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Ep. 410 - Senate Confirms 48 Nominations at Once, National Guard to Combat Antifa, Kimmel Canned
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The U.S. Senate passes vote to confirm 48 Trump nominations at once, after months of Senate Minority Leader Schumer's stalling. The House fails to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
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Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal nationally. Syed first on wibc. As many of you who have watched the show before will know, there is a popular sound bite that I cannot stop but reflect and consider it especially matters today. It is from 2013, but I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself today. There are three things, not four, three that are being whined about by the majority of legacy journalists, network anchors and Democrat officials, and not to mention the angry old liberal lady that you know from down the street. They are very, very upset about three things in particular. Number one, the Senate rule change which allowed 48 Trump nominees to be confirmed at once. Number two, they are furious that President Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, have designated Antifa a terrorist organization. And number three, Brendan Carr's Federal Communications Commission and the Jimmy Kimmel stuff. So we've actually packed out a big show for everyone this evening because we have Julio Rosas, the riot reporter himself, to talk a little bit about Antifa in detail. We've got Chris Lush to talk a little bit about the fcc. Right now, let's dig into what I had mentioned at the beginning. There is one quote that rings true, regardless of what he may or may not have turned into. In 2013, when the Senate majority leader at the time, Harry Reid, was leading the Democrat Senate, they decided on this fancy little thing in Senate nomination procedure called the nuclear option, which meant that from that point going forward, no longer would you need 60 votes in the Senate to confirm a nomination from the President of the United States. Instead, all you would need is 51 votes. It was a very unprecedented rule change. And instead of wagging his finger and going, oh, you're not following the rules, Mitch McConnell at the time said a particular quote that would become the driving theme for the next two decades of American politics.
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Say to my friends on the other.
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Side of the aisle, you'll regret this. And you may regret it a lot.
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Sooner than you think, to my friends.
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On the other side of the aisle, you may regret this, and a lot sooner than you might think. And that is the driving theme right now in this country. And it has the left furious, because the left has relied on broken rules as their standard as their default option for the last 10 to 15 years at least. And these broken rules have been ones that Republicans have not played by. They have stayed tried and true and the bigger man and, you know, staying very above board and. And were getting curb stomped by individuals who were playing increasingly less by the rules and more by revolution, by violent censorship, by investigating and arresting political opponents, et cetera, ad nauseam. Well, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, had taken the Senate nomination confirmation process in which the president nominates someone to fill some type of cabinet roll position, not just major secretary level, but smaller positions as well as. Now, look, after you get past the first five or ten big cabinet level positions in prior administrations, Republican and Democrat, everyone essentially said, yeah, all right, the second assistant postal director of mail to your mom. Okay, great, we're going to rubber stamp them, send them on through. Fine. Chuck Schumer, in his effort to stop Trump in any way possible, started bringing every single nominee up to the full hullabaloo of committee hearings and dragging them in front, having them answer all these questions as though the second third cousin to the dog catcher is going to be the make or break for the entire country. And it held up the entire process. And given as Democrats right now, like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are making a big deal about a possible government shutdown because, oh, the government isn't running properly, it's kind of interesting that they are in the middle of holding up the entire governmental process. And so finally, Senate Majority Leader John Thune decided, you know what, we're going to do a little rule change here, and decided to Rubber stamp confirm 48 nominees all at once. Here is what that looked like today on this vote.
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The yeas are 51 and the nays.
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Are 47 and the nominations on block are confirmed. Thank you.
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Now, there are a couple of very important, obviously the most important individuals possible. So friend of the show, Kimberly Guilfoyle, she is now the ambassador to Greece. I know. Yeah. Probably needed at least eight confirmation hearings. You probably needed that lady who held her hand up righteously about Brett Kavanaugh to sniff the air a little bit. Probably needed Ilhan Omar to do some stamping and preaching. We'll talk about that here in just a little bit. But no, again, you end up breaking the rules. And now individuals getting moved through, for example, like E.J. anthony, which has now been appointed to the Trump administration. It's incredible to see the people that are currently in the form of government governing by a republic with rules that are in Play. Now that sounds like a lot of word salad. What do I mean? The rules have been broken and now there are a lot of people clutching their pearls over things changing. One of these is, of course, that Antifa. Last night, the best news I have heard in months. What I voted for was Antifa, the violent collection of terror cells around this country which have been responsible for numerous murders, brutal attacks, vandalism, burning down entire city blocks, threatening yours truly and my family, and responsible for killing my friends. That group is now classified as a terror organization. That is one of the best moves from the Trump administration. It should have been done a long time ago. From the president last night, I am pleased to inform our many USA Patriots that I am designating Antifa, a sick, dangerous, radical left disaster as a major terrorist organization. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is a crucial, crucial order from what is not just the Trump president executive office, but also from the Secretary of State's office. Because this now gives a large bevy of legal, legal standing to send, for example, the National Guard into Portland. Why would the National Guard need to go into Portland? Producer Nick well, I'm glad you asked. Portland over the last month and a half has had a group of Antifa individuals with again, detailed cells with websites that say, this is the organization of this chapter of Antifa who have been essentially laying siege to federal buildings in Portland. Here was the president on that less than two weeks ago.
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I will say this. I watched today. I didn't know that was continuing to go on.
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But Portland is unbelievable.
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What's going on in Portland, the destruction of the city? Well, I'm going to look at it.
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Now because I didn't know that was still going on. This has been going on for years.
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He's correct. Now, the amount of violence that continues to persist. We'll have to get into a conversation with Julio Rosas. In short, there are two arguments that the left is running with based on this, that they're wringing their hands over. Number one, they are making the claim, what they think is a great political point, but what is in reality a really, really embarrassingly bad political point. They say, well, antifa stands for anti fascist. And in World War II see it actually anti fascist, like they were fighting the Nazis. So that means that now it's just anyone who's against fascism, they're good. This is the same logic that people who are in favor of the KU Klux Klan used to suggest that when the Ku Klux Klan was originally founded, oh, it was a fraternity and about keeping your neighborhood safe. It has nothing to do with lynching black people. It's the exact same argument and it's awful. Just because the North Korean regime has the name the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea does not mean that the people own a free and fair democracy in North Korea. It turns out that Beijing's army, the People's Liberation army, has never once liberated a Tham Dang. And so now when you look at the current situation of Antifa and you look up any footage, any footage of Antifa, you'll never see major networks playing this footage of the burning, of the rioting, of the looting, of the beating. I aired some of this footage from Andy Ngo, who's been covering this extensively and has been attacked violently for it multiple times. This kind of of rote evidence that the Democrats are going to ring their hands over will come back to bite them in the butt. We'll talk about that with Julio in just a couple of minutes. First though, we have to unfortunately send the radio crew off to commercial before we get into the latest on Jimmy Kimmel Palooza. I know you and I are both so excited. It's the Tony Kindet cast here on the Daily Signal. Now, while the radio crew is away, Jimmy Kimmel will not play because he's been pulled from the air. So as a quick reminder, Jimmy Kimmel, who hasn't been funny for years and years because unlike the great work of Johnny Carson and other great late night hosts throughout history, Jimmy Kimmel stopped doing anything relating to comedy or entertainment and just proceeded to wax eloquently about how wonderful of a liberal he was to the point where the only comedy that ever found its way into his show was just making fun of the most gruesome, awful stuff. The comments in question that come up just to play them again, Jimmy Kimmel's comments on the identity of the assassin of Charlie Kirk and then how the country was responding.
