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The Rita Panahi Show | 19 February · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scorne US Australia. This is the Wader Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panety Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight Victorian Labor MP's attempt to discredit the author
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Speaker 2: of a report detailing systematic raughting and criminality on big
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Speaker 2: bill projects across the state. The panel will be here
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Speaker 2: to discuss that. Shortly, the Great Douglas Murray joins me
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Speaker 2: before the first ad break and we discuss everything from
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Speaker 2: celebrity virtue signaling to the UK following Australia in implementing
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Speaker 2: social media bands for under sixteens. Mihrowitz will have the
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Speaker 2: latest from the US, including Stephen Colbert being called out
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Speaker 2: for misinformation, and later in the hour, Kinsey Schofield would
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Speaker 2: join me with the latest royal and celebrity news and
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Speaker 2: we never forget Lefties losing it tonight featuring transactivist still
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Speaker 2: In Mulvainy who has a new role on Broadway.
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Speaker 3: In fact, Helby Marlow tanned.
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Speaker 2: But First Victorian Premier Justenter Alan threatened to end a
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Speaker 2: press conference early as she was grilled by reporters on
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Speaker 2: the CFMEU corruption scandal.
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Speaker 4: Several Victorian MPs.
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Speaker 2: Have urged the premiere to call a Royal commission into
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Speaker 2: alleged criminality and corruption on.
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Speaker 4: The state's big bill projects.
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Speaker 2: It follows the latest allegations of systematic routing at work sides,
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Speaker 2: with a review estimating the MEU's actions have cost taxpayers
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Speaker 2: upwards of fifteen billion dollars. Have a listen as just
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Speaker 2: Ina Alan is grilled by a reporter overclaims people unreporting
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Speaker 2: incidents amid fears of retribution.
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Speaker 5: The same to Jeffrey Watsons, they don't feel they can
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Speaker 5: report it because they have already uprooted their lives for
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Speaker 5: fear of people that are no longer in the cfenergy.
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Speaker 5: They are consoling the CFMU.
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Speaker 6: If you look to I'll make two points on this,
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Speaker 6: and can I ask that you retract that last point? No, no, no,
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Speaker 6: you're not. Could I ask that you retract that last comment.
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Speaker 6: This is an incredibly serious matter that I'm working incredibly
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Speaker 6: hard on. I'd for this press conference to continue us
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Speaker 6: that you retract that last observation.
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Speaker 4: Let's bring in the panels.
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Speaker 2: Sky News contributors Proue McSween and Caroline do Rosso prue
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Speaker 2: this is as grim as it gets. We are talking
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Speaker 2: about precedented levels of corruption all of the taxpayers expense.
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Speaker 2: If this report is accurate, we're talking anywhere between fifteen
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Speaker 2: and thirty billion dollars some estimates of taxpayer funds being squandered,
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Speaker 2: being defrauded.
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Speaker 7: And she's acting like a cornered rat. You know, she
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Speaker 7: can run, but you can't hide from this. I think
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Speaker 7: this will be her come to Jesus moment where she's
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Speaker 7: going to have to accept that through inept conduct, she
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Speaker 7: has purposefully as the Infrastructure Minister overlooked or whatever we
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Speaker 7: can call it. We don't know yet the actions of
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Speaker 7: these thugs, and we just need to know what's going on.
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Speaker 7: We know that there's billions of dollars that have been lost,
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Speaker 7: We know that she's been she's sort of literally in
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Speaker 7: bed with the CFMU because we know her husband was
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Speaker 7: a member of it. But this whole labor brand stinks
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Speaker 7: now we know, and it's going to affect a federal
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Speaker 7: labor as well, because the point is that they are
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Speaker 7: irretrievably linked to the unions, They rely on them for money,
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Speaker 7: and frankly, this is going to be a real national
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Speaker 7: issue as well. I just don't see it labor escaping
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Speaker 7: from it.
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Speaker 2: Myself, Caroline, we now have the shameful situation where members
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Speaker 2: of the disintal government, including the Police Minister, the Attorney General,
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Speaker 2: are shooting the messenger trying to smear the report writer
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Speaker 2: here rather than address the substance of this comprehensive one
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty six page report that has been written
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Speaker 2: by Jeffrey Watson sc Do you think that strategy is
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Speaker 2: going to be successful by just mudding the waters and
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Speaker 2: trying to cast this corruption fighter as some sort of
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Speaker 2: attention seeker.
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Speaker 5: No, it's not going to work. And I think the
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Speaker 5: point that Proo made about just Into being the cornered rat, well,
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Speaker 5: actually it's the whole government, because they're all accountable for this.
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Speaker 5: This is a whole government. There's a cabinet, there's obviously
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Speaker 5: those close confidence of just Into Allen. They are all
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Speaker 5: they are all equally responsible. So this here is just
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Speaker 5: an exercise in flinging around as much proverbial as possible
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Speaker 5: and hoping some of it will stick. The simple fact
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Speaker 5: of the matter is this is not the first Union related,
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Speaker 5: you know, alleged corruption issue in Victoria. So I think
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Speaker 5: for the public it's kind of like, well, here's just
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Speaker 5: the next edition in the saga that we have been seeing,
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Speaker 5: you know, for some time, so they can try that,
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Speaker 5: but I think obviously ultimately the public will see this
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Speaker 5: as obfuscation. And the other point that pre made, which
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Speaker 5: I thought was important, was about the impact it has
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Speaker 5: for federal labor, but also the opportunity it gives to
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Speaker 5: the federal coalition. And we see Tim Wilson, who's already
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Speaker 5: speaking about in this huge amount of funds that have
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Speaker 5: gone from taxpayers, both state and federal taxpayers to essentially
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Speaker 5: paper over these massive budget black holes in Victoria. And
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Speaker 5: I think, you know, maybe if Victorians, you know, are
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Speaker 5: in denial about the answer, I'm sure that taxpayers elsewhere
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Speaker 5: around the country would really like to know where their
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Speaker 5: hard end is going.
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Speaker 2: Well, Victoria has the biggest state debt in the country
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Speaker 2: and we can see why because it's the level of
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Speaker 2: ineptitude is unrivaled.
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Speaker 4: Now, let's stay in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: The We've lost the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix after almost
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Speaker 2: three decades at Phillip Island.
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Speaker 4: This follows the Allen.
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Speaker 2: Government's refusal to move it to albert Park. South Australian
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Speaker 2: Premiere Peter Malanascus has announced it will be held in
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Speaker 2: Adelaide from twenty twenty seven. Prou This event was enormous
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Speaker 2: for the Basque coast. The attracted ninety three thousand fans
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Speaker 2: last year. It pumps more than fifty million into the
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Speaker 2: economy every year and it's gone. It's going to be
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Speaker 2: in South Australia from next year.
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Speaker 7: Yes, well, it's all part of the decay of Victoria,
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Speaker 7: isn't it interesting though? I was looking at the annual
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Speaker 7: report last year and it said that it actually cost
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Speaker 7: the government seven hundred million dollars in subsidy. So you know,
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Speaker 7: we know that this government down there and labor generally
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Speaker 7: don't know how to add up. So maybe in fact
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Speaker 7: that is true. We don't know really what it is subsidizing.
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Speaker 8: But no, it's always had.
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Speaker 4: Victoria's had that reputation.
