Is Late Night Comedy Dead?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The left is now losing the culture war. There's no question.
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Middle
America has now been awakened, and they have awakened a
sleeping giant. And you are seeing it now in institutions
professions all across the country. Those that are mocking Charlie Kirk,

(00:20):
or cheering or celebrating or glorifying his political assassination, or
even now calling Trump supporters Nazis and fascists, they are
now being forced to resign or fire. And the most
high profile prominent example of this is, of course Jimmy Kimmel.
He mocked Charlie Kirk. He lied, expressly lied about the

(00:47):
murderer of Charlie Kirk and his political affiliations, saying that
he was a MAGA supporter, which was an absolute falsehood,
a blatant lie. And now he's gone six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree, Mark
in Lowell, thanks for holding Mark and welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hi, Hi Hey. With regard to this, Jimmy Kimmel saying,
as far as I'm concerned, it was the right thing
to do. But he's been doing this, Like you said,
since twenty sixteen, and the only reason.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
He was allowed to do it is because there is
no political or government overseeing of the FCC for anyone
on the left. So when the FCC finally said something
to ABC, and ABC has already been sued by Trump,

(01:48):
and FCC is now saying, hey, you guys are going
to lose your license, I think that was the overall
writing factor, because you already know when you get when
you lose a point in your ratings, there's a severe
meeting saying, hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh, I'm what point? I mark? I wish it was
a point, a quarter of a point. I'm not kidding.
It's like panic, panic, panic, And again I don't want to,
you know, I don't want to go on about what
you know inside baseball and what goes on behind the scenes.
But you know, and you're coming. You're like, yeah, but
the ratings are still really really high, and they're like,

(02:27):
but nobody, it went down by quarter of a point. Okay,
it's not an you know, it's not an eight point Oh,
it's a I don't know, a seven point seventy five.
And they're like, well, no, what's wrong? And and this
guy is just what eight share? What's seven share? This
guy didn't have a one share. I'm like, who's watching
this guy? And you know, Mark, You're right, it's their

(02:51):
change at the FCC. Brendan Brendan Carr is the new guy,
and he's the one that called up ABC and said no, no,
I'm sorry, he lied. He didn't just lie. This is
political incitement. You're inciting violence. This has got to stop.
This has got to stop because more people are going
to get killed. We're done with this, and ABC couldn't

(03:14):
afford to lose their license because that's it. It's over. Mark.
I want to just get your reaction on this. One
of the first media people to lead the charge in
defense of Jimmy Kimmel was Van Jones and, as someone said,
a self avout communist, a professional propagandist for the Democratic Party.
Now and then CNN Aaron Burnett was saying, oh, that's

(03:37):
why Jimmy Kimmel was fired. He spoke truth to power,
and they're now pushing this conspiracy theory that this is
the hand of Trump, that Trump, who is still by
the way in the United Kingdom. I said earlier that
he flew back last night. My apologies that was wrong.
He's flying back today, so my bad on that he's

(03:57):
flying back today. But anyway, that from the United Kingdom,
he pushed ABC and Disney to fire Kimmel. There's no
evidence for any of this, no evidence whatsoever, but that
didn't stop them before. But the narrative now they're pushing
is that this was Trump silencing a truth teller, a

(04:23):
silencing an opponent, i e. Jimmy Kimmel. And of course
they're lying. And what got Kimmel done would put the
cabastion too. Kimmel's career was that he lied. It wasn't
truth to power. It was a lie. Tyler Robinson is
not Maga and never was Maga. His father is Maga,

(04:46):
and he said he hated his father for being a
diehard Trump supporter, and so Kimmel lied. Now Van Jones
has been caught in an undercover media sting operation where
he was talking to people who were undercover journalists who
pretended to be admirers of his and you know big moonbats,

(05:09):
you know, hardcore leftists, and so he let his guard down. Now,
this was at the height of the Russia Russia hoax,
when CNN and the other media were pushing it really hard.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
During Trump's first term, Van Jones admitted he said, oh,
it's a nothing burger. He goes on between you and me,
it's all you know, I can't say it. It's all
bull crap. It's just just we're just making it up.
We're just making it up. It's a complete nothing burger.
And then after he says it and not realizing that

