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Kalaroga Shark Media.
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Hello, this is the Saturday Afternoon Bonus episode about Jimmy Kimmel.
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The normal Saturday episode is earlier in this feed. And
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I'm Johnny Mack, and you know it's a big story
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if I came inside on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. Oh,
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it's so nice. President Trump went on truth Social and
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he asked whatever happened to the very highly overrated David Letterman,
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whose ratings were never very good either. He looks like hell,
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but at least he knew want to quit loser losers
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in all caps with three exclamation points. So I took
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some umbrage with this comment. Whatever you think of David Letterman,
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perhaps you find him unfunny, perhaps you were disappointed in
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him when he admitted to some affairs. But I think
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if we look at David Letterman's body of work and
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his current position as an elder statesman, I don't think
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loser is a fair description of David Letterman. But to
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answer the President's question, whatever happened to David Letteran, Well,
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mister President, David was at the Atlantic Fest earlier this
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week and he had this to say.
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Well, this is a misery and in the world of
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somebody who was an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship. Sooner or later,
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everyone is going to be touched. But this is me.
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For thirty years. I did this for a living, so
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I see this happen. They took care of Colbert. That
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was rude, that was inexcusable. The man deserves a great
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deal of credit. He's in the Hall of Fame nine times.
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And to be manipulated like that because the Ellison family,
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I didn't want to trouble Donald Trump with this move,
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so they got rid of him, not only got rid
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of him, got rid of the whole franchise. You're not
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gonna have to worry about anything, Larry, it's all gone.
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It's fine, good night. And then my good friend Jimmy Kimmel,
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you know, I just I feel bad about this because
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we all see where this is going correct media, and
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it's no good. It's silly, it's ridiculous. And you can't
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go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to
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suck up to an authoritarian, criminal administration in the Oval office.
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That's just not how this worked. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan,
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George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, George Bush, the second Barack Obama. Yeah, right,
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and attack these men mercilessly. Never once. Well, Jimmy Carter
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not so much, because what can you say about Jimmy Carter.
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He was just a sweet guy. But everybody else we
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really went to work on. And I can remember Bill Clinton,
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we really went to work on. And then it got
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so it was like, whoa, this is a gift. What
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are we going to do Bill Clinton? He's out of
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office after eight years of Bill Clinton. And then George
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Bush came along and it was easy motoring after that.
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But the point is beating up on these people, rightly
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or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy.
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Not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency,
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let alone the dreaded FCC Republican Democrat.
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Never.
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Well, I will say we probably went easy on Barack
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Obama because I kind of like the guy.
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But never a call from the White House.
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Never intimation.
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No, because everybody sort of understood. In the name of humor,
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in the name of commenting on what's going on in
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the world cultural events, why not. And by the way,
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the institution of the President of the United States ought
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to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show.
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Here's the thing that's up my nose these days. By god,
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we got to get to work on those midterms. I
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think the midterm elections will be elections in name only.
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I'm sorry. The Republicans have raised untold billions of dollars.
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The Democrats, I think are figgering a bit behind in
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terms of fundraising.
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From People Magazine, a Jimmy Kimmelive employee has said, we're
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just hoping that we're gonna hear something soon, and hopefully
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it's good. The employee hopes for some sort of peaceful
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resolution and says they're not ready to admit it's over.
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We don't know anything. We're all on standby. Jimmy and
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the producers have had to keep this close to the vest.
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It was very quick and very shocking. It was a
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big shock to everybody. CE and N reports that Kimmel's
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staff will continue to be paid for the time being. Well,
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that's good, at least through next week. There's a staff
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of between two hundred and two hundred and fifty individuals.
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During the WGA strike in twenty twenty three, Jimmy Kimmel
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provided funds for his crew while production on the show
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was haunted when production was shut down during the LA wildfires,
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Kimmel used his Hollywood backlot as a donation center to
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collect and distribute resources to those impacted by the disaster.