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Speaker 7: Of being the sports capital and they normally do their
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Speaker 7: sports events well. So it's a big loss for them
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Speaker 7: and a loss of ego, I suppose.
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Speaker 4: Oh, enormously.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we pride ourselves on being the sports capital
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Speaker 2: of the country and this is certainly a blow to that.
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Speaker 2: Now to this astonishing story talking about tax pay funds
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Speaker 2: being squandered, and this is more sinisen than that this
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Speaker 2: is a single mother from Western Sydney. She's now won
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Speaker 2: her legal fight against EAT Safety Commissioner Julie Inmanngrant over
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Speaker 2: a bid to block a post criticizing the existence of a.
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Speaker 4: Queer club in a Melbourne primary school. Primary school.
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Speaker 2: The mother, who herself is bisexual, had hosted a fifty
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Speaker 2: three second video to x in May twenty twenty four
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Speaker 2: that was critical of a primary school's decision to host
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Speaker 2: a queer club for its students. Eight days later, the
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Speaker 2: platform received a removal notice from the E Safety Commissioner's office.
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Speaker 4: Caroline.
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Speaker 2: Now, this mum appealed the takedown order. Good on her
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Speaker 2: for doing that most people wouldn't bother. She won in
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Speaker 2: the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, but then, using our taxpayer funds,
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Speaker 2: Julian mcgrant appealed the tribunal's decision in the Federal Court,
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Speaker 2: which yesterday dismissed her appeal, hopefully marking the end of
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Speaker 2: this two year battle. I just cannot believe one the
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Speaker 2: takedown order in the first place, but after this single
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Speaker 2: mum challenged it and won to then appeal it to
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Speaker 2: the Federal court. What is happening in the office of
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Speaker 2: the E Safety Commissioner.
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Speaker 5: I find this absolutely repulsive, absolutely repulsive, and you're totally
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Speaker 5: right about the initial takedown order. This lady had an
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Speaker 5: opinion about something that was happening at her children's school,
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Speaker 5: so that there is a perfectly valid criticism for her
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Speaker 5: to have. You know, we still do have free speech
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Speaker 5: in this country. Even if that's free speech is you know,
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Speaker 5: not convenient for the E Safety Commissioner. But tutos to
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Speaker 5: this lady for standing up for herself and pushing back
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Speaker 5: because too many people just cop it in the neck.
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Speaker 5: And I'm very, very glad to see this because this
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Speaker 5: is not the first time that the E Safety Commissioner
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Speaker 5: has been taken out for essentially exceeding the exceeding the
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Speaker 5: remit of what is her job to do. The other
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Speaker 5: thing and obviously I was a litigation lawyer for a
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Speaker 5: long time. You know, when you're talking about the government,
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Speaker 5: the government has to behave as a model litigate. It
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Speaker 5: is their job to behave to a standard that is
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Speaker 5: greater than what is expected from the ordinary person. And
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Speaker 5: the fact that this was appealed into the federal court
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Speaker 5: is to me, it is just a disgrace. That is
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Speaker 5: our money paying for that if it has gone to
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Speaker 5: the federal court, and I'm not sure if there has
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Speaker 5: been a costs order awarded yet there may be costs
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Speaker 5: now that the taxpayer will also have to bear paying
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Speaker 5: for this mother's cost, as frankly it should do, but
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Speaker 5: it shouldn't have had to have. It shouldn't had to
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Speaker 5: have done because this appeal shouldn't have got this far.
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Speaker 5: So we have got governments getting involved or bureaucrats getting
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Speaker 5: involved in all areas of our lives that are frankly
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Speaker 5: in none of their business. And I hope at some
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Speaker 5: point Julie Immigrant stops leading with her chin true.
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Speaker 2: I have written in the past, and sadly I'm probably
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Speaker 2: going to have to write again in the future that
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Speaker 2: the EASE Safety Commission is a leftist activist and she
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Speaker 2: has behaved as such in that role, and that is
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Speaker 2: just not good enough. This was a Liberal Party appointment,
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Speaker 2: another mistake, and.
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Speaker 4: She has misused that.
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Speaker 2: Office, in my opinion, repeatedly. This is just one example.
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Speaker 2: There are plenty of others we've covered over the years.
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Speaker 2: Is this something that the coalition should start talking about,
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Speaker 2: because we've seen them be on a unity ticket when
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Speaker 2: it comes to the Safety Commissioner, whether it's bans on
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Speaker 2: under sixteen's or other measures she's sought to implement. They've
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Speaker 2: been a little bit too frightened to actually take a
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Speaker 2: stand for free speech, free expression, particularly when it comes
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Speaker 2: to social media.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, clearly she is responsible for overreach in
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Speaker 7: so many areas. But you can bet your botton dollar
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Speaker 7: that the Liberal Party had done focus groups and a
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Speaker 7: lot of parents were talking about their concerns about their access,
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Speaker 7: their kids' access to pawn and various other things on
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Speaker 7: social media. This is probably why the Liberals have installed
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Speaker 7: this had installed this woman, And now of course she's
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Speaker 7: concerning herself and wasting taxpayer money on things like this
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Speaker 7: when the money should be spent on what is being
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Speaker 7: taught in our schools. When you think about what the
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Speaker 7: issue is here with this mother and why she took
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Speaker 7: it on, is that there is an indoctrination in our
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Speaker 7: schools that is so concerning a grooming of our children,
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Speaker 7: and I just think the focus now needs to be
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Speaker 7: more on that than anything else.
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Speaker 2: Prue McSween, Caroline de Rosso, thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: your time tonight. Joining me now is the author of
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Speaker 2: International bestsellers, including his latest work on Democracies and Death Coults.
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Speaker 4: Douglas Murray, welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with French President Emmanuel mccron, with an approval
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Speaker 2: rating of sixteen percent. He has blasted social media platforms,
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Speaker 2: claimbing their free speech arguments are rubbish. He said he
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Speaker 2: wanted totally transparent algorithms and that free speech is bs
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Speaker 2: if nobody knows how you are guided through it.
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Speaker 9: Because I mean, free speech is a pure bullet. If
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Speaker 9: nobody knows how you are guide that schools is so
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Speaker 9: called free speech, especially when it's to be guided from
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Speaker 9: one hated speech another weted speech. I just want to
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Speaker 9: have a transparent road schools these different speeches, and I
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Speaker 9: won't buy the way to other sort of public order.
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Speaker 9: I want to avoid the recist speech, hated speech.
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Speaker 2: It seems Douglas that Emmanuel Macron says free speech as
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Speaker 2: a threat to public order.
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Speaker 10: Yes, well, I have to say, for once I agree
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Speaker 10: with President Macron. He's right that we do need some
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Speaker 10: kind of idea of what the algorithms are doing on
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Speaker 10: certain platforms. The idea that they're particularly disfavoring him is
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Speaker 10: doubtless the reason why he's decided to raise this. Now,
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Speaker 10: nobody seems to mind when the algorithms are screwed, as
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Speaker 10: long as they're screwed in their own direction. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 10: what tends to happen is that when a political leader
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Speaker 10: feels some kind of heat, feels that the news is.
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Speaker 1: Going in a direction they don't want it to go.