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We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this. This kid who murdered Charlie Kirk is anything other than one of them.
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And by the way, at the time this clip had been recorded the full information reported by including left leaning outlets, they were already in a full confirmation publishing point to recognize that it was a far left shooter, not a mag shooter, whatever that means. But Kimmel's gonna stick the landing by talking about the White House everything they.
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Can to score political points.
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From it.
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In between the finger pointing, there was grieving.
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On Friday, the White House flew the.
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Flags at half staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this.
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My condolences on the loss of your friend, Charlie Kirk. May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir? I think very good.
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And by the way, right there, you.
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See all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been.
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Trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years.
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And it's going to be a beauty.
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So Kimmel then mocks the President's response, which again, the President giving a statement later, not taking questions about that at the time, only taking questions about the White House construction, despite again the kind of repetitive question style. He said that's how a four year old mourns a goldfish, not how someone mourns the death of a friend. And this resulted in nexstar pulling the plug. And since then, by the way, ABC firing Jimmy Kimmel. Now there's been a lot of speculation that has come from the woodwork and metal work and every other kind of work. And I said this at the time, I said this yesterday when the news broke, as soon as a New York Times reporter came out and said, oh, there's like a six billion dollar merger deal that's in question. And the FCC chairman, Brendan Karr, he's made some threats, you saw a lot of noticing come out. And the left immediately staked their entire reputation on the Stephen Colbert censorship theory. Again, the argument that, well, the FCC is trying to censor its opponents. And so what they're going to do is they're going to convince networks to kick off the lowest rated hosts on their network to silence people. It doesn't make any mathematical sense. And of course, we'll get in to some of those details with Chris Lesh here in just a little bit. I do want to show you Biden nominated FCC commissioner Anna Gomez because in response to Kimmel's clip, she points out, well, I, I didn't see anything that was incorrect. Nothing, nothing was a lie that Kimmel said to me. FCC together, you work with him, he went out and said this.
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So I think we really need to.
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Make very clear that the First Amendment does not allow us, the fcc, to tell broadcasters what they can broadcast. That's not true. By the way. The First Amendment does allow those on licensed spectrum to be regulated. Even though I don't like FCC regulation in what it is that they broadcast regarding both the reporting of the news and electoral interference, along with, for example, not being allowed to commit slander or libel. She's just wrong. And these aren't hard to read laws. These are written in simple English. Personally, I'd rather not speak ill of the dead, but I understand Jimmy Kimmel is a satirist and a comedian. I saw the clip.
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He did not make any unfounded claims. But he did make a joke.
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Okay, that's just not true. That's not true. He made an unfounded claim about the identity of the shooter and then he didn't make a joke. He was just scornful. We've got to bring the radio crew back. We're going to talk about it a little more. It's the Tony Kenned cast. Don't go anywhere.
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It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYPC. The real superpower that the President of the United States has. And before those of you out there who really don't care for the right or for President Trump or whatever, before you roll your eyes, allow me to convince you very quickly. The superpower. If there is one superpower that President Trump has, other than at times being, you know, really genuinely funny, it is that he can maneuver politically his opponents to say the dumbest things imaginable. Quick history lesson here. You will recall that the entire left wing of the American political system was united in outrage over Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant from el Salvador. An ms.13 tattooed gang member who is, according to court records, had restraining orders filed against him for beating his wife, endangering children that weren't even his, as if that weren't already bad enough and was highly suspected of human trafficking due to video that we have of extra seats being added illegally violating Department of Transportation regulations to a vehicle that illegal immigrants often modify that way to participate in human trafficking. And they threw all of their weight behind Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And then the left decided to throw all of their weight behind crime because, you know, we can't allow Trump to say that the National Guard actually got DC under control. So they threw all of their weight behind crime and said, no, you're not seeing anything, you're not hearing anything. Crime is totally fine and wonderful. And they've done the exact same thing. They've taken the worst possible position on every single issue. And I'm sorry, don't take my word for it when I say that Trump has literally forced his political opponents to advocate for crime very openly. Jasmine Crockett just today says committing a crime doesn't make you a criminal. I understood what was kind of pushing them there. And so I do want people to.
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Know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That, that.
