten there to begin with, right, never

(11:41):
would have happened. But it's still exciting stuff. Now again,
when we actually because there's the race on, you know,
the chi coms are trying to do this. I mean,
when we actually put a man and or a woman
back on the moon. Well we'll wait and see, all right.
So the big UN gathering in New York City, some

(12:05):
one hundred and fifty world leaders in the Big Apple.
Finding out, as we did yesterday morning, that the Secret
Service while that was going on, was quietly dismantling what
they're calling a massive hidden telecom network across the New
York area, a system that they say could have crippled

(12:26):
cell phone towers, jammed nine to one one calls, and
flooded networks with chaos. This would have been a huge story,
whether or not anything untoward came out of it or not.
If they'd have shut down all of this in New
York City while who's who of world leaders were assembled there,

(12:49):
this would have been a massive story. What they found
was a cash of more than three hundred do SIM
servers that the apci as were packed with over one
hundred thousand simcards, and all these were clustered within thirty
five miles of the UN This network uncovered apparently as

(13:14):
part of a broader Secret Service investigation into telcom threats
targeting senior government officials. Investigators they say, spread across multiple sites.
The service function like banks of mock cell phones, able
to generate mass calls and texts, overwhelmed local networks and

(13:39):
mask encrypted communications criminals.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
So this was technology that was weaponized.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, very similar. It sounds like to you know, when
you have these networks, Internet networks go down, the denial
of service attacks or whatever. They just just flooded with
so many different you know, requests or whatever you're calling
it at the same time that the service is shut down.
We've seen this with very popular websites in the past,

(14:09):
but this, I guess is the first we've heard of
this sort of thing. The agent in charge of the
New York Field office for the Secret Service saying it
can't be understated what this system is capable of doing.
Can take down sell towers, you can't text messages, you

(14:30):
can't use your cell phone. It would have been catastrophic.
Now this investigation is continuing, they say, and again, if
you can, if you can do it there, you can
do it anywhere. Right.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Never heard that song before?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, you're a big fan of that era. Right now.
They found rows and rows of servers, shelves, stacklely sim cards.
More than one hundred thousand were already active. All somebody
to do was push the button. Right. This was a
setup they say, that had the capability of sending up

(15:14):
to thirty million text messages a minute.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
So just absolutely overwhelming the system.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, and it would have again in a shutdown. Ah yeah,
And we've had some experience with this. I mean, when
you have natural disasters, assuming that the communication system is
still up many times, so many people are trying to

(15:43):
reach people nine to eleven, yeah, nine to eleven Boston
marathon bombing happened, then that the system just shuts down
so it can happen. And again, like we've said so
many times, you don't need guns and tanks anymore. You

(16:06):
just shut down the telecommunications infrastructure. And this affects everything security,
law and order, law enforcement, banking, communications, energy, I mean,
you name it. So pretty pretty scary scenario there that

(16:30):
thankfully was thwarted before anybody could, you know, press send.
But the concern is that this isn't the only one
out there. There could be more of these and more places.
These are crazy times at which we live, are they not? Huh?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Sixteen after seven Morning Tilla for Wednesday, September twenty four.
Thanks for being along for the ride. Oh we have drama,
my friends. More news to report out of the State
Elections Commission office where a second individual now has been terminated.
Oh we got drama, man. Now, let's back up. Just

(17:26):
recently Howard Napp, who had been in that role for
about two years as the director of the State Elections
Commission here what now, oh six weeks or so away
from some municipal elections give or take in an uproar.

(17:46):
So Nap let go. We had heard talk here. In
the last a couple of days there have been reports
and had something to do with wire tapping, at least
according to some sources and published reports, but has led again.
So they were continuing the investigation, an investigation that started

(18:12):
last year. I mean, I said March of f It
was not that terrible. Within a couple of months after
Nap started that position, as I recall, so this has
been going on an ongoing investigation into Nap himself. So
now he was terminated here just in the last week
or so. Now the deputy executive director has also been

(18:32):
fired since paid salonach. This coming just days after Nap
was let go. Okay, here here's the apparent reason. Now
the Posting Courier and other outlets obtaining her separation documents

(18:56):
through a freedom of information request. These documents and say
she was terminated after an incident last Wednesday in which
she maliciously used abusive and profane language towards fellow employees
with an earshot of the public leaving the staff visibly shaken. Okay,