(05:41):
these are people that are you know, I think they're
ro Keef's people, James O'Keeffe, He then goes on the air,
this is a crisis. Is the President of the United
States compromised? Is he an agent of Russia? There's this
treason to who is running the White House? Trump or
putin the division that this caused the hatred, that this

(06:08):
caused the panic, that this caused the damage, the irreparable
damage to our country. By pushing this hoax and this
lie that he knew to be a lie, Mark, shouldn't
Van Jones be fired as well? What say you?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I say that if he's lying, which he is, then
the SCC goes and say, hey, sorry, this person is
doing this in your organization.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
We're going to take your license away from you.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Mark, Amen, you nailed it. Amen. This is my point.
If what Jimmy Kimmel did was horrible, and I agree,
it was to the point that you know, you blatantly lie.
You're lying to the American people to push political propaganda.
Seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay,

(07:05):
listen now to Chuck you Schumer who ran onto this
CNN to say, yep, pushing the latest conspiracy theory. It
was Trump. It was President Trump and his allies who
pushed the FCC to go after Jimmy Kimmel for his

(07:28):
comments on Charlie Kirk and that this is a fundamental
violation of the First Amendment. It's what dictators do. Roll
cut eleven, Mike.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
It is outrageous. It's a page right out of She's playbook.
This is just despicable, disgusting and against democratic values. Trump
and his allies seem to want to shut down speech
that they don't want to hear. That is not what
democracies do. That is what autocracies do. And it doesn't

(08:06):
matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not. He has
the right to free speech. And so it is just outrageous.
It is indicative of autocracy and I am just outraged
by it. Again, this is what dictators do. This is
what she would do, this is what Putin would do.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
We are not that country, and they don't stop, they
don't stop. Trump's he didn't call him hitler. Notice they
kind of got the memo on that. They're like, no,
let's not do the Nazi hitler thing. We're getting just blowback,
like hell on it. But okay, so he's a dictator.
There's a dictatorship, autocracy, strongman rule. Really, Okay, tell me, Chucky,

(08:50):
tell me, Chuck. Did you know you're complaining now about
Jimmy Kimmel? Tell me did you complain when Roseanne was
fired by ABC? I'm just curious for comments that she
made about Valerie Jared on social media. It wasn't even

(09:11):
a monologue. It wasn't even a rant on live television. No, no, no,
it was just on her own personal social media when
she went after Valerie Jared and made some let's put
it this way, some off color comments. No, you supported it.
You said it was great that ABC had an obligation,
you said to get rid of that kind of hate

(09:33):
speech and to get Roseanne fired. So you had no
problem when it was a conservative who, by the way,
made ABC money. Unlike Jimmy, the number one rated show
on ABC, this Guy was the worst rated show on ABC.

(09:54):
This Guy lost them millions and millions and millions every year.
So let me get this straight. Now, ABC has no
First Amendment rights. Next Star doesn't have First Amendment rights.
The affiliates, those that own these ABC affiliated stations who
didn't want him anymore? What Disney now? So what? Disney

(10:15):
can't fire anybody if they don't like what they say. So,
no matter how outrageous, how inflammatory, how in cingiary, how false,
how mendacious, how dangerous, how reckless and irresponsible, someone says that, no,

(10:35):
they have to just know, according to you, if they're
anti trumpers. And in full disclosure, last point, this is
what I find disgusting about these democrats in full disclosure.
Why didn't CNN ask him and why didn't he volunteer?
That Schumer's staff has been coordinating with Kimmel's people for

(10:57):
years in their so called jokes, that Kimmel's comedy routine
at night, the monologues, they got me their material from
Schumer's people. So basically, you're pleading for your own guy,
You phony, You fraud you and then again here, So

(11:22):
the murder of Charlie Kirk wasn't enough. They haven't you guys,
don't even miss a beat. Hey, they haven't buried him yet.
You couldn't wait till he was buried on Sunday. You
can't wait already. Dictatorship, threat to democracy, This is putin,
This is this is hit hit Oh I can't say that. Okay,

(11:43):
don't just okay, don't say hitler. This is putin. This
has so again. You're Bill in Sudbury and you're watching
CNN and you're like, wow, oh my god, Trump's a dictator.
Trump's a didictter. Someone's gotta take him out. Oh my god.

