September 18, 2025 • 16 mins
Baseball eats the show at 12:30, I don't like being a canceler, and about Charlie Kirk being a racist.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
Accident and injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell. Andy Connell on KOLA.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninety more one FM s got way to say the
nicey three Andy Connell, keep your sad bab Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the shortest show in the history of The
Mandy Connell Show. We've got a Rockies game coming up
at twelve thirty, so let's jump right in and hit
(00:35):
the blog because you know, I did it for you people,
because I love y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I love all y'all. So I did the blog. Find
the blog by.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Once
you're there, look for the latest post section, then the
headline that says nine to eighteen twenty five blog short
show because of baseball and I'm bad at cancel culture.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find Within office happen, I.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Going with ships equipments as plans.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Today on the blog, Rockies continued to chase a record today.
The meat teacher is gone and I'm not feeling great
about it. Jimmy Kimmel got canned young people being used
in propagandas to take to the streets. We're talking about
Colorado Foundation Griff tomorrow. Kevin Grantham would be a great treasure.
Remember when school board moms were called radicals. Electric vehicles
(01:25):
can't compete without subsidies. Please keep praying for the two
victims in the Evergreen shooting. Progress now says we've had
enough time to grieve Charlie Kulk. Charlie Kirk, Why Jerome
Powell must go? And now take measure hacks got a
stinky dog breath problem, college student fa and fo's thanks
to the Democrats who came out to honor Charlie Kirk.
(01:47):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now, yes, oh, Nancy,
it's short, but there's a lot going on, Nancy, don't
be so judgy before you go check it out. So
a couple of days ago, someone sent me an email
about a nasty post that a Mead High School teacher
(02:08):
had made, and I amplified it and I tagged the
Mead School District and I said, hey, do you know
this woman, she's teaching our kids. Well, I found out
today that the Mead School District set out this letter.
Dear Mead High School parents and guardians. Communication is essential
to maintaining strong partnerships with our families. To this end,
we are writing to share with you that your child's
(02:30):
Language Arts and or MAV twenty teacher, Ms. Christine Engelen
will not be returning to Mead High School. We are
actively searching for the ideal candidate to join our community
as a language Arts teacher and aim to fill this
position quickly and permanently.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The position will be posted statewide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The hiring process will include a thorough screening of all applicants,
followed by interviews with a school committee made up of teacher,
staff and administrators. In the meantime, a high quality substitute
will provide instruction. Okay, and I saw this today, and
you guys, you know what my first feeling was, Oh crap,
I helped get someone fired. I don't really think I
did other teachers. I'd gotten so many emails about this
(03:10):
particular woman and the vile thing that she posted that
I was probably a tiny part of the entire thing.
I did amplify it. But then I thought to myself,
here I am. I'm feeling bad about me, right, I'm
feeling horrible. I'm like, oh no, I feel bad that
the kids now have to have a long term sub
I know that in smaller communities like meat, it's often
really hard to get a teacher to come and commit
(03:32):
to working in the community and staying there. So there's
a lot of things going on. But you guys, I
suck at Cancel Culture until I got to the Jimmy
Kimmel story, and then I realized, wait a minute, Mandy,
you may be good at cancel culture after all. Now
here's I know Ross just talked about it. I know
it's been a big story throughout the day. Jimmy Kimmel,
(03:53):
who I looked this up. I actually I pulled any
available numbers that I could yes yesterday when I heard
this story break, and Jimmy Kimmel's viewership and estimated revenue
have dropped dramatically, and much like Stephen Colbert was costing
CBS about forty million dollars a year in the whole,
every single year to produce that show, I believe that
(04:16):
the Jimmy Kimmel Show is probably in a similar circumstance,
just based on the difficult to find publicly available numbers
that I could find Okay, So here's what happened yesterday,
and I just was talking with Ross about this at
the end of the show. In our industry, in the
media industry, there are several ways you can be fired.
