The Ben Shapiro Show - Why Do People Trust Rogan Over CNN? Here’s Why. | Ep. 1426

00:00:00.000 Jeff Zucker resigns from CNN over revelations he was stooping his closest colleague, who happens to be a former comms director for Andrew Cuomo.

00:00:08.000 Plus, Whoopi Goldberg reportedly says she might quit The View.

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00:01:33.000 All righty, so the big story of the day is that the head of CNN is no longer the head of CNN.

00:01:39.000 Now you'll remember, it was just about three days ago when Brian Stelter, the official propagandist for the most trusted name in news, went on national television and suggested that people are terrible for trusting Joe Rogan, because after all, Joe Rogan has on a wide variety of guests.

00:01:54.000 And those guests include people who are not approved by the administration.

00:01:58.000 I mean, even the White House has come out in the last 48 hours and suggested that Spotify needs to crack down more on people like Joe Rogan, which is indeed violative of basic First Amendment principles.

00:02:06.000 When the government is telling private industry to crack down on speech, that turns those private industries into agents of the government.

00:02:12.000 Okay, but for Brian Stelter and CNN, the main question isn't why haven't we at CNN lost credibility?

00:02:17.000 It's why do people trust Joe Rogan?

00:02:18.000 And so here was Brian Stelter just three days ago, just befuddled at why people would trust Joe Rogan rather than CNN.

00:02:27.000 You think about major newsrooms like CNN that have health departments and desks and operations that work hard on verifying information on COVID-19.

00:02:34.000 And then you have talk show stars like Joe Rogan who just wing it, who make it up as they go along.

00:02:39.000 And because figures like Rogan are trusted by people that don't trust real newsrooms, we have a tension, a problem that's much bigger than Spotify, much bigger than any single platform, Kate.

00:02:49.000 But that's what is the heart of this right now.

00:02:52.000 Man, why wouldn't people trust CNN?

00:02:53.000 I mean, they're so trustworthy.

00:02:55.000 All they do all day is fact-checking.

00:02:57.000 All they do all day long is objectivity.

00:02:59.000 All they do all day long is uncover the muck and grime of everyday politics and expose it to public view, some might being the best disinfectant.

00:03:09.000 Unless, of course, you're at the top level of CNN and you're stooping your top deputy.

00:03:12.000 And, as it turns out, your top deputy also worked for Andrew Cuomo.

00:03:16.000 Because that's exactly what happened.

00:03:17.000 So yesterday, Jeff Zucker abruptly stepped down from his post at the top of CNN, according to the New York Times.

00:03:23.000 Jeff Zucker resigned on Wednesday as president of CNN, departing one of the most powerful positions in American media after acknowledging he had failed to disclose a romantic relationship with another senior executive at the network.

00:03:33.000 A sudden end of Mr. Zucker's nine-year tenure stunned his newsroom and threw CNN's future into flux at a crucial moment.

00:03:39.000 The network was about to introduce a high-stakes streaming service, and its parent company, WarnerMedia, is on the verge of being acquired by Discovery, Inc.

00:03:46.000 Mr. Zucker, 56, wrote in a memo on Wednesday his relationship had come up during an internal investigation into the conduct of Chris Cuomo, the CNN anchor who was fired in December over his involvement in the political affairs of his brother, former Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York.

00:04:00.000 Zucker wrote, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I've worked with for more than 20 years.

00:04:05.000 I acknowledge the relationship evolved in recent years.

00:04:08.000 I was required to disclose it when it began, but I didn't.

00:04:10.000 I was wrong.

00:04:12.000 He was referring to Alison Gollust, CNN's executive vice president and one of the network's highest ranking leaders, who said on Wednesday, she would keep her job at CNN.

00:04:19.000 She wasn't going to go anywhere because after all, when corruption goes all the way to the top, the only person who needs to lose his job is Zucker, not Gollust.

00:04:27.000 Who was sleeping with Zucker.

00:04:29.000 I believe they both got divorced in 2018.

00:04:30.000 Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years.

00:04:33.000 Recently, our relationship changed during COVID.

00:04:35.000 I regret we didn't disclose it at the right time.

00:04:38.000 Both Zucker and Gala started divorce, I believe they both got divorced in 2018, but they had this very weird living arrangement going back decades apparently, where the two families lived like one above another in the same apartment building.

00:04:50.000 It was commented on by Katie Couric in her autobiography.

00:04:54.000 Zucker is also leaving his role as WarnerMedia's chairman of news and sports.

00:04:58.000 In keeping with a career at the center of the news industry, Mr. Zucker's exit on Wednesday was entwined with another dramatic storyline, according to the New York Times, the downfall of the once powerful Cuomo brothers.

00:05:08.000 So what exactly happened here?

00:05:09.000 Apparently, it was the biggest open secret in news that Jeff Zucker has been nailing Allison Gallas.