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What a simp. Guys, this is a quick reminder. The word criminal comes from the word crime. I'm going to need like the NBC's the more you know, you know to flash across the screen when we, we drop knowledge. That simple. But that has not stopped. Despite the worst positions, the Democrats have taken the lowest approval ratings for the party in history. No kind of momentum at all. Now they are taking the dumbest possible positions. They are going to defend Antifa. Get out the Tony. Kenneth was right. Jar we're going to need it in a little bit here. I guarantee that at the House and the Senate level over the next couple of weeks, Democrats will rally in defense of Antifa. We're already seeing this. The pundit class online is already saying either antifa doesn't exist or if it does exist, it's really a good thing that it exists. The critical race theory maneuver or the drag queens with children maneuver or the transgender shooting maneuver, or you get the, you get the picture now regarding the FCC position, they are now also going to take the exact same really horrible, really stupid position on Jimmy Kimmel. So Keith Olbermann, who is unemployed, by the way, after Sinclair, which hosts a lot of the ABC affiliate stations because guys spectrum affiliation like when like syndication agreements, that is a legal and nightmare and headache. It is exhausting. But Keith Olbermann came out after Sinclair announced that while Jimmy Kimmel's show was pulled off the air that they would be airing a special remembrance of Charlie Kirk during the Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday time slot. And this is how Keith Olbermann decided to respond. And I quote, burn in hell, Sinclair alongside Charlie Kirk, end quote. Now, given how Americans at large, given the moments of silence at major sporting stadiums, giving how the entire country in civilized society has responded to this, including the center, the cultural shift, this is not what you want prominent left wing members of the media and the punditry class to be saying former. Well, I guess she's still with the dnc. She's some kind of an influencer. She was hired by the DNC to reach out to young men, which is interesting. Olivia. Juliana. I'm going to keep a lot of my comments to myself. Posted a weirdly, I guess, Microsoft Paint kind of cheaply edited picture of Jimmy Kimmel that says free Jimmy Kimmel School Walkout. Which, I'm sorry, this means that she got this from like a free insert. First name, last name, school walkout poster. Because the font. I'm going to show myself a nerd here. The font for Free School Walkout and the time are Ariel and the font for Jimmy and Kimmel is Impact. So there's like no effort given to this at all, she says. So at noon 12pm Another prominent media personality noted that Juliana would not be skipping anything at 12pm because that's lunchtime. I think that's pretty fair. You have officials like Gavin Newsom that have come out to point out that, well, Brendan Carr, because this is the new rumor, he made threats. Oh, the FCC made threats to abc. That's why they canceled it all. Oh, man. So Gavin Newsom comes out with this dunk that in 2022, Brendan Carr, not at the FCC at the time, said, and I quote, president Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship. Okay, I run a really goofy, stupid satire account on X called the Ministry of Truth. One of the things that it focuses on is satire. It is a satirical account. I hate to break it to you, but I'm going to call experience as the argument evidence here. Nothing that Jimmy Kimmel said was satire. He didn't say satire. Saying that's how a four year old mourns a goldfish is a comparison. That's not satire saying, well, the shooter, the right, spent the entire weekend trying to convince themselves the shooter was not one of them. Or MAGA spent the entire weekend, however he phrased that. Exactly. That's not satire. Satire is like a fake headline or a skit where you say something outrageous in order to point out how outrageous certain facets of life that are similar to those things are. It's satire. A Modest Proposal says that since we don't like children in the UK so much, we should Boil them in oil and Send them to the Mines was by Jonathan Swift. It's an excellent short essay. He wasn't actually calling for people to be sent to the mines and boiled, but he was saying, look, we don't care about our kids already, so therefore, why don't we just do this? That's satire. Well, Jimmy Kimmel said it's not. So Gavin Newsom not understanding how words work. I'm not shocked. Justice Sotomayor, Obama's, as he called her, the wise Latina. She also has struggled at the response to people sending in things from Charlie Kirk, their celebrations of Charlie Kirk's death. This is how she responded to that over the weekend.
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And the thing that gets to me is every time I listen to a lawyer trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself that law school failed.
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So she's responding to the claim that someone should be reported to their boss because they said, it's good that Charlie is dead. I hope more died. That kind of stuff that's gotten people fired. And it's really funny because Sotomayor wrote in prior Supreme Court decisions, for example, in the Citizens United case against their First Amendment rights, and she was criticized by her own members of the bench, like her own side of the bench, for how awful that decision was. But I digress. One of my personal favorites, however, is from Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper, he's got a cool new, incredible theory, and it was so good, he had to stop what he was doing and record it on the train, which is just hilarious.
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I'm on the train.
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But there's another wrinkle in the Jimmy Kimmel Live situation that I wanted to tell you about. And that is this all now comes down to the decision that will be made by Disney CEO Bob Iger. Disney, of course, owns abc. So originally the theory was what was Nextar wants to merge with Tengu or whatever. And so therefore the FCC threatened him. That'll get him. Now it's pivoted. It's all about Bob Iger and Disney.
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Iger also finds himself in the position.
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Where he meets the Trump administration's approach approval for a big business deal. Disney, Hulu, want to acquire Fubo. Ah, Disney and Hulu want to acquire Fubo. Oh, I. Oh, wow. I mean, of course, I have no idea. What the heck. Fubu, Fubo Tango. There's a meme and I'm sorry. I'll let the radio crew head to commercial. We'll see you guys in a second. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. All right, on. On the live stream here, there is a meme that I do deeply love that the names of streaming platforms are becoming increasingly stupid. And I swear people are just making things up. At this point. We are going slowly back to cable tv. The joke is, if you've seen the new show, it's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebie. It's on Pooty with ads. It's on Dippy. It's on Gumpy. Fibo original. It's on Poob. Watch it on Poob. Go to Poob. Log into Poob. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. I'm sorry. If you really think that Disney is more concerned than anything about whether or not they can acquire poobydube or whatever the latest Fubo Magoo platform is. Guys, I. No, I'm sorry. We're gonna talk about that with Chris Lesh in a little bit here. But I do want to share with you some of the best bits of news from today in the individuals that President Donald Trump has somehow convinced to be the banner carriers for the Democrat Party and to not only be the dumbest members of the party, which is quite an achievement, but also the loudest. I'm of course talking about the squad. Jasmine Crockett today got in an argument with Marjorie Taylor Greene about the identity of the assassin of Charlie Kirk. We're still doing this, guys. It's been a week. We have all kinds of confirmation now. The assassin who played gay furry porn games while hanging out with his boyfriend, the transgender dude while writing Catch this fascist on the bullet, et cetera. Here's Jasmine Crockett, though, whipping out the Sherlock Holmes hat. Looks like Yahoo News.
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It says, Charlie Kirk suspects grandma says family is all MAGA without objection.
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So ordered chair Jasmine Crockett gets out in front of everyone and says, guys, according to Yahoo News. According to Yahoo. Yes, we got him. The killer's grandma said the whole family was maga. No way. Guys, up until last year, my, my. My grandmother on my mother's side, God rest her soul, she thought that I was studying to be a train engineer. I don't know how to tell you guys this. Grandparents, while wonderful, amazing people, are not the ultimate authority on what is going on in their kids lives. And by the way, she cites Yahoo News. Yahoo News these days is an aggregate. An aggregate is a kind of website, kind of media outlet and organization that just collects news articles from other websites and just puts them up so that it can share them around. How do I know that? Because I'VE been cited by Yahoo. News. They've taken my articles and just splattered them onto their homepage on fubu. You can find it on Pooby. Anyway, so thanks to Jasmine Crockett, Marjorie Taylor Greene did a suplex later after that. But we have to move on now. Regarding the Brendan Carr situation here, it is great to point out that Alexandra Ocasio Cortez back in September of 24 was calling for the government to limit free speech via the fcc. My, how times have changed. You know, I do think that several.
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Members of Congress in some of my discussions, have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here. And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false.
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To quote the great Michael Scott, well, well, well. How the turntables. Fantastic. All right, we're going to head over to Julio Rosas and talk a little bit about this goofiness regarding Antifa and what the National Guard's gonna do about it. Stick around. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal.
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Doing good, man.
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Doing good.
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Thanks for having me.