(12:03):
He's he's he's taking away our freedoms, he's taking away
freedom of speech. He's he's shutting down anybody who disagrees
with him. It's exactly this rhetoric, exactly what he just
spewed that got Charlie Kirk killed. That's not enough. You
want more people killed. So when you cancel people, that's okay.

(12:27):
When the left does it, the conservatives to millions of us,
it's okay. But when ABC looks at a ratings loser
and a money loser who openly mocked the murder of
a of a peaceful, innocent man. Suddenly, oh this, we
can't touch him ABC, Oh my god, whoa Oh no,

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the First Amendment. Don't touch Jimmy Kimmel six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree Joe
in Abington, Thanks for holding Joe, and welcome.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I am Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
God bless you, Jeff, thank you.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
I want that to be the battle cry. Every listener
who calls in shall say, today, are Charlie Kirk because
you are him? I am him. I cried for days,
not huge, but so sad for his wife and kids.
But my question is, do you remember that law in

(13:35):
twenty fourteen that somehow Barack got the law canceled because
he's stuck it in legislation secretly.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, I believe I don't even know that. Yes. The
Smith the Month Act, that's what it's called the Smith
Month Act. It's one of the most important acts of
the twentieth century. By the way, Smith Month is m
U and D. T. Smith Mont Act, which prohibited the
American government, including the media, from using propaganda or deliberately

(14:12):
lying to the American people it was. It was passed
in nineteen forty eight, by the way, bipartisan, both Republicans
and Democrats, and it was Obama. You're right in the dark,
you know, in the dark of night. He partly anybody noticed,
he rescinded it, he repealed it. And ever since then,

(14:33):
if you've noticed, the media now has run wild, blatantly, lying,
outrageously lying. All they do is push this information, misinformation,
lies literally lies and that and so Mike Lee, Senator
Mike Lee has now introduced legislation, with the full support

(14:56):
of Trump, to bring back the smith Mont Act and
to rename it the exact same provisions, but just rename
it the Charlie Kirk Act. And I'm supporting it one
thousand percent. We have to bring it back. That's the
only way to control these people. Joe, Please, final word

(15:16):
to you.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
It created the whole twenty fifteen up till now twenty
twenty five. When you listen to CNN, they would say
among them ins sources report. They did that for years.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
No, they would just make it up.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Story.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
They literally made it up. No, you're right, it was
Van Jones in the back making it up. I'm not kidding.
They made it up. That's what I mean. Undercover video,
he admits it. He goes, Oh, it's nothing, we'll just
we're just it's just all bs. Six one seven two
six six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay,
let me ask all of you. It is the Kooner

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Country Pole Question of the Day sponsored by Marios Marios
Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Is the era of late
night comedy television? Over?

Speaker 6 (16:18):
With?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Now? The indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. And he's gonna
break his contract or he's gonna leave his contract. It's
apparently it's gonna happen any moment now. So they're meeting
with ABC. So he's done. The show is done. He's done.
Jimmy Kimmel will no longer be at ABC. It's it's inevitable.

(16:41):
He's been indefinitely his show has been indefinitely preempted. And
he now is telling everybody he wants out of his
contract with ABC. So with the downfall of Jimmy Kimmel,
and of course the they pushed out Stephen Colbert, he'll
be out next year. Are we now seeing the end
of late night comedy television? Is it is? The era

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of late night comedy TV over A yes, B no.
I want to hear from you. You can vote on
our web page w r ko dot com slash cooner
w r ko dot com slash cooner. Kuh N is

(17:23):
in national E r. You can also vote via x
my handle there all one word at the Kooner Report.
K u h N is in national Er at the
Kooner Report. Personally, I think it's over. If I was voting,
I would probably vote I wouldn't not probably, I would

