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00:00:00.000The White House Correspondents Dinner features America's political elites mocking you, the Biden administration proposes their ministry of truth, and the New York Times puts out a hit on Tucker Carlson.
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00:01:46.000But the White House Correspondents' Dinner is particularly Gross.
00:01:50.000And there are a bunch of reasons why it is gross.
00:01:52.000Now listen, I happen to be a wealthy human who owns a tuxedo and has nice watches and I don't mind going to fancy dinners.
00:01:58.000However, when the entire purpose of the dinner is to allow the people who are supposed to police the people in power and the entire dinner is the people in power and the people who are supposed to be covering them with a Gimlet I. And instead, they are hobnobbing with one another and with Hollywood elites, and they are hanging out, eating very fancy food together, and telling nice jokes about one another, and massaging each other's shoulders.
00:02:20.000You're giving the game away, and it's just yucky.
00:02:25.000Not because it's a bunch of rich and famous people who are getting together, but because these are people who are not supposed to be congenitally friendly toward one another.
00:02:32.000The journalistic establishment is supposed to be policing the people in politics.
00:02:36.000The people in politics are supposed to be attempting to take care of the business of the nation.
00:02:41.000And instead, it's all of these people getting together and basically laughing at you.
00:02:45.000Because everything that they complain about is a joke to them, but it is a reality to you.
00:02:51.000Every single thing that they complain about, every single thing that they joke about and they mock, they are mocking you.
00:02:58.000Understand that when the White House mocks the journalists, they're not really mocking the journalists, they're tutting them, they're slapping them on the back.
00:03:05.000It's like when you and your buddies go out for a drink and you're kind of breaking each other's balls.
00:03:38.000It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Hollywood and Democrats in the media and the Democratic Party, they all work together in order to create cultural institutions that cram down a particular point of view on you.
00:03:47.000And that's what the White House Correspondent Center is.
00:03:50.000Now, there used to be a time when it wasn't quite this, right?
00:03:53.000When George W. Bush was president, for example, the media really didn't like George W. Bush.
00:03:57.000George W. Bush really didn't like the media.
00:03:58.000And it was like they were taking a sort of break from hating one another to joke with one another.
00:04:04.000But when it has been Democrats and the media at the White House Correspondents and when it was Barack Obama, basically this event died.
00:04:09.000When Barack Obama became president, the media were so focused I'm giving him a fifth chakra Al Gore style massage that there was no way for them to get together with dinner without it also ending up as one night stand.
00:04:20.000There was just no way for that to happen.
00:04:22.000And then when Trump was president, he said, I'm not going to go because why would I bother showing up to listen to you guys?
00:04:28.000Just roast me, but not in good nature, because you hate me.
00:04:42.000And so this dinner was much more like Barack Obama's dinner.
00:04:47.000So Joe Biden was the keynote, of course, and Trevor Noah was the emcee.
00:04:54.000And I will say Trevor Noah was a lot better than I thought he would be.
00:04:56.000I thought that Trevor Noah was actually not terrible.
00:04:59.000He's told some jokes about both sides.
00:05:01.000As a conservative, I will freely admit that I think that the jokes about the left were much funnier than the jokes about the conservatives.
00:05:07.000Joe Biden, however, is one of the least graceful human beings on planet Earth.
00:05:13.000His entire rant was not about himself.
00:05:15.000Normally you go up there, if you watch George W. Bush's little comedic speeches during the White House Correspondents Center, they were mostly self-effacing.
00:05:22.000He would get up there and he'd tell jokes about himself.
00:05:25.000Joe Biden gets up there and he mainly just tells jokes about how horrible his opponents are.
00:05:29.000He makes like one joke about the fact that he's unpopular, and then he just moves right into, and my opponents are awful.
00:05:35.000I don't know how much dope they shot into this guy, but his energy level was so wildly out of tune with how energetic he has been in normal daily life that you figure that maybe Elon Musk bought Coca-Cola, inserted the cocaine, and then gave the first samples to the President of the United States.