00:05:14.000 Like, this is not a giant secret in the news industry.

00:05:17.000 Megyn Kelly said this yesterday.

00:05:18.000 She says everybody has known for a very, very long time about the relationship between these two.

00:05:22.000 And as I mentioned, there was overt talk about this in Katie Couric's autobiography.

00:05:29.000 Like, in her autobiography, she openly describes the sort of bizarre relationship between Katie Couric and Jeff Zucker.

00:05:38.000 Here's her autobiography, quote, It was a little weird.

00:05:41.000 With the Today Show, I just kind of came on and people responded.

00:05:44.000 Here, there was product testing.

00:05:45.000 It didn't feel organic.

00:05:46.000 She's talking about when she was given nightly news.

00:05:48.000 At a certain point, Jeff made a huge push to bring on Allison Gallist.

00:05:52.000 When we worked together at NBC, she and Jeff cooked up ever bolder ways to draw attention to today, and later to Jeff himself when he moved to entertainment.

00:05:58.000 They were joined at the hip.

00:06:00.000 The problem was we'd already hired a PR person for the show that really wasn't a role for Allison. 1.00

00:06:03.000 Jeff asked me to meet with her anyway.

00:06:05.000 One weekend when I was out in the Hamptons, I went over to her house and told her what I'd already told Jeff.

00:06:10.000 That we had the communications piece of it covered.

00:06:12.000 And there just wasn't a job there.

00:06:13.000 What we needed were talented producers.

00:06:15.000 ABC was paying Jeff and me a ton of money.

00:06:17.000 I was also an EP of the show.

00:06:18.000 My name was on it.

00:06:19.000 I felt a certain responsibility to spend the money wisely and have some real agency in the decision making.

00:06:24.000 I had to wonder why Jeff was angling so hard to bring Allison on board.

00:06:27.000 She and her husband and kids had moved into the apartment right above Jeff and Karen's.

00:06:31.000 Everyone who heard about the cozy arrangement thought it was super strange.

00:06:34.000 By that point, Karen had become a close friend.

00:06:35.000 It made me really uncomfortable.

00:06:38.000 And then she continues that when Jeff Zucker got fired, she says that Jeff Zucker got fired, and then Zucker asked Couric to call up Jeff Bukes, who is the CEO of Time Warner, and put in a good word at CNN.

00:06:51.000 Apparently, Zucker said to Katie Couric, this is my last chance to have a big job like this.

00:06:55.000 And of course, if you want it, there will be a job for you, too.

00:06:58.000 In those eight seconds while he waited for my answer, says Katie Couric, our time together flashed before my eyes.

00:07:03.000 The excitement and fun, the teamwork, the unstoppable ascent.

00:07:05.000 Yes, he'd been a huge disappointment.

00:07:07.000 But in spite of everything, we've been through so much together.

00:07:09.000 I also knew the news had always been his sweet spot, and CNN would be a much better fit.

00:07:14.000 Of course I would, I told him.

00:07:15.000 On November 29th, Jeff was named president of CNN.

00:07:18.000 His first hire?

00:07:19.000 Allison Gallist.

00:07:21.000 So this has been a not particularly closed secret in the media industry for a long time.

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00:08:34.000 The question is, why this matters?

00:08:36.000 And the answer is, because Al Sengal's relationship with Andrew Cuomo is one of the reasons why Chris Cuomo ended up being fired, apparently, according to Eric Wemple of the Washington Post.

00:08:46.000 Chris Cuomo suggests that all of the bizarre segments that they had in 2020, when CNN was attempting to prop up Andrew Cuomo as the greatest governor in America, while he simultaneously shoved COVID-positive elderly people back into nursing homes, killing thousands of them, and then covering it up by saying that they were dying in the hospitals, not in the nursing homes.

00:09:03.000 CNN was having these Knightley Smothers Brothers routines where Chris would go on air and he would do jokes with Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo was feted as the greatest politician since Winston Churchill.

00:09:14.000 He was just an incredible leader in a time of great trauma and tragedy.

00:09:18.000 So the question is, how are those segments getting on the air?

00:09:21.000 This is Chris's point.

00:09:21.000 He's saying, you fired me for helping out my brother.

00:09:24.000 Well, I was on air talking with my brother.

00:09:26.000 But you guys had to approve all those segments.

00:09:28.000 And it turns out not only, according to Eric Wemple, did you approve those segments, you solicited those segments.

00:09:33.000 Apparently, the Cuomo team, Andrew Cuomo's team, started getting a little bit perturbed by how often CNN wanted to have him on.

00:09:42.000 And so apparently, Allison Golas, who had once been Andrew Cuomo's comms director, called up the team for Andrew Cuomo.

00:09:48.000 Again, this is according to Eric Wemple.