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Speaker 10: It's become incredibly easy to blame social media platforms and
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Speaker 10: disinformation and much more. I'm all for transparency, and I'm
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Speaker 10: all for the platforms actually being able to reveal to
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Speaker 10: us effectually, you know, when we're having things held from us,
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Speaker 10: when we're having things pushed our way we haven't necessarily
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Speaker 10: asked for. But I don't think people should call for
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Speaker 10: it just because they're feeling some political heat on their
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Speaker 10: own side. And I think that's exactly what President MACRONI
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Speaker 10: is doing.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go to the UK, where this call on
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Speaker 2: the Jeremy Weinshow has gone viral. Listen to the reaction
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Speaker 2: of the host when the caller mentions being stabbed twice
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Speaker 2: in London?
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Speaker 11: Are you really saying you'd be less of a risk
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Speaker 11: there than you would be in Tower Hamlet's on what basis, well.
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Speaker 9: I've been stabbed twice in London's advice to see, that's.
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Speaker 1: A big city. Sadly that happens sometimes there you.
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Speaker 2: Go, Douglas, it's a big city. Sometimes that happens. Not
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Speaker 2: much sympathy there from the host.
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Speaker 10: No, I mean, nobody does get much sympathy in modern
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Speaker 10: Britain if they've suffered a crime like a stabbing, because
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Speaker 10: it doesn't really fit the narrative. It's in the same
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Speaker 10: way that people have been saying, of course for years
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Speaker 10: with terrorist attacks, we mustn't really focus on the victims
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Speaker 10: and we've got to just sort of push forward. As
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Speaker 10: Sadik Khan might say, these are all just things you've
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Speaker 10: got to put up with in the modern, wonderful, diverse
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Speaker 10: and multicultural, pluralistic city.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that is the case.
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Speaker 10: And I think it's remarkable that we see in a
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Speaker 10: moment like that, not just a victim of crime mentioning it,
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Speaker 10: but this profound lack of sympathy in the commentating class.
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Speaker 10: And when people wonder, well, why is that, it's simply
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Speaker 10: because such things reveal very uncomfortable truths, and the unveil
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Speaker 10: the kind of uncomfortable truths that really any journalists should
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Speaker 10: want to look at.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the job of the media.
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Speaker 10: Class is not simply to sort of stroke everyone's presumptions
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Speaker 10: and make them all feel good. It's actually meant to
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Speaker 10: be to look at problems like that, tease them out
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Speaker 10: in the open, and try to address how to solve them.
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Speaker 1: But that's about the last thing.
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Speaker 10: That much of the commentating class in the UK, as
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Speaker 10: in many other countries, actually wants to do.
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Speaker 2: Now, Douglas, I've been keen to get your take on
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Speaker 2: the scandal that in golf Manchester United co owner Sir
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Speaker 2: Jim Ratcliffe after he said this Ford you.
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Speaker 12: Can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits
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Speaker 12: and huge levels of immigrants coming in. I mean that
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Speaker 12: the UK has been colonized. It's costing too much money.
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Speaker 12: It will cause, it will cause the UK has been
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Speaker 12: colonized by immigrants, really.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it, Douglas. Jim has since apologized. He said if
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Speaker 2: his language offended some people, he was sorry. What do
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Speaker 2: you make of the comments? And was an apology necessary?
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Speaker 13: Well?
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Speaker 10: This is a classic again, a classic thing of modern
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Speaker 10: Britain and much of the modern West. What he said
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Speaker 10: is his own opinion very many people will agree with him.
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Speaker 10: Some people might disagree with some of the wording, but
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Speaker 10: much of the facts of what he said is just indisputable.
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Speaker 10: But no, we never do get to that. We never
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Speaker 10: do get to the facts or the actual discussion. What
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Speaker 10: we've had instead for the last week has been the
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Speaker 10: great modern British pastime of shooting the messenger.
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Speaker 1: That everybody up to and including.
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Speaker 10: The Prime Minister of the UK has decided to talk
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Speaker 10: about this, to decide to condemn his remarks. We've had
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Speaker 10: our brilliant Foreign Secretary as well as Prime Minister across
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Speaker 10: the airwaves saying nobody should have used these words.
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Speaker 1: Do they have nothing better to do?
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Speaker 10: Is their job really to be like anyone else on
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Speaker 10: x just showing their own political stance and trying to
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Speaker 10: silence somebody else's speech. It's absolutely typical. Do you get
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Speaker 10: into this shoot the messenger mode? And if anyone doubts that,
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Speaker 10: by the way, since making those comments so, Jim has received,
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Speaker 10: among other things, an unbelievable pasting across the British media,
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Speaker 10: the commentating class and much more, accusing him of tax
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Speaker 10: dodging and much more. He has contributed by the accounts
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Speaker 10: I've seen hundreds of millions of pounds in taxes to
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Speaker 10: the UK, sometimes more than one hundred million I think
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Speaker 10: in one year. That is an enormous amount that the
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Speaker 10: exchequer has gained from him. But of course people don't
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Speaker 10: want to go to the question that he has raised
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Speaker 10: among others, which is people who don't.
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Speaker 1: Pay their way in society.
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Speaker 10: Instead, they've tried to decide that he is particularly guilty
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Speaker 10: of not paying his way in society. As I say,
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Speaker 10: it's not just shooting the messenger in cases like this,
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Speaker 10: it's shooting in and then then jumping up and down
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Speaker 10: on his body. I mean, it's absolutely obscene and I
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Speaker 10: wish that at some point modern Britain has grown up
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Speaker 10: enough to actually have the sort of debate which he
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Speaker 10: raised and get down to the issues that he's raised
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Speaker 10: instead of this stupid prancing around the language policing, which
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Speaker 10: is all we ever hear Douglas.
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Speaker 2: Given that the attacks have continued, and in fact one
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Speaker 2: could argue that bullies have been emboldened by the apology.
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Speaker 2: Was the apology a mistake? Should he have stuck to
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Speaker 2: his guns?
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Speaker 10: No, absolutely, he shouldn't have apologized, But I mean I
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Speaker 10: can see why he did, because the howling, screaming mob
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Speaker 10: that comes down on somebody when they say something this.
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Speaker 10: I mean, one of the things in the last week
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Speaker 10: has been that his club has, you know, foreign players,
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Speaker 10: and people are trying to pretend that his comments would
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Speaker 10: effectively keep foreign players out of his football club. Well,
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Speaker 10: the players in his football club highly paid, very unusual
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Speaker 10: types of migrant, aren't they. They're people who have paid,
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Speaker 10: for instance, three hundred pounds a week.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 10: I don't think anyone in Britain has a problem with
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Speaker 10: very highly skilled, high performing athletes of football coming to
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Speaker 10: the UK. That's not what his comments referred to. They
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Speaker 10: refer to the people who come to a country take
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Speaker 10: advantage of welfare benefits, don't pay in and only take out. Well,
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Speaker 10: is that not something worth mentioning? Is a taxpayer who
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Speaker 10: pays more than their share in taxes? Are very large
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Speaker 10: share in taxes? Are they not allowed to have a
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Speaker 10: view about any of this? Is everyone just meant to
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Speaker 10: roll over and apologize endlessly? No, I wish he hadn't
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Speaker 10: given in. I understand why he did. But as ever, yes,
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Speaker 10: as you say, Reta, the bullies are simply emboldened and
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Speaker 10: unfortunately means that fewer people as ever will actually come
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Speaker 10: out and say what they think at a time when
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Speaker 10: more people need to come out and say what they
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Speaker 10: think about things that are incredibly unjust and unfair to
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Speaker 10: the majority of the public.
