September 18, 2025 • 40 mins
What does “free speech” really mean—and what doesn’t it mean? Today, Todd takes a hard look at Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension after ABC affiliates refused to air his show following his grotesque comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The media wants you to believe this is censorship, but Todd unpacks the truth: free speech is about protection from government interference, not immunity from accountability in the workplace or public square.
We walk through the history of broadcast licenses, why the FCC plays a role in regulating limited airwaves, and how that differs from the unlimited nature of the internet. Todd explains why affiliates have the right to reject Kimmel’s program, why ABC can suspend him, and why none of this violates the First Amendment. Along the way, he contrasts real accountability with cancel culture, highlighting the difference between enforcing clear rules and simply silencing viewpoints.
Todd also connects these issues to broader battles in media, culture, and the marketplace—from corporate bias to social media censorship to the importance of supporting businesses that share your values. As always, he calls out hypocrisy, exposes propaganda, and reminds listeners that conservatives must not be intimidated into silence.
Don’t miss this bold, unapologetic episode on the fight for truth, liberty, and decency in America.
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We walk through the history of broadcast licenses, why the FCC plays a role in regulating limited airwaves, and how that differs from the unlimited nature of the internet. Todd explains why affiliates have the right to reject Kimmel’s program, why ABC can suspend him, and why none of this violates the First Amendment. Along the way, he contrasts real accountability with cancel culture, highlighting the difference between enforcing clear rules and simply silencing viewpoints.
Todd also connects these issues to broader battles in media, culture, and the marketplace—from corporate bias to social media censorship to the importance of supporting businesses that share your values. As always, he calls out hypocrisy, exposes propaganda, and reminds listeners that conservatives must not be intimidated into silence.
Don’t miss this bold, unapologetic episode on the fight for truth, liberty, and decency in America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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but not bitter host, Todd Huff.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, that is right, my friends. You have tuned in
to America's home for conservative not bitter talk. I'm your host,
Todd Huff. It's my pleasure to be here today. Thank
you so much for joining us. I should tell you
off the top that this will be our last day
here in studio this well, this week, I know, we
just have tomorrow Friday, so we'll be out Friday and
(00:55):
we will be out through next Thursday. I will be
turning here behind the microphone on Friday. Two things about that.
Number one, we have a lineup of special guests. You're
in good hands now. They've got big, big shoes to fill.
We all know that, so they're probably going to come
up a little bit short. But that's nothing about them.
(01:18):
It's about the host of this program. I'm kidding my friends.
Micah Clark will be joining us tomorrow. He's the executive
director for the American Family Association here in Indiana. We
have Chris Dunham. All these folks friends of mine. Chris
Dunham one of the folks that I've known the longest.
Was trying to think about that the other day. I've
(01:39):
known Chris for probably gee, probably close to twenty years,
met him through my brother Chrish Is. I don't know
how to define Chris. He's an author, he's a Christian apologist,
he's a corporate trainer. He is just He's done a lot.
He was zig Ziggler's protege. He'll be here on Monday
(01:59):
and Tuesday of next week. Gary Varvil. Gary Varville's become
a friend of mine. He's a syndicated cartoonist. He's got
his newsletter Garyvarvill dot Com. He'll be with us on Wednesday.
And then my friend John Crane, who's now venturing into
he was a senator here in the state of Indiana.
He's now venturing into well. He's done leadership things in
(02:22):
the past, but he's really dedicating his time to some
leadership activities like public speaker. He was an interim pastor
at at my church years ago. And John is John
grew up here around me. We weren't friends. He went
to a different school but close to this area. So
that's who's going to be here next week, well tomorrow
and then into next week. So I won't be back
(02:44):
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bits of information I'm going through here. Off the top
(03:06):
of the program today, I want to talk about Jimmy Kimmel.
I want to talk about free speech today. I got
a lot to get to, so we got to hit
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all right, So you may have seen Jimmy Kimmel is
(04:35):
effectively what been fired. I guess Jimmy Kimmel. ABC suspended
Jimmy Kimmel Live After affiliates, and I want to talk
a little bit about this because it's kind of in
a different way the business that I'm in. His affiliate station,
some of them that were owned by a group they
(04:59):
refuse to carry his show because of comments he made,
because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk and the
wake of his assassination, in the wake of his death,
and I'll play those here momentarily, but I just want
to well, forgot to queue that up. Number one, Number
two I want to make I want to make sure
(05:20):
that I get to it once I kind of give
the lay of the land here. Okay, So so that's
what's happened now. The argument, the backlash is about free speech,
and of course people in the media listen. I have
no problems with the questions. I have no problems with
(05:40):
the conversation. But we're going to talk about We're going
to talk about what free speech means and what it doesn't.
We're going to talk about the differences between cancel culture
and the consequences of what you say, I mean, you
can't avoid that. So I want to get that's where
(06:01):
we're headed today. Also, the FCC chair Brandon Carr, was
on a program where he made comments that the FCC
might come in and do other things, potentially even take
away licenses. So we'll talk about all this. So I'll
start by telling you. So, the way this works is
(06:22):
you have the main network, say NBC or in this case, ABC,
and they have affiliate stations. So you have the network,
and what they do is they provide content to their
affiliate station. So affiliate station here for ABC in Indianapolis.
I still believe, well, they've changed the things recently, but
I believe it's WRTV Channel six in Indianapolis. It's the
(06:46):
ABC affiliate unless they flipped that. Odds did they flip that?
Do you know? It used to be It doesn't matter,
and I'm not trying to say it incorrectly, but it
used to be I don't really watch we have of
we have a streaming service, and I don't honestly know
half the time what channel I'm on. But but back
(07:06):
in the day, you got to think. So you go
back to the early days of you know, communications and
and there were broadcast signals. There's a limited number of
broadcast signals that you can that you can get the
frequencies interfered. You know, you've got to have a certain
amount of power to deliver the signal and for people
(07:27):
to receive it and to play the content. But back
in the day, in the early days of television and
early days of radio, the government said, look, these airwaves,
these frequencies are publicly owned, but you can have you know,
you can apply to get a license to have that
be your signal where you broadcast on that signal. And
(07:48):
so since it was a limited thing, right, you compare
that to the Internet, you compare that to the Internet.
The Internet's unlimited.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You might get lost in a sea of competitors on
the Internet. You might not be able to garner the
same amount of attention, you might not know how to
navigate it, you might not be good at SEO whatever,
all these factors. But everybody, you can put websites up
all day. You're not going to run out, not going
to run out of space. They're building massive data centers
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around the country and everything else to you know, for
all the information that's out there, and there's no there's
no limit really to to the number of websites or
things that can be online. There are limits to the
number of signals that are out there. From a practical perspective,
you know, you can't have things interfering and all that.
