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DONKEY: CBS Is Cancelling 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Because Of Trump · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: So with the d it's time for donkey.
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  Speaker 2: Around here. Yes, you are a donkey.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell?
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  Speaker 2: who giving don to do till now?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Fridays are usually the people's donkey. But I
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  Speaker 3: need to talk to you all about something this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Donkey of the Day for Friday, July eighteenth goes the
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  Speaker 3: Paramount and CBS as a staff TV Network and mother
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  Speaker 3: Eff and crew. Now let the record show I have
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  Speaker 3: made I've had a lot of success, okay with Paramount
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  Speaker 3: over the years. I've been rocking with them since twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen when they was Viacom Okay from Guy Cold,
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  Speaker 3: all my late night talk shows, Charlemagne and Friends, Uncommon Sense,
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  Speaker 3: Hell of a Week, God's on this truth whatever it
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  Speaker 3: was called. They have all been with Viacom in Paramount.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I make a lot of appearances on the Daily Show.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I'll be on next week. All right, that's Paramount.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, they're providing me a lot of opportunity and
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  Speaker 3: still do. But Donkey of the Day does not discriminate
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  Speaker 3: not to mention right is right and wrong is wrong,
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  Speaker 3: and what I witnessed yesterday is absolutely wrong. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you haven't heard, my guy South Carolina Brethren, Stephen Colbert
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  Speaker 3: informed his audience that CBS has canceled the Late Show.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they canceled the Late Show.
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  Speaker 3: And this comes three days after him criticizing the network
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  Speaker 3: over their settlement. There's sixteen million dollars settlement with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, starting in May of twenty twenty six, the
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  Speaker 3: Late Show will be canceled. Let's go to NBC News
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  Speaker 3: for the report.
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  Speaker 4: Please are some breaking news here in the entertainment world.
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  Speaker 4: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ending next year, with
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  Speaker 4: CBS retiring the Late night franchise, Colbert taking the social
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  Speaker 4: media to announce it. Here it is, I.
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  Speaker 5: Want to let you know something that I found out
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  Speaker 5: just last night. Next year will be our last season.
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  Speaker 5: The network will be ending the Late Show in May.
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  Speaker 4: CBS said the decision was purely financial quote against a
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  Speaker 4: ballenging backdrop in Late Night. It is not related in
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  Speaker 4: any way to the show's performance, content, or other matters
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  Speaker 4: happening at paramount. It's worth noting Colbert has been critical
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  Speaker 4: of CBS's parent company, Paramount's decision to settle a lawsuit
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  Speaker 4: with President Trump. The show top the ratings for the
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  Speaker 4: eleven thirty slot. Stephen Colbert has hosted The Lakes for
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  Speaker 4: nine years now.
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  Speaker 2: Purely a financial decision.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, Dear Paramount lying about why you got rid of
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  Speaker 3: Colbert sounds like people in the Trump administration lying about
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  Speaker 3: why they wouldn't release the Epstein files. Okay, just complete
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  Speaker 3: foolishness and nonsense. Not the announcement of delayed show's cancellation,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, follows Colbert's criticism of a settlement between
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump and Paramount.
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  Speaker 2: Global, which is CBS's parent company.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Paramount Paige Trump sixteen million dollars to settle a
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit over edits to an October twenty twenty four inter
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  Speaker 3: viewed as CBS's Sixty Minutes did.
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  Speaker 2: With Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Colbert, just like John Stewart, has rightfully criticized this move.
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  Speaker 3: He called the settlement a big fat brick. Let's listen
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  Speaker 3: to him, addressing on the Colba Show from a few
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  Speaker 3: days ago.
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  Speaker 5: In my parent corporation, Paramount paid Donald Trump a sixteen
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  Speaker 5: million dollars settlement over.
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  Speaker 2: His sixty Minutes lawsuits.
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  Speaker 5: As someone who has always been a proud employee of
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  Speaker 5: this network, I'm offended and I don't know if anything
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  Speaker 5: will ever repair my trust in this company. But just
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  Speaker 5: taking a stab at it, I'd say sixteen million dollars
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  Speaker 5: would help this settlement. This settlement is for a nuisance
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  Speaker 5: lawsuit Trump filed claiming that sixteen Minutes deceptively edited their
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  Speaker 5: interview with then candidate Kamala Harris last fall. Paramount knows
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  Speaker 5: they could have easily fought it because, in their own words,
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  Speaker 5: the lawsuit was completely without merit. Unlike the payoffs from
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  Speaker 5: ABC and Twitter, paramount settlement did not include an apology.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, that's good.