(19:19):
so that's one thing. That same day, according to the documents,
she was also recorded on video placing an unauthorized device
in the agency's training room. So that leads to my
first question. Did they find it before they had their

(19:40):
meeting or after? Well, see, this was last Wednesday when
was Snap terminated. It was the last week. I was
thinking it was before that. I'd to go back and
look and see what exactly what day it was they
had that vote.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
We have all these facts, but we don't have the
time ta for example.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, it was last Wednesday that he was he was acted,
So yeah, this was probably before yeah, before this this
board meeting.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Was this profane outburst because she had been caught and
she was lashing back out or was it because she
was upset at something that she eavesdropped and overheard via
that that recorder.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well don't know. Yeah, Now, the documents themselves don't disclose
the exact nature of the device. But then you've got
the state newspaper John Monk, reporting that it was a
hidden recording device in the commission meeting room voice activated,
voice activated. Yeah, so when people start talking, comes and

(20:45):
they were discussing his leadership, correct, that's what she was
eavesdropping on. Yeah, yeah, this is a dude. Do we do?
We do we get rid of this guy?

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Now?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
What do we do? What do we do?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
I guess they were both allegedly eavesdropping.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Probably so now, okay, so profane abusive language towards staff
employees in front of the public, leaving staff visibly shaken,
caught on the video cameras. The CCTV cameras placing a

(21:18):
recording device in the boardroom as the board was set
to meet to determine the fate of Howard Napp. All Right,
we've gotten that far. Then there's uh, then it gets
really really drama filled here. Oh but wait, wait, there's more. Okay,

(21:41):
I'm I'm stand by for news. I'm Gary David reporting.
All right. So Fitznews steps up with sources telling that
outlet that there was maybe a little hanky panky going.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
On here between Howie and his and page.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Oh yeah, oh.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay. Uh again, when he was when he was booted out,
he was already staring down a sled investigation. He's not now,
he's not necessarily linked to this recording device. Okay, this
is just on her, they say. But I thought the.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Original report was that they were booting him and that
there were out Okay.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Why are tapping? Yeah all right, yeah, apparently maybe she
did it on his behalf. Maybe so, But but again
they've been investigating him for more than a year. Well, okay,
not immediately clear the outdoor reports whether or not it's Salonich.

(22:42):
I guess I'm saying her name right was linked to
the initial investigation into n App, but sources familiar with
the situation tell Fitz News the two were using taxpayer
time and resources to further a romantic relationship Oh boy one,
which turned the agency into a toxic soap opera. Both

(23:06):
are married with the young children Oh boy. Napp also
alleged to a repeatedly promoted Salanach, giving her multiple pay
raises despite her limited time at the agency. At her
salary at the time he was booted out was one
hundred and almost one hundred and forty two thousand dollars,

(23:28):
and these sources say that Napp was also attempting to
secure yet another raise for her in the hours prior
to his termination.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
So, according to these allegations, they were not only together,
but everybody in the office knew it.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
It was apparently not a secret.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Apparently what an ugly mess, right, Yeah, I mean, if
nothing else, people would have felt uncomfortable being around them.
Then you've got yeah, if these are if these were people,
maybe that's one story. Yeah, but both married with kid,
young kids. Then she winds up leapfrogging over. You would
think others in the office to get Oh yeah, then

(24:10):
there's that the second in command job, more and more money,
and that's going to cause resentment. These are all classic
res in swaking. You don't do this in the first place.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So somebody public made some quip to her, Yeah, your
buddy Howie's out. Huh, that's probably when she went off.
I don't know. I'm just guessing here. Yeah. The sources
tell the out and also dozens of other taxpayer funded
expenditures are reportedly tied to the alleged relationship between the
two and are receiving further scrutiny in the aftermath of
NAP's termination. Let me guess they both went to conventions

(24:41):
or trips that something like that. They were researching other
state election commissions and figuring out how to do hours better.
The matter of research is something so high drama at
the election commission again, about six weeks before we have
some elections in our state.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Wow, I didn't expect to hear all that this morning.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, I didn't expect to wake up to that either.
But there you have it again. These are some of
this reporting is based on anonymous sources, but these are
published reports that are out there and making these making
these claims. This morning. We may find out more about
the veracity of such.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's the stuff people are talking about and call them
out like a bad evan like you doing right now
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Speaker 2 (25:41):
Hey, good morning, good to have you along. It's seven
forty on a Wednesday morning, the twenty fourth of September.
And this is a rehab tour or the whole idea
of the writing a book going around talking about it.
It's supposed to rehab the image, the revive the political
career of the former Vice President of Kamala Harris. I

(26:04):
don't know that's going out.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, she's burning a lot of bridges. I know that.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, you know you're and that bridge you're burning is
that that that Democrat Party bridge?

