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Our main man, Clay, taking a day to speak to conservative youth up in Michigan. So just me today, Mr. Buck the Buckster is a man of many names, including James, which is his first name. We shall dive into all of the latest news. The Jimmy Kimmel not quite firing, I think, but indefinite suspension, which sounds a bit like it could turn into a firing. Some very interesting updates on that. Some things you need to know about that whole situation. We are looking at that as not only an indicator of where things are, but perhaps as a harbinger of things to come in the media ecosystem. It's a, it's a new world in this Trump 2.0. There's a new sheriff in town. His name is Donald Trump. And all of his people in this administration. We shall discuss something that makes me want to go back and pull from. I think it was the January of this past year after the election, Clay said, who do I think the Democrats are going to rally behind? And there was a day when I said very early on, I, I know people will say this is crazy, but it's going to be very likely, I think that AOC Alexandria Ocasio Cortez will become the Democrat, if not nominee, a darling of that Democrat primary campaign. And sure enough, already a story out in. I think it's Axios here about how AOC is eyeing a presidential run. Remember, I think it was just a couple of days ago Clay pointed this out. He helped me with the math on this one. We're 15 months out from this. We're not far at all from this isn't. Oh, I'm talking about who the nominee is going to be. And we're years in advance of this mattering. No, because they're going to have an open primary and we can't have, you know, there's not going to be an incumbent on the, on either side, obviously. So it's gonna be very interesting. But aoc, we'll discuss that a little bit. Kamala Harris's book making more waves because people are finding parts of it that are, well, maybe a little too honest about some things. And that's a surprise, isn't it? I had to ask the team, do I need to read Kamala's Book am I going to do that? Clay? Read the, the Jake Tapper, the Fake Tapper book about original sin, I think it was. So he brought us that. Maybe I should have to read Kamala's book. I'll, I'll see about that one. So we'll discuss also some very interesting, very interesting details to get into about, well, about the situation of these companies like Disney and how they view what is going on, what is going on with the American people right now and how they recognize that they can't continue to just antagonize half of the country. This ties into Kimmel thing and we'll discuss this. So we got some Harris stuff, some AOC stuff like let's dive into Jimmy Kimmel right now. I want to share with you. Here is the heart of the issue is the that he said something stupid, that he's a jerk, that he is not good at what he does, and that a private company took action against him. The story that the Democrats are trying to make the center of all this, what they are trying to focus on is they're saying, oh, the First Amendment, the government, all of a sudden they care about the First Amendment. They certainly didn't care about the First Amendment during COVID when private corporations were being leaned on, I mean practically metaphorical gun to the head of these social media platforms from the Biden administration saying, go after this person, shut them down, go after that person, shut them down. And the Supreme Court in a horrible decision just earlier this year said, yeah, sorry, you can't prove that those companies did it because of that government pressure. Government pressure alone is not enough. Well, it turns out the more we find out about this situation, it isn't even government pressure. This is just the people at Disney are waking up to the realities here of the media marketplace. I bring you my friends, the Wall Street Journal's reporting on this. They write the following soon after Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr blasted late night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks related to the killing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Executives at ABC and parent company Disney knew they had a big problem. Kimmel during his Monday show had criticized how President Trump and some other Republicans were responding to the fatal shooting. Carr suggested during a podcast appearance two days later the FCC could take action against the broadcast licenses of ABC owned stations. Advertisers and affiliates soon called the network expressing concern over Kimmel. Show executives at Sinclair and Nexstar, owners of more than 60 local ABC stations, told network leaders after Carr's remarks they would indefinitely preempt the show Starting that night, moves that would hobble the program's reach. Kimmel had planned to address Carr's comments on his own show Wednesday night, according to people familiar with the matter. Before his on air appearance, Dana Walden, co chairman of Disney Entertainment, spoke to the host about his plan. The people said after the conversation between Kimmel and Walden, she and other senior executives thought the star's approach could make the situation worse. Executives also discussed staff safety, threatening emails on Kimmel show, et cetera, et cetera. Walden huddled with her team and Disney chief executive Bob Iger before they temporarily decided to take Jimmy Kimmel live off the air and inform Kimmel of the decision. Look, this is the truth. Jimmy Kimmel isn't worth the headache, isn't talented, isn't getting good ratings, isn't making them money. And Disney made this choice and Disney has a right to make this choice. You know, this is so straightforward. The people who are saying that this is a free speech issue. Hold on a second. I can't come on this radio show and say crazy things. I mean, I could, but then my company, iheart has a right to take action. Cuz