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Speaker 2: Staying in the UK, where the Kiostama government plans to
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Speaker 2: follow in Australia's footsteps and implement a ban on under
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Speaker 2: sixteens accessing social media, how do you.
22:07
Speaker 4: See this policy, Douglas. There's a lot of well.
22:09
Speaker 2: Meaning people who support it because they think social media
22:13
Speaker 2: does great harm to young people, but I can see
22:17
Speaker 2: it having all sorts of unintended consequences as well.
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Speaker 1: It sure does.
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Speaker 10: I mean, I don't trust the British government of this
22:25
Speaker 10: day is to do almost anything well, let alone policing
22:29
Speaker 10: the Internet. I think there are several issues here, I
22:34
Speaker 10: mean clearly, and the work of Jon Van Height and
22:37
Speaker 10: others has shown this clearly. The use of social media
22:41
Speaker 10: has some very negative effects on people when they're in
22:44
Speaker 10: their teens, particularly when they're in the age of sort
22:46
Speaker 10: of thirteen plus and starting to think about their image.
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Speaker 1: And there's just.
22:52
Speaker 10: Terrible effects, particularly on young girls. And the data all
22:55
Speaker 10: proves that whether or not that should mean that there
22:59
Speaker 10: should be some in a social media ban, or whether
23:02
Speaker 10: it means which is what I would prefer that schools
23:06
Speaker 10: and parents and others are better at making sure that
23:10
Speaker 10: kids aren't on their phones endlessly. I'd rather prefer the latter,
23:15
Speaker 10: it has to be said. But yes, the unintended consequences
23:19
Speaker 10: of all of this sort of thing are almost limitless
23:23
Speaker 10: in their number.
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Speaker 1: And as I say, I mean.
23:26
Speaker 10: Who in the British government would you trust to do
23:31
Speaker 10: such a thing anything but ineptly. This is a government
23:37
Speaker 10: that can't even do a do a deal to give
23:40
Speaker 10: away islands Mauritius without being incredibly inept about it and
23:49
Speaker 10: ending up paying through the nose for it. So no,
23:52
Speaker 10: I don't trust them to manage to get on top
23:55
Speaker 10: of social media anymore than I managed to expect them
23:57
Speaker 10: to manage to get on top of anything else.
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Speaker 2: Before you go, Douglas, I loved your piece in the
24:03
Speaker 2: New York Post this week on the uprisings we are
24:06
Speaker 2: seeing in certain blue cities in America. You were at
24:09
Speaker 2: the radical lefteris who are objecting to any and all
24:12
Speaker 2: ICE operations are blurring a most important line between.
24:16
Speaker 4: Legal and illegal.
24:19
Speaker 2: Can you just explain what you mean by that and
24:21
Speaker 2: about this hill the Democrats have chosen to die on,
24:25
Speaker 2: which is protecting illegal immigrants at all costs.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's quite amazing actually when you think about it,
24:32
Speaker 10: because it's not just ended up with protecting illegal immigrants,
24:35
Speaker 10: it's protecting illegal immigrants who've carried out crimes. I mean,
24:40
Speaker 10: there have been ice officers who've been trying to detain
24:46
Speaker 10: people who have committed rapes and other crimes since being
24:49
Speaker 10: in the US illegally, and they find a whole load
24:54
Speaker 10: of sort of liberal tends to be women strangely standing
24:59
Speaker 10: in their way and trying to stop them carrying out
25:02
Speaker 10: this act.
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Speaker 1: This is a.
25:04
Speaker 10: Terrible strategic mistakeer part for everything else by the activists left.
25:10
Speaker 10: Most people, including Democrats, actually do not want illegal foreign
25:15
Speaker 10: criminals who've committed crimes in the US to be allowed
25:19
Speaker 10: to remain in the US unbothered after breaking in and
25:22
Speaker 10: then committing crimes. To make this a hill to die
25:26
Speaker 10: on is a quite extraordinary thing.
25:28
Speaker 1: And the thing that I.
25:30
Speaker 10: Mentioned in that piece in the New York Post, which
25:32
Speaker 10: I just have said for years about the migration issue
25:34
Speaker 10: in all of our countries, is please can we remember
25:38
Speaker 10: that the difference between legal and illegal immigration is the law.
25:44
Speaker 10: And if you decide that the law is an unimportant concept,
25:49
Speaker 10: or it's something you can throw away, or that somebody
25:52
Speaker 10: who has come to the US completely legally and paid
25:55
Speaker 10: lawyers and done all the endless paperwork is effectively to
25:58
Speaker 10: be regarded in the same as somebody who walked across
26:02
Speaker 10: the southern border in the Biden years and then started
26:04
Speaker 10: committing crimes in the US. Sorry, but you haven't just
26:07
Speaker 10: lost me, You'll have lost the majority of the American public.
26:10
Speaker 10: And when people on the left end up saying things like,
26:13
Speaker 10: you know, how could Donald Trump have been elected with
26:16
Speaker 10: a popular vote? Guys, this is how. It's because you
26:20
Speaker 10: choose absolutely terrible hills to die on, and Donald Trump's
26:25
Speaker 10: going to kill you at the polls each time.
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Speaker 2: And Douglas, we say that particularly from the celebrity class.
26:32
Speaker 2: Just recently at the Grammys, the number of artists who
26:35
Speaker 2: talked about immigrants, no differentiation between illegal and legal immigrants,
26:41
Speaker 2: and that famous line of Billie Eilish, no human is
26:45
Speaker 2: illegal on stolen land. That seems to be the mantra
26:49
Speaker 2: of the modern leth of the moment.
26:50
Speaker 10: Douglas, it's crazy, reta I mean, I think that these
26:55
Speaker 10: actors and others who we see doing this performative thing,
26:58
Speaker 10: I think they imagine that they're like Oscar Schindler in
27:02
Speaker 10: Shindler's List or something, or you know, they're the sort
27:06
Speaker 10: of heroic person hiding Jews in the attic in some
27:12
Speaker 10: Second World War movie. I think they're totally divorced from reality.
27:17
Speaker 10: We already knew that, of course, but I think they're
27:19
Speaker 10: seeing themselves in this sort of unbelievably heroic light.
27:23
Speaker 1: And sorry, but this isn't that situation. It just isn't
27:27
Speaker 1: at all.
27:28
Speaker 10: And unfortunately, the celebrities have decided that somehow, you know,
27:35
Speaker 10: a foreign criminal is somehow like a Jew in the Holocaust,
27:41
Speaker 10: although not all of them seem to like Jews all
27:43
Speaker 10: that much anymore, but let's put that aside for a moment.
27:45
Speaker 10: And the federal agents of Ice are the kind of
27:49
Speaker 10: Nazi stormtroopers, and therefore that they the great Hollywood celebrity class,
27:55
Speaker 10: are the only things standing between barbarism and civilization.
28:02
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, but if civilization were.
28:05
Speaker 10: Actually reduced to such a stage, among other things, we'd
28:08
Speaker 10: be absolutely down and swanee if we had to rely
28:12
Speaker 10: on Billie Eilish and co.
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Speaker 1: To be our only line of defense.