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00:07:00.000So Joe Biden began by joking about how only 42 percent were applauding him.
00:07:05.000This was his only decent joke of the night.
00:07:06.000Ladies and gentlemen, President Joe Biden.
00:07:14.000Thank you, Steve, for that introduction.
00:07:17.000And a special thanks to the 42% of you who actually applauded.
00:07:24.000Can I just point out here that when you actually watch the footage here, it's really galling.
00:07:30.000One of the reasons that it's really galling is not just because of all of the cozy relationships in the room.
00:07:35.000It's really galling because all of these people kept us locked down for two years, and they pretended that they cared deeply about COVID, and it was all about how we just have to protect you.
00:07:45.000But then when it comes time for them to get together in a very crowded ballroom, inches from one another, In tuxedos?
00:08:01.000His concession to Anthony Fauci is that he wouldn't eat.
00:08:04.000Because apparently now there's some scientific evidence, according to Joe Biden, that if you eat, you're likely to get COVID.
00:08:09.000I'm going to have to have that one explained to me.
00:08:11.000Why if you're sitting directly in proximity to somebody six inches away from you and screaming into each other's ears, because these dinners are very loud, that that is significantly better than if you're sitting next to that person and eating.
00:08:20.000Anyway, so Joe Biden starts with that joke and then it's all downhill from there.
00:08:26.000His worst joke of the evening was his attempt to go after Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:08:30.000I don't know who's writing this crap, but when you have the entire Hollywood comedic establishment at your disposal, theoretically, you should get somebody who can write a joke.
00:08:36.000Instead, he apparently got Ron Klain to write his jokes.
00:08:39.000This is such a botchery of a joke on every single level.
00:09:02.000It's a questioning, huh? So that was kind of the nature, and that was his entire, his entire routine is about how terrible his opponents were.
00:09:15.000And then there was Trump as horrible plague. Here we go. This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six It's understandable.
00:09:24.000We had a horrible plague followed by two years of COVID.
00:09:28.000Ha ha ha. You see, Trump was like a plague.
00:09:42.000And then he joked about vaccinating and boosting and why he's there.
00:09:47.000We're here to show the country that we're getting through this pandemic.
00:09:51.000Plus, everyone had to prove they were fully vaccinated and boosted.
00:09:58.000So if you're at home watching this and you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite Fox News reporter.
00:10:06.000They're all here, vaccinated and boosted.
00:10:11.000Okay, so I'm just going to point out that, again, being vaccinated and boosted is no guarantee you're not going to get COVID and that you're not going to have a super spreader event.
00:10:44.000Your preferred candidate lost the last election to make it up to you.
00:10:48.000I'm happy to give my chief of staff to you all so we can tell Sean Hannity what to say every day.
00:10:56.000OK, well, the joke here that that is really unspoken here is that Joe Biden's chief of staff tells the Democratic media what to say every single day.
00:12:06.000He owns a bunch of houses, has $5.2 million in unexplained income while he was out of office, while Hunter was going around picking up bags of cash.
00:13:51.000They create an echo chamber that completely excludes you.
00:13:54.000This is how they end up in the bizarre position of embracing the most radical policies imaginable.
00:14:01.000You have to be in a real echo chamber to come up with the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:14:05.000But that can't happen if you are Democrats being reflected by the media or being reflected by Hollywood.
00:14:10.000The White House Correspondent Center is a perfect encapsulation of how left side of the aisle politics actually works.
00:14:16.000So when Trevor Noah does these sort of these homages to the journalists who are out there working hard every day, let me just point out that those journalists are not out there working hard every day.
00:14:43.000An additional check and balance that holds power to account and gives voice to those who otherwise wouldn't have one.
00:14:50.000Every single one of you, whether you like it or not, is a bastion of democracy.
00:14:59.000Okay, so I'm just going to, again, point out here that when he says that you are the defenders of democracy, our journalistic establishment abandoned that pursuit a very long time ago.