that's who I work for, right? This is the reality. It's true of all the hosts, you know, on Fox News. Now if I came on this show and said crazy things and the government, I mean, when I say crazy, obviously not. You can't threaten people's lives and things like that. But I just mean things that bring you into public disrepute, things that offend your own audience, things that are beyond the pale. It can't lock me up for that. That's the First Amendment. That's what the First Amendment means. It doesn't mean that a company can't fire me. And obviously, and Disney is a company, as you all know, that has made a lot of very bad, very woke decisions stretching for quite some time. And now they're trying to turn Jimmy Kimmel, rather the left, not Disney, trying to turn Jimmy Kimmel into some free speech martyr. He's a jerk. He's a jerk. He told his audience on Monday. Remember we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. As I said, this would be like saying, you know, John, John Wilkes Booth, huge Abraham, you know, huge Abraham Lincoln fan, big supporter of abolition and the north and the war. I mean, it doesn't get any dumber. And it's. And it was so. It's a lie on Top of being deeply offensive. And it just was really a last straw situation. Right? It was, it was. People have had enough of him. And this is something that we need to be very clear about with conservatives in the media. We have said things that are factually true. We have said things that no person who is emotionally stable and reasonable would be offended by and been fired or taken off the air or, you know, whatever it may be by these different companies. There's been this double, there's been a double standard for a long time, but we have not argued that there can be. There's zero standard, cuz that's completely unworkable. Right? It's one thing to say, hey, I shouldn't be fired from my job because I refuse to refer to a guy with, with female pronouns. Cuz that's just the truth. Right? That's just the truth. And if it offends the left, too bad, but that is the truth. It's another thing to say that you could go into your boss or you know, you could go on air and trash your own boss on the air. Let's just say, and expect that there'd be no consequences. Like that's, you can't have a company that way. It's insane. This is all very straightforward, but they are desperate, desperate to turn this into some big free speech. The left doesn't care about free speech at all. They're the ultimate authoritarians. They're the ultimate authoritarians. And if we live in a, in a society, they're the only authoritarians. If we live in a society where only conservatives face consequences for speech. Why would the Democrats stop doing what they do if they never suffer? So we go to the mat. We create an unrealistic standard of defending them, which would be, which would cover someone like Jimmy Kimmel. He, of course he should be taken off the airport. He said he's a moron and it's a lie and it's disgraceful. But we're going to, we're going to defend that when it comes to a private company. Again, not the government. If the Trump administration had, you know, sent in federal agents and, and thrown Jimmy Kimmel in a cell for what he said, okay? I mean, that's a First Amendment issue. Disney saying this guy's a loon and he's going to make it worse and we're taking him off the air cuz we pay him a whole lot of money and he's not worth it. That's called commerce. But Stephen Colbert, he doesn't see it that way. Here he is saying this was cut 3. What a shock that Stephen Colbert doesn't see it that way. Cut three. We're all Jimmy Kimmel. Play it. Welcome down here, up there, all around the world. Welcome one and all to the Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. But tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel. No, only you are Jimmy Kimmel in that you, Stephen Colbert, are also a wildly overpaid, snide, underperforming, left wing jerk. And I think this is something else you have to remember with all this. They've betrayed their craft. They have betrayed their craft of comedy. And I know that's not the biggest issue, but it does bother me. These are people who are, who have a. You know, I come to this show every day and I think it is a blessing, the fact that I. With Clay, of course, Clay's out today, but the fact that we get to speak to you, I view as a gift every, every single day, every hour, believe it or not. And I really, really feel. I know you believe it, but I really feel this way. It's a gift. It's amazing. I get to do this for a living. And so I try to do the absolute best job that I can every day. And I try to serve you, this audience that Rush built every day. I cannot believe how self indulgent, how narcissistic and just nasty people like Colbert and Kimmel are. Because remember, there are people that would have tuned into those shows who just wanted some lightness and laughter at the end of their day. And they get mocked, their beliefs are ridiculed. Not in a way that's intended to bring people to laugh, but that's intended to placate the sensibilities of a very small and very nasty contingent, really, of coastal America, you know, blue state America that isn't interested in laughing together, but wants to laugh at because of their own insecurities, their own inability to debate, their own lack of self awareness. And so Kimmel has just been pandering to that, as has Stephen Colbert. So, yeah, they're very similar. And late night TV has been in a decline for years because of all this. Conservatives have been saying this. The right. I have been saying it. Clay has been saying it. All of us in the conservative media, the right wing media, whatever you want to call it, we've been saying this for years. These guys aren't comedians anymore. They are crappy political pundits who have people that also write jokes for them. So they don't have the responsibility of having to be