The Anthony Cumia Show - May 08, 2026


Kerry’s Free Speech Speed Bump ｜ 05-03-26


Episode Stats


Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

132.51

Word count

1,410

Sentence count

60


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John Kerry says the First Amendment is a "speed bump" in the road to democracy, and why it needs to be curbed. Plus, FanDuel introduces a new Super Sub that keeps you in the game even if your player leaves the match.

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00:01:00.100 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
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00:01:12.060 to, you might remember this guy,
00:01:13.760 John Kerry.
00:01:15.680 John Kerry, Democrat,
00:01:17.640 Vietnam War veteran.
00:01:19.720 He used to use that a lot
00:01:21.560 to give him some clout.
00:01:25.760 Well, John Kerry, he doesn't like something,
00:01:30.660 a little something called the First Amendment.
00:01:33.760 What? I know.
00:01:36.700 Says the First Amendment is a bit of a bump in the road.
00:01:41.060 What, like a speed bump?
00:01:42.340 A little bump, a little barrier to the final goal
00:01:49.740 of people like john kerry which is censorship but they don't call it that because uh they lie
00:02:00.200 first of all it is censorship that democrats liberals want you see it all the time college
00:02:06.780 campuses you see it when they're protesting it's a big thing they shut down anyone that shows up
00:02:12.680 that isn't with their cause tell them to leave you can't be here leave we don't want you here
00:02:18.860 and they put their hand in front of the camera,
00:02:21.460 they try to steal the microphone.
00:02:24.740 That is censorship.
00:02:26.920 They don't think so because they think they're on the right side,
00:02:30.500 the correct side, if I may.
00:02:32.920 And John Kerry is saying the same thing in this clip you're going to hear
00:02:36.340 because he thinks there's misinformation out there
00:02:40.500 and disinformation out there, blatant lies.
00:02:43.820 people are being influenced by other people on social media and they're being influenced in
00:02:51.700 ideology that isn't John Kerry's so it must be wrong and it needs to be stopped that's what
00:03:00.360 always gets me about these people they can't see that they their opinion is just that just another
00:03:09.260 opinion they could think it is the the most righteous opinion ever but other people that
00:03:16.320 disagree with it and want to voice that opinion they would rather have them silenced they do it
00:03:22.740 all the time so here's john carrey talking about uh the first amendment being a little bit of a
00:03:30.880 little bit of an obstacle in their goal. And I think the the dislike of and anguish over social
00:03:40.220 media is just growing and growing and growing. And it's part of our problem, particularly in
00:03:46.240 democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today.
00:03:54.280 You can't, you know, you know, there's no the referees we used to have to determine what's a
00:03:59.280 fact and what isn't a fact that kind of you know been eviscerated to a certain degree and um people
00:04:05.920 go and that people self-select where they go for their news or for their information and then you
00:04:11.960 just get into a vicious cycle so it's really really hard much harder to build consensus today
00:04:17.480 than at any time in the 45 50 years i've been involved in this and and i you know there's a lot
00:04:24.300 of discussion now about how you curb those entities uh in order to guarantee that you're
00:04:31.040 going to have you know some accountability on facts etc but look if people go to only one source
00:04:37.600 and the source they go to is sick and uh you know has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation
00:04:44.740 our first amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just you know hammer
00:04:52.060 it out of existence so what you need what we need is to is to win the ground win the right to
00:04:59.540 govern by hopefully having uh you know winning enough votes that you're free to be able to
00:05:05.460 to uh implement change uh now obviously there are some people in our country who are prepared
00:05:11.780 to implement change in other ways and that's really really if democracy can survive unregulated
00:05:19.540 I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing.
00:05:33.180 And to me, that is part of what this race, this election is all about.
00:05:37.840 Will we break the fever in the United States?
00:05:41.920 Unbelievable.
00:05:43.180 Oh, my God.
00:05:44.020 The First Amendment is a major block.
00:05:48.160 in in in in governing this is what he's saying they need to win the right to govern so you can
00:06:00.680 make these changes what changes he said it he said it curbing the entities that's what he says
00:06:10.240 he wants to curb the entities out there because why those entities don't agree with you
00:06:19.280 how about the fact that when he brings up one source what is the one source there are thousands
00:06:26.620 of sources out there you know when we had one source when all the people had was mainstream
00:06:33.780 media with a single agenda a left-wing agenda they don't like that people can go elsewhere
00:06:41.080 and see other ideas other opinions voice their own opinions
00:06:46.900 we're self-selecting oh what a crime these are all the words he used in that statement
00:06:55.420 in that little speech there people tend to self-select yeah yeah i don't agree with that
00:07:04.700 so let me see if there's other people with an opinion like i have i'll select a news source
00:07:13.280 that i have seen and experienced that seems to be honest and not agenda driven as much
00:07:22.520 he needs um he used the word they need to have a referee who who could that be who would be the
00:07:35.200 person that gets to decide what is disinformation or misinformation because i'll tell you during
00:07:42.800 covid there was a lot of legitimate information that was labeled disinformation and misinformation
00:07:50.340 People lost their accounts. They got canceled. And they weren't allowed to voice anything that was against the company line on COVID. And we found out that a lot of that information that was called disinformation and misinformation was indeed true and right.
00:08:15.180 so who would be this amazing wonderful knowledgeable person or or entity that could
00:08:26.780 decide what is true and what is false without being agenda driven all the little catchphrases
00:08:35.220 and words he used there and then just saying the first amendment is a major block a major block
00:08:44.000 in doing what he wants
00:08:46.520 to be done
00:08:48.300 which is
00:08:50.100 curbing
00:08:52.160 the entities out there
00:08:54.940 and by entities he means
00:08:56.940 people
00:08:58.520 other alternative
00:09:00.820 news
00:09:01.540 InfoWars, we just watched InfoWars
00:09:04.820 go down the toilet
00:09:05.780 whether you liked Alex Jones or not
00:09:08.040 whether you agreed with him
00:09:09.240 in what he said or not
00:09:11.460 whether you loved him or hated him
00:09:13.540 he was a guy with an opinion on social media and they certainly got rid of him
00:09:22.400 they certainly did dissolved his entire uh a kingdom that he had built over the course of
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