So they had to say here, here, you can have
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this frequency. Here's some stipulations. We have to have some requirements,
and the SCC does have some requirements. They're also trying
to balance that with giving these networks the continue to
have the right to free speech, but they are also
stipulations regulations since not everybody. Some people are just limited
and you know, you can say limited by money and
(09:01):
capital and just the ability to do that, but you're
also limited. Even if you had the tower, you can't
get a signal because these things, you know, have they
all have licensees pretty much. So so that's how they
limited these an affiliate. So then you've got the networks ABC, NBC, CBS,
those are the big three back in the day, and
(09:22):
they would create the content. You know, they would have
things like national news broadcasters. You know, this is some
of the some of the all time big names and
in media and that sort of thing, and they would
also create content that they can send out some syndicated
content that they can go out to the affiliates. So
the affiliates are the local stations. It's not unlike what
(09:45):
we do. It's not unlike what we do. We produce
the show here at the Conservative Not Bitter Network, the
todd Have Show, and then we basically provide that a
variety of ways over the satellite, the way the Wegner satellite,
or sometimes you can send file. There's there's several ways
(10:05):
to do this, but the bottom line is you've got
local stations that then carry that that content. It's similar,
it's similar, and so those local stations sometimes are it's
not common, but sometimes there's one station owned by maybe
one individual or a family, or a small group, a
small group of investors or whatever. Sometimes they begin to
(10:26):
buy these stations. I mean, the landscape has changed so
much with podcasting and streaming and television and all this,
you know, all these developments. It's just a different game.
But oftentimes they'll own affiliates, sometimes across the country, sometimes
in a particular region, sometimes just spattered about based upon
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where they could find a good deal or a market
that they wanted or whatever. So you've got this a
group of affiliates, and they said, after hearing Jimmy Kimmel's
remarks about in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, they said,
we don't want to play that. We don't want this
show anymore. We're refusing to air his show. So let's
(11:08):
pause there and let's play. Let's play just a bit
of the SoundBite of what Jimmy Kimmel said that upset
people so much. And I'm also going to read to
you for you a little bit of the transcript of
other things that he said. But here's Jimmy Kimmel. This
is what upset these affiliates, This is what upset other people.
And before I play this, remember the full context here
(11:30):
depending upon when you if you listen to this show
into the future, you might forget or you might not
know the context of everything else going on. As I
speak to you now, there are literally thousands of people
who have taken to the Internet to celebrate the death,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk. There have been students on campuses.
(11:54):
I saw one on video yesterday who was mocking Charlie
Kirk's death, physically re enacting what Charlie Kirk. What happened
to Charlie Kirk's body after the bullet struck him in
a crowd he got I believe he was had gotten
expelled from school or you know, kicked out of school
at whatever university he was at. This is all over
(12:16):
the place. I mean, people cheering. Some of these folks
are straight out. They may all be demonic, but some
of these folks, there's no doubt. I mean, they are
laughing with glee. They look like a character, an evil
character from a movie. Some of these folks, they looked
straight straight out of the pitze hell sort of stuff.
And so that's what's going on here, And that's the
(12:38):
the I guess, the lay of the land, if you will.
So on top of all of that going on, on
top of all that going on, on top of the
reluctance of some to say something, just don't say something
atrocious about Charlie Kirk. Just don't say something that is,
you know, vile and vult about his death. They can't
(13:02):
help themselves. This is what is going on. This is
the context of this. So then along comes Jimmy Kimmel
who makes these comments listening to hit.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Some New Low's over the weekend with the MAGA gang
desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them and do everything
they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, So that's that's the gist of it, right, So
that's first of all, he's he's calling for. He's claiming
that MAGA doesn't want to admit that the shooter was
one of them, one of us. I went through this yesterday.
I mean, just this never made since from day one.
(13:46):
And by the way, as I've said, even if it did,
even even if he was MAGA, which pretty clearly the
guy's not. He he had negative, a negative, I guess tone,
negative things to say about his father. You could just
from the text messages. He said his dad had become
(14:07):
full blown MAGA or something to that extent. It's pretty
obvious that this guy is not sympathetic to MAGA. This
guy is has adopted a leftist ideology in a worldview,
and that and listen, as I've shared before, that may
mean a lot, they that may mean everything, but there
(14:30):
are crazy people, people that do heinous things on in
any group of people. The question is, and I go
back to this, the question is are the actions the
evil that is that is being taken or the evil
that's being committed. Are those things due too, are fed
by fueled by the ideology, or are they just examples
(14:53):
of people within a group carrying out some sort of
evil within their own hearts. And you have to look
at the bigger picture. And I would say the radical left.
I'm very careful with my words here. I don't mean
every Democrat, I don't mean every liberal. In fact, I
have an olive branch to extend to you today, my friends.
I'm not here to be at odds with you. I mean, yes,
(15:13):
we can fight about other political issues, but this is
about the survival of our nation. This is about restoring
goodness and decency to this country. Again, not to promote
abject evil. I encourage you to stand with me and
fully reject this stuff. These people have to be defeated politically.
(15:36):
They have to be They can't be allowed to continue
to steamroll the rest of us to try to intimidate.
They want to intimidate me, but some people they do intimidate.
We've got to stop that from happening. Because see what's
interesting is they're claiming everyone else is the fascist they
are the fascist They're the ones who are justifying the
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use of violence, the use of firearms, high powered rifles
to kill their political opponents. They are by definition the fascists,
my friends. And so this is what Kimmel said the
affiliate stations. Of course, I said a certain group I
don't have I can't think of the name of that
(16:19):
of that group right now. Next Star, I think they
said we're not going to carry it. So then ABC
basically said we're going to what's THEE the technically what
they said is they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Here's the full Well,
here's some more of the quote. This is what I
played for you. We hit some new lows, he said
over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to
(16:42):
characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other
than one of them and doing everything they can to
score political points from it. Yes, he's at the fourth
stage of grief. He's talking about Trump. Here played a
SoundBite of Trump. Now, Trump was asked about Charlie Kirk.
Believe he was outside the Rose Garden, he was on
(17:02):
the White House grounds and he I don't know that,
even answered the question on the clip that I saw
was talking about the ballroom that they were building and
so forth, and so Kimmel says this, yes, talking about Trump.