knowledgeable or insightful. About anything. Oh, I'm just a comedian. Clown nose on, clown nose off. This is what Jon Stewart used to do, although he actually was a little bit funnier than these two. And what he did, even more dishonest in many ways. But at least occasionally you'd get a chuckle out of it. But this is the game that they play. Oh, I, you know, Jimmy Kimmel can go on the air. Jimmy Kimmel can cry about Cecil the Lion and then make a nasty comment in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination. And anybody who is a normal American is going to see this guy and think that he's, he's a, he's a good dude. He's somebody that you want to, you know, cozy up on the couch with the wife, the husband, the kids, and watch at the end of the night. Of course not. Disney figured this out and Disney took some action. Now we'll see what Disney does going forward on this one, but I don't see this at all as some first amendment issue. I am not concerned about this. 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This is about where the national media is on these, on these issues, or I should say the national corporate media media ecosystem is trending. And it seems like they have started to realize that letting people just wildly offend half the country who aren't even drawing a big audience, who are not even good at their job, isn't worth it. Market decisions. I like it. Cause and effect capitalism. This is podcast listener Tom, for example, from South Carolina. This is a, a play it remind these people, will you, that South a one billion dollar contract renewed and he or they destroy Trump. They goof on everybody. Kimmel is just not funny. Neither is Fallon or the rest of them. Yes, they're just not good at this. That's the point. This is very obvious. You know, I remember for a while, you know, libs used to make this argument too. They're like, well, if you were more popular on social media, you'd have bigger social media following conservatives. And, and then we found out that they were actually putting their hand on the scale and an algorithm and shadow banning. And so they were cheating while they were saying it's a fair fight. You know, this was the early days of Twitter, for example, or maybe the mid to early days of Twitter. Perfect example of this. You'd have these people, you'd say, how does. I've never even heard of this. Some writer for like the Nation or you know, the New Republic or something. No one, no one knows who this person is. All, all their tweets are showing up, right? They had a rigged game and they were complaining that we were complaining about it being rigged. Libs. Funny stuff. What can you do? All right. Living in Florida, we get a lot of storm warnings. Sometimes the power goes out, which is why having rapid radios is just part of my preparation plan. These are modern Day walkie talkies that connect to the LTE network. Sometimes it's not even a storm. 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You know who's not worried about getting canceled, you know, is not worried, is Greg Gutfeld and his team over there. You know why? Because they're successful and a lot of people watch the show. Those two things, of course, go hand in hand. They have a big audience that they serve well. Right. They, they give them time and attention. The audience gives time and attention. Greg and his team give commentary, laughs. And you know, they, they fulfill their end of the bargain. And so, yeah, they're, they're fine. You notice they're not all worried about it. So why are we supposed to sit around and cry tears for these overpaid jerks? And I want to know too. People say, well, Buck, you say you like the free market, but then you say that they're overpaid. Yeah. Because these shows in many cases are insulated from the actual financial realities that they exist under. Right. You know, you can tell me somebody could be a trust fund kid spending all of mommy and daddy's money on Ferraris and Lamborghinis and boats. A lot of that going on down here in Miami, by the way. And that doesn't mean that they have, you know, I can say, well, they don't have good financial sense and what they're doing doesn't impress me. They have a right to do it. But it's not because they're so good with money. It's not because they've worked so hard. And when you look at people like Kimmel and Colbert. There were executives who decided in these companies to give them these spots and to give them these contracts based on their just, you know, their whimsical. And you can say, well, where does all this money come from? How could Colbert be running at such a loss? Well, because the Colbert show is owned by ultimately Comcast. So your cable fees that you pay for or your Internet fees if you don't have cable or I know this is bundled together in, by, you know, tens of millions of people that some of that money gets siphoned off like some art house project or something for the Colbert show to make up for the difference. That's how it goes. It used to even be the case, I might add, that on the networks like ABC News and the Peter Jennings days and the Dan Rather days at CBS Evening News and all this going back decades, those newsrooms were supposed to operate or got, were, you know, allegedly supposed to operate effectively at a revenue neutral level. So it was like, it was like artistic. You know, the news that they were offering at ABC News at night was not supposed to be a huge moneymaker necessarily. The rest of the channels or the rest of the programming was. They offered the news as like a, a thing that was a public service almost. Right? And so you look at, at Colbert, you look at Kimmel and these guys, I mean, they're all making like 15 to 20 million bucks in salary, lecture everybody about how terrible Trump is and everything. But, you know, I wonder how much of these, I wonder how much of the money that these guys make, they, they give to charity or if