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So you've been covering all the Chicago and TIFA nonsense, by the way. It's just an idea, not an organization. Or haven't you heard? You know, since don't want to. Don't want to get out there. What is your response? Just as someone who's been on the ground in these riots, you and I enjoying a nice cup of tea while they shoved the fence over at the dnc. Just a quick question. What is your response to Antifa being declared a terror organization by the Secretary of State and president's offices?
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Yeah, I mean, it's something that's kind of long overdue. Right. I mean, the, the consistent, the consistent problem, quote unquote, that people have, have said, and Democrats are saying this right now, is we were joking about earlier where, you know, it's. Oh, it's just an idea. It's not really an organization. So, you know, how can you do this or that and the other with it? You know, how can you be a member if it doesn't actually exist? And of course, you know, that's just nonsense. And TFA does exist because they say. Well, it's an ideology. Like. Well, right. It's an ideology because there's a group of people that believe and act on it.
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I mean, like.
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Sure, they don't have.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, it's got chapters. It does. They have social media pages, websites that are documented.
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You're right. So they, they purposefully are decentralized. They do, you know, there's obviously no national figure, there's national spokesperson. But in, in many cities and a lot of cities, you know, particularly Pacific Northwest. Yeah. That you, you have Rose City Antifa, that's been around since 2007. You have the Youth Liberation Front and its various affiliates. But also, you don't need to be part of a declared, quote, unquote group to be part of just a group. Right. I mean, that's just, I mean, that's just how things. You have a friend group. Right. So this, so this idea that, that the, the, the government can't crack down on this movement because again, there's people involved in this is patent. Is patently absurd. I mean, the FBI under the Biden administration was monitoring parents at school board meetings. Right. And they weren't part of a official group, but there was federal government, you know, surveillance at a minimum on that. So if they can go after, they go after peaceful, you know, concerned parents, they can certainly go after groups that are organizing riots and protests, especially now with, you know, the, the ICE enforcement operations that are happening across, across the country. So this idea that, oh, no, it's not an official organization, so we can't really go after it is complete nonsense.
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Well, and this is one of the things I wanted to pivot To. I don't know how much we can really reveal on air here. What can you walk us through? How do you keep tabs on this decentralized, really just a partisan movement that partisans from like World War II style, the Soviet era style, civilian guerrilla groups. How do you keep tabs on something like this? What can you tell us without revealing too much? Because obviously many of these are ongoing things that we keep track of.
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Yeah, I mean it's, it's simple really. I mean, as you were saying, they have social media pages, they have, you know, profiles that are public that they want to announce certain things. I mean, in 2020, that is exactly how I was able to be in a place before something happened. Because, because if I knew, okay, this group is organizing at this time and place and knowing their history, you know, it's not going to just simply be a peaceful march. It's like something significant is going to happen that's worth reporting on. So that's just number one. But then number two, yeah, it gets a little bit harder because actually because of Elon Musk's. Elon Musk taking over X. You know, a couple years ago, a lot of those pages were actually taken down because they were promoting violence which was now being taken seriously against far left radicals, not, not against conservatives. So this, so it's not that hard in some ways. Sometimes it's a little bit harder because the more radical groups, because again, they're decentralized, they do kind of keep things like, as far as I know, Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Telegram.
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Discord.
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Yeah, yeah, discord, Reddit, you know, so that gets more into the weeds of it. But again, that's why I'm saying like, if I can do this just as a, as a quote unquote, you know, private citizen in a journalistic capacity, the federal government definitely has the means and the ability to, and you know, the, the, the, the legal ability to do something more than just simply monitoring these things and letting these things play out because it is very deliberate. They don't. Antifa specifically. Right. They don't just congregate just for the sake of congregating. They're congregating to do, quote, unquote, direct action, which is their kind of phrase for saying like let's, let's get actual confrontational and do more than just holding signs and chanting.
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So sorry, you use the word congregating and immediately I thought of a church. Like what hymns would antifa sing other than.
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Their protest songs are very cringy and repetitive?
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Yeah, that's what Came to my mind all of the, you know, we'll fight till dawn, till dusk and all of the other like, really silly old people songs. Took back what he stole from us. Took it back. Took back. Sorry, aside from, aside.
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When you're, when you're with them for four hours, you know, night after night, as you. I, I, eventually I put my AirPods in at a certain point because I, you know what? I'm just going to listen to some Jason Aldean while I wait for the, for the fireworks to start.
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I'll never forget. And I don't remember if this is when we were at the DNC or if this is when we were covering one of the riots in California or maybe near Atlanta when we were amongst the group. And I remember texting you, these people reek. They smell so bad. So it's not just offensive to the ears. These people really don't shower, which, I mean, again, one of the best benefits of social media is that these people can communicate with each other without having to smell each other, because I do. That would cripple a movement right there.
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Certainly NBC training being put to use for sure.
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So I want to pivot from this to what you think are the best steps for individuals to cover this kind of stuff and amplify it. Because right now you have a large social media campaign which is reporting and really just amplifying really disgusting messages celebrating death and murder big under people's public profiles, you know, to their employers and things like that. I've received a couple of questions as to why we on our show and a couple of our allies haven't been as vocal on that. Mostly because there's work to do behind the scenes. But I don't want to step on your toes. What do you think that people can do right now to really amplify the work that is going to be ahead in beginning to target specific terror organizations inside the United States.
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Well, one, I would say that, I mean, it's frustrating on my end because I have, you know, I'm impatient. But believe it or not, you don't say, yeah, there's, there's going to need to be patience involved. I mean, I understand, like the ability, like we have to go in and go hard. And I, and I agree with that, with that sentiment. But these things take time, right? It takes time to build a case. It takes time to see how these groups operate. I'm, I am absolutely positive that they are going to start changing their tactics now that they can actually be swept up. And for example, I was in Los Angeles for Mexican Independence Day this week to cover a protest. And it was almost non existent. I mean, there were so few people that showed up to this and went to the federal building because just months ago there were tens of thousands of people there. And so I, I think one of those factors is, is this crackdown that's coming. So it's gonna, it's gonna take time to, to build these cases. Like I said, they're, they're, they are a little bit hard to get their, the law enforcement to get their arms around because they are decentralized. You know, as, as idiotic as their ideas are, they're not stupid.
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Partisan tactics work. They just do.