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  Speaker 5: Instead, the corporation released a statement where they said, you
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  Speaker 5: may take our money, but you will never take our dignity.
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  Speaker 5: You may, however, purchase our dignity for the low low price.
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  Speaker 2: Of sixteen million dollars. We need the cash now.
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  Speaker 5: I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a
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  Speaker 5: sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles.
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  Speaker 2: It's big bat Bride.
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  Speaker 5: Because this all comes as Paramount's owners are trying to
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  Speaker 5: get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our
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  Speaker 5: network to a new owner, Come on, Guide Dance, and
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  Speaker 5: some of the TV typers out there are blogging that
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  Speaker 5: once s Guy Dance gets CBS, the new owner's desire
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  Speaker 5: to please Trump could put pressure on late night host
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  Speaker 5: and frequent Trump critic Stephen Colbert. Okay, okay, but how
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  Speaker 5: are they going to put pressure on Stephen Colbert if
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  Speaker 5: they can't find him.
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  Speaker 3: It's so obvious that Paramount is doing this to appease
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Let's not do this stupid thing we do
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  Speaker 3: in the media where we ask answers. Okay, don't say
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  Speaker 3: things like was this politically driven? Why Donald Trump? Come on?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, it was Paramount needed to appease Trump. So
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  Speaker 3: this merger which Skuydance in Paramount can happen. Paramount pay
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  Speaker 3: Trump sixteen million dollars for essentially no reason, okay to
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  Speaker 3: sec launch investigation in the CBS after Trump's claims claims
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  Speaker 3: of bias editing, even though CBS released full transcripts to
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  Speaker 3: prove accuracy, and most folks who know a thing or
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  Speaker 3: two about legal issues said that the lawsuit bought by
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump against Paramount should have been dismissed on First
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  Speaker 3: Amendment grounds. But let's call it what it is. Paramount
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  Speaker 3: is looking for FCC approval for it Skydance merger. Trump
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  Speaker 3: can block that if he wants to so. Canceling Colbert
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  Speaker 3: is an obvious move to appease Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And I need to tell y'all something.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't think we are under a regime with
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  Speaker 3: an authoritarian strategy, then you are bugging.
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  Speaker 2: This is textbook authoritarian rule.
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  Speaker 3: Target your critic, centralized power in a few hands, intimidate
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  Speaker 3: through punishment, are.
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  Speaker 2: Removal, and you know what that usually does. Shuts people
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  Speaker 2: to f up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, titans control over public discourse, sends a message to
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  Speaker 3: all media outlets that criticism of Trump could cost you access, approval,
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  Speaker 3: editorial control.
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  Speaker 2: All your job.
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  Speaker 3: This is what the authoritarian regimes do. They weaponize legal
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  Speaker 3: systems to punish the scent and control messaging. What happened
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  Speaker 3: with Paramount and Trump is intimidation tactics disguised as legitimate
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  Speaker 3: legal action. I thought this was the administration that didn't
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  Speaker 3: believe in censorship. I thought this was the administration that
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  Speaker 3: believed in free speech. They do until you criticize them.
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  Speaker 3: Paramount and CBS should be ashamed of themselves and you
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  Speaker 3: can't trust.
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  Speaker 2: Anything you see on Paramount CBS moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Did y'all even think about how this will impact any
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  Speaker 3: of your news programming? We the people already don't trust
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  Speaker 3: most news outlets in America, which is why the podcast
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  Speaker 3: and online business is booming because people with no corporate connections,
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  Speaker 3: no corporate interests, are able to speak freely, even.
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  Speaker 2: Though they may be really misinformed.
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  Speaker 3: But that's where people are going, and that's what people
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  Speaker 3: are trusting because even though it might be misinformation, it
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  Speaker 3: feels more honest. Okay, we can't trust any news or
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  Speaker 3: opinion programming that comes from Paramount now they are obviously compromised. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me take that back one program. You can still
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  Speaker 3: trust the Daily Show? But after seeing what happened with Colbert,
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  Speaker 3: how do we know the same thing won't happen to
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  Speaker 3: the great Johns? Do it?
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  Speaker 2: In the gang at the Daily Show? Do you think John.