(04:37):
Oh so many ways you can be fired, like so many,
so many ways you can be fired. But of the
one of the most common ways that I have seen
through my career, especially when someone has a large contract,
is they will do something kind of stupid or even
blatantly stupid, but maybe not what you would consider a
(04:58):
truly fireable offense, but the company looking at an opportunity
to not only scrape off someone that they want to
scrape off, either because their salary is perceived to be
too high or in the case of Jimmy Kimmel, your
return on investment had dropped dramatically. And at the same time,
this company, you know, ABC Disney, is recognizing that the
(05:20):
late night landscape has changed. It is no longer the
land of Jimmy Jimmy Carson, Jimmy Carson, Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right, So they're taking this opportunity. In my view, this
is I have noted this.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This is just my speculation based on almost thirty years
in this industry. Okay, My speculation is they saw a
window and an opportunity and they took it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
ABC Disney did.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They were like, you know what, let's go ahead and
scrape off this money loser at a time when public
sentiment is such that we can do so with legitimate cover,
to get rid of this show and this person without
suffering too much back. The big problem comes, the really
really big problem comes. And I saw that Jimmy Kimmel
(06:06):
had been fired first, and then I started seeing all
these people on the left saying he was fired because
the FCC demanded it, and the FCC pressured Disney and
ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Well, you guys, that's a
horse of a different color. As they say, one is
a private company deciding to make a decision about programming
(06:29):
that they are one hundred percent entitled to make. Like
right now, you guys, I'm gonna be perfectly honest, Like
I have a contract with iHeart, but it doesn't mean anything.
If they decide that I cost them too much money
or I'm not getting enough of a return on investment,
they can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Fire me right now.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It would there would be no issue with them firing
me that's.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just the nature of media.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
But as soon as government decides to step in and
try to stifle content that they find disagreeable, that's a
clearation of the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Now we've seen and I mentioned this at the end.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of Ross's show because I got to tell you, guys,
watching all these people on the left talk about how
Donald Trump was proving what a dictator he was with
this clear violation of the First Amendment, right.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I started laughing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I started laughing because I'm old enough to remember when
during the Obama administration they wiretapped reporters, they spied on journalists,
and they imprisoned they put sources in prison because they
were going after leaks and everything else. And if that's
not a clear violation of the First Amendment, I don't
(07:39):
know what is. So this is yet another thing where
now the shoe is on the other foot and they
don't like it. By the way, today's AI generated cartoon
on my Facebook page and on my ex that I use.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
To share the blog is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Unintentionally, It's almost like, what's wrong with this picture?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know what's wrong with this image? It's so funny.
You have to go to my Facebook page or my
ex account, and just look at.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The photo that hey, I generated today, because it's a
thing of magic, it really is. I mean, I gave
it the prompts to create the actual image. But oh,
it's just it's really really bad.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's just bad.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So we've got a situation right now where people on
the left are just now beginning to understand how angry
people on the right are. And that guess what, after
all those times before that we have quietly backed down
after you called us a racist or a islamophobe or
a xenophobe or whatever other name you herald at us,
We're not backing down this time. How do I know
(08:40):
this because the co director of Progress Now. Now, I
have an extremely bad taste in my mouth about Progress Now,
and I'm going to tell you why, just so you
understand my animosity towards this organization when I first got here,
not first guy, I had been here a few years.
Hillary Clinton loses to Donald Trump, and like a year later,
(09:02):
the Colorado Press Association was kind enough to invite me
to their organization to come and participate in a panel.
And it was a panel discussion on why Hillary Clinton
lost the election, not why Donald Trump won why Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Lost the election?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That just gives you the spin that we were going
for at the Colorado Press Association, which is not surprising.
So I'm on this panel. Cloyd Serli was on the panel.
I was on the panel. Ian Silvery, who was the
director of Progress Now at the time, was sitting right
next to me, and then on the other side of
him was the state field director for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Okay,
this is just giving you a lineup. So they start
(09:38):
the panel discussion.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Floyd goes through.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
All the statistical data as he's so good, and he
went on, you know, how polling got it right, how
pulling got it wrong, all that stuff, And then they
come to me and the question given to me is
why did Hillary Clinton lose the election? And I spent
a few minutes talking to people, none of whom share
my worldview. I can guarantee it about how Donald Trump
sort of represented this giant middle finger to everyone who
(10:02):
had been saying nasty things about conservatives for almost a decade,
and that after being called every name in the book,
people wanted a guy who was going to fight for them, right, Like,
we're tired of being called racist, We're tired of being
called names. We're tired of me, and Donald Trump was
the guy that Republicans and people in the United States
perceived to be the one that could push back against that.
(10:24):
So I finished my comments like three four minutes whatever.