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00:16:51.000So according to the Wall Street Journal, Roger Koppel and Abigail Devereaux reporting, the Department of Homeland Security has announced the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board, charged according to Politico with, quote, countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.
00:17:08.000In a twist to Implausible for Fiction, the abbreviation is DGB, one letter off from KGB.
00:17:14.000The stated goal of combating misinformation and disinformation is framed to seem unobjectionable.
00:17:18.000Who objects to truth and pines for falsehood?
00:17:20.000DGB experts will guide the way, separating the informational wheat from the disinformational chaff.
00:17:24.000But there's one small problem with empowering truth experts.
00:17:27.000Experts are people, and people respond to incentives.
00:17:30.000People, therefore, experts respond to incentives as well.
00:17:34.000Graham Medley, British expert involved in the UK policy response to COVID, illustrated the point in recent testimony before Parliament.
00:17:39.000The worst thing for me, he said, would be for government to say, why didn't you tell us it could be that bad?
00:17:43.000Inevitably, we were always going to have a worse case, which is above reality.
00:17:54.000Truth experts at the DGB will proclaim grave threats around every turn when even any threats are minor to non-existence.
00:18:02.000The dangers of the DGB will amplify if it becomes the tool of partisan political actors, and it already has.
00:18:07.000Executive Director Nina Jankiewicz once described Hunter Biden's laptop as a Trump campaign product and has written that America's informational landscape includes declining trust in the media fed by the Trump administration's relentless attacks on the fourth estate.
00:18:18.000She has said, quote, unless we mitigate our own political polarization, our own internal issues will continue to be an easy target for any malign actor, Russian, Iranian, domestic or foreign to manipulate.
00:19:43.000Do you trust her to determine what is misinformation and what is disinformation?
00:19:47.000And why is the government doing that at all?
00:19:49.000And why are the journalistic establishment not up in arms about this?
00:19:53.000I mean, you know, if Trump were doing it, they'd be up in arms about it.
00:19:56.000But you have the Washington Post actively cheering this stuff on.
00:20:00.000Barack Obama, a couple of weeks ago, he gave a speech in which he talked about how the government should basically crack down on social media to prevent the distribution of quote-unquote misinformation.
00:20:08.000The Washington Post, which I will remind you, is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, because only certain billionaires are bad, according to media.
00:20:15.000Jeff Bezos is a good billionaire because he's on the left, but Elon Musk is a bad billionaire because he's not of the left.
00:20:20.000The editorial board at the Washington Post has an entire piece today titled, Barack Obama's Smart Way to Change the Disinformation Debate.
00:20:28.000Barack Obama may have done too little when he was president to counter Russia's subversion of our democracy on social media.
00:20:33.000Now, however, he's trying to make up for lost time.
00:20:35.000The former president spoke at Stanford University April 21st to lay out his vision for fighting disinformation on the internet.
00:20:42.000The dusk of his administration marked a turning point from techno-optimism to pessimism after election interference revealed how easily malicious actors could exploit the free flow of information.
00:20:51.000But whatever blame the White House deserved in 2016 for failing to speak publicly about or retaliate against Moscow's incursions, Congress and companies have fallen even shorter in the years since by failing to enact reforms or reform themselves.
00:21:03.000And this is where Obama's ideas come in.
00:23:22.000In a second, we're gonna get to Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, praising his new pick to head the Disinformation Department.
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00:25:35.000Nobody should be upset about any of this.
00:25:37.000Alejandro Mayorkas, who again is one of the creepier figures in American public life, just because everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie.
00:25:45.000So he is assuring us that he's not going to monitor American citizens.
00:25:49.000Yeah, I believe all of the people in structural power.
00:25:51.000I mean, it's not like they spent four years pursuing a Russian disinformation hoax about the Steele dossier, pretending that they were at any moment going to uncover evidence that President Trump was a Russian asset.
00:26:00.000I definitely, it's not like they trumped up a FISA warrant on Carter Page based on nothing.
00:26:06.000I definitely trust them not to monitor American citizens.
00:26:24.000The board does not have any operational authority or capability.