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Man?

Speaker 3 (26:15):
You know?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Uh, all right, So she's making the rounds. Her book
One hundred and seven Days dropped yesterday. Uh no, I'm
not going to read it. She uh did Rachel Maddow
the other night. She did the View yesterday, which some
people point to that, well, I really think it was

(26:38):
long before that. She was doomed from the get go,
But a lot of people will say it was that
interview on the View in which she couldn't name a
single thing she had done differently than her boss, Joe
Biden did as her as her point of her imminent
downfall there in the race, she told the Gowls on

(26:58):
the View that the pain she felt on the night
that she discovered she had lost the race hadn't felt
that kind of pain since her mother died.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
I can semi see that. I mean, you invest a
lot of yourself into a presidential run. It's I mean,
it's a draining experience emotionally and physically.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Well I wouldn't either, but I'm.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Skinning up and coming in Harry morning. Yeah, exhausting experience sometimes.
But to hey, I mean you're probably the same way.
You're right, yeah, right.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
I'm not faulting her for putting everything she did into
that race. And oh, you mean everybody else's money, well,
all that money that too.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah that. She also claimed that that election, in which
she went down in blazing defeat, was the closest in
the twenty first century. Where's my red flag or yellow whichever? Uh? No,
not true. Uh the election of two thousand, which was,

(28:07):
by the way, in this century was closer than that matter,
it was the closest of the century. George W. Bush
beat Al Gore two seventy one two sixty six. Oh,
the election of twenty twenty was also closer. Remember Biden

(28:32):
got seventy four more electoral votes trump on eighty six,
more than Harris did in twenty twenty four. He got
more than two million votes. And of course she continued
on the Madow Show calling Trump a tyrant, comparing him
to communist dictators. Remember head of the election, she had

(28:53):
called him a fascist and there was two dangerous to
old public office. That was in a town hall on
CNN back in October of last year.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Her explanation on her vice presidential pick has been fascinating
because she was trying to I think she was trying
to save face with gay voters. At the same time
she was trying to bash somebody that she'll probably end
up running against in four year or in two years,

(29:21):
Pete Bodhaje Edge because she said she wanted to pick
him but she couldn't because he was gay. But it
wasn't because he was gay. Well, no, you said it was,
that's what you said. I mean, she's talked out of
both sides of her mouth on that issue.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah. She writes in this book that she needed Tim
Walls to be the closer on that debate on October
one of last year, given that she wouldn't get another
chance to debate Trump, but says that during the debate
she turned to her husband in frustration when Tim fell

(29:56):
for it and started nod again smiling at JD's fake
bipartisan I moaned to Doug, what's happening? So she said
to the TV screen, You're not there to make friends
with the guy who's attacking your running mate. So she's

(30:17):
she's playing whoever she can for her loss, everybody but herself.
Of course. She also is unhappy with some mainstream media outlets,
The Washington Post, the La Times. Remember they did not
endorse her in that race. Seeing the La Times, my
hometown newspaper, published its electoral endorsements, so no exaggeration to

(30:45):
say this may be the most consequential election in the generation,
they wrote. But there was no mention of the most
consequential race at all. She says, remember that that that
made news. Oh yeah, when the La Times and the
Washington Post did not endorse her, nor anyone and the
bridges she's burning in all this. Yeah. Michael lo Rosa,

(31:09):
who was the longtime press secretary to Jill Biden. I
mean the anks between those two camps is oh off
the charts. Telling Laura Ingram that it was obvious that
Harris would lose the race and ask why her staff
had not been more prepared to get beat. Why were