They go to Ian Silvery from Progress Now, and Ian Silvery,
my hand to God goes. Trump won because racists voted
for him, literally just proved everything I just said. But
more importantly, in doing so, he called me a racist
as I was sitting on that panel. And that's what
(10:44):
Progress Now is all about. Ian of course, has had
to step down now that his wife's in Congress, so
they've got new people trying to foment, you know, aggravation
and nastiness. And Alan Franklin is the co director. Wait
let me wait, I got his title wrong when I
when I tweeted back at him rather snarkily, and I
want to make sure that I'm getting it right because
(11:07):
he did correct me, and you know, I like to
get things accurate, very very accurate. Now I can't find it,
so he's like the co assistant whatever. But he actually
took to Twitter to post this yesterday. Yesterday the one
week anniversary from the day that we all watched online
Charlie Kirk get shot in the neck and die in
(11:29):
front of two thousand college students. This is what Alan
Franklin from Progress Now thought was a good idea. It
says conservatives had a right to grieve after Kirk's death
and to be angry at those who made light of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But it's going too far. Some of you are starting
to understand where this could lead.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's time for this to stop before our country becomes
something we no longer recognize.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Are you effing kidding me? Right now?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
First of all, conservatives had a right. So now Alan
Franklin has decided that the greathing period for watching someone
who you agree with philosophically, who just went to college
campuses to have a dialogue. The grieving period for that
apparently is six days. Anything more than that will not
be accepted by Alan Franklin and Progress Now. That is
(12:17):
beyond the pale. We cannot do that, not allowed you, guys.
They're freaking out because we're using all their tactics against them.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
They're losing their minds because everything we as conservatives have
been subjected to in the last I don't know, since
two thousand and eight, when Obama really ginned up the Hey,
everybody on the right is racist. They're furious that we
are taking the exact same methods that they taught us
(12:46):
and we're using them successfully against their people. You know
what I haven't seen, What I haven't seen on Progress
Now's website, What I haven't seen on Alan Franklin's x
account was a call for the left to stop calling
people names, to stop using the word fascist. By the way,
in a perfect perfect moment, the president of the American
(13:10):
Teachers Federation, Randy Weingarten, she of the oh, we have
to close schools for an indefinite amount of time.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Her, she has a new book out that literally has
fascists in the title speaking about people on the right.
Where are the calls on the left for them to
police their own rhetoric?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now, it's not all bad on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I actually have video from a vigil at the House
of Representatives in Washington, DC, and there were actually some
Democrats who came out to the vigil for Charlie Kirk.
They stood in solidarity with other people of the other
party to just say this is not okay, it's wrong.
(13:55):
So it's not everywhere but here's what I want to
see from democrats like Alan Franklin. Instead of policing my grief,
instead of policing my side, why don't you start in
your own house now if you want to post some
stuff that says, hey, guys, perhaps we've been over the top.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Perhaps we've used.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Language that incited some young man to decide that murder
was a great idea. Perhaps, just perhaps, maybe maybe we
should ratchet it back. Maybe we are part of the problem. Now,
I would argue in this situation, they're entirely the problem.
But that's neither here north here. So that is my
little rant about that today. I have a couple of
(14:37):
things on the blog today that are specifically on the
blog so I can do them tomorrow because honestly, my
show is almost over right now, because we've got Rockies baseball,
and I want to make one comment. This is the
last preemption by Rockies Baseball.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, last one. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't know if this is crazy or not, but
if Rockies lose every game from here on out, and
I think they're probably playing some teams that are actually
fighting for a playoff positioning or playoff spots, so this
is a possibility they could actually tie for the worst
record in major League history.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Now do I want this for my baseball team normally?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But what else is going to shake the tree that
is the ownership of the Colorado Rockies. What else is
going to make them say what we're doing now clearly
isn't working, which is all I want. I just want
them to go what we're doing the Rockies way is
not good. The Rockies way that that ownership is married
(15:39):
to is unsuccessful, and we require a serious, serious shift
in strategy. Hope springs eternal next season, but you know what,
guys lose the rest of these games and we are
record tires. You gotta look at it like that, you
really truly do now. Also on the blog today, I
(15:59):
have a story about students that are being propagandized to
take to the streets to demand what they call action
on gun violence. And there is a quote in the
story in the Denver Gazette that it clearly demonstrates what
a huge part of the problem is. We're going to
talk about that tomorrow, and we're going to talk about
(16:21):
left wing Colorado Foundation griff tomorrow as well. But in
the meantime, we are gonna make we're gonna make way, Rockies.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You guys can do it. I believe in you.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You're good enough, you're strong enough, dog on it. People
want to like you. Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We'll be back tomorrow. Rockies Baseball coming up next
The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Bill and Pollock
Accident and injury Lawyers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
No, it's Mandy Connell. Andy Connell on KOLA.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ninety more one FM s got way to say the
nicey three Andy Connell, keep your sad bab Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the shortest show in the history of The
Mandy Connell Show. We've got a Rockies game coming up
at twelve thirty, so let's jump right in and hit
(00:35):
the blog because you know, I did it for you people,
because I love y'all.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I love all y'all. So I did the blog. Find
the blog by.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Going to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Once
you're there, look for the latest post section, then the
headline that says nine to eighteen twenty five blog short
show because of baseball and I'm bad at cancel culture.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find Within office happen, I.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Going with ships equipments as plans.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Today on the blog, Rockies continued to chase a record today.