00:09:49.000 And basically convinced him he needed to come on air at CNN.

00:09:52.000 So Chris Cuomo, who got fired for his relationship with his brother, on air and off air, got fired over that.

00:09:59.000 Now he is suing.

00:10:00.000 And because he is suing, he wants all sorts of discovery on exactly who at CNN was involved in putting those segments on the air.

00:10:07.000 Well, in the course of this, it came up that both Jeff Zucker and Alison Golis had been reaching out to Team Andrew Cuomo in the middle of all of this.

00:10:15.000 Which just shows you how perverse all of this is.

00:10:16.000 It's personally incestuous.

00:10:17.000 It's politically incestuous.

00:10:19.000 All of these people hang out with each other all the time.

00:10:21.000 They're best friends with one another.

00:10:23.000 It is all insider-driven.

00:10:24.000 I mean, by the way, this is one of the reasons why CNN covered Trump the way that it did in 2015-2016.

00:10:29.000 I mean, Jeff Zucker was very open about this.

00:10:32.000 It was Jeff Zucker who put Donald Trump on air for The Apprentice in the first place.

00:10:36.000 All these people know one another.

00:10:38.000 According to the New York Times, Chris Cuomo has fiercely contested the terms of his departure from CNN.

00:10:46.000 Mr. Cuomo has retained the powerful Hollywood litigator Brian Friedman.

00:10:53.000 In discussions with WarnerMedia lawyers, Mr. Cuomo's legal team raised the subject of Zucker's relationship with Gallist, according to two people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

00:11:03.000 Early last week, both Zucker and Gallus were asked about their relationship by lawyers from Cravath, Swain, and Moore, a law firm that WarnerMedia had retained to investigate Cuomo's tenure at the network.

00:11:13.000 Cravath is one of the most tony law firms in New York.

00:11:16.000 Lawyers from Cravath were interviewing CNN officials broadly about Mr. Cuomo's tenure and the events that led to his termination, in part because CNN executives believed the dispute could eventually lead to litigation, according to the two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss company business.

00:11:30.000 Mr. Cuomo's lawyers sent a letter asking CNN to preserve messages between Zucker, Gallust, Cuomo, and Cuomo's staff.

00:11:37.000 Among other matters, days before Cuomo's firing, CNN had been informed of an accusation of sexual misconduct against the anchor by a former junior colleague at another network.

00:11:45.000 Chris Cuomo has denied that accusation.

00:11:47.000 WarnerMedia's chief executive Jason Killar spoke with Zucker after the interviews and informed the CNN president he could not remain at the company.

00:11:54.000 Zucker offered to stay on for a transition period as the network found a new leader, but Killar rejected that suggestion, one of the people said.

00:12:01.000 Apparently, Zucker has been absent from his usual editorial calls in recent days.

00:12:05.000 But even some of his closest confidants had no idea he was on the verge of an exit.

00:12:09.000 In the CNN newsroom, Zucker commands fierce loyalty.

00:12:11.000 Well, that's because CNN doesn't do news anymore.

00:12:13.000 CNN has really not done news since Zucker entered the picture.

00:12:16.000 He basically hired a bunch of bizarre lapdog opinion hosts to host his nightly news.

00:12:22.000 From Don Lemon, to Chris Cuomo, to Brandon Keillor, to... I mean, this is what they do at CNN.

00:12:28.000 CNN is MSNBC masquerading as the most trusted name in news.

00:12:34.000 Well, many of the anchors were very upset about this.

00:12:37.000 Many of the anchors were quite perturbed.

00:12:39.000 Alison Camerata, for example, she came out yesterday and she defended Jeff Zucker and said, I don't see why he should be fired just because he was shtipping one of the top executives of the company.

00:12:46.000 I mean, that's personal business.

00:12:47.000 Yeah, until you guys start actually using that personal business as an excuse to have an incestuous relationship with the people that you cover, which is exactly what was happening here.

00:12:55.000 Here's Alison Camerata. 1.00

00:12:57.000 This is an incredible loss.

00:12:59.000 It's an incredible loss.

00:13:00.000 Jeff is a remarkable person and an incredible leader.

00:13:05.000 He has this uncanny ability to make, I think, every one of us feel special and valuable in our own way, even though he is managing an international news organization of thousands of people.

00:13:19.000 I just know that he had this unique ability to make us feel special.

00:13:24.000 And I don't think that that comes around all the time.

00:13:27.000 And I think, again, it's an incredible loss.

00:13:29.000 And I just think it's so regrettable how it happened.

00:13:33.000 If what you're reporting is true, these are two consenting adults who are both executives.

00:13:40.000 That they can't have a private relationship feels wrong.

00:13:46.000 Okay, you know what actually feels wrong?