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They, they know how to cover their tracks. Again, that's not to say it's impossible to know who they are, but you know, part of the reason why it's, they've been able to go on for so long like in Portland, is because they take steps to cover their faces, to not bring personal cell phones so like they can't get pinged that they were in the area. So just being like these basic, you know, illusion, you know, eluding tactics does work, right? Or it takes, it takes more effort. And that's why now that the federal government is really going to be cracking down on it is significant because, you know, if anybody has the ability to find who these people are, it's, it's the feds. So. And again, it's not without cause, right? I mean, this has been going on the, the vast networks that mobilize people back in 2020, and we saw how destructive that was. The networks did not go away. Some people were held accountable. In my opinion, not enough and not nearly to the extent that they should have been. But the network stayed. And so that's why it's significant that President Trump, Stephen Miller, they're all saying, yeah, we're going after the networks, we're going after the funders. And I would just say that, that, that's important because yeah, money is involved in this. You know, I, I remember again on the social media pages back in 2020, they would advertise their Venmos or Cash app, their, they would crowdfund support. But I think there's more money behind it than just that. And that's something that's in the federal government's purview because again, it's not organizing to just peacefully protest, it's organizing to attack law enforcement, interfering operations and just cause chaos and mayhem because they think that the ends are justifying the means.
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To murder, pillage and rape. I mean, it really is the terrorist, partisan, barbarian tactic. We got to send the radio crew over to commercial. We've just got a last question for Julio over on the live stream. Radio crew will see you after the break. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, there's one question that producer Nick threw my way that I think is. Is worth asking you, because I bet your answer on it's going to be pretty interesting. So, pressure intended. Do you see any instances of some of these tran tifa individuals over the last couple of months de radicalizing as anyone that you have seen in this space, privately or publicly, stepped away from the mutually assured destruction line?
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Potentially, I would say it would be difficult because, look, you don't just stumble upon an antifa riot and you participate, right? I mean, this is years of radicalization from. From whichever point, whether it could be starting from the media, and then it goes into, okay, well, here's a group. And then, you know, it's just. Just typical radicalization, you know, process, Right. So once you're in there and like, once you do, like, the full shaved head and you're. You're all black plucked up, and then, yeah, if you're transgender and you're, like, all in, like, you're doing the hormones.
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Cutting trash cans in half for your riot shield.
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Yeah, once you're doing that, I mean, you're pretty dedicated to the cause at that.
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B
Well, there's that affirmative mania, right, where, like, you get in there and it's already mentally unstable, and then they hype each other up into the furthest extent of mania possible. I think that's why when you said patience to those right now who are feeling political momentum of a society that isn't tolerating the bile around the Charlie Kirk assassination, that a measure of patience? There was a TP USA chapter, actually, that contacted me asking for some questions about where to point the flood of young people coming in. And, you know, how. You know, what movements, what micro factions do you direct them into? What do you caution them against? How do you do it? And I said, whatever you do, it is more important how you do it. With patience, with restraint. And don't get me wrong, I'm, you know, I'm a talking head pundit here. Yelling behind a microphone, that's my shtick. But a level of restraint in your community, it doesn't stop the momentum. But you know this as. As well as I do, just from, you know, the numerous PT tests here. You have to build up a steady run to run a marathon. If you break into a sprint, you're going to tire yourself out and you're going to lose all momentum. Yeah.
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And Stephen Miller, I think has said it best that just blind rage and energy does. It is not productive at all.
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C
Right.
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And that's the same thing with these antifa cells, right? Like they, they are obviously very angry with President Trump securing the nation. So they are, they are directing that energy out towards, like I said, like in Portland, attacking federal officers. Federal. A federal building. And so I think, you know, to go back to your initial question, I think it is possible, I think, yeah, maybe this, again, this, this coming crackdown might scare some people off that are not as committed. But again, when you're hearing that from your main rival, that we're going to come after you, we're going to put a lot of resources, it's going to make the resolve even harder, believe it or not. So they lost. They just. Yeah, they just really believe.
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Last question. Because we're brushing up against picking the radio crew back up from commercial. How time flies. If the, if we can't deradicalize, you know, if there is no denazification that's possible here, then what is the next step? I know that's a tough question to answer in 20 seconds, but go for it.
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I mean, you just crack. I mean, you gotta, you gotta get rid of the cells. I mean, you gotta, you gotta hold people accountable. I mean, that's my piece.
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Brick by brick.
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Yeah, absolutely. So it's just like I said, it's gonna take time, it's gonna take a lot of effort. But, you know, I think it's possible.
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B
Julio Rosas, not only the author of Fiery, Mostly Peaceful, just excellent coverage throughout the 2020 riot summer of Love season, but a great author and reporter over at the Blaze. You stay safe, my friend.
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A
Thank you.
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B
This episode is brought to you by FXX and Hulu. An all new season of Futurama is back. Blending heartfelt moments with razor sharp humor while accidentally saving the day, the Planet Express grew as as much back defying gravity and common sense. From the creator of The Simpsons comes 10 new episodes where the romance is hotter, the threats are bigger and the action hits harder. Don't miss the all new season of Futurama. Watch it Mondays on FXX or streaming on Hulu. This is the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC. Oh, the Pearl clutching. The pearl clutching. We got out the pearls because Ilhan Omar was set to be censured today and there were four brave Republicans who screwed the pooch and left her in all of her committees. So as a reminder, Ilhan Omar said some really gross stuff. Oh, how many there are to list? She's also done a lot of awful things, brother notwithstanding. But in this case, Ilhan Omar, yet again in a church saying why, you know, she doesn't give a bleep. Republicans are bad. Charlie Kirk was bad. Oh, she's so brave. And well, it's the same classic Ilhan Omar filth. Here's a little bit of it. I understand I said that the people who were bull were the people who.
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Were saying that Kurt was civil.
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So she's mad and cussing in church because people said that Charlie Kirk was civil. So she says, no, absolutely not. Two or three times for public execution.
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Of people he disagreed with is not civil.