(31:30):
they not more prepared to lose? He says Ram. Emmanuel,
former Obama advisor on CNN with Cassie Hunt, both of
them unloading on Harris yesterday.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Is that because they didn't get the interview with her?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Maybe so? The host of the CNN program, Cassie Hunt,
prior to airing a clip, said ten months in one
failed presidential campaign. Later, Harris, now on book tour, offered
this response when asked what was she asked by that
that infamous moment she's reviewed refer of course, to that

(32:13):
that view interview. Emmanuel after the clips said that was
not a trick question. It wasn't a pop quiz. That
was the question and not to have an answer. Wow,
you're right. She had to know that question was coming.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
That's what everyone wondered. I mean, that was the whole
speculation if Harris gets into the race, how will she
separate herself from Biden? Right, And yet she didn't know
how to answer that question.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Couldn't answer. Meanwhile, also over on CNN that Harry Engine,
their chief data analysis analyst, said that well she's they
don't want her. He said, she's now more unpopular than
ever before with Democrats. Her net favorability ratings drop from
five points underwater last October now to thirteen points underwater.

(33:06):
That's what democrats I'm telling you. I mean, people like
Newsom and Buddhajic are watching this and just they're gleeful. Yeah,
I mean she's self destructing. Yeah, in front of their
very eyes. By the way, she's thirty seven points underwater
with independent voters. So yeah, this is you know, I
get it. You know, you get your feelings hurt and
all that. I get it. Is this her just trying

(33:31):
to make excuses for why she lost or does she
really think this is the way about going about trying
to rehab herself politically to try it again. If that's it,
it ain't working, it ain't working, But it wasn't her fault. Remember,
I would have great respect for her, she says, yeah,
I could have run a better campaign. But if we
heard her say that, yet, if she did, I missed it.

(33:57):
I think that would have been headline news as she
said that. Okay, so if you want to read it,
it's out there. One hundred and seven days enjoy.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning news on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson and more.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Until you at sixteen after eight. It is Wednesday, September
twenty fourth, and uh, Liberal America can rest easy now.
Jimmy Kimmel is back on late night TV, even though
you probably don't even watch him. Well, a lot fewer
of you watch them than watched them, you know, a
decade ago, certainly, and.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
A lot more watched last night.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh sure, just for the spectacles through the roof last night.
So Liberal America can relax. Your guy's back. Charlie Kirk,
on the other hand, will never be back, not on
this planet. So last night, in a thirty minute monologue,

(34:59):
Kimmel back on the air on some ABC stations, sixty
six fewer than when he was last left the air
the night that he tried to say that Tyler Robinson
was MAGA, that MAGA was trying their best to keep

(35:19):
people from knowing that. He did emotionally say that he
didn't intend to mock the assassination, never intended to make
light of it. He took him at Trump, took a

(35:40):
game at the FCC. Very careful, Jimmy. Even what as
far as questioning whether or not it was acceptable for
the government to regulate which podcasts the cell phone companies
and Wi Fi providers are allowed to let you download,
to make sure they serve the public interest. Who's doing that.
Nobody's doing that, kim was saying. Such an idea would

(36:05):
have been unfathomable in the United States even just ten
years ago. Nobody's doing that, Jimmy. Hello, Jimmy. The over
the air broadcast networks are overseen by the FCC, and
they have an obligation by the license they are granted

(36:29):
to operate in the public interest. Jimmy. It's always been
that way. That's not going to change.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
But you would hope Brendon Garden never says anything like
he said the other day again, although now he says
he's been misinterpreted. Yeah, that he wasn't threatening ABC or Kimmel. Sure,
it sounded like he was. Now he was misinterpreted, like
Keith Oberman was misinterpreted, or so he says, Yeah, when
he threatened, who is he threatened? Scot Jennings, Gott Jennings, Yeah, yeah,

(37:05):
you're next.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
In effort. Yeah yeah, Well that's that's Keith O desperate
Keith Olberman trying to get his name back out in
the public arena.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Of course, I think I think most of us agree,
regardless of what you think about Jimmy Kimmel, the government
has no business telling people the networks, et cetera, hosts
what they can and cannot say. Now, is there a
penalty for free speech? Sure, advertisers, viewers, et cetera. But

(37:43):
I'm not sure anyone. You know, certainly conservatives don't want
governments stepping in here.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Now. As I said, this show last night didn't air
on all ABC stations. A matter of fact, a bunch
of them didn't.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
What they say then, Sir Jimmy Kimmel, No, that's a
business decisions. It was the businesses making bidden decisions, right.
We knew that Sinclair Stations, which, by the way, for
the record, Sinclair is a pretty conservative company. We knew
that would be preempting Kimmel, and they continued to It