00:13:47.000 It feels wrong that it seems as though Zucker was basically keeping Gallist along with him throughout his entire career, according to Katie Couric's autobiography, and also according to pretty much everybody else in media.

00:13:57.000 Megyn Kelly, who knows all the players, she said yesterday, Zucker's relationship with Gallist went on for years.

00:14:03.000 What he did to keep her near him, as he kept advancing her up the line, will be even more stunning to the CNN newsroom.

00:14:10.000 Gallist, of course, is keeping her job. 0.93

00:14:12.000 And as far as the claim that these two started shipping recently, Megyn Kelly said, yeah, that's not going to hold up.

00:14:19.000 That's not even come close to holding up.

00:14:21.000 That is just not real.

00:14:22.000 And by the way, it is also worth noting here, as pointed out by some commentators over at Twitter, this is correct.

00:14:28.000 That Radar Online originally broke this story.

00:14:30.000 So Radar Online a month ago printed a photo of Gallust and Zucker together at a public event.

00:14:36.000 And the day before that broke, the day before it broke, Brian Stelter wrote in his newsletter a hit piece on Radar Online talking about how Radar Online was totally untrustworthy.

00:14:45.000 Literally 24 hours before the story broke about Zucker and Gallust.

00:14:49.000 So it turns out that Stelter was sort of informed by the top levels.

00:14:52.000 You got to attack Radar Online because they're about to uncover something we don't really want uncovered.

00:14:56.000 Things start to get uncomfortable for Brian Stelter, which of course would not be a shock at all.

00:15:02.000 At all, at all, at all.

00:15:03.000 So that is the... Why would... But why?

00:15:06.000 Why would people not trust CNN?

00:15:08.000 Why are they trusting Joe Rogan?

00:15:09.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:15:10.000 You have Chris Cuomo, who apparently was sexually harassing people while he was covering his brother, who was also sexually harassing people.

00:15:16.000 And also, his brother was killing old people, and Chris was interviewing him on air about that. 0.99

00:15:22.000 Meanwhile, you have Jeffrey Toobin, who's jacking off on camera in front of all of his colleagues and he's still the legal analyst over at CNN.

00:15:29.000 Also you have Don Lemon, who was currently enmeshed in a lawsuit with another guy who suggested that he was sexually harassing him.

00:15:36.000 Also you have Jeff Zucker, who was nailing one of his top associates who he had dragged along with him his entire career and was also using as a go-between with Andrew Cuomo.

00:15:45.000 Also you have producers at CNN who are engaged in apparently pedophilia.

00:15:47.000 So why?

00:15:49.000 I don't understand.

00:15:51.000 It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a riddle.

00:15:54.000 Who knows why people don't trust CNN?

00:15:57.000 How could it be?

00:15:58.000 Now again, a big company like CNN, you're going to get employees who do bad things.

00:16:02.000 That does happen, of course.

00:16:04.000 But when every top person at the network seems to be embroiled in some sort of sexual imbroglio and or news coverage failing, You have to start asking some questions as to whether the rot starts from the head down.

00:16:16.000 Whether this entire fish is rotten.

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00:17:30.000 So apparently...

00:17:31.000 All of the CNN hosts were in absolute shock and dismay because they were all personally hired by Jeff Zucker.

00:17:37.000 Oliver Darcy tweeted out, staffers inside CNN are in absolute shock right now.

00:17:41.000 Employees at the company learned of Zucker's sudden departure all at once via a company-wide email that went out just after 11 a.m.

00:17:48.000 Brian Stelter for his part tweeted, Jeff Zucker just announced his resignation to a stunned CNN.

00:17:54.000 I mean, I don't know why you're so stunned.

00:17:56.000 I mean, it was pretty obvious that this was an investigation that had been going on internally at CNN for quite some time ever since Chris Cuomo.

00:18:02.000 But you guys had no problem with Chris Cuomo covering Andrew the entire 2020.

00:18:04.000 The poetic justice of this is just amazing to watch.

00:18:11.000 You guys spent a year propping up the worst governor in America, Andrew Cuomo, as the best governor in America, while simultaneously attacking both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis as mass killers.

00:18:24.000 You took Andrew Cuomo, you put him on air with his brother.

00:18:26.000 They spent the entire year patting each other on the back, giving each other noogies, on air.

00:18:33.000 This was all arranged by the heads of your network.

00:18:35.000 Jeff Zucker and Gallist, and Allison Gallist, who were sleeping together, and who both had histories of being very close with the Cuomos.

00:18:43.000 Then, when things got ugly, you took Chris Cuomo and you chopped off his head.