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So this is her issue. And she proceeds to go on a rant that what Republicans disagree with on Democrats, it's, that's not civil because Republicans say, hey, that's a baby in the womb. You can't kill it. She says it's not civil to force a woman to carry a baby because of rape. And it's like, again, well, the baby didn't commit the rape. That's just the basic pro life position. And then she's also very angry because, you know, men can't become women. She says that's very hateful. No, if you can't handle political disagreement, you think everything is hate. And that justifies violence. That's a you problem. And that's a you problem that should bear consequences. And so there was a measure put forward by Representative Nancy Mace to censure her from Congress and also to remove her from committee assignments. And, well, wouldn't you know, due to four Republicans, it turned out that the vote failed. And I will remind you that Republicans and Democrats hopped on board to get rid of George Santos, who was a liar and an idiot, and got him out of Congress and sent him back to New York with his tail between his legs. But all of a sudden, when it comes to Ilhan Omar, Ms. Some people did something when describing 9 11, the coffin dancer herself. Instead, now you have GOP representatives Mike Flood, Republican of Nebraska, Jeff Heard of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California, and Corey Mills of Florida, who voted to table the measure. And then a group of five House Republicans in total helped Democrats kill a censor resolution as a reminder against Representative Lamonica McIver, the Democrat from New Jersey earlier this month who was on camera body slamming federal agents. So before we get to Corey Mills and We're going to talk about Corey Mills. As to this group of Republicans right now, the last of the moderates and some of the libertarians. There's just a lot of pearl clutching that's currently going on over the FCC thing, over some comments Trump made this afternoon where someone asked him about negative coverage. And Trump said, there's like 97% negative coverage of me on these networks and if they can't handle being honest, then maybe they won't have an FCC license. On Spectrum tv, people are saying, oh, that's fascism. He's saying, if you don't like him, he's going to throw you off the air. That's not what he's alluding to. And I know because I recognize the 97% number. We'll get to that. The last thing people are clutching their pearls over is Republicans actually doing things like voting to censure individuals. So first of all, I will note that this pearl clutching, hand wringing, bath salt smelling nonsense, this moralizing from their white horse only ever goes one way. When the Biden administration blocked the mergers, blocked the mergers directly of organizations like Kroger and Albertsons, Capri and Tapestry, JetBlue and Spirit, Temper, Celia and Mattress Firm, UnitedHealth, Amedesis, and then also tried to blackmail Facebook and you know, don't take it from me, Mark Zuckerberg is on the record quite a bit explaining how he was blackmailed by the Biden administration. Now all of a sudden Brendan's saying, well look, you know, you're gonna have to follow FCC regulations now. That's too far. And the comment has been brought back essentially two ways. Number one, we need to stand above the Democrats. When your opponent is not playing by the rules and people are getting killed. I'm sorry, if you're playing by the rules of civil society at that point, you're an idiot. You're an idiot because you stand idly by while people are being shot. And, and the videos of Charlie Kirk, as a reminder, show civility. Things that people don't like about him. They try to twist and manipulate words and out of context phrases to make them sound really bad. And even people on the far left are watching his videos and coming to the conclusion, wow, this dude's like really civil. Number two, the worst argument on earth at the present time from a lot of these woke scold goobers on the moderate parts of the Republican Party and the Libertarian crews that say, well, you're really going to not like it, Mr. Talk Show Host. When the Democrats are back in power, they're going to weaponize the FCC against you. Now, the Biden FCC participated in the blackmailing of Maida Kamala Harris in her campaign, promised to pack the Supreme Court admit several states into the union, permanently altered the balance of power in the Senate, fully weaponized the ftc, SEC and fcc. These are already part of the playbook, boys and girls. Oh, they're going to get you. Yeah, they were going to get you anyway, pretending that, well, what we really need to do, as though there are Democrats that are watching right now going, wow, those Republicans are just sitting there like all night. I'm going to be nice in the same way. I don't know how much PBS kids you've been sucking down. That's not how the world works. The antifa crew, the youths of the Democrat Party who are burning things down, who are consistently committing murders, assaults, attacks, political violence, vandalism, targeted incidents all over the country, are not going to suddenly start playing by the rules because you and suburban, who cares decided you are too noble to do this. That brings us over to Representative Corey Mills because there are other people in the Republican Party that are also a waste of breath and space. Representative Corey Mills from Florida is an interesting character. Corey Mills has been consistently exposed by some very, very thorough reporting from the Blaze that shows, first of all, he got married in the actual Al Qaeda mosque, like the Al Qaeda mosque, that people who came and committed 9, 11, that mosque in the United States. It was fully investigated. He got married to a radical Islamic lady in that specific mosque and has a lot of other extremely shady stuff about him. This is not hearsay, this is not conjecture. This is documented. I recommend going and reading some of the articles about this individual. He has been shunned by a large part of the Republican Party for essentially faking his Christianity entirely for votes. Sorry, radio crew, we got to send you off to the evening. We're going to continue on the live stream. It's the Tony Kennedcast. Now, I'm just going to say I, I, I do, I know why. In this particular instance, Representative Corey Mills of Florida, who got married in the Al Qaeda mosque, do I know exactly why he voted to block the censure of Ilhan Omar? No, Their reports are he made a deal with Democrats. But I just saying, I personally find it rather interesting how odd one might say. And that brings us over to the open conjecture about the FCC and Brendan Carr. Uh, so really, two quick pieces of news I do want to point out. First of all, the Trump administration is also receiving flack because an Immigration judge has now ordered Mahmoud Khalil, the Colombia agitator and riot encourager protester for Palestine, to be deported to either Syria or Algeria. Why? Because it was discovered he's working for the UNRWA and he didn't list that on his application, which you can't do. So he's out of here. Left is upset about that. And in the meantime, three police officers have been killed and two wounded in a York county shooting in Pennsylvania. The suspect is dead. And individuals on the left, like this guy named Chris Gebart, quote, three confirmed dead pigs in Spring Grove. What a wonderful day to be alive. So in case you were wondering, like, what the rules of the game were right now, what the pieces are that are on the board and what legacy media outlets refuse to cover, comments refuse to cover. No one's celebrating any kind of death. No one. It's all moderate, it's all wonderful. Except for Trump. He's instituting a fascist takeover of the fcc. We got to sit down with Chris Lush a little bit and talk about this FCC situation in detail because Brendan Carr went on Dana Lesh and walked through the procedures. And it just so happens that the story you are currently being spoon fed on these larger legacy media outlets are full of it. Check it out. Brendan Carr, the FCC, and Jimmy Kimmel. Things that sound about as exciting to talk about as going to the DMV with a head cold. So to break this head cold in half because people are already being ridiculous about it, we've got on Chris Lesh, one of the great guys on the broadcasting super sphere, who just so happens to be a decent normal dude, which, believe it or not, is a rarity these days. Chris, thanks for joining us.
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I appreciate that. I don't know if any of your viewers are going to look at me and think I'm normal, but you know, I'm a little eccentric, but I come by it honestly. But as far as my beliefs, I think about I'm about as normal as you can get, obviously.
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B
Well, I'm seeing a normal black T shirt instead of a dress. So already doing better than the good representative from the state of Delaware, I'd say. Just to kick things off there, I.
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C
Could tell you some stories about my band days, you know, but I'll save that for another conversation we have down the line.
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B
We'll have to schedule that one in, maybe an exclusive. All right, so to talk about the situation, just to recap, as though people haven't already scrolled through every social media take on this, Jimmy Kimmel was Paused, Pulled, suspended indefinitely by the nextar Group by ABC Disney Media. That blubbering mass of an organization, they said because of Jimmy Kimmel's comments regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and those who mourn and then the identity of the assassin in that case. And since that moment, I knew as soon as I saw New York Times journalists tweet about it that this was going to be another Stephen Colbert conspiracy. So just to quote really quick from the New York Times, Lauren Hirsch Nexstar, which is trying to get its $6.2 billion deal Tenga approved, says it will preempt Jimmy Kimmel for the foreseeable future. So we're in conspiracy land because they say Brendan Carr made a bunch of threats. What do you make of that?