The meat teacher is gone and I'm not feeling great
about it. Jimmy Kimmel got canned young people being used
in propagandas to take to the streets. We're talking about
Colorado Foundation Griff tomorrow. Kevin Grantham would be a great treasure.
Remember when school board moms were called radicals. Electric vehicles
(01:25):
can't compete without subsidies. Please keep praying for the two
victims in the Evergreen shooting. Progress now says we've had
enough time to grieve Charlie Kulk. Charlie Kirk, Why Jerome
Powell must go? And now take measure hacks got a
stinky dog breath problem, college student fa and fo's thanks
to the Democrats who came out to honor Charlie Kirk.
(01:47):
Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. Now, yes, oh, Nancy,
it's short, but there's a lot going on, Nancy, don't
be so judgy before you go check it out. So
a couple of days ago, someone sent me an email
about a nasty post that a Mead High School teacher
(02:08):
had made, and I amplified it and I tagged the
Mead School District and I said, hey, do you know
this woman, she's teaching our kids. Well, I found out
today that the Mead School District set out this letter.
Dear Mead High School parents and guardians. Communication is essential
to maintaining strong partnerships with our families. To this end,
we are writing to share with you that your child's
(02:30):
Language Arts and or MAV twenty teacher, Ms. Christine Engelen
will not be returning to Mead High School. We are
actively searching for the ideal candidate to join our community
as a language Arts teacher and aim to fill this
position quickly and permanently.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The position will be posted statewide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The hiring process will include a thorough screening of all applicants,
followed by interviews with a school committee made up of teacher,
staff and administrators. In the meantime, a high quality substitute
will provide instruction. Okay, and I saw this today, and
you guys, you know what my first feeling was, Oh crap,
I helped get someone fired. I don't really think I
did other teachers. I'd gotten so many emails about this
(03:10):
particular woman and the vile thing that she posted that
I was probably a tiny part of the entire thing.
I did amplify it. But then I thought to myself,
here I am. I'm feeling bad about me, right, I'm
feeling horrible. I'm like, oh no, I feel bad that
the kids now have to have a long term sub
I know that in smaller communities like meat, it's often
really hard to get a teacher to come and commit
(03:32):
to working in the community and staying there. So there's
a lot of things going on. But you guys, I
suck at Cancel Culture until I got to the Jimmy
Kimmel story, and then I realized, wait a minute, Mandy,
you may be good at cancel culture after all. Now
here's I know Ross just talked about it. I know
it's been a big story throughout the day. Jimmy Kimmel,
(03:53):
who I looked this up. I actually I pulled any
available numbers that I could yes yesterday when I heard
this story break, and Jimmy Kimmel's viewership and estimated revenue
have dropped dramatically, and much like Stephen Colbert was costing
CBS about forty million dollars a year in the whole,
every single year to produce that show, I believe that
(04:16):
the Jimmy Kimmel Show is probably in a similar circumstance,
just based on the difficult to find publicly available numbers
that I could find Okay, So here's what happened yesterday,
and I just was talking with Ross about this at
the end of the show. In our industry, in the
media industry, there are several ways you can be fired.