He's at the fourth stage of grief construction. This is
not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he
(17:25):
called a friend. This is how a four year old
mourns a goldfish. Okay, I don't even like to say
these words. So that's what initiated all of this. That's
what caused all of this, And so people are crying
that this is a violation of free speech. Of course,
this comes not too far on the heels of Stephen
(17:46):
Colbert again, who they think. Again, if you get in
the mind of the leftists, they believe that they are
being targeted for saying things that are anti Trump, which
is remarkable to me because they've said these things without
any repercussion, even things that were defamatory against the present. Well,
some of them have had to pay the price, but
they've been talking poorly about this guy for a decade
(18:09):
and now now they're acting like they're being silenced because
they oppose Trump. By the way, this is not what
it would look like if you were trying to silence
your media adversars. Do you realize how many negative sources
of media are out there? For Trump? This is one network.
And by the way, the cable news networks don't have
(18:32):
the same FCC requirements because they're going over cable news.
They're not competing for that limited those limited number of
broadcast signals, and so it's different. It's different for MS WELL, MSNBC, CNN,
it's different for Fox News. It's different for those folks
than for CBS, NBC, ABC. They're supposed to be providing
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a community service. And there's requirements within the FCC that
will get to my friends here in in due course.
But here's the real, the real rub, the real rub
to determine if something is a violation of free speech,
if someone is taking away your free speech, it must
be taken away by the government. It must be taken
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away by the government. Now, initially until a ruling, until
the fourteenth Amendment actually was ratified. The first Amendment really
in the early days, was interpreted to only be the
federal The federal government cannot interfere with your freedom of speech.
That didn't mean that your employer couldn't. There could be
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term I mean, that's that's a free contract or you know,
contractual employment agreement, whichever you have that you enter into
with your with your employer, whether you're a contractor whether
your employee you enter into that willingly. He or she,
whoever your employer is, does not have to accept all
(19:56):
types of behavior. I mean they can, they can make requirements.
Sometimes businesses companies do this, and people think that is
too much. I don't want to work there. They're trying
to control my life. Other times, because social media is
so prevalent today, they just have rules. Don't be out
there cheering the death of a person. Don't be out
there applauding when someone gets assassinated in front of three
(20:20):
thousand people and for the whole world to see on
the internet. Don't be cheering that. Don't be acting like
that is a good thing when he's just openly having conversation,
welcoming those with opposing viewpoints to come and share what
they think, to question him and everything else. Don't cheer
that stuff on. That's garbage, that's pure evil. We don't
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want to be associated with that. And by the way,
companies are free to do that, and so that's what's
happening now. You have a lot of fallout because people said, all,
I'm just exercising my freedom of speech. Well, the government
didn't stop you. The government's not stopped any of this
from happening, nor should they, nor should they. And it
is a remarkable thing to me as someone who's I guess,
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followed this my whole life. Sometimes, you know, when you
do something every day, whatever it is that you do,
whatever career that you have, maybe you're retired, whatever you've done,
you do it for so long and sometimes it's hard
to relate to someone who didn't do it. You sometimes
(21:22):
forget what you've learned. And I just to me, I'm
amazed that people don't understand what the First Amendment is.
The First Amendment does not prevent an employer from well
from basically giving you consequences that say you can't work
here if you use speech in such a way that
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they find offensive. I don't understand why people don't understand
the difference between having the freedom to be able to
do something legally and then also understanding that there are
some things I just should not do even though I
can do them legally. So got to pause that to
talk about that. On the other side of the break
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Lots and lots of stuff to get to today. I
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(23:09):
through Thursday. Got some good guest hosts filling in those
so you'll be in good hands. But they've got some big,
big shoes to fill. As I've shared with you earlier, friends,
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(23:30):
same direction you are. Look, we fight this battle, this
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evil promoting radical left. We have this battle on multiple fronts.
In the government, yes, elections. We've got it. In the workplace.
We've got it in academia. We've got it. In schools.
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simply as liberal I shouldn't say liberal. They act as
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Freedom Marketplace dot net. All right, So I want to
(24:42):
back up a little bit here. I want to back
up a little bit here and talk about the FCC.
I want to talk about the FCC. Brandon Brendan excuse me,
car was on on a podcast the other day and
he said, they talking about ABC, who of course is
(25:03):
responsible for Jimmy Kimmel. They have a license granted by
us at the FCC, and with that or that comes
with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.
He then said, we can do this the easy way,
or we can do this the hard way. Take action
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or Kimmel. There's going to be additional work for the
FCC ahead. That's what he has said, according to quotes
cited at the Fox News. So, as I shared before,
as I shared before, the affiliates can refuse to air
the program. That's not a violation of the First Amendment.
(25:47):
For those who need me to say that. Now, depending
upon the contracts, which may or may not be the case.
If anything, it could be a violation of the contract,
or maybe it's not. But the affiliates have a direct
relationship with the network, and if the affiliates decide they
don't want to erit, that's not a violation of Jimmy
Kimmel's speech or ABC speech. Now, as I've said, and
(26:09):
as most of you know, but I have to say
this because people out there don't know. The first Amendment
is prevents Congress, prevents the federal government from silencing you.
Doesn't prevent affiliates from saying we don't want to be
associated with this garbage and this drivel. This guy is
(26:30):
being very disrespectful and being grotesque in his assessment of
the murder and the assassination of Charlie Kirk or whatever
the issue is. You have a right to say, we
don't want to be associated with that. So there are
rules with the FCC. These are eight year term licenses.
(26:50):
Eight year terms, I should say, you got to file
with the FCC. They've got to review compliance and all
this sort of stuff. The Public Interest Survey, the public
interest standards is this, stations must serve the public interest,
convenience and necessity. That includes local news issues, education and
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information for kids, that sort of stuff. There are other
rules that come with having a broadcast license. Obscenity is
banned at all times. That's not protected speech. By the way,
indecency and profanity is restricted, especially in the daytime hours.
You get into the night time hours, late night, it's
a little bit different, but there are regulations for that.