00:26:31.000Oh, they don't have any authority or capability, because as we know, the government is typically hemmed in by its own restrictions.
00:26:38.000They would never involve themselves in things that are beyond their permit.
00:26:42.000You would never have, for example, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration trying to force every person in the United States to vaccinate.
00:26:49.000You definitely wouldn't have, for example, the IRS cracking down on conservative 501c3s.
00:26:56.000We should probably trust Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:26:58.000And I'm so glad that we have our journalistic hound dogs who are on the trail here tracking down all aspects of ultra-crepidarianism from our governmental actors.
00:27:49.000And you're helped out by your friends in the media, who spend all day every day deciding which opinions are okay and which opinions are not okay, and then stumping for legislation to crack down on the opinions that are not okay.
00:27:59.000And they will force corporate America to do their bidding.
00:28:02.000Certain corporations are good, certain corporations are bad.
00:28:05.000And they can determine that by who they force to do this sort of stuff.
00:28:07.000They're refreshingly open about it at this point.
00:28:11.000It is not a coincidence that the minute that Elon Musk takes over Twitter, you suddenly have a slate of stories about how bad it is to have billionaires involved in politics.
00:28:19.000Like they were fine when it was Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
00:28:21.000When it's Elon Musk, then obviously the math is completely different.
00:28:26.000The Wall Street Journal has an entire piece today.
00:28:28.000By the way, people should know, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is conservative.
00:28:30.000The Wall Street Journal reporting is actually left of the New York Times by most available studies.
00:28:34.000They have a reported piece today called, The Shadow Crew, who encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
00:28:39.000Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla's CEO's ear.
00:28:47.000This is why, as CNN commentator David Zerouk said, we must regulate this sort of stuff.
00:28:55.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Musk's declined to be interviewed.
00:28:58.000It isn't clear whether he took any of their advice or merely followed his own gut.
00:29:03.000And here we are talking about a bunch of massive billionaires and internet trolls who controlled Elon Musk, and we can't allow them to be setting the standard.
00:29:14.000According to the Wall Street Journal, before and during Mr. Musk's breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian-leaning activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved.
00:29:22.000This group includes the so-called PayPal Mafia, former executives at the online payments company who include Mr. Musk, the investor Peter Thiel, and the entrepreneur David Sachs, as well as ancillary figures like the venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor who once served on the automaker's board, and Mr. Musk's brother Kimball, a Tesla board member, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:29:40.000Their involvement may help explain one of the great mysteries of his Twitter obsession.
00:29:43.000With all the problems in the world, why has Mr. Musk decided he alone can fix it?
00:29:56.000Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post, you have a piece called, How a Billionaire's Boys Club Came to Dominate the Public Square.
00:30:03.000The world's richest man, Elon Musk, attacked a publication owned by the world's third richest man, Jeff Bezos, last month for reprinting a column by the world's 13th richest man, Mike Bloomberg.
00:30:11.000The Bloomberg Opinion article posted by the Washington Post asked whether Musk's recent investment in Twitter would endanger freedom of speech.
00:30:17.000WAPO always good for a laugh, Musk wrote in a tweet with smiling and crying emoji.
00:30:21.000The jab underscored an unusual and consequential feature of the nation's new digital public square.
00:30:26.000Technological change and the fortunes it have created have given a vanishingly small club of massively wealthy individuals the ability to play arbiter, moderator, and bankroll.
00:30:33.000I noticed you didn't give any craps about this, Washington Post, when Jeff Bezos was buying you.
00:30:37.000I noticed that you didn't care whatsoever when Bill Gates was involving himself in every aspect of COVID policy.
00:30:43.000I noticed that you didn't care when Pinch Sulzberger and the Sulzberger family owned the New York Times for a century.
00:30:47.000I noticed you didn't care about any of this.
00:30:49.000You only care the minute that Musk gets involved.
00:30:51.000And suddenly, it's the Billionaire Boys Club.
00:30:54.000These are your journalistic watchdogs.