(04:37):
Oh so many ways you can be fired, like so many,
so many ways you can be fired. But of the
one of the most common ways that I have seen
through my career, especially when someone has a large contract,
is they will do something kind of stupid or even
blatantly stupid, but maybe not what you would consider a
(04:58):
truly fireable offense, but the company looking at an opportunity
to not only scrape off someone that they want to
scrape off, either because their salary is perceived to be
too high or in the case of Jimmy Kimmel, your
return on investment had dropped dramatically. And at the same time,
this company, you know, ABC Disney, is recognizing that the
(05:20):
late night landscape has changed. It is no longer the
land of Jimmy Jimmy Carson, Jimmy Carson, Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right, So they're taking this opportunity. In my view, this
is I have noted this.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This is just my speculation based on almost thirty years
in this industry. Okay, My speculation is they saw a
window and an opportunity and they took it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
ABC Disney did.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They were like, you know what, let's go ahead and
scrape off this money loser at a time when public
sentiment is such that we can do so with legitimate cover,
to get rid of this show and this person without
suffering too much back. The big problem comes, the really
really big problem comes. And I saw that Jimmy Kimmel
(06:06):
had been fired first, and then I started seeing all
these people on the left saying he was fired because
the FCC demanded it, and the FCC pressured Disney and
ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Well, you guys, that's a
horse of a different color. As they say, one is
a private company deciding to make a decision about programming
(06:29):
that they are one hundred percent entitled to make. Like
right now, you guys, I'm gonna be perfectly honest, Like
I have a contract with iHeart, but it doesn't mean anything.
If they decide that I cost them too much money
or I'm not getting enough of a return on investment,
they can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Fire me right now.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It would there would be no issue with them firing
me that's.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just the nature of media.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
But as soon as government decides to step in and
try to stifle content that they find disagreeable, that's a
clearation of the First Amendment.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Now we've seen and I mentioned this at the end.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Of Ross's show because I got to tell you, guys,
watching all these people on the left talk about how
Donald Trump was proving what a dictator he was with
this clear violation of the First Amendment, right.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I started laughing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I started laughing because I'm old enough to remember when
during the Obama administration they wiretapped reporters, they spied on journalists,
and they imprisoned they put sources in prison because they
were going after leaks and everything else. And if that's
not a clear violation of the First Amendment, I don't
(07:39):
know what is. So this is yet another thing where
now the shoe is on the other foot and they
don't like it. By the way, today's AI generated cartoon
on my Facebook page and on my ex that I use.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
To share the blog is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Unintentionally, It's almost like, what's wrong with this picture?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know what's wrong with this image? It's so funny.
You have to go to my Facebook page or my
ex account, and just look at.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The photo that hey, I generated today, because it's a
thing of magic, it really is. I mean, I gave
it the prompts to create the actual image. But oh,
it's just it's really really bad.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's just bad.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So we've got a situation right now where people on
the left are just now beginning to understand how angry
people on the right are. And that guess what, after
all those times before that we have quietly backed down
after you called us a racist or a islamophobe or
a xenophobe or whatever other name you herald at us,
We're not backing down this time. How do I know
(08:40):
this because the co director of Progress Now. Now, I
have an extremely bad taste in my mouth about Progress Now,
and I'm going to tell you why, just so you
understand my animosity towards this organization when I first got here,
not first guy, I had been here a few years.
Hillary Clinton loses to Donald Trump, and like a year later,
(09:02):
the Colorado Press Association was kind enough to invite me
to their organization to come and participate in a panel.
And it was a panel discussion on why Hillary Clinton
lost the election, not why Donald Trump won why Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Lost the election?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That just gives you the spin that we were going
for at the Colorado Press Association, which is not surprising.
So I'm on this panel. Cloyd Serli was on the panel.
I was on the panel. Ian Silvery, who was the
director of Progress Now at the time, was sitting right
next to me, and then on the other side of
him was the state field director for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Okay,
this is just giving you a lineup. So they start
(09:38):
the panel discussion.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Floyd goes through.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
All the statistical data as he's so good, and he
went on, you know, how polling got it right, how
pulling got it wrong, all that stuff, And then they
come to me and the question given to me is
why did Hillary Clinton lose the election? And I spent
a few minutes talking to people, none of whom share
my worldview. I can guarantee it about how Donald Trump
sort of represented this giant middle finger to everyone who
(10:02):
had been saying nasty things about conservatives for almost a decade,
and that after being called every name in the book,
people wanted a guy who was going to fight for them, right, Like,
we're tired of being called racist, We're tired of being
called names. We're tired of me, and Donald Trump was
the guy that Republicans and people in the United States
perceived to be the one that could push back against that.
(10:24):
So I finished my comments like three four minutes whatever.