(38:20):
was Sinclair and Next Star who were the first two
companies last week to say they were going to take
the show off the air. That was prior to Disney
pulling the well, pulling the plug out a little bit.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
But both the Sinclair and Next Star then which we
didn't know this yesterday morning, but Nextar decided they weren't
going to air this either. And some pretty big markets
where there is no Jimmy Kimmel on TV at least
for now. Nashville, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Richmond, Knoxville, Albany,
and Syracuse, New York. No Kimmel and Augusta looking just

(39:02):
looking down. It's a law. I'm almost tempted to take
the time to read all the markets where he's not airing,
but I won't do that because there's just way too
many of them. No Kimmel in Birmingham, Alabama. No Kimmel
in Charleston, West Virginia. No Kimbal in Charleston, South Carolina, Columbus, Ohio,
No Kimmel there, Greensboro, Florence, South Carolina, Greenville, Spartanburg, no Kimmel,

(39:27):
No Kimmel. And Ashville, Oh, they got to really be
hating that in Nashville. Oh my goodness, they're probably riding
in the streets right now in Ashville over that. Seattle,
roanoak Port, Port Portland, No Kimmel in Portland. What will
Antifa do? Saint Louis, Tulsa. I mean, I think it's

(39:50):
all told like sixty six markets that at least for now,
at least for now he's back on ABC. He's not
being in a bunch of places. I'll be curious to
see how long that lasts. And hey, listen, don't hold

(40:14):
your breath hair, or actually go ahead and hold your breath,
because it won't take long. I'm pretty sure for Jimmy
Kimmel to get back to doing what Jimmy Kimble's been doing,
even though again it's been a ratings disaster, a total
ratings disaster. Now, I'll say this, Jimmy Kimmel in his

(40:37):
comments last week again directed solely at the MAGA crowd
in trying to say this alleged assassin was a part
of the MAGA crowd. I'll give him credit for this.
Jimmy Kimmel did not make light nor did he attack
Charlie Kirk, not at least in those comments. So I'll

(41:00):
give them credit for that. But at the same time,
we've got elected officials, we've got teachers, administrators, people in
charge of educating young minds that have said and done

(41:22):
a whole lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel did so, in
my humble opinion, I'm more concerned about that than I
am about some has been late night talk show host.

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Speaker 2 (42:02):
All right, take forty one breaking just now, shots fired
at a Texas ice facility. Okay, I'm looking to see
if I could find anything more about that here. That's
and we don't know if there were any agents that

(42:23):
we were shot, were hit. If it's just shots fired,
there are people injured, but anyone is dead, we don't know. Okay, Well,
that's all I can tell you right now. We'll try
to get some more information before we get off here
if we can. This is happening in looks like Dallas, Texas. Okay,

(42:48):
final thoughts now for this Wednesday morning, here at Home
reports now that lakes and In School District one has
in fact placed a teacher on admit strate of leave
an ongoing investigation into their social media posts. The district

(43:11):
giving a statement to local TV stations Election one can
confirm since the Channel ten that a teacher is on
administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations
of unprofessional conduct related to social media posts. That could
be anything you're going to assume now it's about it's
a Charlie Kirk thing. Maybe it is, maybe it's not.

(43:34):
The statement goes on to say, the district establishes professional
standards for employees through board policy in the Employee Code
of Conduct. This review process ensures those standards are upheld
while also protecting the constitutional rights and due process guaranteed
to employees. That's a terrific statement.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Okay, you know we laid it out. We've established professional
standards for employees, so if you violate those then you
know you will be disciplined in whatever shape the district
decides to go. That pretty much sums it up right there.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Right, there'll be a question about not only what this
person said, but also whom it was available to. You know,
was it something public or something private?