00:18:46.000 And Chris Cuomo, who is not a shrinking violet, he immediately came back at you with a lawsuit that exposes That you are sleeping together and also we're involved in this whole debacle from the very beginning. 0.99

00:18:59.000 Meanwhile, the only people who are still standing are like Ron DeSantis in Florida because Andrew Cuomo is out on his ass as governor because he couldn't keep his hands off ass as it turns out. 0.98

00:19:08.000 So the poetic justice of all this is just wonderful. 0.99

00:19:11.000 First of all, it exposes that Andrew Cuomo is political herpes.

00:19:16.000 He's the gift that keeps on giving.

00:19:18.000 He infects all the people around him, and then they have outbreaks of Andrew Cuomo every so often, debilitating outbreaks of Andrew Cuomo, and it completely destroys them.

00:19:27.000 So don't get too close to Andrew Cuomo, gang, and this won't happen to you.

00:19:31.000 But beyond that, the pure exposure of what CNN is from the top levels down, a corrupt organization that works hand in glove with its favorite political players, while simultaneously bashing places like Fox for being too close with Trump, Let's be real about this.

00:19:47.000 CNN is not a news organization.

00:19:49.000 CNN is an organization that has some news people at it, but overall it is an entertainment organization in which the personal Connections of the people at the top levels were being used in order to propagate particular political narratives.

00:20:02.000 The greatest in-kind contribution in the media to Democrats happens every day, not even from MSNBC, which is pretty open about its bias, but from CNN, which pretends that Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon and Allison Camerota and Brian Stelter and all the rest of this crew are all objective news sources, which, of course, they are not.

00:20:20.000 Casey Hunt, who's one of the reporters over there, she says Jeff Zucker's support has meant the world to me both at work and in life.

00:20:27.000 When I was suddenly faced with my biggest ever personal challenge, getting a brain tumor, I'm so proud of what we've built.

00:20:31.000 CNN Plus under Jeff's leadership.

00:20:32.000 I can't wait to share it with you.

00:20:35.000 Alison Camerota, she spoke to the Washington Post.

00:20:38.000 Jeff is a remarkable person and boss.

00:20:40.000 He has a way of making everyone at CNN feel valuable and special.

00:20:44.000 I will miss his guidance and compassion in this challenging news climate more than words can say.

00:20:48.000 Don Lemon said, I am devastated.

00:20:49.000 I just think so highly of Jeff.

00:20:51.000 He's the best boss we've ever had.

00:20:52.000 One of the best things that has ever happened to CNN.

00:20:55.000 That is a debatable question as to whether he is one of the best things that has ever happened to CNN.

00:20:59.000 CNN has lower ratings than wallpaper.

00:21:02.000 CNN is the watching the grass grow of news.

00:21:06.000 The individuals who are devastated at CNN losing Jeff Zucker are probably also the same individuals who watch CNN because their ratings are not even charitable.

00:21:14.000 You need a microscope to find CNN's ratings.

00:21:17.000 Don Lemon said there are probably going to be a lot of nervous people at CNN because Jeff is really the glue there.

00:21:22.000 Yeah, from their mouth to God's ears.

00:21:24.000 Mary Catherine Ham, she said, I'm neither stunned nor in the know.

00:21:27.000 Delighted to add the tales of yet another colleague public figures errant member to list of things about which I'm called to opine publicly or clarify knowledge.

00:21:34.000 None.

00:21:35.000 Really didn't realize the old career would have so much of this.

00:21:40.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:21:42.000 I'm with Mary Catherine here.

00:21:44.000 But again, it just demonstrates the incestuous nature of the modern media.

00:21:47.000 In just one second, we'll get to the Whoopi Goldberg of it all.

00:21:50.000 Because now, Whoopi Goldberg is saying she might quit.

00:21:53.000 And Whoopi Goldberg is not going to quit.

00:21:54.000 Number one.

00:21:55.000 Number two, the suspension that they placed on Whoopi Goldberg is designed to protect Whoopi Goldberg.

00:21:59.000 We'll get to all of that in just one moment.

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00:23:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, Fallout continues over Whoopi Goldberg making bizarre and anti-Semitic statements about the Holocaust in which she suggested that Jews were white people, so white people fighting white people is basically no concern of hers.

00:23:26.000 As I explained on the show, this is part of a broader intersectional theory of racism in which white people can never be victimized.

00:23:32.000 They can only be the victimizers.

00:23:33.000 Therefore, Jews cannot really have been the true victims of the Holocaust. 0.73

00:23:36.000 Truly, the victims of the Holocaust were all of us because it was man's inhumanity toward man. 0.87

00:23:41.000 She was suspended for a couple of weeks by ABC News by, hilariously enough, Kim Godwin.

00:23:46.000 So Godwin's law now applies.

00:23:48.000 So she was suspended for a couple of weeks.

00:23:51.000 And rightly, she is angry.

00:23:53.000 Because here is the thing.

00:23:54.000 She shouldn't really be suspended.