They go to Ian Silvery from Progress Now, and Ian Silvery,
my hand to God goes. Trump won because racists voted
for him, literally just proved everything I just said. But
more importantly, in doing so, he called me a racist
as I was sitting on that panel. And that's what
(10:44):
Progress Now is all about. Ian of course, has had
to step down now that his wife's in Congress, so
they've got new people trying to foment, you know, aggravation
and nastiness. And Alan Franklin is the co director. Wait
let me wait, I got his title wrong when I
when I tweeted back at him rather snarkily, and I
want to make sure that I'm getting it right because
(11:07):
he did correct me, and you know, I like to
get things accurate, very very accurate. Now I can't find it,
so he's like the co assistant whatever. But he actually
took to Twitter to post this yesterday. Yesterday the one
week anniversary from the day that we all watched online
Charlie Kirk get shot in the neck and die in
(11:29):
front of two thousand college students. This is what Alan
Franklin from Progress Now thought was a good idea. It
says conservatives had a right to grieve after Kirk's death
and to be angry at those who made light of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But it's going too far. Some of you are starting
to understand where this could lead.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's time for this to stop before our country becomes
something we no longer recognize.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Are you effing kidding me? Right now?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
First of all, conservatives had a right. So now Alan
Franklin has decided that the greathing period for watching someone
who you agree with philosophically, who just went to college
campuses to have a dialogue. The grieving period for that
apparently is six days. Anything more than that will not
be accepted by Alan Franklin and Progress Now. That is
(12:17):
beyond the pale. We cannot do that, not allowed you, guys.
They're freaking out because we're using all their tactics against them.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
They're losing their minds because everything we as conservatives have
been subjected to in the last I don't know, since
two thousand and eight, when Obama really ginned up the Hey,
everybody on the right is racist. They're furious that we
are taking the exact same methods that they taught us
(12:46):
and we're using them successfully against their people. You know
what I haven't seen, What I haven't seen on Progress
Now's website, What I haven't seen on Alan Franklin's x
account was a call for the left to stop calling
people names, to stop using the word fascist. By the way,
in a perfect perfect moment, the president of the American
(13:10):
Teachers Federation, Randy Weingarten, she of the oh, we have
to close schools for an indefinite amount of time.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Her, she has a new book out that literally has
fascists in the title speaking about people on the right.
Where are the calls on the left for them to
police their own rhetoric?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now, it's not all bad on the blog today.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I actually have video from a vigil at the House
of Representatives in Washington, DC, and there were actually some
Democrats who came out to the vigil for Charlie Kirk.
They stood in solidarity with other people of the other
party to just say this is not okay, it's wrong.
(13:55):
So it's not everywhere but here's what I want to
see from democrats like Alan Franklin. Instead of policing my grief,
instead of policing my side, why don't you start in
your own house now if you want to post some
stuff that says, hey, guys, perhaps we've been over the top.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Perhaps we've used.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Language that incited some young man to decide that murder
was a great idea. Perhaps, just perhaps, maybe maybe we
should ratchet it back. Maybe we are part of the problem. Now,
I would argue in this situation, they're entirely the problem.
But that's neither here north here. So that is my
little rant about that today. I have a couple of
(14:37):
things on the blog today that are specifically on the
blog so I can do them tomorrow because honestly, my
show is almost over right now, because we've got Rockies baseball,
and I want to make one comment. This is the
last preemption by Rockies Baseball.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, last one. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't know if this is crazy or not, but
if Rockies lose every game from here on out, and
I think they're probably playing some teams that are actually
fighting for a playoff positioning or playoff spots, so this
is a possibility they could actually tie for the worst
record in major League history.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Now do I want this for my baseball team normally?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But what else is going to shake the tree that
is the ownership of the Colorado Rockies. What else is
going to make them say what we're doing now clearly
isn't working, which is all I want. I just want
them to go what we're doing the Rockies way is
not good. The Rockies way that that ownership is married
(15:39):
to is unsuccessful, and we require a serious, serious shift
in strategy. Hope springs eternal next season, but you know what,
guys lose the rest of these games and we are
record tires. You gotta look at it like that, you
really truly do now. Also on the blog today, I
(15:59):
have a story about students that are being propagandized to
take to the streets to demand what they call action
on gun violence. And there is a quote in the
story in the Denver Gazette that it clearly demonstrates what
a huge part of the problem is. We're going to
talk about that tomorrow, and we're going to talk about
(16:21):
left wing Colorado Foundation griff tomorrow as well. But in
the meantime, we are gonna make we're gonna make way, Rockies.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You guys can do it. I believe in you.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You're good enough, you're strong enough, dog on it. People
want to like you. Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We'll be back tomorrow. Rockies Baseball coming up next
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