00:30:55.000Man, they are just, they are, they are such, they're amazing.
00:30:58.000And by the way, your journalistic watchdogs, they're also determining which corporations advertise and how they advertise and how those corporations act.
00:31:05.000They have to be the great determinants.
00:31:07.000Which is why you have the New York Times running an extraordinarily long piece on Tucker Carlson, a three-part piece called American Nationalist.
00:31:46.000By the way, what is the apocalyptic worldview of Tucker Carlson tonight?
00:31:50.000Night after night, this is what the New York Times says, and this is why he's so bad.
00:31:53.000Night after night, the host of the most watched show in primetime cable news uses a simple narrative to instill fear in his viewers.
00:31:59.000They want to control and then destroy you.
00:32:03.000Okay, I'm just going to point out that this has been a hallmark of all democratic politics for literally ever.
00:32:07.000And it's not just Tucker Carlson saying that.
00:32:09.000And depending on who the they is and who the you are, it could be true.
00:32:13.000Democrats are constantly saying that white people are out to get black people in the United States and this is the systemic racism from which we all suffer.
00:32:21.000It's the New York Times that's constantly suggesting that plutocrats are out to get the poor.
00:32:25.000It's the New York Times who's out there saying that Tucker Carlson is the they who's out to get the you.
00:32:29.000So why is it so bad if Tucker Carlson says they are out to get you?
00:32:52.000You guys do want to control how I raise my child.
00:32:56.000You do call us racists if you oppose anything we do.
00:32:59.000Again, it's all the apocalyptic worldview of Tucker Carlson.
00:33:02.000This is how your journalismers are journalisming to the praise of Trevor Noah and to the cheers of tuxedoed cretins at a giant dinner.
00:33:11.000According to the New York Times, a New York Times analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households five nights a week.
00:33:21.000He's done so since the beginning, but the show has gotten darker.
00:33:26.000When you enter Mr. Carlson's world each night, you are among his three million plus viewers and part of a Fox News audience that is 92% white and overwhelmingly older, according to Nielsen data.
00:33:39.000They threaten everything you believe in.
00:33:41.000Well, I mean, wow, white and elderly, man, that has to be that has to be.
00:33:45.000They include Democratic and some Republican officials, members of the media, big tech executives, academic sports and Hollywood stars and others.
00:33:52.000Many of the people here have been attacked in dozens or even hundreds of episodes.
00:33:57.000These people include Barack Obama, who is the president of the United States, and Joe Biden, who is the president of the United States, and Anthony Fauci, one of those prominent people in the history of the country.
00:34:05.000And Ilhan Omar, an open anti-Semite, and AOC, one of the most prominent Congress people, and a radical leftist, and Kamala Harris, the VP.
00:34:15.000Mr. Carlson, again, this is all the New York Times covering Carlson, who's very bad.
00:34:19.000And we're being told by the New York Times, which is an outlet, it is an editorial page for the left, the entire newspaper, not just the editorial page, all of it.
00:34:26.000They're saying Tucker Carlson is evil and bad.
00:34:29.000Mr. Carlson tells you over and over, they don't care about you and will do whatever they can do to maintain power.
00:34:41.000I'm just wondering, what is controversial about this in the political sphere?
00:34:45.000How is that different from anything Bernie Sanders says on the left, or Joe Biden, for that matter, says today?
00:34:51.000And then they just have a bunch of little clips of him talking about George Soros, who's a very powerful human being, and Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi, all very powerful human beings.
00:35:01.000It's just this is the New York Times going after Tucker.
00:35:04.000Basically, the entire article is they've discovered that there is a popular person who is not on their side of the political aisle.
00:35:09.000Now, what's amazing is that Tucker and I disagree about a lot of things, right?
00:35:12.000You can watch a Sunday special I did with Tucker.
00:35:38.000When people are in charge and they have institutional power and they use the institutional power to cram down what they want upon you, that is the ruling class attempting to rule you, is it not?
00:35:49.000But according to the New York Times, you're not supposed to say this.