(17:43):
vote B sorry. I would vote A yes. I think
it's over. It didn't have to be over. They just
stayed sane and followed the Johnny Carson model then, or
even the Jay Leno model. I think late night TV
would still be thriving. People want to cap their day

(18:07):
with a fun light show, laugh a little bit, maybe
see a few interviews, watch a couple of comedians, just
have some lighthearted fun before they go to sleep. I
think there's still an appetite out there, but it's obvious
they've gone to a different model, a hard left politicized model,

(18:28):
and it has been an absolute disaster in failure. The
ratings suck. Their ratings have tanked for a long time.
There's no advertisers, there's no money, there's nothing, and so
you know what if exceptions here or there, like Greg Guttfeld.
Pretty much late night TV comedy to me anyway is dead.

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But that's me. I want to hear from you. Six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
very very quickly, there was an absolutely brilliant text that
I want to share with all of you. You can
text the coonter Man seven zero four seven zero seven
zero four seven zero and this is from seven to

(19:11):
eight to one. Jeff. A real journalist would have asked
Chuck Schumer this question, quote Senator Schumer, if what you
say is true, that is President Trump actually pressured ABC
to cancel Jimmy Kimmel's show, of which there is no

(19:32):
evidence but rather only speculation. How would it be different
than when then President Biden, certainly with mountains of paper
trails and evidence to prove and corroborate it, coerced all
social media to block, remove, and ban any mention of

(19:57):
the dangers of the COVID JAB or the veracity of
Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, or the stolen twenty twenty election,
or the government's involvement with January sixth. Why did you
not object then to the quote unquote behavior of a dictator,

(20:21):
as you called it brilliant. They have no evidence because
it's it didn't happen that Trump somehow picked up the
phone and called ABC and called Disney and called Next
Star and said, you're gotta fire this guy. I'm a dictator,
take him out, cancel them. Okay, none, none, whatsoever. They're

(20:46):
just literally making this up. But we have text message
after text message, receipt after receipt. In fact, you have
staffers that worked for Biden aids oberating it that they
ordered big Tech, they ordered Facebook, Twitter. I can run

(21:07):
down the whole line. Anybody who talked about how dangerous
the COVID jab was, some of its adverse side effects
censored out out, censored, the infamous laptop from Hell, that
it wasn't Russian disinformation, it was Hunter Biden's email, Hunter
Biden's laptop, censored, deplatformed, no problem, the FBI's involvement in

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January sixth, censored. You see, then it was okay when
Joey went after his political opponents and literally suppressed the
truth and truthful dissent and brought the full way to

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the federal government to have people after person after person
after person censored, canceled, literally taken off social media, and
have the FBI in some cases investigate, harass, and persecute
and jail these people. Schumer didn't say word. Schumer didn't

(22:19):
say word. In fact, he spread Biden's lives. But now
when ABC takes action against this buffoon and clown who
openly mocked and lied about the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
all of a sudden, it's just pulltin the tailorship get lost.

(22:43):
You're a gas bag. Okay, you're a puffed up win bag.
That's all you are. Seriously, no one's buying your bs anymore.
I think that's what the Democrats don't understand. We don't
even care what you have to say anymore more. We're
telling you to your face your days of political cultural

(23:07):
power are over. They're over. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight. Caw in you very port
thanks for holding cow and welcome.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hi yes hi, cal Hi Jeff.

Speaker 8 (23:29):
I have to disagree with you, respectfully on the issue
that you just talked about. I do believe that the
only reason they let doctor Colson go is because they
do see the writing on the wall and Trump Trump
is somewhat responsible for it, only not in the way

(23:50):
that he picked up the phone and made a phone cause,
but because of his agenda. And it's it's nothing new,
it's the same old. Here we go with face to
face confrontations with the hard left. And I think you're
a little naive and that, like me, you want to

(24:11):
believe in the goodness of people, but I don't believe
they're they're good, these the people over Carlson.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Uh not, sorry, Carlson, Are you talking about Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
No, No, I'm talking about Timmy Kimmel.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
Sorry, Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
No, they didn't. They didn't let him go because they
finally had it with him, or the ratings were too low.
They've been putting up with all of that. It's their agenda.
So in that regard, I think you're a little naive
and and I do think Trump is partly responsible. I
don't I'm glad, but he's His agenda is is to

(24:54):
change things, and as we all know, and we want
the changes, but the left doesn't. So I just wanted
to reiterate that I think you keep leaning towards a
little bit of the naive attitude that that somehow Disney
and they see that they took a turn for the better.