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When it comes to political broadcasting obligations, the FCC requires
that these networks provide reasonable access for federal candidates. Equal
opportunities rules in certain cases so that the station isn't
just promoting one candidate over another. There's a hoax or
false emergency rule that prohibits networks from knowingly broadcasting false
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information about a crime or catastrophe likely to cause substantial
public harm. Boy, there's things that pop into my head
when I think about some reporting that's been done in
recent years, as it may pertain to that enforcement and
due process. Basically, the way that it works is a
complaint is filed, there's an enforcement Bureau investigation, they can
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find networks, they can take other actions. At some point,
they can deny your license, so claiming or threatening to
take away a license is technically something that they can do,
but they can do it on the day. The FCC
can do it on very limited grounds. And what they
cannot do is to bar certain viewpoints, banning certain viewpoints,
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punishing speech simply for being controversial or offensive. So that's
kind of a undown of what the FCC, what their
role is, what they can do. Obviously, you get to
some point. You got to be an attorney and you
got to look at a particular violation or alleged violation,
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and then that's got to play out in the system, right.
I mean, there's a lot of ways that this could go,
but that's the structure. That's the structure of this. But
the FCC, in theory could look at taking the licenses
of these networks, which Trump is hinted at before, which
upsets some people, which I understand in one sense, you
don't want the government threatening to do something that looks
(29:35):
like silencing speech of people who are standing in your opposition. Likewise,
I understand that organizations and companies if they ceased, if
they violate the rules of the agreement, they violate the
FCC rules, then I mean, at some point those have
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to be enforced or what is the point of having them?
So I don't know. The FCC has not been called
in here. I would prefer that to not be the case.
I'm not arguing for that. I'm just trying to give perspective.
That's what I try to do. You know, if you
can't argue, at least explain the other side's perspective a lot,
unless it's the radical lefts who've literally lost their minds
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and they have no interest in truth. But when sometimes
there's just general disagreements, we know there's a line in
there somewhere that says the government shouldn't be silencing the media.
That's not what I want at all. I also know
that if there's requirements and rules and regulations that are
legitimate here and by the way, these are legitimate because
you have to This is again it's limited. It's not
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like the Internet. There's a limited number of broadcast signals
and there are rules to be able to get those.
If they're not following those rules, if they are being
if they're engaging in propaganda, which candidly, candidly, I think
there's lots of examples out there of where the mainstream media,
which may at include network news, I mean, cable news
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is again different, but I think that there's examples of
where sometimes there's just flat out lies that have been
reported by media outlets and where this may have legitimately
or may legitimately be an issue. So that's what's going
on with that. We're not in that realm yet, but
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it's been mentioned, it's been threatened, but that's not what's happened.
I've shared with you what has happened. So how does
this differ, How does this differ from cancel culture? How
does accountability differ from cancel culture? Well, cancel culture is
this movement that says, if someone says anything with which
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I disagree, I want to take them out. I want
to silence them, I want them to pay the price.
Accountability is when there are rules and you violate the
rules and you're given due process. You're given whatever that
looks like right, and due process can vary depending upon
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you know, if it's if it's in a situation with
your company, right, the due process that my company is
they they can review what happened and then they can
make a determination as to whether or not something happens.
I get terminated, I get written up, whatever, And of
course if there's something more that involves the legal side
(32:28):
of things, that of course is a different process altogether.
But accountability isn't just trying to silence people. And that's
what cancel culture is. Cancel culture is they don't want
to have the fight. They say, oh, you're on the
other side. Let's get all of the people in our
group to not buy from you and to punish you accountability,
says man. If you're going to do things that are
(32:49):
completely you know, you have the right to say them,
but we also understand that these things are reprehensible and
that no one should use their freedom to gauge in
these sorts of things. Society can say that's not what
we want. We don't want people working for us like that.
I don't know. I've had a little bit of a
hesitation here, you know. Again, I've seen people who've gotten
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folks fired for these things that they've said and the
cell it's grotesque, and some of these kids have been
expelled from school, from colleges. And I'm not against that.
There's a part of me that's like, man, you're you're
really harming your own life here. You've been given ample
opportunity to just to just shut up, to quit defacing
(33:34):
memorials and that sort of stuff. To uh, to quit
acting and like a fool, acting like you're demonic. In
some cases, I think these folks may be demonic. Just
because you can doesn't mean you should, And just because
you can doesn't mean there are not consequences. And that's
what we're dealing with here. That's what we're dealing with here.
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we talked about cancel culture. We talked about accountability, we're
talking here about free speech. It's government who is the
ones that can't limit free speech. They can't tell you
not to say something. That's where we want to pick
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much of this in as we can, because there's such
a misunderstanding about free speech. We'll probably elaborate more on
this as as as we can with the time I'm available,
but I'll do my best to rush through this, not rush,
(36:03):
but as quickly as I can. Here. So we talked
about cancel culture versus accountability, and of course there's more
to it. We could probably do a whole segment or
maybe even a whole show on that, but suffice it
to say, cancel culture is really designed to intimidate, to
silence people with different political beliefs. Accountability is about holding
(36:24):
people to account for actions that people can decide and
just based upon their own understanding of morality and what's
good in a free society. To say we don't want
there's consequences for that. You can't work here if you're
celebrating the death of someone, if you don't like him,
if you want to argue against this political beliefs. Fine,
(36:46):
you've been able to work here the whole time that
you've been here, right, we've in many cases they know
you're a leftist or a liberal. Fine, but you can't
be crossing the lines where you're now impugning the reputation
of the company that you're working for so that is
(37:07):
the difference. Of course, there's much more, but I just
I have to get through this quickly, and I want
to touch on as many of these things as I can,
because there's been other examples of platforms, social media platforms
that have tried to silence conservatives. And someone on the
left would say, now, wait a minute, that's a private company.
They should be able to do what they want, and
I would say, I agree with that. They should be
(37:28):
able to do what they want. Those things should be
written in their terms of service. They shouldn't be telling
us that they're a platform that's for free speech when
they selectively manipulate their terms of service to basically silence
the opinions of people with whom they disagree. I think
that happened to me on a couple of social media platforms.
(37:50):
I think that happened to me with YouTube in twenty
twenty one, mostly over my listen. I just talked about
January sixth in general. I didn't get into any of
the conspiracy stuff or some of the weeds on that.
I just talked about perspective on it, and I got
videos taken down. I got videos taken down. I believe
(38:12):
for covid commentary as well, for simply asking questions, why
do we insist that mask work when the evidence suggests
that they don't. Why is there a forceful vaccination all
this stuff? Why just asking those questions I got silenced.
I would argue that, in my opinion, they violated their
terms of service. They could say they could say, look,
(38:35):
this is a platform where you can't say anything bad
about covid, And if they say that, then I can't
do that. I agree to their terms and service. But
if they say, hey, here's a platform for you to communicate,
share your ideas and all that sort of stuff, and
I share my idea and they say, well, we don't
like that idea, we're gonna silence you. And you say, well,
(38:56):
that's not what you told me. The rules of the
game were there. Now in violation if that happens, they're
in violation of that contract that they had me signed,
that we agreed in, that we entered into. That's why
you'll find on some occasions, I mean, maybe not that specifically,
but you'll find class action lawsuits sometimes against social media
companies for violating their terms of service and so forth.