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C
I think it's baloney. I think it's garbage. Here's, here's the truth of it. Jimmy Kimmel went on his program in the wake of our friend Charlie Kirk being assassinated in public in front of a bunch of college age kids, horrifically. And before he had any facts. And by the way, those of us who paid any attention pretty much already knew who did this and why he did it. We knew about the engravings on the bullet casings on the cartridges. We knew what rifle it was. And we were just kind of waiting to figure out what the guy's name was, but, but we knew this was a leftist that did this. But Jimmy Kimmel went on his program and gaslit his audience, which America, you know, however you want to slice it, I think is still a center right country. Most of all over 50%. And he lied. He lied. He said that it was a MAGA type person that did this. It was one of our own. And he not only lied about it, he insulted his own audience, he insulted their intelligence and these companies that have, you know, we work in broadcasting. My wife is, you know, she's on a nationally syndicated radio show. It's a completely different animal than a podcast or something that you can do.
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B
Completely on the Internet because iHeartRadio, WIBC's for our home station, the FCC, because we're on Spectrum. We have rules we have to play by. That's just the way it is.
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C
You can't play fast and loose with the facts or any of that stuff. You can have your own opinion about whatever you want, but there's things that you have to, you know, kind of toe the line on because you have a responsibility. Because the people who are broadcasting your show have put up the money to put that out there and they have to rent Those airwaves from the government, the fcc. And you know, that's just the way it is. It's kind of like the rules of the road when you're driving. So the idea that the FCC had put any kind of pressure on that was completely stomped today when Brendan Carr of the FCC came on my wife's program.
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B
So they were saying that Carr himself did it. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, now joins us via video. Mr. Chairman, it's good to see you. I just wanted to get your response to this. So apparently you called up ABC and Nuckstar in Sinclair and you personally put pressure on them to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. Is that true?
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No, not at all.
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But it does, I guess, tell a.
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Better story for partisans on the left. I think it's ironic. I mean, some of these very same people are engaged and I think what.
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B
Can only be explained as projection, these.
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A
Are the same officials that literally were doing exactly that. What's happening here is we're undergoing a very fundamental shift in the dynamics in the media ecosystem. Most people don't get this right, but you've got national programmers. That's Disney, abc, that's Comcast, NBC. They don't have FCC licenses and they therefore don't have a federal obligation to operate in the public interest. But they produce most of the primetime TV shows that you do see on broadcast TV, whether it's 60 Minutes or NFL football or late night shows. Now, local broadcast TV stations, like your local Channel 7, wherever you are, they.
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B
Are licensed by the FCC and they've.
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Been given a unique opportunity to use public spectrum, this public resource. And because of that, they have a public interest obligation. So the way this is supposed to work is Disney and Comcast can come up with whatever programming they want. And individual TV stations are supposed to decide should we run this or should we not? Now, that's what Congress intended. But the last 10, 15, 20 years that hasn't happened because Comcast and Disney and the programmers amassed so much power that they could effectively force local TV stations in Utah, in Pennsylvania, to run this progressive foie gras coming out of New York and Hollywood. What we saw yesterday was really a pivot point because it was the local TV stations that said, I've got to look out for the needs of my local community. I don't want to run this Kimmel stuff. And we're going to preempt it. And that's a really important moment of local TV stations standing up for their viewers and pushing back against Comcast and Disney. So it's a market correction that's really necessary, but it's. People don't want to grapple with that. Right. They want to, you know, try to point fingers or try to find boogeymen, but that's really what's going on here.
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C
And he has been coming on her show for many years. They have a good rapport. And he completely stomped that theory in the ground. He said he put no pressure on any of the entities that made this decision to take Kimmel off the air. And honestly, just like Colbert, if we look at it with a little bit of objectivity, I think we see that these shows were really doing poor in the ratings. The culture in America has shifted more towards the right and their brand of comedy, which Charlie Kirk told us several years ago, I believe it was a tweet in 2017. Jimmy Kimmel's just not funny. The funniest person that was ever working with Kimmel was Guillermo or Adam Carolla back in the days of the man show, which he would cancel himself for in these days, by the way.
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B
I mean, you know, I'm not going to ask producer Nick to, you know, play the video of Kimmel shoving his face into a woman's skirt as she looked over the New York City skyline. But I do want to flesh out. Yeah. Oh, well. And, and, and so the list goes on. And, you know, I mean, again, shock jock, radio host, sports guy from LA in the 90s, I understand. I work with a couple of the spiritual successors to Bob and Tom Hammer and Nigel in Indianapolis. They have a little, you know, just dudes hanging around. But then to moralize as he has, it didn't do well with the ratings. So we got the numbers here. This is according to Paul W. Swaney, used to be with McKinsey and Amazon. So this man eats numbers for breakfast. He said weekly. I had previously said monthly weekly. Kimmel was getting about 1.77 million average views. Colbert, who was canned after losing $40 million and getting skunked by Gutfeld in the ratings, had 2.42 million average viewers weekly. So Kimmel, from what I've heard inside of the nexstar Group, from Friends that I have on the inside, Kimmel was hemorrhaging far more money than Colbert and getting far less viewers for it. It looks like, based on what we have, that abc, Disney Media Group and nexstar were just looking to get rid of him. And this just happened to be the perfect storm. I don't mean to be so. What's the word? Not critical. So Blythe, you know, just so unfeeling on this. But it just seems that this is the decision they made.
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C
It's, it's a, it was a business decision, you know, and I think they made it with a clear mind. The statements that they put out don't mention any pressure by the fcc. And like I said, Brendan came on today and told Dana directly, I did not put any pressure on these companies to remove Kimmel from the air, although he agreed with the decision. Because we have a responsibility again as broadcasters to try to be truthful. And they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, these companies.
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B
Oh, you're, ah, Chris, you're taking my next step. No, go ahead, take it. That's where I was going next. I'm glad you're thinking the same thing. Go ahead.
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C
Well, you know, you mentioned those ratings. What was it? 1.7 and 2.4.
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B
Let's be generous, 1.8. We'll round up on the last number.
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C
It's 1.8 million unique viewers in a week. I'm going to compare that to my wife who's one of the top five nationally syndicated radio hosts in the nation and number one female by far. The conservative side of the ratings, according to Talkers magazine, is that she has around 7.5 million unique listeners that in that same time period, if she was doing the kind of numbers that those guys were doing, do you think she would even have a job in radio? You know, well, no, because successful. But to be syndicated nationally, you have to bring an audience.