00:23:56.000 She shouldn't. 1.00

00:23:57.000 Her job is to give dumb opinions on the air to a bunch of low IQ fellow hosts. 1.00

00:24:01.000 That is her job. 0.98

00:24:02.000 And the combined IQ of the four hosts on The View at any one time is generally below 300. 0.96

00:24:07.000 So the fact that you have Whoopi Goldberg saying really dumb, uninformed stuff, that's just called the view. 0.86

00:24:12.000 So really, she shouldn't be suspended. 0.83

00:24:14.000 Now, I think that the standard the left has set up is that if you say a bad thing, you need to get fired.

00:24:19.000 So she shouldn't just be suspended.

00:24:20.000 According to the left, she should be fired. 1.00

00:24:22.000 And here's my new standard.

00:24:23.000 Here is my standard.

00:24:24.000 My standard is I will now defend you from being fired.

00:24:27.000 I will say that you should not be fired and I will stand up for you and say you should not be fired if you are not a member of the cancel culture yourself. 1.00

00:24:33.000 If you're a person who believes that people should be fired for the bad things, you get to eat it.

00:24:37.000 Then I hope you are fired because you need to live by the rule that you make and you uphold and you are a member of the mob in upholding.

00:24:44.000 Whoopi Goldberg is a cancel culture maven.

00:24:46.000 She loves when people lose their jobs for saying the wrong thing.

00:24:46.000 She loves it.

00:24:49.000 So if she loses her job for saying the wrong thing, all I can say is justice has now applied. 0.96

00:24:53.000 Now, if she wishes to not just apologize for her dumb comments, and learn more about why she was wrong.

00:24:59.000 But she also wishes to get over her own unearned moral superiority and determine that perhaps people who make mistakes or say bad things in public or people with whom she disagrees should not be deplatformed.

00:25:11.000 Then I'm happy to welcome her into the cadre of classical liberals.

00:25:14.000 Otherwise, she can burn. 0.90

00:25:15.000 I don't care.

00:25:16.000 Not only do I not care, I celebrate her going down.

00:25:19.000 Now, she's not going to go down.

00:25:20.000 And herein lies the irony, right?

00:25:22.000 So ABC is the network that airs The View.

00:25:26.000 ABC is also owned by Disney.

00:25:29.000 Disney is the company that fired Gina Carano. 0.98

00:25:31.000 Gina Carano was on Mandalorian.

00:25:34.000 She was one of the stars of Mandalorian.

00:25:36.000 And she put out a meme that suggested that man's inhumanity toward man during the Holocaust can be extended as a lesson for lots of other people.

00:25:46.000 And this was taken as anti-Semitism.

00:25:49.000 She didn't say the Jews weren't specifically targeted, by the way.

00:25:51.000 She didn't actually say an anti-Semitic thing the way that Whoopi Goldberg did.

00:25:54.000 She just said that when people are inhumane to each other, bad things happen.

00:25:58.000 For this great crime, she was not suspended.

00:26:01.000 She was fired outright from The Mandalorian, losing presumably hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary because she was one of the main characters and they were considering a spinoff of The Mandalorian with Gina.

00:26:10.000 They fired Gina, so we hired her. 1.00

00:26:12.000 We have a new movie that's coming out with Gina Carano in the next couple of months, which I'm excited to tell you about.

00:26:17.000 But they fired her outright, did Disney.

00:26:20.000 Whoopi Goldberg says something far worse in every respect than Gina Carano ever said about the Holocaust.

00:26:26.000 And she's gonna get a two-week suspension. 0.57

00:26:28.000 And she's mad about being suspended for two weeks.

00:26:31.000 As she should be, because again, they're only mad when the rules apply to them.

00:26:35.000 When the rules apply to everybody else, then they're happy.

00:26:38.000 Mercy for my friends, the law for everyone else.

00:26:42.000 So apparently, Whoopi is Superman.

00:26:43.000 First of all, I'm amazed that it's taken people this long to recognize that it's pretty wild that Whoopi Goldberg, who's not actually named Whoopi Goldberg, right, that's her stage name, Like how is that not cultural appropriation, by the way, just picking up a name like Goldberg?

00:27:00.000 Apparently the actual reason that Whoopi Goldberg picked up the name, her real name is Karen Johnson.

00:27:05.000 And apparently, the way that she picked up that name is she was looking for a stage name, and so she called herself on stage, Whoopi Cushion.

00:27:14.000 Not kidding you, this is back in the 80s.

00:27:15.000 She called herself Whoopi Cushion and her mom said to her, you need something that stands out more and so she picked Whoopi Goldberg because she knew about the inherent oddity of a black woman calling herself Goldberg and also Goldberg meant not white.

00:27:26.000 She didn't call herself Whoopi Smith or something.

00:27:28.000 She didn't call herself, you know, Whoopi Thompson.