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Speaker 4: Douglas Murray, thank you for your time.
28:19
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure as always. Reata thank you.
28:21
Speaker 4: Still to come.
28:23
Speaker 2: Left is Losing It, plus the latest from the US,
28:26
Speaker 2: including Stephen Colbert being called out for misinformation.
28:30
Speaker 4: Mi Horowitz is up next.
28:41
Speaker 2: You're watching the Red of Pannehy Show, and it's time
28:43
Speaker 2: for Lefties Losing It.
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Speaker 4: And here is Ice.
28:46
Speaker 2: Age actor John Leguizamo railing against Ice, saying that if
28:51
Speaker 2: you support a country's immigration laws being observed, then you
28:55
Speaker 2: must hate immigrants and you can't eat their food.
28:58
Speaker 14: If you don't like Latin people and you don't like
29:00
Speaker 14: us speaking Spanish, and you don't like us being here,
29:02
Speaker 14: then you can't eat our chocolate because we gave you that.
29:05
Speaker 14: You can't eat our vanilla, Get off it. You can't
29:08
Speaker 14: have our tomato sauces or ketchup because we brought the
29:12
Speaker 14: world tomato and tomato sauces. You can't have anything spicy
29:15
Speaker 14: or hot because we gave the world chilis. Get your
29:18
Speaker 14: hands off of it. You can't eat corn or popcorn
29:21
Speaker 14: because we gave you that. You can't eat our squashes,
29:24
Speaker 14: no zucchini, nothing because that's ours, no beans.
29:27
Speaker 5: We give the world all the beans.
29:29
Speaker 1: That's right.
29:31
Speaker 2: Now to another actor in comic Kumal nan Gianni, who
29:34
Speaker 2: gets all teary assuming that people believing in migration laws, well,
29:39
Speaker 2: that means that migrants are demonized.
29:42
Speaker 9: I think the demonization of immigrants is so contrary to
29:46
Speaker 9: what America tells itself it is. I mean, the idea
29:50
Speaker 9: these people have come from all over the world.
29:56
Speaker 14: Fight for a better life for themselves and their family,
29:59
Speaker 14: and the fact that we're.
30:03
Speaker 10: They were demonizing them, to me, it's really really heartbreaking.
30:06
Speaker 2: South the only ones demonizing immigrants are the Democrats who
30:10
Speaker 2: conflate illegal and legal migrants like laws mean nothing. Now,
30:15
Speaker 2: this is a celebrity losing it that I did not
30:17
Speaker 2: expect to say. I always saw Dave Chappelle as a
30:20
Speaker 2: largely sane, old school left b but no, he has
30:23
Speaker 2: succumbed to the woke mind virus. Here he is visiting
30:27
Speaker 2: a memorial and paying his respects to Alex Pretty.
30:42
Speaker 4: This is the dude.
30:43
Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle is paying tribute to a man who repeatedly
30:46
Speaker 2: clashed with law enforcement, who was violent and came to
30:49
Speaker 2: these protests with a gun. An Extramo pick your heroes
30:54
Speaker 2: a little more carefully. Democrats now too transactive is still
30:58
Speaker 2: a mulvainy who has made his Broadway debut, stepping into
31:01
Speaker 2: the role of Anne Bolin in the musical six, And
31:05
Speaker 2: in typical Dylan style, he's playing the victim and finding
31:09
Speaker 2: all sorts of similarities between himself and a Bolin.
31:14
Speaker 3: I think some people might consider me to be a
31:16
Speaker 3: slightly polarizing woman, sure, and I'm playing Anne Boleyn, who
31:21
Speaker 3: famously was also quite polarizing. And I think there's something
31:25
Speaker 3: really beautiful about getting to embody this woman who was
31:30
Speaker 3: a little bit ahead of her time, and I think
31:32
Speaker 3: a lot of bit misunderstood.
31:34
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, Dylan mocking womanhood is just like
31:37
Speaker 2: the Queen of England being beheaded for treason by Henry
31:40
Speaker 2: the Eighth. Obviously we should be grateful to Dylan and
31:43
Speaker 2: the production's writer are taking this historical figure seriously.
31:48
Speaker 13: The six.
31:50
Speaker 3: Is that Toby Marlowe is.
31:54
Speaker 5: Tran It's twenty twenty six.
31:59
Speaker 15: Name.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in documentary filmmaker and political commentator Army Horowitz. Army,
32:05
Speaker 2: I trust you've already purchased your tickets.
32:08
Speaker 15: Oh, no question about it. I mean, look, I can't
32:11
Speaker 15: get enough of botherwing general that. I think it's so awful.
32:15
Speaker 15: The days totally track the bring in guilt and moment
32:19
Speaker 15: of God. Just the whole thing's a joke, but it's funny.
32:23
Speaker 15: I don't bring the remember the time when you were
32:25
Speaker 15: so popular that he actually like a massive I don't
32:29
Speaker 15: want to think what beer company it was, but brought
32:31
Speaker 15: him in represents them died.
32:33
Speaker 8: Things have weary change. Well the better, I would say.
32:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, he almost destroyed bud Light. I mean they lost
32:40
Speaker 2: something like a billion dollars. It was reported from the
32:44
Speaker 2: backlash of that, and it's taking them a long time
32:46
Speaker 2: to recover. Now, let's talk about more important matters. Earlier today,
32:50
Speaker 2: a grandmother, Felicia Cook, gave a very memorable speech of
32:55
Speaker 2: the White House to mark Black History Month.
32:58
Speaker 4: This is something thought you thank.
33:01
Speaker 11: God for this President. I am filled my cup brothers
33:09
Speaker 11: over because he allowed his constituents, his people to come
33:15
Speaker 11: to my house to interview me, to talk about the
33:19
Speaker 11: murder of my grandson. It seemed like nobody cared wein
33:24
Speaker 11: marshay Rally and nobody heard me. Democrats get mad at
33:29
Speaker 11: me until this Republican seeing his constituency, his people out
33:35
Speaker 11: there to interview me in my home. Have you ever
33:38
Speaker 11: heard of a thing? Then they invited me twice before
33:42
Speaker 11: Congress to testify for the beautiful bill that's gonna change
33:47
Speaker 11: crime in the district. If you kill somebody, okay, you
33:54
Speaker 11: take a life, you do life, just that simple.
34:00
Speaker 1: Do a us crime, you do us time, just that simple.
34:04
Speaker 1: And then we need National Guard, and which we did
34:07
Speaker 1: years ago.
34:10
Speaker 11: He brought it on.
34:14
Speaker 4: I love him.
34:15
Speaker 11: I don't want to hear none of you got to
34:16
Speaker 11: say about their racist stuff. And don't be looking at
34:19
Speaker 11: me on the news, hate knowing me because I'm standing
34:22
Speaker 11: up for somebody that deserves that to stand up for.
34:25
Speaker 12: Get off the.
34:25
Speaker 1: Man's back, Let him do his job. He's doing the
34:28
Speaker 1: right thing.
34:28
Speaker 5: Pick up off of it.
34:31
Speaker 4: And Grandma said it. I mean, I just love her.
34:35
Speaker 2: I think the White House should hire her as a spokesperson.
34:38
Speaker 4: Of some type. She is brilliant.
34:40
Speaker 2: She articulated so much in so few words and in
34:45
Speaker 2: such a powerful fashion.