00:35:52.000Only they can use this sort of language about you.
00:35:55.000You're not the ruling class, but they treat you as the ruling class.
00:35:58.000And then the actual ruling class goes to the White House Correspondents' Dinner and jokes about you and mocks you.
00:36:03.000So, the New York Times, again, everything is dedicated to the idea that everyone who they don't like is either racist or evil, white nationalist, ought to be suppressed by government, free speech ought to be quashed, the limitations ought to be made, and corporations ought to be cuddled into place.
00:36:19.000And if you respond to any of this, this makes you the problem.
00:36:22.000If you say, no, no, no, I don't want corporations cudgeled into doing the work of left-wing wokesters.
00:36:27.000And so if they do, then they're going to meet with the disapproval of government actors who are going to remove their special privileges in Florida.
00:36:34.000This is just the natural consequence of the left attempting to take over institutions.
00:36:37.000There will be pushback and there should be pushback.
00:36:40.000And this means that you are the problem.
00:36:41.000And if you say that if the media decide to get involved in corporate America and then there are counter boycotts, this makes you the aggressor.
00:36:49.000This is the entire game the left is playing.
00:36:53.000Propped up by the journalistic lackeys.
00:36:55.000Coming up, we'll get to members of the media openly saying that they want to cudgel corporations into doing what they want and they should regulate corporations and all this, but they get very mad when it's Florida and Disney.
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00:40:15.000So again, all of the levers of power, Democrats, media, Hollywood, and then all the people that they try to cudgel into place, the members of corporate America.
00:40:29.000They do form a power apparatus in the United States to pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.
00:40:34.000And it's not as though the ball is being hidden here.
00:40:37.000MSNBC's Ali Velshi, for example, he told Bill Maher, he's on Bill Maher, he said, it's good.
00:40:43.000It's good to force corporations to go woke.
00:40:45.000It is good that their staffers are doing that.
00:40:47.000And then we in the media promote all of this.
00:40:50.000You do this, and then when Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, when he says, we're going to provide a counter incentive here, because we're not going to allow asymmetric polarization to happen in which you guys get to use every tool of governmental and media power in order to cudgel corporations to do what you want.
00:41:05.000And then we're supposed to sit here and just shout free speech.
00:41:54.000Okay, what corporations used to do is lobby on behalf of their direct political interests.
00:41:57.000Now they're being pushed into position by people like reporter Ali Velshi.
00:42:03.000They're being pushed into that by that power apparatus at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:42:07.000If they don't do what those people say, those people initiate boycotts against them, and they go after them to destroy them.
00:42:12.000By the way, that entire New York Times piece on Tucker Carlson is deliberately aimed at Tucker Carlson's advertisers.
00:42:16.000The idea is that if you advertise on Tucker Carlson, it's because you are complicit in white supremacy and white nationalism, and therefore, you should remove your dollars from Tucker Carlson, even if you advertise on both MSNBC and Fox News.
00:42:29.000So when there's pushback, then all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, you're threatening free speech.
00:42:42.000Roland Martin, for example, telling Tiffany Cross openly that Democrats should not play fair in 2022.
00:42:50.000They've got to be willing to engage in war. You cannot play fair with people who don't play fair. There are no rules. The other side has shown that they will do whatever is necessary in order to win.
00:43:05.000This is what they think. And then when people fight back, then those people are bad. The The reason that I bring this up is because, guess what?
00:43:13.000A lot of folks on the right have been getting dyspepsia over Ron DeSantis and the removal of the Reedy Creek Special Tax District, which by the way, again, this is sort of how politics has worked forever in the United States in the sense that if you take a special tax break from a government and then you oppose that government, very often the government will crack back against you and take away the tax break.
00:43:30.000But put all that aside, people will get how Ron DeSantis is now involving himself in punishing corporate speech Well, the entire left has been pushing corporations into speech issues they don't want to be a part of.
00:43:41.000Remember, Disney didn't want to be a part of this fight.
00:43:43.000It was pushed by the wokesters and governmental actors on the left, as well as the media, into sounding off on a topic that was completely outside of its purview.