(39:19):
So again, it's like a referee who changes the rules.
If you're we played basketball here in the Huffout or Hoosiers,
we play soccer too, well, I say we, I don't
the kids do, but can't You can't say in a
soccer match. I learned that. By the way, it's not
a soccer game. You can't stay in a soccer match
(39:42):
midway through. Hey, you know you can use your feet,
just your feet unless you're the goalie the first half
and then the second half. The kids running down the
pitch at something else I've learned with the ball and
you say, well, now they can just use their hands. Well,
when did that rule change? Right, we were playing soccer.
There's a specific things you can and cannot do. The
rules can't be changed midstream. On top of that, the
(40:06):
last thing I can get to is there is there
can be stipulations on First Amendment rights, freedom of speech
rights if you're an employee, an employee of a government institution.
So for example, if you're an employee of a public school,
I just looked at our school's social media policy. It
(40:28):
talks about you cannot engage in defaming other people in
the school district or in the school community. And so
some would say, well, that's a violation of my free speak. Well,
you don't have the right to defame people to begin with. Anyway,
you get the idea. I'm just out of time. I
wanted to discuss that today, folks. I'll see you in
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effectively what been fired. I guess Jimmy Kimmel. ABC suspended
Jimmy Kimmel Live After affiliates, and I want to talk
a little bit about this because it's kind of in
a different way the business that I'm in. His affiliate station,
some of them that were owned by a group they
(04:59):
refuse to carry his show because of comments he made,
because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk and the
wake of his assassination, in the wake of his death,
and I'll play those here momentarily, but I just want
to well, forgot to queue that up. Number one, Number
two I want to make I want to make sure
(05:20):
that I get to it once I kind of give
the lay of the land here. Okay, So so that's
what's happened now. The argument, the backlash is about free speech,
and of course people in the media listen. I have
no problems with the questions. I have no problems with
(05:40):
the conversation. But we're going to talk about We're going
to talk about what free speech means and what it doesn't.
We're going to talk about the differences between cancel culture
and the consequences of what you say, I mean, you
can't avoid that. So I want to get that's where
(06:01):
we're headed today. Also, the FCC chair Brandon Carr, was
on a program where he made comments that the FCC
might come in and do other things, potentially even take
away licenses. So we'll talk about all this. So I'll
start by telling you. So, the way this works is
(06:22):
you have the main network, say NBC or in this case, ABC,
and they have affiliate stations. So you have the network,
and what they do is they provide content to their
affiliate station. So affiliate station here for ABC in Indianapolis.
I still believe, well, they've changed the things recently, but
I believe it's WRTV Channel six in Indianapolis. It's the
(06:46):
ABC affiliate unless they flipped that. Odds did they flip that?
Do you know? It used to be It doesn't matter,
and I'm not trying to say it incorrectly, but it
used to be I don't really watch we have of
we have a streaming service, and I don't honestly know
half the time what channel I'm on. But but back
(07:06):
in the day, you got to think. So you go
back to the early days of you know, communications and
and there were broadcast signals. There's a limited number of
broadcast signals that you can that you can get the
frequencies interfered. You know, you've got to have a certain
amount of power to deliver the signal and for people
(07:27):
to receive it and to play the content. But back
in the day, in the early days of television and
early days of radio, the government said, look, these airwaves,
these frequencies are publicly owned, but you can have you know,
you can apply to get a license to have that
be your signal where you broadcast on that signal. And
(07:48):
so since it was a limited thing, right, you compare
that to the Internet, you compare that to the Internet.
The Internet's unlimited.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You might get lost in a sea of competitors on
the Internet. You might not be able to garner the
same amount of attention, you might not know how to
navigate it, you might not be good at SEO whatever,
all these factors. But everybody, you can put websites up
all day. You're not going to run out, not going
to run out of space. They're building massive data centers
(08:18):
around the country and everything else to you know, for
all the information that's out there, and there's no there's
no limit really to to the number of websites or
things that can be online. There are limits to the
number of signals that are out there. From a practical perspective,
you know, you can't have things interfering and all that.
So they had to say here, here, you can have
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this frequency. Here's some stipulations. We have to have some requirements,
and the SCC does have some requirements. They're also trying
to balance that with giving these networks the continue to
have the right to free speech, but they are also
stipulations regulations since not everybody. Some people are just limited
and you know, you can say limited by money and
(09:01):
capital and just the ability to do that, but you're
also limited. Even if you had the tower, you can't
get a signal because these things, you know, have they
all have licensees pretty much. So so that's how they
limited these an affiliate. So then you've got the networks ABC, NBC, CBS,
those are the big three back in the day, and
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they would create the content. You know, they would have
things like national news broadcasters. You know, this is some
of the some of the all time big names and
in media and that sort of thing, and they would
also create content that they can send out some syndicated
content that they can go out to the affiliates. So
the affiliates are the local stations. It's not unlike what
(09:45):
we do. It's not unlike what we do. We produce
the show here at the Conservative Not Bitter Network, the
todd Have Show, and then we basically provide that a
variety of ways over the satellite, the way the Wegner satellite,
or sometimes you can send file. There's there's several ways
(10:05):
to do this, but the bottom line is you've got
local stations that then carry that that content. It's similar,
it's similar, and so those local stations sometimes are it's
not common, but sometimes there's one station owned by maybe
one individual or a family, or a small group, a
small group of investors or whatever. Sometimes they begin to
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buy these stations. I mean, the landscape has changed so
much with podcasting and streaming and television and all this,
you know, all these developments. It's just a different game.
But oftentimes they'll own affiliates, sometimes across the country, sometimes
in a particular region, sometimes just spattered about based upon
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where they could find a good deal or a market
that they wanted or whatever. So you've got this a
group of affiliates, and they said, after hearing Jimmy Kimmel's
remarks about in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, they said,
we don't want to play that. We don't want this
show anymore. We're refusing to air his show. So let's
(11:08):
pause there and let's play. Let's play just a bit
of the SoundBite of what Jimmy Kimmel said that upset
people so much. And I'm also going to read to
you for you a little bit of the transcript of
other things that he said. But here's Jimmy Kimmel. This
is what upset these affiliates, This is what upset other people.