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Unclear at this time is what's going to happen to
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the Brooklyn broadcast. Jimmy kis was going to do his
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show pretty soon from Brooklyn. Sources told Rolling Stone that
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the trucks containing these shows staging were due to leave
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Los Angeles on Friday in order to make the cross
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country trek to New York City. One industry insider estimates
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to relocate the show for five days it costs more
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than five million dollars. There were some social media pictures
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of what appeared to be the Hollywood crew packing up
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some gears. So we'll see if Jimmy returns, and if
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Jimmy returns, will he return in Brooklyn. Codo O'Brien on
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Twitter wrote, the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the promise
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to silence other late night hosts for criticizing the administration
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should disturb everyone on the right, left and center. It's wrong,
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and anyone with a conscience knows it's wrong. Tim Dillon
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on Instagram, Jimmy Kimmel should still be on the air.
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It's wrong to pretend it's because the show sucked or
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because it was losing eyeballs and money, both true. Clearly
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it was a politically motivated hit job. The joke was
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pretty mild factually wrong, as in, the guy who shot
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Charlie Maga wasn't a Maga guy. But who cares? That
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doesn't matter. Anyone who cares about the ability to speak
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freely for a living should be disturbed by this. They
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should also be disturbed by people celebrating the assassination of
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a political opponent, no matter what you thought of his views.
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I'll chime in there. I've said many times, no one
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should be murdered. As for the Kimmel joke, I won't
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play it again because I played it like four times
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in the last couple shows, and you go back and
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grab it there. I don't think Kimmel's words were phrased
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as sharply as the intention. And as I said on
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the Letterman podcast the other day, you talking to Mike
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long enough, you're gonna go back and wish you had
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said something more clearly. I do that every single day
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on this podcast. But if you listen to what Kimmel said,
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what kim was saying was that the politicians were making
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clear that the alleged assassin was not a Maga guy.
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And that's just what Tim Dillon is saying there. You're
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actually aligned with the words that actually were said by
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Jimmy Kimmel. I think people were reading into it a
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suggestion that Kimmel was hinting that the person was a
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Maga guy, But that's not what actually You know what,
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let me play it. I'll just play the top.
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Over the weekend with the Magga gang desperately trying to
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characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other
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than one of them, and everything they can to score
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political points from it.
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So if you want to parse language there, that's what
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Jimmy said. Andrew Schultz on Instagram posted this. It is
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believed it is in reference to Jimmy Kimmel. Schultz Left
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Fascism is wrong unless you kill our political opponents, then
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we'll celebrate it. Right, cancel culture is wrong unless you
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cancel the shows of our political opponents, then we'll celebrate it.
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The vast majorities of Americans that I speak to are
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repulsed by this behavior, Yet there's almost no representation of
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the sentiment and media independent on mainstream. How is that possible?
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Do you think Charlie Kirk would support canceling people for
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exercising their free speech? Tom Sigora on social media. It's
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so depressing that it's come to this point. Everything is
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so divisive, and reactions to everything are only done in extremes. Now, personally,
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I find the current state of affairs alarming. I wonder
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who will run to do what Brendan Carr suggests next.
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Brendan Carr is the FCC chair. Jimmy Kimmel is a
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great dude. The Hollywood Reporter noted that Joe Rogan has
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not commented yet. It is two twenty three pm on Saturday,
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September twentieth, and I have googled Rogan a few times
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and I have not seen any comments from Joe Rogan
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on this. Bill Moore commented on it. Here's his comments.
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ABC stands for Always Be Caving. Jimmy Paw, I am
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with you, I support you, and on the bright side,
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you don't have to pretend any more that you like Disneyland.
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You did a great funny show for two decades. You
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should be proud of that. If this firing goes for
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you the way it did for me, you'll get twenty
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three years on a better network.
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More went on to say, now Trump is going after
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the New York Times. He sued them for fifteen billion dollars.