34:47
Speaker 15: And I think she represents more and more of the
34:49
Speaker 15: black community. Fankl right, I think more. There's a maybe
34:52
Speaker 15: even a silent Ma Jordy that thinks along the line
34:55
Speaker 15: that she does. Good for her, her name to be
34:58
Speaker 15: an allps of all young black men and women across
35:03
Speaker 15: the country. And that's somebody like Waste Grifford, like Nicole
35:06
Speaker 15: Hanna Jones or Iramax Canny.
35:09
Speaker 8: Good for her.
35:10
Speaker 15: And yes, Donald sump no udoubtedly Donald thomp said a
35:13
Speaker 15: lot of black lines in Washington, DC. We call her
35:17
Speaker 15: the national God.
35:18
Speaker 8: So good on her.
35:19
Speaker 15: And I'm so glad he brought there and there for
35:21
Speaker 15: Black and Free Month. He represents the best of the
35:24
Speaker 15: black community. I'm here for it.
35:27
Speaker 2: I think it's been one of the most underreported stories recently,
35:33
Speaker 2: the fact that there has been a dramatic drop in
35:36
Speaker 2: violent crime in the US in the past twelve months,
35:38
Speaker 2: around twenty percent drop in the murder right, and like
35:42
Speaker 2: you said, a lot of that is in blue cities,
35:46
Speaker 2: in areas dominated by Black Americans, and they're the ones
35:52
Speaker 2: whose lives are being saved, and yet there seems to
35:55
Speaker 2: be very little reporting of that at all.
35:59
Speaker 4: Now I want to talk about JD. Vance.
36:01
Speaker 2: He's shared his thoughts on Alexandria Kasia Cortez's performance in
36:07
Speaker 2: Europe when she floundered on the world stage at the
36:11
Speaker 2: Munique Security Conference.
36:13
Speaker 4: Here's a little reminder of what happened with IOC.
36:16
Speaker 14: Should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan
36:21
Speaker 14: if China were to move.
36:23
Speaker 16: You know, I think that.
36:27
Speaker 15: This is such a you know, I think that.
36:33
Speaker 6: This is a.
36:36
Speaker 16: This is of course, a very.
36:38
Speaker 4: Long standing.
36:41
Speaker 16: Policy of the United States.
36:44
Speaker 2: Well, the Vice President has shared his thoughts on the
36:47
Speaker 2: congresswoman's embarrassing performance.
36:50
Speaker 17: Well, I think it's a person who doesn't know what
36:52
Speaker 17: she actually thinks. And I've seen this way too much
36:54
Speaker 17: in Washington with politicians where they are given lines, and
36:58
Speaker 17: when you ask them to go out to the lines
37:00
Speaker 17: they were given, they completely fall apart. Because look, does AOC.
37:04
Speaker 1: Does anybody really.
37:05
Speaker 13: Believe that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global
37:11
Speaker 13: world order or about what the United States should do
37:13
Speaker 13: with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe.
37:16
Speaker 17: No, this is a person who is mouthing the slogans
37:19
Speaker 17: that somebody else gave her.
37:21
Speaker 2: It's hard to disagree with jd Vance there Iosa has
37:24
Speaker 2: talked about as the future of the Democrats. But those
37:28
Speaker 2: of us who've observed her closely since she burst onto
37:31
Speaker 2: the scene, well, we weren't surprised by that performance in Munich.
37:37
Speaker 15: Yeah, we're definitely not surprised. But look, let me push
37:42
Speaker 15: back on the wife's pards were just a second look,
37:47
Speaker 15: is she an idiot? Yes, of course she But did
37:50
Speaker 15: she and global war view that she can articulate generally
37:56
Speaker 15: she does like look obviously general anything by Taiwan and China, right,
38:01
Speaker 15: because she's she is a jew little baron. But she
38:04
Speaker 15: does have a this this this Marxist pointed view on
38:09
Speaker 15: how the globe should be light, an anti capital, pro
38:12
Speaker 15: market view, and we I don't want to discount that
38:16
Speaker 15: because that's a powerful voice in the US congres than
38:20
Speaker 15: possibly want and wanting for the present pushing that viewpoint.
38:25
Speaker 15: A perfect example of that encapsulated it's our common of Venezuela. Yes,
38:28
Speaker 15: she's really there's no Venezuela is not south of the equator.
38:32
Speaker 15: But she'd makeing a larger point because she's trying to
38:35
Speaker 15: create this strife between the South and the North. That's
38:38
Speaker 15: why she said that, right, because she wants to create
38:41
Speaker 15: the battle like geopolitical, economic, social battle reale between the
38:46
Speaker 15: South and the North. That's what I mean by that. Look,
38:49
Speaker 15: she's gonna stay the Democratic Party, right, is this going
38:52
Speaker 15: to dent her popularity the Democratic Party. We don't not
38:57
Speaker 15: one iota. Okay, do not see keep on, you know,
39:01
Speaker 15: I know we're talking about we're talking about the Gavin
39:04
Speaker 15: Newsom and Kamala Harris. But don't sleep on her because
39:08
Speaker 15: every before we've seen in twenty twenty six, she is
39:10
Speaker 15: consistently the top five. Which is why you start the
39:13
Speaker 15: Democratic establishment in the Democratic media talking horror.
39:17
Speaker 8: Knew it because they are scared to dat that she might.
39:20
Speaker 15: We thin and and kind of coalesce that leftist, that leftist,
39:26
Speaker 15: well aware Macomo and and Gavin Newsom, and then he
39:30
Speaker 15: slip in and become the winner of Democrat fairly.
39:35
Speaker 2: Well, we've got Mandani in New York. Why not AOC
39:39
Speaker 2: across America?
39:41
Speaker 4: No?
39:42
Speaker 2: Uh now, I mean it appears that soon to be
39:45
Speaker 2: unemployed Steving Colbert is at war with CBS again.
39:48
Speaker 4: He made claims about the network.
39:51
Speaker 2: Trump, the SSA, everyone's censoring him is a victim, but
39:55
Speaker 2: it turns out that was not the case. CBS released
39:57
Speaker 2: a statement clarifying what happened, and now Colbert has fired
40:02
Speaker 2: back at his own network again. Tell me what's happening here, army.
40:07
Speaker 2: This is all about an interview with a Texas Democrat.
40:12
Speaker 15: Yeah, so what happened was what happened is is, look,
40:16
Speaker 15: there's this rule the FCC will call equal time. It
40:19
Speaker 15: basically it means that when when you are covering a
40:24
Speaker 15: political race, you have to give equal time for the
40:27
Speaker 15: other person or people in the ring. And yes, look
40:31
Speaker 15: you can you can question the wisdom of that in general,
40:33
Speaker 15: and that's fine, but that is the FCC rule that
40:37
Speaker 15: is there.
40:37
Speaker 8: All right.
40:38
Speaker 15: So when you interviewed the the Democratic interviewed the Democratic
40:42
Speaker 15: uh uh not first wanting to the Democratic nomination for
40:45
Speaker 15: the Senate in the Democratic Party that he would have
40:49
Speaker 15: to give equal time of Jasmine Clockett. You don't want
40:52
Speaker 15: to do that, which I think is really interesting. I
40:54
Speaker 15: think with that show the number of things. First of all,
40:56
Speaker 15: he doesn't want he knows he thinks Texans in playing,
40:59
Speaker 15: that's that raised him playing. He does not want the
41:03
Speaker 15: probably the person in all of Congress wandering for that
41:08
Speaker 15: steed of being the nominee.