00:27:32.000 She called herself Whoopi Goldberg because the idea was that this was very odd.

00:27:36.000 In any case, This led to the most hilarious defense of Whoopi Goldberg.

00:27:41.000 Al Franken suggesting Whoopi Goldberg is not anti-semitic because her last name is Goldberg.

00:27:47.000 Okay then.

00:27:49.000 Al Franken, go ahead.

00:27:51.000 I know Whoopi.

00:27:53.000 She is not anti-semitic.

00:27:56.000 She chose Goldberg for her last name, for her stage name.

00:28:01.000 She I think she gave a really fulsome and sincere apology.

00:28:05.000 I think what she said wasn't quite what she meant.

00:28:12.000 And I thought it was great that she had the they had the Anti-Defamation League, they had the Anti-Defamation League on.

00:28:20.000 I don't know how they've handled other guests or hosts on that show before.

00:28:28.000 But I was I was very taken with how sincere and wholesome the apology was.

00:28:37.000 Oh, were you, Al?

00:28:38.000 It's funny how quick they are to accept apologies when it's members of their own side.

00:28:41.000 Again, I'm perfectly willing to accept Whoopi Goldberg's apology, and I think she should learn some things and get out of her own intersectional mindset.

00:28:48.000 I think that'd be a good thing.

00:28:50.000 But I'm not going to accept apologies from people who refuse to accept apologies from anybody else.

00:28:54.000 This does not work only one way.

00:28:57.000 I do love Al Franken suggesting that because she culturally appropriated the name Goldberg, this means she's not anti-Semitic.

00:29:03.000 Okay then.

00:29:04.000 First of all, I'd love to see him apply that logic to, say, the Cleveland Indians.

00:29:07.000 And the same people on the left who are like, hey, if Whoopi Goldberg says her last name is Goldberg, this means she probably likes Jews.

00:29:12.000 I'm like, Cleveland Indians?

00:29:14.000 It's because they hate Indians! 1.00

00:29:17.000 Never look for consistency with the left.

00:29:19.000 It is all just a game of power.

00:29:22.000 In any case, Goldberg apparently is livid and feels humiliated over the suspension.

00:29:26.000 She feels ABC executives mishandled this.

00:29:28.000 She followed their playbook.

00:29:29.000 She went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and then apologized again on The View the next day, the source told the Post.

00:29:33.000 Her ego has been hurt.

00:29:34.000 She's telling people she's going to quit. 0.97

00:29:36.000 Suspension from The View is like getting suspended from Bravo.

00:29:39.000 The bar is very low.

00:29:41.000 Prior to her suspension, sources that spoke with Page Six said that employees and executives, including insiders at Disney, were furious over her remarks and the fact she had not been disciplined yet.

00:29:51.000 One insider told pigshakes the controversy was not just going to blow over.

00:29:55.000 According to that insider, ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far, and board members are not happy with her apology and want a fuller retraction.

00:30:02.000 The word is that Whoopi is in deep bleep, said the ABC insider.

00:30:05.000 Why does Whoopi seemingly get a pass when others don't?

00:30:07.000 Perhaps this time she won't.

00:30:08.000 Many at the network, including her fellow host, believe Whoopi is too controversial now for the show.

00:30:12.000 She's going to be back in two weeks.

00:30:12.000 That's not true.

00:30:14.000 The purpose of the two-week break, by the way, is to protect her from media questions.

00:30:18.000 That's what it's about.

00:30:18.000 That's why they're suspending her.

00:30:19.000 They're not making her publicly available.

00:30:21.000 They're not going to make her go into interviews with people who actually know something about this topic.

00:30:25.000 They trotted out Jonathan Greenblatt from the ADL so that he could exonerate her and exorcise her demons on air after having screwed up, by the way, his own redefinition of racism. 0.69

00:30:35.000 Jonathan Greenblatt, inside the last couple of months, redefined racism from, you know, thinking poorly of somebody based solely on their race to white people harming people of color.

00:30:44.000 That was literally the ADL's redefinition of racism.

00:30:47.000 Whoopi Goldberg then took that redefinition of racism, ran with it, and then when things went sideways, when the train ran off the rails like the fugitive, tracking down Harrison Ford, jumping into a ditch.

00:30:56.000 Once that happened, then she brought Jonathan Greenblatt back on to explain why Whoopi Goldberg was fine.

00:31:02.000 By the way, this is so bad for the ADL that the ADL now had to revise its own racism definition again.

00:31:08.000 They went back to it.

00:31:10.000 So it used to define racism as, quote, the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics, which is normally the definition of racism.

00:31:21.000 Then they switched it in July 2020 to mirror Black Lives Matter.

00:31:25.000 Racism now meant, quote, the marginalization and or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

00:31:32.000 By that definition, by the way, the Holocaust was not racism.