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He said, they're a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. You
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know what, non they are. You're right, and that's their
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right to be that. Like, there's not a thousand people
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on the right who are your mouthpiece. Okay, that's how
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we work in this country. Brian kill Meat. If you're like,
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who's that, I've heard of this, Brian kill mead, I'll
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remind you. On September tenth, Brian kill me He was
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on the Fox News channel. The discussion was what do
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we do with people who have mental illness and refused
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to accept help from publicly funded resources. The guests suggested
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that people should be locked up in jail. Brian killmea
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to jumped in and said, or involuntary lethal injection or something.
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Just kill him. Brian kill Meat is still employed by
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Fox News and no one has removed him from air.
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He has commented on Jimmy Kimmel, saying the point is
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that Kimmel's comments went way too far for some television executives,
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not for me, not for you, but for them, and
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they turned up the heat on Kimmel, the host to
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calm down the rhetoric. You know, perhaps we shouldn't give
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homeless people involuntary lethal injection. Think about that for a second, guys. Okay,
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I digress, Sorry, back to Kimmel. Senator Ted Cruz chimed in.
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He was discussing FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's actions. Senator Ted
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cru said, that's right out of Goodfellas. What he Carr said,
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they're as dangerous as hell, and so we think the
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retons explicitly we're going to cancel ABC's license. We're going
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to take them off the air so ABC cannot broadcast anymore.
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He says, we can do this the easy way, or
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it could do this the hard way. Yeah, And I
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got to say, that's right out of Goodfellas. Keith Oberman
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pointed out, it's actually right out of a nineteen sixty
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nine Monty Python sketch where two gentlemen make some implied
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threats to a military general. A very funny sketch. Senator Cruz,
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using a mobster voice of sorts, went on to say,
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that's right in mafiaoso coming into a bar, going nice
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barria have here. It'd be a shame if something happened
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to it. That's the Python part of it. Senator Cruz added,
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going down this road, there will come a time when
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a Democrat wins again, wins the White House. They will
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silence us. They will use this power, and they will
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use it ruthlessly, and that is dangerous. Paton Oswald chimed
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in on social media from an airport, this is a
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little lengthy, but I'm gonna let it for the most
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part go minor edits here adding.
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To the wall of voices that's saying we see what's happening.
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I know can help in times like this, So we
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we see what's happening. I think everybody sees what's happening,
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except the people that are benefiting from this. We're pretending
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like they don't see what's happening. I'm gonna try to
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make this coherent and quick. It's gonna be neither, I
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was thinking, so Isaac Asimov, already we're off on a tangent.
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Isaac Asimov said that there's only three science fiction plots,
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what if, if only, and if this goes on, And
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unfortunately we are at the dark end of if this
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goes on, that line that when we crossed it, we're
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all supposed to rise up. That's way way behind us.
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So we can't just stand up anymore. We gotta get
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We've got to roar up, screaming and link arms all
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of us there. This thing is coming for all of us.
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This is a ancient evil that is shooting. It shot
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right now. It sees its window, and it's it's taking.
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It's trying again. It's always going to try. We're always
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going to have to fight it. This is our time
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to fight it. And and please, I can already see
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in that. I can already see in the comments, imagine
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in the comment from going, oh you're this West Coast Elite,
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I'm I'm in the airport right now. I'm traveling to
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Austin today. I was in Raleigh last week. I'll be
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in Ohio. Next month, I'll be in Milwaukee. I'll be
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in Wisconsin next I travel all over the country. I
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love traveling this country. I love this country, and I
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love meeting all the people here and I meet people
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every day every weekend doing comedy, and I know, I know,
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I know this is not what they voted for. They
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maybe they thought they were voting for something else. I
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know this is not what they were voting for. And
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everyone that's been saying, oh, I support in Trumpet, this
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is what I'm this is what I voted for. Well,
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now's your time to actually show that. Okay, please please.