they don't, if they don't care about, you know, the high taxes of Democrats. I just, I wonder about that sometimes. You'll notice this. The people that whine the most about those of us who want to keep our money from the government's grasp are very graspy themselves when it comes to their own money. So that's not, that's not a surprise. Okay, here we have David Letterman saying, and you guys know this one place, Clay and I disagree. Clay like Letterman. I don't. I think Letterman is a smug lib. I've, I've never thought he was funny. If you know his backstory, by the way, the guy is a jerk. He's not a good guy. And it's just I, I've always gotten a better energy from. I always knew Jay Leno doesn't dislike conservatives. Letterman always disliked conservatives. Letterman always was one of these, one of these types. So here you have David Letterman stepping In giving his analysis of something when he shouldn't be analyzing anything, he's just not very smart. Play 11. I feel bad about this because we all see where this is going, correct? It's managed media and it's no good. It's silly, it's ridiculous. And you can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That's just not how this works. No, you actually can Letterman. You actually can. The people I read to you from that Wall Street Journal report, the people making the decisions, the same people who are empowered to overpay the likes of Kimmel and for a long time, I would say the likes of Letterman, but the likes of Kimmel and I know his show was successful, but he had so much less competition too. There's this whole, the media environment has changed so much. You have a lot of these people who, you know, like the Letterman's and the Katie Couric's, like all titans of industry, Katie Couric has tried many times to become relevant again. And you know, doing podcasts and whatever, these people just managed to burrow into these corporate media entities and suck up to the right people to get the job they needed to get to get the perch and the perks that they wanted at a time when there wasn't free and clear competition. You know, you can listen to me here on this show, you can listen to truly a million different podcasts, but you choose to listen to this show because you're smart and patriotic and have discernment and good taste. But there's so many options out there now. It didn't exist before, right? There weren't all these options for people. So if you were able to just convince someone in power to give you that job without having to necessarily prove your track record, you could, you could end up being Jimmy Kimmel, you could end up being Stephen Colbert. And so funny to Colbert really came to prominence by doing a spin off of our friend Uncle Bill O'Reilly. And that show actually was, was amusing sometimes. But that's the only thing that Colbert's ever done that's amusing, is pretending to be a conservative. And he wasn't even that good at that. But there were some funny moments on that show. He's never been good at doing the late night comedy show of his own. But that you have David Letterman saying you can't fire somebody because you're fearful. Yeah, you can. Actually. The same executives that hired Colbert could have hired or hired Kimmel. They've hired a hundred different comedians. They chose him. They can get rid of him. They think that what he's saying is ticking off that audience. They have every right, every right to say, see you later, sayonara. And that's what they at least seems like. They're probably angling in that direction. I also think it tells you a lot that Kimmel was approached by management. This just goes to the sense of entitlement, too. Just these babies, they have no gratitude for what they have been given. You know, Jimmy Kimmel, this guy very easily could be. Could have been somewhere and, you know, like, running an unsuccessful pizzeria or something. You know, the fact that he's been able to have this career, he's very lucky, all right. He's very lucky. Look, I think I'm lucky. I mean, a lot of, you know, you're. If you're in this world of media and you can make a living, you know, this. We're not digging ditches here. You know, this is pretty. This is pretty light work, as a lot of things go. The fact that he has just no gratitude at all for it. And that when the. And throws his weight around and that when the executives say, hey, buddy, we got a problem here. His approach to it was to figure out a way to go on air and make it worse. He's going to make it worse. Not going to issue some apology. No, no. Gonna just tell everybody what he really thinks. You know, he's gonna stand up for his beliefs or. He's a moron. He's a moron. Truly. And a lot of people told me this, too. I think it showed you. Did he cry after Charlie Kirk was shot at any point talking about it? He's talking about an American icon. A young man, 31 years old, a husband, a father, a son. Just a truly decent and inspiring human being just brutally murdered in front of all of us. We all saw the video. That doesn't move. It moved me to emotion. It moved Clay to emotion. And so many of you. That didn't move Jimmy Kimmel to emotion, but the shooting of a lion in Africa did. That makes him tear up. That is sad. And that he will. I think he was trying to, like, raise money for it for, like, animal conservation or something, too. There's something very wrong here. And Disney, which is a company that does have to have a very big consumer base, made a decision that makes sense, and that is that. Let me also remind you, all these people now, all these free speech wars, all free. The notion of Brian Stelter as A warrior for anything, you know, I mean Brian Stelter is a, is a warrior for super sized fries. Like, I don't know what do you think this guy's here I am going to talk about the first Amendment. Speaking of somebody who, look, he had his job @ CNN on TV and you know, I don't like, I don't like to be mean, but