41:09
Speaker 8: He's got a shot if he wants.
41:10
Speaker 15: No ready to kind of put his his thumb on
41:12
Speaker 15: the scale of that primary. He was also kind of
41:16
Speaker 15: retailing and selling his ideas the FCC h bandvs. From
41:22
Speaker 15: from from playing that interview that's a complete and total
41:25
Speaker 15: life obviously back down and when became public what was
41:28
Speaker 15: literally going on even And this is the guy who
41:31
Speaker 15: has every for five year strength, every single year, his
41:35
Speaker 15: layings have been plumbiting, and so he's manufacturing his crisis
41:39
Speaker 15: for number of reasons.
41:40
Speaker 8: And by the way, not to discount one of the
41:42
Speaker 8: reasons is he's he's.
41:43
Speaker 15: Kind of the war with Paramount and CBS himself because
41:47
Speaker 15: he doesn't like Barry Wise wanting CBS News, he doesn't
41:51
Speaker 15: like having a Dave Ellison, David Elison wanting Sky in Paramount.
41:56
Speaker 8: Right.
41:57
Speaker 15: I think this is another way of him trying to
41:58
Speaker 15: create a controversy. Keep them the palms, he have them
42:01
Speaker 15: the spotlight. Frankly, I think he look, he knows that
42:04
Speaker 15: he's fading to obscurity these looking for the next gig.
42:08
Speaker 8: I'm probably looking to get fired. So yeah, he's creating
42:10
Speaker 8: this controversy.
42:13
Speaker 2: Now sticking with a painfully unfunny, tedious, afflicted late night
42:17
Speaker 2: TV host. The New York Post reports Jimmy Kimmel will
42:21
Speaker 2: be headlining a twenty five thousand dollars per ticket LA
42:25
Speaker 2: fundraiser for House Democrats next month, and that's just the
42:29
Speaker 2: cheap tickets Army. Higher priced tickets range from forty four
42:34
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for the Leader's Circle to three hundred and
42:38
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars per ticket for the Jeffries three hundred level.
42:43
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel is billed as the event's special guest, and
42:46
Speaker 2: you'll get great value for your money. You're gonna have
42:49
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi there and Hakim Jeffries. This is just shows
42:54
Speaker 2: how in touch Democrats are with the common man.
42:57
Speaker 4: Army.
42:59
Speaker 15: We are let my check here for three hundred thousand
43:02
Speaker 15: dollars because what I kneel? Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel another person
43:08
Speaker 15: fanning into obscurity enough.
43:10
Speaker 8: You've forced me to do a bunch.
43:12
Speaker 15: Of late night you know, number crunching, and like did
43:16
Speaker 15: Colbert in the last five years, he has seen every
43:20
Speaker 15: single year his wading or plummeting. Why they would choose him,
43:25
Speaker 15: It does show how out of touch they are. Right,
43:27
Speaker 15: if that is Jimmy Kimmel is a draw for a
43:31
Speaker 15: Democratic high priced ticket is beyond my understanding. Look, they
43:36
Speaker 15: own Hollywood, right, Hollywood and the media. Democratic Party. They
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Speaker 15: couldn't choose something more relevant than Jimmy Kimmel.
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Speaker 8: It just showed.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, you're right, they don't know what's happening. They don't
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Speaker 15: have their their finger on the pulset Move America. This
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Speaker 15: kind of hears it.
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Speaker 2: Me, Harwitz, thank you so much for your time. Still
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Speaker 2: to come, we'll have all the latest.
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Speaker 4: Role and celebrity news.
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Speaker 2: Including RFK Junior and Kid Rock topless fitness video. Kinsey
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Speaker 2: Schofield joins me next.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: let's start with Meghan Markol. She's been snapped sporting a
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Speaker 2: massive diamond ring, which experts say is likely in the
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Speaker 2: six to seven carrot range woof and worth around two
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand US.
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Speaker 4: Kinsey.
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Speaker 2: This comes amid claims Meghan never liked the engagement ring
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Speaker 2: that Harry gave her.
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Speaker 18: I mean, is this woman ever happy and content? She
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Speaker 18: tells us she's in pursuit of joy? Does that just
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Speaker 18: mean a bigger rock? This story taps into the long
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Speaker 18: running narrative around Megan Mirkel and the engagement ring from
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Speaker 18: Prince Harry. Remember, Harry designed that ring himself, using diamonds
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Speaker 18: from Princess Diana's collec so symbolically it was always very sentimental.
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Speaker 18: Meghan has modifated it multiple times, a resetting the band
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Speaker 18: and altering the design, which sparked conversation that she was
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Speaker 18: very hard to please. So with her now wearing an
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Speaker 18: even bigger rock it appears that she's not honoring that
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Speaker 18: original piece visually.
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Speaker 16: I think this feeds into the.
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Speaker 18: Ongoing criticism that the Sussex Bran leads heavily into you know,
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Speaker 18: Hollywood luxury and what's trending rather than tradition.
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Speaker 2: Now, US Health Secretary RFK Junior and singer songwriter Kid
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Speaker 2: Rock have appeared together in a topless video promoting what's
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Speaker 2: been dubbed the Rockout Workout, which includes hitting the gym,
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Speaker 2: soaking in the sauna, and taking cold plunges and more.
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Speaker 4: Have a look.
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Speaker 14: Answers at the top.
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Speaker 16: The dancers the Prinz are got.
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Speaker 15: Back comfort.
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Speaker 16: All the crafts.
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Speaker 4: The credit.
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Speaker 2: Credit was RFK taking a cold plunch in his jans
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Speaker 2: there and were they're working at in the sauna.
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Speaker 4: I mean, when I've got a lot of questions about this.
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Speaker 18: Clip, I mean, yes, uh, I can't justify the never
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Speaker 18: nude is what they called that on the show arrested development,
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Speaker 18: there was one guy that was always in denim.
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Speaker 16: That's a never nude I guess, but RFK.
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Speaker 18: His entire political identity has been built around personal wellness,
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Speaker 18: you know, physical resilience.
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Speaker 16: This is on brand.
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Speaker 18: He's visibly demonstrating that this is what is important to him,
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Speaker 18: and this is why we should listen to what he
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Speaker 18: has to say, whether people love it or hate it. Politically,
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Speaker 18: it's effective because voters respond to authenticity and energy.
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Speaker 16: The man is running in jeans in a pool.
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Speaker 18: And yeah, I do think compared to other Washington leadership,
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Speaker 18: the fact that the health Secretary is visibly healthy is
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Speaker 18: exactly the point of public recognizing.
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Speaker 2: Having a health secretary that actually looks healthy. I think, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's something new we're trying, but I like it. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's talk about our own Nicole Kidman. She may have
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Speaker 2: a new man in her life, and Keith Urban is
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Speaker 2: said to be fuming about it. Appears Nicole has caught
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Speaker 2: the attention of MGM Results chairman Paul Salem, who has
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Speaker 2: expressed interest in dating the star, and a source close
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Speaker 2: to Urban has said that Keith is raging at the
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Speaker 2: idea of Nicole being linked to anyone so quickly, and
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Speaker 2: the fact that he is an older, distinguished multi millionaire
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Speaker 2: is only fueling that anger and jealousy at the prospect
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Speaker 2: of them getting together. Kinsey, He's got absolutely no right
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Speaker 2: to be feeling any which way because didn't he couple
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Speaker 2: up with some younger woman almost immediately Allegedly.