Speaker 2 (44:25):
You could it could one of their students have seen it,
or parents or parents? Yeah, Richland One meantime, you've got
some kids falling behind here.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Class has been back in session for what nearly two months,
I guess, and still unfortunately don't have all the laptops
they need. This is the new thing, you know, we
just needed to pencil and paper today. You got to
have a laptop, they're thinking, they said last night the
school board met. They expect that the laptop should be
delivered by the end of this month, which are almost

(44:56):
two right now, But we don't have an exact delivery date.
They say. Okay, they had ordered and this was brought
up at the start of the school year. They hadn't
they didn't have enough. And again this is kind of
like this goes back to us. It was a year
ago when they didn't have enough teachers, remember, and they
had to at the last minute start reassigning teachers after

(45:18):
the school year started from one classroom or school to another.
And this was with a lot of these with really
young kids who you know, had just gotten used to,
you know, a new environment, going to school first time
maybe and getting to know a teacher, and then all
of a sudden that teacher's gone well again. It sounds like,

(45:42):
you know, lack of proper planning. They ordered forty three
hundred computers. So far they've received fewer than nine hundred
and forty of them. Okay. Eric Bowman, the friend or
one of the friends of the former fiance of Nancy Mace,
one of the guys go she called out on the

(46:03):
house floor back in January, is apparently a danger to
the community and will stay in jail, a judge deciding
after a bond hearing last week that he will not
get out of jail. Remember, he's facing two pending charges,
domestic violence charges. Stepping back to twenty sixteen. He was

(46:25):
out of jail on a harassment charge when he was
re arrested last month after this twenty sixteen video resurfaced
of a confrontation between himself and his then wife. I
don't think it's that I could be wrong, but it
seems that it's somewhat unusual, as serious as the domestic
violence charge is, that somebody stays behind bars for this

(46:46):
long before a trial. I'm maybe maybe that's not unusual.
Ryan Ruth will stay behind bars for the rest of
his life. The man who tried to assassinate Trump on
his golf course down in Florida last year, found guilty
and all counts yesterday, and then try to stab himself
in the neck with a pen after receiving that guilty

(47:08):
plea marshall. US Marshals prevented him from doing said deed.
His daughter, she maybe just dolphin else as he is.
I understand she's upset and all, but yeah, she leaves
a courtroom screaming at the media and cussing him out
and everything else. It's your fault and a lot of

(47:29):
other things I can't say. The New York Times, okay,
you know big papers like that, these organizations that they
always have stories pre written, right. Sure. You see this
every now and then when somehow an obituary gets released
too early the person hadn't died yet, okay, which can

(47:51):
be embarrassing. Well, the Times embarrassed itself yesterday when they
accidentally published an article that said that Ruth was found
not guilty. I'm just questioning why you even pre write
that article. I mean, the one of the odds that
Ruth would have been found not guilty, but they pre

(48:11):
wrote it and it slipped out yesterday, unfortunately for them.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Trump going after the UN yesterday in this speech, telling
you it's not even close to living up to its potential.
Can you disagree with that? No, I don't think so.
And there was all kinds of other stuff going on,
you know, this whole elevator story. Escalator escalator, yes, sorry,
the escalator story. Yeah. And this got a little backstory

(48:38):
to this, because you go back a week or so.
Apparently there were some that it was reporting that there
was some of the UNS joking, Yeah, we're gonna we're
gonna shut off the escalator when Trump gets on it.
And lo and behold if that didn't happen yesterday. Now,
the UN says this was a result of the advanced
team for Trump running up the escalator while it was moving,
and that triggered some kind of an alarm and stopped it.

(48:59):
That's their story. But then the teleprompter stopped working. Yeah. Oh,
and Emmanuel Macron had to call Trump and hey, how
about a little hand here? Brother is Trump's motorcade stopped
everything in New York City and Macron had to get
out of his vehicle and walk. I gotta love that one,

(49:24):
and I wish I should have gotten to this earlier.
I did not Google admitting to political censorship Under Joe Biden.
They say thousands of YouTube accounts will be reinstated. Let's
talk about free speech, shall we? Just for a second?
Starbucks canning that barista who uh well, a customer in

(49:45):
Ohio ordered Charlie Kirk's favorite Starbucks brew. That barista wrote
the words racists fave drink on it. That person's been fired.
And Peter Strock, the FBI agent who in all those
anti Trump texts you remember stuck right, has lost his
First Amendment freeze peach case over his canning by the FBI.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Reports At that Dallas ice facility, a shooter dead found
on the roof of a nearby building. Three people wounded.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Yeah, see that, multiple people shot? Now all right, Fox
is following this at the top of the how we'll
get more detail then