(25:14):
I don't think so. I think they just they want
to survive. Literally, no, no.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, cal I agree. And if I'm giving that impression
that I'm misspeaking, no, look, as I mentioned earlier in
the show, but it dispairs repeating. They were confronted by
Brendan Carr, who is now the chairman of the FCC,
the Federal Communications Commission, and Brendan Carr told Disney and ABC,

(25:41):
look at what he said Jimmy Kimmel. He said, that's
a lie. He blatantly lied. And not only did he
blatantly lie this, he's mocking. He's literally mocking the assassination
of an innocent man. And this is clearly incitement. This
is more insight minto violence. And we at the FCC

(26:03):
are not going to tolerate this anymore. And so he
told ABC, you're gonna lose your broadcasting license. So they
had a choice. Now they went to Jimmy Kimmel just
to show you how stupid Kimmel is and how hateful
he is. Okay, and this is really suicide, professional suicide.

(26:24):
ABC went to Kimmel and said, you got to apologize, Like,
if you apologize and you make a full retraction, then
I think we can get the FCC off our back.
And Kimmel said absolutely not because, according to him, he said,
I don't want to give MAGA that victory. Now, let

(26:46):
me be honest with you. If Kimmel came on the
air and apologized, say he did it Tuesday, Okay, he
said what he said on Monday evening, it was then huge.
It was huge. The pressure was building. The FCC by
Tuesday morning had already contacted ABC and Disney had by
Tuesday evening, kim Will come out and said, listen, look,

(27:10):
I was wrong. I was insensitive. I never should have
said this. I deeply apologize. I have nothing but the
highest respect for Kirk's family and I would never say
anything to hurt his wife and his children, and we
all have to come together as a country, and I
retract everything what I said. And he just said that, okay,
he would be have a job today, he would still

(27:33):
be doing a show. That would be enough to get
the FCC to back off. And ABC what stuck with
the guy. You're completely right on that score. And honestly,
I wouldn't have cared. And what I mean by I
wouldn't have cared is I would have been very upset
at what he said. But I wouldn't have been like,
you know, we're gloating, like Maga is gloating, like, yeah,

(27:55):
we got Kimmel to apologize, we got him to retract. No,
what I would say, and I'm sure ninety nine point
nine percent of the audience would have be saying, is
he just said it to save his bacon. He just
said it to salvage's hide, that's all. It's a These
are crocodile tears. This is a fake apology. We wouldn't

(28:16):
be like thinking, oh, this is some big victory over
Jimmy Kimmel. But in his own warped, egotistical mind, see,
this is what happens when you're blinded by hate. You
can't see, you can't reason, you can't think properly, he
was thinking, No, this is what he told his agents.
I'm not giving Maga this victory. So no apology, no retraction. Okay,

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So by last night, first it was Next Star and
the moment I saw Next Star dump him. Those are
some of the biggest markets in the country. They own
some of these ABC stations. I said, he's finished. I said,
I go watch now. ABC News is gonna cut him
off at de nise and with in an hour or whatever,
half an hour, ABC came out, Disney came out, and

(29:04):
he was finished. So, in other words, cal what happened
was ABC was now confronted. This was their choice, either
we lose our broadcasting license or we cut loose Jimmy
Kimmel to me, they made the same decision. This guy's
not worth the network. And what I'm trying to say

(29:25):
is and plus he makes them no money, they lose money,
and he brings in no ratings. You know, it's not
like the old day, say he was Johnny Carson, he'd
be like, I mean, you know, Johnny brings in a
ton of cash. My god. I mean, you know NBC
at the time he was with NBC. My god, you

(29:46):
know NBC, and people think NBC, they think Johnny Carson,
like that's you know, I mean, you're gonna fight like
hell for that guy, no ratings, nothing. So they were confronted,
either it's your license literally your ability to be on
the air, or it's Jimmy Kimmel. They made the obvious choice.