And before I play this, remember the full context here
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depending upon when you if you listen to this show
into the future, you might forget or you might not
know the context of everything else going on. As I
speak to you now, there are literally thousands of people
who have taken to the Internet to celebrate the death,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk. There have been students on campuses.
(11:54):
I saw one on video yesterday who was mocking Charlie
Kirk's death, physically re enacting what Charlie Kirk. What happened
to Charlie Kirk's body after the bullet struck him in
a crowd he got I believe he was had gotten
expelled from school or you know, kicked out of school
at whatever university he was at. This is all over
(12:16):
the place. I mean, people cheering. Some of these folks
are straight out. They may all be demonic, but some
of these folks, there's no doubt. I mean, they are
laughing with glee. They look like a character, an evil
character from a movie. Some of these folks, they looked
straight straight out of the pitze hell sort of stuff.
And so that's what's going on here, And that's the
(12:38):
the I guess, the lay of the land, if you will.
So on top of all of that going on, on
top of all that going on, on top of the
reluctance of some to say something, just don't say something
atrocious about Charlie Kirk. Just don't say something that is,
you know, vile and vult about his death. They can't
(13:02):
help themselves. This is what is going on. This is
the context of this. So then along comes Jimmy Kimmel
who makes these comments listening to hit.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Some New Low's over the weekend with the MAGA gang
desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them and do everything
they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, So that's that's the gist of it, right, So
that's first of all, he's he's calling for. He's claiming
that MAGA doesn't want to admit that the shooter was
one of them, one of us. I went through this yesterday.
I mean, just this never made since from day one.
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And by the way, as I've said, even if it did,
even even if he was MAGA, which pretty clearly the
guy's not. He he had negative, a negative, I guess tone,
negative things to say about his father. You could just
from the text messages. He said his dad had become
(14:07):
full blown MAGA or something to that extent. It's pretty
obvious that this guy is not sympathetic to MAGA. This
guy is has adopted a leftist ideology in a worldview,
and that and listen, as I've shared before, that may
mean a lot, they that may mean everything, but there
(14:30):
are crazy people, people that do heinous things on in
any group of people. The question is, and I go
back to this, the question is are the actions the
evil that is that is being taken or the evil
that's being committed. Are those things due too, are fed
by fueled by the ideology, or are they just examples
(14:53):
of people within a group carrying out some sort of
evil within their own hearts. And you have to look
at the bigger picture. And I would say the radical left.
I'm very careful with my words here. I don't mean
every Democrat, I don't mean every liberal. In fact, I
have an olive branch to extend to you today, my friends.
I'm not here to be at odds with you. I mean, yes,
(15:13):
we can fight about other political issues, but this is
about the survival of our nation. This is about restoring
goodness and decency to this country. Again, not to promote
abject evil. I encourage you to stand with me and
fully reject this stuff. These people have to be defeated politically.
(15:36):
They have to be They can't be allowed to continue
to steamroll the rest of us to try to intimidate.
They want to intimidate me, but some people they do intimidate.
We've got to stop that from happening. Because see what's
interesting is they're claiming everyone else is the fascist they
are the fascist They're the ones who are justifying the
(15:57):
use of violence, the use of firearms, high powered rifles
to kill their political opponents. They are by definition the fascists,
my friends. And so this is what Kimmel said the
affiliate stations. Of course, I said a certain group I
don't have I can't think of the name of that
(16:19):
of that group right now. Next Star, I think they
said we're not going to carry it. So then ABC
basically said we're going to what's THEE the technically what
they said is they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Here's the full Well,
here's some more of the quote. This is what I
played for you. We hit some new lows, he said
over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to
(16:42):
characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other
than one of them and doing everything they can to
score political points from it. Yes, he's at the fourth
stage of grief. He's talking about Trump. Here played a
SoundBite of Trump. Now, Trump was asked about Charlie Kirk.
Believe he was outside the Rose Garden, he was on
(17:02):
the White House grounds and he I don't know that,
even answered the question on the clip that I saw
was talking about the ballroom that they were building and
so forth, and so Kimmel says this, yes, talking about Trump.
He's at the fourth stage of grief construction. This is
not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he
(17:25):
called a friend. This is how a four year old
mourns a goldfish. Okay, I don't even like to say
these words. So that's what initiated all of this. That's
what caused all of this, And so people are crying
that this is a violation of free speech. Of course,
this comes not too far on the heels of Stephen
(17:46):
Colbert again, who they think. Again, if you get in
the mind of the leftists, they believe that they are
being targeted for saying things that are anti Trump, which
is remarkable to me because they've said these things without
any repercussion, even things that were defamatory against the present. Well,
some of them have had to pay the price, but
they've been talking poorly about this guy for a decade
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and now now they're acting like they're being silenced because
they oppose Trump. By the way, this is not what
it would look like if you were trying to silence
your media adversars. Do you realize how many negative sources
of media are out there? For Trump? This is one network.
And by the way, the cable news networks don't have
(18:32):
the same FCC requirements because they're going over cable news.
They're not competing for that limited those limited number of
broadcast signals, and so it's different. It's different for MS WELL, MSNBC, CNN,
it's different for Fox News. It's different for those folks
than for CBS, NBC, ABC. They're supposed to be providing
(18:53):
a community service. And there's requirements within the FCC that
will get to my friends here in in due course.
But here's the real, the real rub, the real rub
to determine if something is a violation of free speech,
if someone is taking away your free speech, it must
be taken away by the government. It must be taken
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away by the government. Now, initially until a ruling, until
the fourteenth Amendment actually was ratified. The first Amendment really
in the early days, was interpreted to only be the
federal The federal government cannot interfere with your freedom of speech.
That didn't mean that your employer couldn't. There could be
(19:35):
term I mean, that's that's a free contract or you know,
contractual employment agreement, whichever you have that you enter into
with your with your employer, whether you're a contractor whether
your employee you enter into that willingly. He or she,
whoever your employer is, does not have to accept all
(19:56):
types of behavior. I mean they can, they can make requirements.