he, he does deserve it because he looked like Jeff Zucker. And Jeff Zucker was the guy making the decisions about who gets a job at cnn. Look at him, he's like a Zucker mini me. So Zucker saw Stelter and he's like, that guy's handsome. We got to give him a show. And here he is telling Everybody back in 2021 when they were going after Fox News because they were, you know, their team was in charge. This is Costelter now is all upset about what's going on, as are others. Oh my gosh, the free speech, the first Amendment. They were saying this about Fox News and cable carriers and consequences for fox news. Play Clip 9 well, some cry cancel culture. Let me suggest a different way to think about this. A harm reduction model. Most people want clean air and blue skies and accurate news and rational views. And then in that healthy environment looks beautiful. Then we can have great fights about taxes and regulation and health care and all the rest. The vast majority of people can agree that disinformation about, let's say the pandemic is unhealthy, it's harmful. So how can that harm be reduced? Well, big tech platforms say they are removing lies about vaccines and stamping out stop the steel BS and QAnon cult content. Now, do these private companies have too much power? Sure. And many people would say yes, of course they do. But reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach. And algorithmic reach is part of the problem. Reducing a liar's reach is not the same thing as censoring freedom of speech. It's not about reach. It's about speech. Not about speech, it's about reach. Please, please. First of all, the things that people are saying about vaccines, especially in terms of one, the mandates were monstrous and stupid and two, they didn't even, the vaccines didn't even work. They didn't. Oh, the only, the only vaccine that we've ever been told in history, get it and you'll still get sick. But you know, no big deal, you'll all still get sick. You'll all still get the you'll all still get the virus and it wasn't gonna kill very many of you at all anyway. But, you know, kill like 1 in 10,000 people who get it, but sure get the vaccine anyway. Madness. Madness. This is the reality, though, of what you deal with with these Democrats. They think that we can't go back on the Internet and find what their perspectives were on these same issues but a moment ago. And we can. And sorry, guys, our team's in charge now. So too bad you don't get away with the same stuff you used to get away with. Like I said, there's no constitutional issue here. Disney made the choice and the Supreme Court made it clear that private corporation, if it just wants to be on the good side of the government and makes its own decision on something, cause it feels like it, well, that's the way it is. So that's the way it's gonna be. Too bad for. Too bad for Kimmel. But the dozens of people who I'm sure found his content super funny every night, they might be a little bit upset. Too bad for them. Look, I think there's a forthcoming opportunity for Main street investors. 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And then all of a sudden he becomes holier than thou and like a typical liberal, it just becomes a hypocrite. And so that was, that's what I wanted to say. Yeah, it's, it's not. Thank you so much. Totally agree with your points, Eric. I, I watched, I, I can't say I was a watcher and they like Nightly Sense, but I remember certainly in like early in high school, in junior high, I would turn on sometimes if I could get away with it. My parents didn't know I was still up. I would watch the tonight, the, the Jay Leno show. And I, I enjoyed it. I always found it to be funny. And he just, he had a nice way about him and it never felt like his jokes were mean spirited. And so, yeah, I think that's the way it's supposed to be. That's what I mean by those other guys betray their craft. Like they're supposed to really just try to make people laugh. And Jimmy Kimmel was going on TV to make people who live in Democrat cities, you know, the enclaves of Democrat total control, feel superior to people in flyover country every night. I mean, that was really what he was going for. It's gross. It's gross. Kathy in Roanoke, Virginia, what's going on? Kathy? Hey, I was just thinking that perhaps this is all a cracker barrel moment for Jimmy Kimmel. He was quote unquote, suspended, we don't know for how long. And now, you know, the gems in the left are frothing at the mouth and making his name out there and putting his name out there is good PR for him. Maybe he'll pick up some viewers after all this is said and done if they put him back on the air. Personally, I don't watch the man and I just think what he said was reprehensible. But it could be that this might work out in his favor. I hate to think, Kathy, I appreciate your outside the box thinking. I don't think so on this one. I think he's, I don't think he's going to pick. I don't think anyone's going to say, oh well I, this Jimmy Kimmel guy said a horrible thing. So now I'm going to watch him, you know. And I don't think Libsy even find him particularly funny. He's because he's got look, he's also got a lot of competition. There are all these other shows and they all stink. So the whole, this whole world of these late night comedy shows I think has been, like I said, Gunfeld show doing great. No worries about that because it's a good show. Anyway, thanks for calling in, Kathy. We'll get more calls, more on all this. Also some really troubling updates on the ideology of that Charlie Kirk assassin. We'll talk about it. Stop settling for weak sound. It's time to level up your game and bring the boom. Hit the town with the ultra durable LG X Boom portable speaker and enjoy vibrant sound wherever you go. Elevate your listening experience to new heights because let's be real, your music deserves it. 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