(30:08):
It's our license. Jimmy's got to go. So in that sense,
you're right. Trump exerted influence and leverage, but it wasn't him,
it was the FCC and the FCC. Trump gave the
FCC a mandate. He goes, I want you to clean
up the moral sewer that now we see on television

(30:28):
and in our popular culture. And that's why Brendan Carr
told him there's a new sheriff in town. This stuff's
not gonna fly anymore. Cal, final word to you.

Speaker 6 (30:39):
Well, thanks Jeff for clarifying staff for me and explaining
the SCC's role a little more. And I do feel
strongly that freedom is never free. And I still see,
you know, the the the wickedness in that danger and

(31:01):
like this the networks, and even though Trump is influencing
and I'm all for it, I'm all for it, but
freedom is never free.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
And I feel like we're never going.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
To be able to let our guard down.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
But we're moving in.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
The right direction and I hope and pray it continues.
And I love your show and listen.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
To you all the time.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Cal a very good call. Really, thank you for that call.
It was an excellent call, and thank you again for
your warm words. Six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight. No, Look, she's right. I've never seen this.
I have never lived through a time except the eighties
under Reagan. But it's been a while now where we're

(31:44):
pushing the agenda now. And I don't mean politically, I
mean culturally. You know, like now, universities are reacting to us,
schools are reacting to us, hospitals are reacting to us.
Businesses are reacting, really react acting to us. Hollywood is
reacting to us. Entertainment is reacting to us. And because

(32:08):
they're on their heels, they're on the defensive because something
has changed in the country. Look, let me just very
quickly since Kirk's assassination, and I'm telling you, it was
not just the assassination, it was the reaction, the response,
how disgusting, how vile Republican registrations are exploding across the country.

(32:32):
That's why do you think the Democrats are now starting
to come out. We've got to turn down the temperature.
Now they're doing the whole Both sides are to blame,
and everybody's got to tone it down and they're trying
to do the whole moral equivalency moral relativism argument. Nobody
buys it anymore. But why are they saying it, Because

(32:52):
they're like, they're looking at their registration, they're looking at
their internal polling, and they're saying, guys, we're getting destroyed
the country. The country sees us now as the party
of murder and the party that celebrates murder, political murder,
like Way Houston.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
We have a problem.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
And that's that's why they they so now now they're
in retreat, they're in real retreat, and cal is right.
We're advancing now, we're moving forward. And look, if I
were Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers, I'd be very careful,
very careful, very careful, because their days could be numbered

(33:35):
now as well. In other words, Late night Comedy Period
six one, seven, two, six, six, sixty eight sixty eight.
Sal in Bill Ricca, thanks for holding sal.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
And welcome, good morning, Jeff. The outrage and the memory
loss selective memory of the deranged Left is amazing, like
or when Bill O'Reilly, Megan, Kelly, Tucker Carlson were all
let go and canceled for commentary that they made controversial,

(34:11):
controversial commentary. Where were they? And they were making huge
money for Fox, great ratings all of them, and I
could go on, but where were they? Did Schumer say
anything about.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
All these people?

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Soal magnificent point and just to nail down Tucker. Tucker
in particular, and the only reason why I'm singling out Tucker.
He had the highest ratings at the time in the
history of Fox News. He brought him in bucket loads
of money, maximum revenue. And why did they fire him?

(34:46):
He didn't say anything wrong, if you remember, he just
showed tape of January sixth, literally what they were doing
in the halls he and he only showed a couple
of minutes. In other words, they fired him for the truth,
not for lying. It's like, look, they're claiming it was
this big insurrection. It was violent. He goes, but look

(35:09):
at what they how they were behaving the J sixers
inside the hallways. Look at them shaking the hands of
the police officers. Look at the police officers guiding them
throughout Congress, like, hey, look at this, Hey, look at
this picture, Hey look at this. So he says, the
whole narrative is false.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Look at the tape

Speaker 1 (35:26):
So for exposing and unmasking the truth, for showing the tape,
and it was like barely two minutes of the tape,
that's it.