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  Speaker 3: Stewart, who shouldn't run for president in twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 3: do you think he's going to stop criticizing Paramount for
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  Speaker 3: settling with Trump?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think he's gonna have nothing to say about
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  Speaker 3: his friend Stephen Corbat being let go?
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to do Paramount? Are you going
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  Speaker 2: to bend.
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  Speaker 3: The need to authoritarian strategy again and suppress another.
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  Speaker 2: Outspoken critic of Trump?
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, Paramount has an eight billion dollar
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  Speaker 3: merger which guy dance looming, and y'all don't want Trumpet
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  Speaker 3: to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: But is it worth Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Is it worth losing all credibility and all trust with
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  Speaker 3: your audience in the process.
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  Speaker 2: The answer to that should be no.
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  Speaker 3: I just want y'all to know when the highest rated
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  Speaker 3: show in late night is ended despite strong ratings, especially
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  Speaker 3: right after political criticism, it becomes a warning. Okay, it
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  Speaker 3: becomes a warning, speak out, and we will silence you.
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  Speaker 3: That is textbook authoritarian strategy, Okay, because it deters further
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  Speaker 3: criticism through the fear of retalia retaliation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Make America North Korea, Make America China, Make America Russia.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we are.
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  Speaker 3: If we live in a country where there is strategic
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  Speaker 3: silence within corporate our media power scruptures to limit dissent.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: When that happens, what's already happened. We are fully under
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  Speaker 3: authoritarian rule.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: This is not just the media story. It's a free
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  Speaker 3: speech funeral. In slow motion. Paramount cut a sixteen million
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  Speaker 3: dollar check to Donald Trump so they can get their
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  Speaker 3: merger approved and keep the FCC off their backs. That's
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  Speaker 3: not business. That's extortion. Dressed up in a suit and tie,
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  Speaker 3: that's hush money.
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  Speaker 2: For the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Kobeg gets his show canceled after calling out the deal.
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  Speaker 3: That's not coincidence, that's consequence. That's what happens when you
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  Speaker 3: speak truth to power in a country where the power
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  Speaker 3: don't want to hear the truth. Please let re me
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  Speaker 3: ma give CBS Paramount the biggest he hull.
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  Speaker 2: Hee ha he ha, you stupid mother, Are you dumb?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm supposed to be a on the Daily Show
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  Speaker 3: next week.
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  Speaker 2: If that changes, I'll let y'all know you said it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, maybe not, maybe it happened hour.
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  Speaker 6: We'll thank you for that. Donkey today, sir. Now, something
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  Speaker 6: that's been all over the news and all over social
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  Speaker 6: media yesterday was about this CEO. He was at a
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  Speaker 6: cold Play concert and they're saying he got caught cheating
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  Speaker 6: on his wife. Let's go to the news report.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear it.
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  Speaker 6: An affair or the.
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  Speaker 1: Shot seems to be the ladder. Yeah, this is a
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  Speaker 1: kiss cam catastrophe. This couple was caught on the big
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  Speaker 1: screen the Coldplay concert in Boston last night. And you
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  Speaker 1: heard the lead singer there, Chris Martin, calling the couple
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  Speaker 1: out after it seemed like they did not want to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. Well, the two people appeared to be the
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  Speaker 1: CEO of a software development firm and his head of
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  Speaker 1: h R, both of them married to other people with families.
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  Speaker 2: Damn, damn, damn damn.
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  Speaker 6: So we're asking, so he got caught at a cold
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  Speaker 6: Play concert. It was a kiss cam. The cam showed
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  Speaker 6: the couple and he dipped, he.
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  Speaker 2: He got low lo lo lo low, and she ran off.
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  Speaker 6: So the question is it's Friday, so you know what
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  Speaker 6: that means.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, freaky, freaky fine.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's freaking freaking, freaking freaking about this.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're asking eight hundred and five eight five one
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  Speaker 6: five one. We're asking, where's the craziest place you got
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  Speaker 6: caught cheating? This gentleman got caught at the cold Play
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  Speaker 6: concert on the kiss cam. It went viral. His whole
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  Speaker 6: family had to see it. Jesus Christ, But we're asking,
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  Speaker 6: what is the craziest place you guys got caught cheating?
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  Speaker 2: That is a question.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, I'm not talking about me, and you show.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even participate in this topic. Mmm, black women
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  Speaker 2: don't either.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 6: We'll tell you discussed five eight five one five one.
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