00:43:54.000Well, now, what do you think the predictable result of this is?
00:43:56.000And this is a good result for the country.
00:43:58.000The predictable result is that CEOs are beginning to think, hey, maybe we should only involve ourselves in the issues that directly affect our stockholders.
00:44:11.000The Wall Street Journal reporting, in private meetings and coaching sessions over the past few weeks, top business leaders have been asking a version of the same question.
00:44:17.000How can we avoid becoming the next Walt Disney Company?
00:44:20.000The fallout from the recent political spat between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has alarmed leaders across the corporate sphere, according to executives and their advisors, and heightened the challenge for chief executive officers navigating charged topics.
00:44:31.000At many companies, vocal employees have in recent years pushed bosses to take public stands on social and political issues.
00:44:36.000Florida's pushback against Disney has raised the stakes.
00:44:39.000The number one concern CEOs have is, when should I speak out on public issues, said Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now senior fellow at Harvard Business School.
00:44:46.000As one CEO said to me, I want to speak out on social issues, but I don't want to get involved in politics.
00:44:51.000Which I said under my breath, that's not possible.
00:44:55.000The old idea that CEOs should focus on shareholder returns and stay out of politics lingers in some corporate suites, even in a politicized age of public social media discussions and more activist workforces.
00:45:05.000Certainly, the consequences of weighing in appear to be changing.
00:45:07.000Lawmakers for years have expressed displeasure when companies take public stands on issues like voting access through critical tweets, public remarks, and in some cases, calls for public boycotts.
00:45:15.000Disney's experience shows a willingness to go further, corporate advisors say, by challenging arrangements that have helped a company to operate.
00:45:21.000Governor DeSantis in April signed into law a bill that would terminate a special tax district that allowed Disney to self-govern the land that houses its Orlando-area theme parks, hotels, and resorts for more than half a century.
00:45:31.000David Berger, a partner who specializes in corporate governance at Wilson, Sansani, Goodrich, and Rosati said politicians seem increasingly comfortable taking on businesses when it is advantageous for them.
00:45:41.000It used to be the Republicans especially, but both parties like big business.
00:45:44.000And now what you're seeing is both parties like to use big business as political footballs one way or another.
00:45:48.000No, the difference is that the left used businesses as political footballs qua businesses.
00:45:52.000If the business did business and just didn't acquiesce to the predations of the left, this made them an enemy.
00:46:21.000And then you have the libertarian wing, the people at Reason Magazine, for example, Stephanie Slade writing for the New York Times about how terrible this is.
00:46:29.000No, it is not anti-big business to say that businesses should do what businesses do and be involved in the issues in which businesses are involved.
00:46:36.000It is pro-big business to say they should go back to serving their stockholders, not to serving the stakeholders at the White House Correspondents' Dinner who demand that they do certain things upon penalty of media-pushed boycotts and Democrat-pushed legislation that punishes them.
00:46:52.000Evening the playing field is what allows corporations to go back to actual work.
00:46:57.000All of which goes to, once again, the simple fact that institutional power in this country is held almost entirely by the left.
00:47:04.000And the fact that the right is now challenging that institutional power is what has them so hot and bothered.
00:47:07.000It's what has them being made so crazy.
00:47:09.000It's why they're talking about shutting down Elon Musk and Twitter.
00:47:12.000It's why they're talking about departments of disinformation at the federal level.
00:47:16.000It's why they are all fired angry at Ron DeSantis for simply saying what everyone knows, which is if you are going to provide governmental dispensations for only left-wing corporations, there will be and should be a response that says to corporations it's now an even playing field.
00:47:28.000You get involved, you get clocked, and that is true on both sides of the aisle now.
00:47:31.000If you want to not get clocked, then how about this?
00:47:34.000Elect people on both sides of the aisle who are not going to get involved in your business.
00:47:39.000But if we were going to have one side of the aisle involved, you're going to have both sides of the aisle involved, and that's just the way this is going to work.
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