Sometimes businesses companies do this, and people think that is
too much. I don't want to work there. They're trying
to control my life. Other times, because social media is
so prevalent today, they just have rules. Don't be out
there cheering the death of a person. Don't be out
there applauding when someone gets assassinated in front of three
(20:20):
thousand people and for the whole world to see on
the internet. Don't be cheering that. Don't be acting like
that is a good thing when he's just openly having conversation,
welcoming those with opposing viewpoints to come and share what
they think, to question him and everything else. Don't cheer
that stuff on. That's garbage, that's pure evil. We don't
(20:41):
want to be associated with that. And by the way,
companies are free to do that, and so that's what's
happening now. You have a lot of fallout because people said, all,
I'm just exercising my freedom of speech. Well, the government
didn't stop you. The government's not stopped any of this
from happening, nor should they, nor should they. And it
is a remarkable thing to me as someone who's I guess,
(21:01):
followed this my whole life. Sometimes, you know, when you
do something every day, whatever it is that you do,
whatever career that you have, maybe you're retired, whatever you've done,
you do it for so long and sometimes it's hard
to relate to someone who didn't do it. You sometimes
(21:22):
forget what you've learned. And I just to me, I'm
amazed that people don't understand what the First Amendment is.
The First Amendment does not prevent an employer from well
from basically giving you consequences that say you can't work
here if you use speech in such a way that
(21:44):
they find offensive. I don't understand why people don't understand
the difference between having the freedom to be able to
do something legally and then also understanding that there are
some things I just should not do even though I
can do them legally. So got to pause that to
talk about that. On the other side of the break
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Lots and lots of stuff to get to today. I
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through Thursday. Got some good guest hosts filling in those
so you'll be in good hands. But they've got some big,
big shoes to fill. As I've shared with you earlier, friends,
I want to remind you freedom Marketplace dot net. You
can go to Freedom Marketplace dot net and find a
list listings of conservative businesses who are pushing in the
(23:30):
same direction you are. Look, we fight this battle, this
battle that we're facing against the radical left, the extremest, rabid,
evil promoting radical left. We have this battle on multiple fronts.
In the government, yes, elections. We've got it. In the workplace.
We've got it in academia. We've got it. In schools.
(23:53):
We've got it with some teachers. We've got it with
some school board, some administrators. We've got it with some
folks in the quote unquote side tyfic community. I say
quote unquote because listen, they are acting many times as
simply as liberal I shouldn't say liberal. They act as
leftist mouthpieces, pushing out propaganda and so forth. So this
(24:16):
battle is being fought on many fronts, and one of
those places where we spend our money. So that's why
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find businesses that you can buy from do business with
that are not going to go out and oppose your
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Freedom Marketplace dot net. All right, So I want to
(24:42):
back up a little bit here. I want to back
up a little bit here and talk about the FCC.
I want to talk about the FCC. Brandon Brendan excuse me,
car was on on a podcast the other day and
he said, they talking about ABC, who of course is
(25:03):
responsible for Jimmy Kimmel. They have a license granted by
us at the FCC, and with that or that comes
with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.
He then said, we can do this the easy way,
or we can do this the hard way. Take action
(25:26):
or Kimmel. There's going to be additional work for the
FCC ahead. That's what he has said, according to quotes
cited at the Fox News. So, as I shared before,
as I shared before, the affiliates can refuse to air
the program. That's not a violation of the First Amendment.
(25:47):
For those who need me to say that. Now, depending
upon the contracts, which may or may not be the case.
If anything, it could be a violation of the contract,
or maybe it's not. But the affiliates have a direct
relationship with the network, and if the affiliates decide they
don't want to erit, that's not a violation of Jimmy
Kimmel's speech or ABC speech. Now, as I've said, and
(26:09):
as most of you know, but I have to say
this because people out there don't know. The first Amendment
is prevents Congress, prevents the federal government from silencing you.
Doesn't prevent affiliates from saying we don't want to be
associated with this garbage and this drivel. This guy is
(26:30):
being very disrespectful and being grotesque in his assessment of
the murder and the assassination of Charlie Kirk or whatever
the issue is. You have a right to say, we
don't want to be associated with that. So there are
rules with the FCC. These are eight year term licenses.
(26:50):
Eight year terms, I should say, you got to file
with the FCC. They've got to review compliance and all
this sort of stuff. The Public Interest Survey, the public
interest standards is this, stations must serve the public interest,
convenience and necessity. That includes local news issues, education and
(27:12):
information for kids, that sort of stuff. There are other
rules that come with having a broadcast license. Obscenity is
banned at all times. That's not protected speech. By the way,
indecency and profanity is restricted, especially in the daytime hours.
You get into the night time hours, late night, it's
a little bit different, but there are regulations for that.
(27:35):
When it comes to political broadcasting obligations, the FCC requires
that these networks provide reasonable access for federal candidates. Equal
opportunities rules in certain cases so that the station isn't
just promoting one candidate over another. There's a hoax or
false emergency rule that prohibits networks from knowingly broadcasting false
(28:01):
information about a crime or catastrophe likely to cause substantial
public harm. Boy, there's things that pop into my head
when I think about some reporting that's been done in
recent years, as it may pertain to that enforcement and
due process. Basically, the way that it works is a
complaint is filed, there's an enforcement Bureau investigation, they can
(28:26):
find networks, they can take other actions. At some point,
they can deny your license, so claiming or threatening to
take away a license is technically something that they can do,
but they can do it on the day. The FCC
can do it on very limited grounds. And what they
cannot do is to bar certain viewpoints, banning certain viewpoints,
(28:52):
punishing speech simply for being controversial or offensive. So that's
kind of a undown of what the FCC, what their
role is, what they can do. Obviously, you get to
some point. You got to be an attorney and you
got to look at a particular violation or alleged violation,
(29:13):
and then that's got to play out in the system, right.
I mean, there's a lot of ways that this could go,
but that's the structure. That's the structure of this. But
the FCC, in theory could look at taking the licenses
of these networks, which Trump is hinted at before, which
upsets some people, which I understand in one sense, you
don't want the government threatening to do something that looks
(29:35):
like silencing speech of people who are standing in your opposition. Likewise,
I understand that organizations and companies if they ceased, if
they violate the rules of the agreement, they violate the
FCC rules, then I mean, at some point those have
(29:57):
to be enforced or what is the point of having them?
So I don't know. The FCC has not been called
in here. I would prefer that to not be the case.
I'm not arguing for that. I'm just trying to give perspective.
That's what I try to do. You know, if you
can't argue, at least explain the other side's perspective a lot,
unless it's the radical lefts who've literally lost their minds
(30:19):
and they have no interest in truth. But when sometimes
there's just general disagreements, we know there's a line in
there somewhere that says the government shouldn't be silencing the media.
That's not what I want at all. I also know
that if there's requirements and rules and regulations that are
legitimate here and by the way, these are legitimate because
you have to This is again it's limited. It's not
(30:41):
like the Internet. There's a limited number of broadcast signals
and there are rules to be able to get those.