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Speaker 16: That's what Yeah, allegedly, that's what the rumors are.
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Speaker 18: I mean, the way this marriage reported Leenda doesn't sound
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Speaker 18: like it was in a great place for a while,
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Speaker 18: so it wouldn't shock me if Keith has some regrets
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Speaker 18: down the line. When you split from someone like Nicole Kidman,
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Speaker 18: you're not just leaving a spouse, You're leaving one of
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Speaker 18: the most respected and powerful women in the industry. And
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Speaker 18: if Nicolan's up with someone hugely successful, are influential, suddenly
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Speaker 18: the optics change fast, and what might have felt like
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Speaker 18: freedom for this guy starts looking like a major miscalculation.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we could be looking at a new Hollywood power
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Speaker 2: couple if this romance blossoms.
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Speaker 4: Now, let's talk.
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Speaker 2: About a bombshell study from all Sides revealing that Apple
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Speaker 2: News's editorial team has been deliberately excluding conservative media outlets
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Speaker 2: from the popular apps handpicked top stories, Kinsey, this has
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Speaker 2: been obvious, obvious, The data on this is astonishing.
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Speaker 4: What else can you tell me?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean critics saying Apple News excludes conservative outlets.
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Speaker 18: It's not a new complaint, as you said, But the
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Speaker 18: significance here is the study from all sides attempting to
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Speaker 18: quantify it.
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Speaker 16: The real power issue is distribution.
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Speaker 18: When a default news app on millions of phones elevates
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Speaker 18: only certain outlets and sidelines others, that shapes national coverage.
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Speaker 16: And that's a big responsibility.
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Speaker 18: So the debate isn't just biased, its platform influence and
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Speaker 18: who effectively controls the front page of digital information for
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Speaker 18: everyday Americans. Apples should be held accountable for stirring the
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Speaker 18: pot when they do.
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, because so many people now get their news from
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Speaker 2: their device.
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Speaker 4: They get it from social media as well, but they.
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Speaker 2: Are often getting their news from from their Apple phone.
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Speaker 2: And if it's curated to be feature only leftist publications,
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Speaker 2: then you get a very warped view of the world, Kinsey.
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Speaker 18: And it can be dangerous if you are seeing that
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Speaker 18: Ice did this to a certain individual and then you
50:13
Speaker 18: don't have the other outlet's perspective, you might jump in
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Speaker 18: your car and run and go fight a protest when
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Speaker 18: you haven't seen the whole side of the story. And
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Speaker 18: now you're just increasing the rage, increasing the controversy, and
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Speaker 18: increasing your own personal seat like danger, and you could
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Speaker 18: be jeopardizing other people's safety as well. So I do
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Speaker 18: think that it's something we should seriously have a conversation
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Speaker 18: about why is this allowed.
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Speaker 11: Now?
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Speaker 2: The billionaire founder of the Victorious Secret Empire is being
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Speaker 2: deposed as part of a congressional investigation into the Epstein files.
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Speaker 2: Les Wexner was questioned about his long term relationship with Epstein,
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Speaker 2: who served as his personal financial advisor from the late
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighties until at least two thousand than seven. Wegser's
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Speaker 2: name appears more than four thousand times in the documents
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Speaker 2: released by the Department of Justice.
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Speaker 4: He told the panel he was conned.
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Speaker 2: By Epstein, that Epstein lived a double life and that
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Speaker 2: he regretted ever knowing the and I quote clever, diabolical
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Speaker 2: master manipulator Kinsey. Is that enough are people scrutinizing this
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Speaker 2: relationship a little bit more these days?
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Speaker 18: I mean, let's just be honest, no one's having a
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Speaker 18: harder time than Andrew mountbount and Windsor. I think people
51:35
Speaker 18: were done with Westler a long time ago. There's just
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Speaker 18: been something. The entire brand has been tainted by his
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Speaker 18: previous association. But you know, what I can say is
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Speaker 18: that the Clintons are at least mentioned in the Epstein
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Speaker 18: files three thousand less times. So that's something for Hillary
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Speaker 18: to celebrate, as she's denying any association whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: On television, Yes, I saw her being interviewed by the
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Speaker 2: BBC and she said there are no links between her
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Speaker 2: and Bill and Gilaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein except for
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Speaker 2: the fact that Gilaine was at Chelsea Clinton's wedding and
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Speaker 2: all those plane rides that Bill took on the Lolita Express.
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Speaker 2: And what's Delayne being honored by the Clinton Foundation. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the list is long, but apparently nothing to see.
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Speaker 4: There before you go.
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Speaker 2: Forbes has reported that Disney netted one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 2: million US dollars on its twenty twenty five live action
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Speaker 2: Snow White remakes starring Rachel Zieglash is a favorite of ours.
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Speaker 2: The film has failed to make back that three hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty six million the company spent making it. Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: we've spoken about this plenty of times. Has Disney finally
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Speaker 2: learned its lesson? Or are we going to keep seeing
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Speaker 2: these lefty projects that nobody wants.
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Speaker 4: To watch.
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Speaker 18: That they've finally learned their lesson. But I also don't
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Speaker 18: think it's just Disney. I think Rachel Zegler hopefully has
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Speaker 18: learned her lesson. I'm not seeing her get much work lately.
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Speaker 16: Either. When you go on these political tie.
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Speaker 18: Rades, whether it be on talk shows, interviews, or Twitter,
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Speaker 18: and you have hot takes, you are going to alien
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Speaker 18: eight fifty percent of the country. And people told her,
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Speaker 18: they expressed that through ticket sales. They said, you know,
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Speaker 18: we're not going to put up with you. We're not
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Speaker 18: going to reward you for, you know, for being ugly
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Speaker 18: about us. So I think Rachel Zegler hopefully learned her
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Speaker 18: lesson here as well.
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Speaker 2: But will she be impacted because we've seen actresses and
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Speaker 2: actors do this over the years. They come out with
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Speaker 2: these hard left positions, very outspoken about it, and it
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Speaker 2: may alienate half the population, sometimes more, but they keep
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Speaker 2: getting the roles because everyone in Hollywood agrees with them.
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Speaker 18: But Rachel, I mean, I think that people were so
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Speaker 18: appalled by her behavior because remember Disney asked her to
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Speaker 18: tone it down, and she did the opposite. She got
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Speaker 18: on Twitter and started going off, and I think that
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Speaker 18: the industry realized she's hard to control. She doesn't listen,
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Speaker 18: she is a liability, and we haven't seen her work.
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Speaker 18: She ran off to London to do the stage and
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Speaker 18: we haven't seen her work in Hollywood since.
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 4: She is kind of uniquely unlikable. I think that adds
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Speaker 4: adds to that, and I think they're punishing her for
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Speaker 4: not listening.
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Speaker 2: Disney told her to pull her head in and she
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Speaker 2: did it, and I think that's what the punishment is,
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Speaker 2: rather than her bizarre opinions. Can zisco Field, thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for your time tonight, and that's all the
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Speaker 2: time we have.
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