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And I just to really, again, flesh out the point and bring the receipt here. I Heart Communications is on the Nasdaq. And so if she takes responsibilities and then there are excuses or, excuse me, if she takes, let's just say she just makes some bad decisions. She takes some, you know, liberties with the brand and then I heart makes excuses for that against the shareholders, they are liable. I've been saying this for years about abc. I know you and I've talked about this before when fact checking ABC News over the Maui wildfires, their firearms, lack of knowledge. There comes a point where if you're a stockholder in Disney, abc, wait a minute. They are driving their stock prices down by endorsing this bad decision that may not even be legal. Forget Jimmy Kimmel. Like politics and bad statements. Recently this has been a shareholder lawsuit at the class level. Incoming for ages and they missed it by a hair.
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C
Absolutely. Their responsibility to their shareholders is a legal responsibility. And you know, progressives don't understand this Whenever they get a big wad of money and they have an agenda that they want to push, they go, hey, let's go whole hog, you know.
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And.
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C
Make Star wars about, you know, space lesbians rights instead of a space opera, you know, about the struggle for freedom, you know, from an oppressive government. And literally, they start arguing on the other side for an oppressive government, and then they kill the whole franchise that everyone loved since they were a kid. I'm 54 years old. I remember when the first Star wars came out. I went to it, and they're murdering it. And Disney is hemorrhaging money on these projects, you know, even though they can make them cheaper and faster now with volumetric photography and all that stuff. It is. It's getting to the point for that company where they're going to have to do the same kind of Kimmeling to a lot of their properties, you know, Marvel properties included. They are destroying the good. The good intellectual property that they have by injecting their own political influence, their own cultural influence into it. And I'm not saying that shouldn't come through from an artist or a director or whatever, but it should be like a footnote, a little bitty thing. It shouldn't changed the character of an entire beloved franchise that people have come to know. And it's a lot like Kimmel. He. He has stuck his foot in his mouth so far from his days doing the man show to now, you know, it's amazing he can get a word out.
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B
I got to say, I'm not sure if that's his heel or his uvula at this point. But the question that I have for you, because again, we consume and kind of keep track of the media. Media accountability is our game. Your wife, of course, has perfected this in broadcasting. We've seen this time and time again with various hosts. Now we've kind of got a bit of a tipping point. Colbert is gone. You can tell the ladies in their seats at the View are a little bit nervous here. Where do you see the future hosts? Like, you've got Fallon, who Trump mentioned in that tweet. You've got that other dude with Seth Meyers, I think, producer Nick. Yeah, that's right. And you've got a lot of other minor hosts who aren't on as large affiliate networks, but they're still out there. Do you see any kind of a change? Like, hey, be funny again. When's the last time we saw Jimmy Fallon do that Stepdad Gary sketch with, like, Taylor Swift? That was funny. It's A lot better than, you know, Trump caricatures, right?
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C
Or when he's having a sing off with one of his, you know, pop singer guests or something like that. I think, I think he can be genuinely funny when he's just wanting to be funny. I'm not sure Jimmy Kimmel ever could have been funny to be funny, you know, he might have had a quick witticism here or there, but Fallon, you know, when he has like Timberlake or somebody like that on, those kind of rapports are funny to the viewers. Problem comes when these late night hosts make it two pointed in one direction, when they have their political views come out. Johnny Carson was the greatest all time late night talk show host. I don't think anybody denies that. He never spent a lot of time pointing a finger one way or the other. And if you call it down the middle like that, most of America goes, hey, this guy's fair. He's just funny. He's being funny both ways. Same with Jay Leno. I think even Letterman, who went far further to the left, was still able to see the absurdities from his own side and poke fun at them and still just have fun and be a funny guy. He had great segments with Ted Nugent years ago. He'd have him come on and sing Christmas songs and stuff like that. To me, that's when the host is magnanimous enough to go, 50% of my audience plus really loves Ted Nugent and nobody can deny the guy's music. And by the way, full disclosure, Ted is a very close friend of mine. He texted me about 20 minutes before I came on your show.
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B
Thanks for the disclosure.
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C
I don't want to look like I'm, you know, completely impartial here because I'm not. Ted's amazing and an amazing guitarist and the fact that he's not in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame speaks to that institution's political viewpoints. Because if it's about fame, there's not a lot of musicians that are more famous than Ted Nugent, especially just for doing music. I digress. I don't know what's going to happen to the rest of them. I don't think they can fire everybody. I think Fallon is probably the guy that makes the cut because he's the one that had Trump on. You know, he did the hair thing with him, you know, and everybody was mad. You humanized Trump. What do you mean humanized him? He's a human. You know, I pull a picture of Trump on with Dana from CPAC years ago, 2015 was the first time we'd met him in person. But he had corresponded with Dana for a couple years and we could see him. You know, the gears are turning. I might get into politics, you know. And a guy that had really described himself as being a progressive most of his life and a Democrat was going, hey, this ain't right, you know. And the same people that are mad about Kimmel getting canceled didn't care that they were cheering when president Trump got kicked off of X. You know, a president.
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B
Right. I gotta. Again, I'm pointing to the individuals right now who have kind of the potential to actually be funny. You know, actually putting entertainment first and then any kind of commentary, politics, that kind of stuff second. I probably guess that the future probably rests in some of these stand up comedians that have the ability to poke fun at both sides of the aisle when is necessary and then also take a couple of steps back and you can tell because they'll bring them on Saturday night live and those will be the best episodes of all. Like the George Washington sketch about, you know, the name of the hot dog not having anything to do with dogs or something like that. Those are some of the best modern entertainment kind of large middle of the lane legacy comedies. I just don't see any of those guys being brought forward to cover Kimmel's slot. I hope I'm wrong. I think they should. I think they should bring up, you know, Sebastian Maniscalco out onto the stage and just let him talk for an hour, just one night, just to fill the gap. I think it'd be a lot better than what they've been doing.
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C
I think it'd be amazing if they. If they brought on a leftist comic that was actually funny. You know, people would watch. You know, most of those guys are fairly leftists, you know, and when they're doing their comedy, even when they're skewering our side, we laugh at it. We go, oh yeah, there's a couple guys on our side that are like that. I can laugh at that. Or I'm like that sometimes. Ha ha ha.
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B
You know, we're sorry we're not able to play the entire interview. Chris and I got to talk about a lot. And it went on a lot longer than even bonus Tonus time can handle. So we're going to upload that as a separate interview pretty soon. Trust us, it's excellent. You're going to want to hear all of it. With that said, thank you very much for stopping by the Tony Kennett cast this evening. We'll see you tomorrow. Take care.