If they're not following those rules, if they are being
if they're engaging in propaganda, which candidly, candidly, I think
there's lots of examples out there of where the mainstream media,
which may at include network news, I mean, cable news
(31:03):
is again different, but I think that there's examples of
where sometimes there's just flat out lies that have been
reported by media outlets and where this may have legitimately
or may legitimately be an issue. So that's what's going
on with that. We're not in that realm yet, but
(31:25):
it's been mentioned, it's been threatened, but that's not what's happened.
I've shared with you what has happened. So how does
this differ, How does this differ from cancel culture? How
does accountability differ from cancel culture? Well, cancel culture is
this movement that says, if someone says anything with which
(31:46):
I disagree, I want to take them out. I want
to silence them, I want them to pay the price.
Accountability is when there are rules and you violate the
rules and you're given due process. You're given whatever that
looks like right, and due process can vary depending upon
(32:06):
you know, if it's if it's in a situation with
your company, right, the due process that my company is
they they can review what happened and then they can
make a determination as to whether or not something happens.
I get terminated, I get written up, whatever, And of
course if there's something more that involves the legal side
(32:28):
of things, that of course is a different process altogether.
But accountability isn't just trying to silence people. And that's
what cancel culture is. Cancel culture is they don't want
to have the fight. They say, oh, you're on the
other side. Let's get all of the people in our
group to not buy from you and to punish you accountability,
says man. If you're going to do things that are
(32:49):
completely you know, you have the right to say them,
but we also understand that these things are reprehensible and
that no one should use their freedom to gauge in
these sorts of things. Society can say that's not what
we want. We don't want people working for us like that.
I don't know. I've had a little bit of a
hesitation here, you know. Again, I've seen people who've gotten
(33:12):
folks fired for these things that they've said and the
cell it's grotesque, and some of these kids have been
expelled from school, from colleges. And I'm not against that.
There's a part of me that's like, man, you're you're
really harming your own life here. You've been given ample
opportunity to just to just shut up, to quit defacing
(33:34):
memorials and that sort of stuff. To uh, to quit
acting and like a fool, acting like you're demonic. In
some cases, I think these folks may be demonic. Just
because you can doesn't mean you should, And just because
you can doesn't mean there are not consequences. And that's
what we're dealing with here. That's what we're dealing with here.
(33:55):
The chickens are coming home to roost and I've gonna
take a time out, my friends, So tight back here
in just a minute. Welcome back my Friend's third and
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we talked about cancel culture. We talked about accountability, we're
talking here about free speech. It's government who is the
ones that can't limit free speech. They can't tell you
not to say something. That's where we want to pick
that pickup. I should say, my friends, But before I
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much of this in as we can, because there's such
a misunderstanding about free speech. We'll probably elaborate more on
this as as as we can with the time I'm available,
but I'll do my best to rush through this, not rush,
(36:03):
but as quickly as I can. Here. So we talked
about cancel culture versus accountability, and of course there's more
to it. We could probably do a whole segment or
maybe even a whole show on that, but suffice it
to say, cancel culture is really designed to intimidate, to
silence people with different political beliefs. Accountability is about holding
(36:24):
people to account for actions that people can decide and
just based upon their own understanding of morality and what's
good in a free society. To say we don't want
there's consequences for that. You can't work here if you're
celebrating the death of someone, if you don't like him,
if you want to argue against this political beliefs. Fine,
(36:46):
you've been able to work here the whole time that
you've been here, right, we've in many cases they know
you're a leftist or a liberal. Fine, but you can't
be crossing the lines where you're now impugning the reputation
of the company that you're working for so that is
(37:07):
the difference. Of course, there's much more, but I just
I have to get through this quickly, and I want
to touch on as many of these things as I can,
because there's been other examples of platforms, social media platforms
that have tried to silence conservatives. And someone on the
left would say, now, wait a minute, that's a private company.
They should be able to do what they want, and
I would say, I agree with that. They should be
(37:28):
able to do what they want. Those things should be
written in their terms of service. They shouldn't be telling
us that they're a platform that's for free speech when
they selectively manipulate their terms of service to basically silence
the opinions of people with whom they disagree. I think
that happened to me on a couple of social media platforms.
(37:50):
I think that happened to me with YouTube in twenty
twenty one, mostly over my listen. I just talked about
January sixth in general. I didn't get into any of
the conspiracy stuff or some of the weeds on that.
I just talked about perspective on it, and I got
videos taken down. I got videos taken down. I believe
(38:12):
for covid commentary as well, for simply asking questions, why
do we insist that mask work when the evidence suggests
that they don't. Why is there a forceful vaccination all
this stuff? Why just asking those questions I got silenced.
I would argue that, in my opinion, they violated their
terms of service. They could say they could say, look,
(38:35):
this is a platform where you can't say anything bad
about covid, And if they say that, then I can't
do that. I agree to their terms and service. But
if they say, hey, here's a platform for you to communicate,
share your ideas and all that sort of stuff, and
I share my idea and they say, well, we don't
like that idea, we're gonna silence you. And you say, well,
(38:56):
that's not what you told me. The rules of the
game were there. Now in violation if that happens, they're
in violation of that contract that they had me signed,
that we agreed in, that we entered into. That's why
you'll find on some occasions, I mean, maybe not that specifically,
but you'll find class action lawsuits sometimes against social media
companies for violating their terms of service and so forth.
(39:19):
So again, it's like a referee who changes the rules.
If you're we played basketball here in the Huffout or Hoosiers,
we play soccer too, well, I say we, I don't
the kids do, but can't You can't say in a
soccer match. I learned that. By the way, it's not
a soccer game. You can't stay in a soccer match
(39:42):
midway through. Hey, you know you can use your feet,
just your feet unless you're the goalie the first half
and then the second half. The kids running down the
pitch at something else I've learned with the ball and
you say, well, now they can just use their hands. Well,
when did that rule change? Right, we were playing soccer.
There's a specific things you can and cannot do. The
rules can't be changed midstream. On top of that, the
(40:06):
last thing I can get to is there is there
can be stipulations on First Amendment rights, freedom of speech
rights if you're an employee, an employee of a government institution.
So for example, if you're an employee of a public school,
I just looked at our school's social media policy. It
(40:28):
talks about you cannot engage in defaming other people in
the school district or in the school community. And so
some would say, well, that's a violation of my free speak. Well,
you don't have the right to defame people to begin with. Anyway,
you get the idea. I'm just out of time. I
wanted to discuss that today, folks. I'll see you in
a week. SDG
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