00:31:35.000 Also, the Genocide against the Uighur Muslims in China is not racist or anything else.

00:31:39.000 So now they've changed it again.

00:31:42.000 So now it says racism occurs when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.

00:31:51.000 So the new definition makes some more sense.

00:31:56.000 But the definition of systemic racism is still bad over the ADL website because they haven't shifted back over from the woke definition.

00:32:04.000 So they say that institutional racism and systemic racism can only exist if they are targeting black people, basically.

00:32:09.000 So the ADL has made a mockery of itself along this process.

00:32:12.000 I will say, I'm enjoying this period of all masks coming off and all veils being revealed.

00:32:16.000 I really am enjoying this.

00:32:18.000 All of these organizations that pretended that they were about one thing actually are about another thing.

00:32:22.000 The ADL, which was supposed to be an anti-Semitism fighting organization, is just a woke left organization.

00:32:27.000 Black Lives Matter, which was supposed to be about forwarding the aspirations of black Americans, was actually just a giant grift.

00:32:33.000 So bad that the Black Lives Matter organization apparently has reportedly been suspended from receiving donations in the state of California because it was such a grift and nobody knows where the money is going. 0.51

00:32:42.000 Whoopi Goldberg has been exposed for what she is.

00:32:44.000 Jeff Zucker has been exposed for what he is.

00:32:45.000 Andrew Cuomo has been exposed for what he is.

00:32:47.000 Chris Cuomo's been... Like, I'm enjoying it.

00:32:49.000 When all the masks come off, it's good times all around.

00:32:52.000 Alrighty, in just one second.

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00:37:09.000 All righty, meanwhile, things are going poorly for Joe Biden.

00:37:17.000 So I do have to give credit to Joe Biden for one story of the day that actually is a good story.

00:37:21.000 The leader of ISIS in Syria has been killed by U.S.

00:37:25.000 Special Forces.

00:37:26.000 Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qureishi exploded a bomb that killed himself and members of his family as a raid began on a house in the rebel-held province of Idlib.

00:37:34.000 He was among 13 people who died during the operation that lasted two hours, according to Sky News in Britain.

00:37:38.000 There were no U.S.

00:37:38.000 military casualties.

00:37:40.000 President Biden announced the killing in a statement.

00:37:42.000 Saying, thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qureishi.

00:37:48.000 He said that the troops successfully undertook a counter-terrorism operation to protect the American people.

00:37:53.000 Al-Qureishi was named the second leader of ISIS after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in October 2019.

00:38:00.000 official said, while we are still assessing the results of the operation, this appears to be the same cowardly terrorist tactic we saw in the 2019 operation that eliminated al-Baghdadi.

00:38:00.000 A U.S.

00:38:08.000 Remember that he was in a complex, and we had dogs chasing him, and he blew himself up in order to avoid being captured or killed by enemy forces.

00:38:17.000 So that is definitely a good thing for the United States.

00:38:19.000 The fact is that ISIS had been gaining some semblance of power for the last couple of months.

00:38:24.000 They've been taking over towns again, and so that is a good move for the United States. 1.00

00:38:28.000 With that said, Joe Biden is still having some pretty significant struggles.

00:38:32.000 I mean, in every respect.

00:38:33.000 Yesterday, there was video that came out of the White House, and honestly, like, I don't mean to pick on the poor guy, but, like, there's a video of him walking away from the podium, and Jill Biden guiding the President of the United States away from the podium, and it looks like me guiding my grandmother down the steps in the final years of her life.

00:38:52.000 I mean, it's just...

00:38:55.000 It's just not a good look.

00:38:58.000 As producer Austin says, you normally don't hear clapping at a funeral.

00:39:02.000 It's very, very awkward.

00:39:04.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is announcing she thinks things are going so well that she needs 25 people at the State of the Union, according to a report.

00:39:12.000 According to Axios, Kevin McCarthy told members of Republican leadership at an ELC meeting that Pelosi told him she was instituting a 25-member attendance cap for Biden's State of the Union address.

00:39:24.000 Nothing like ensuring that everybody still thinks we are in the middle of a brutal pandemic in which all of life cannot go back to normal, like making sure that the State of the Union, which is an institution I absolutely despise.

00:39:34.000 I hate the State of the Union. 0.99

00:39:35.000 I think it's an imperial, monarchic Bull crap institution. 1.00

00:39:35.000 I don't care who gives it. 1.00

00:39:40.000 I think we should just send letters.

00:39:41.000 I mean, this would be a great time for Biden to reinstitute this.

00:39:43.000 Just send a letter.

00:39:44.000 State of the Union's fine.

00:39:45.000 Send it off to Congress.

00:39:46.000 Be done with it.

00:39:47.000 That's all that's in the Constitution.

00:39:48.000 You don't have to do anything else.

00:39:50.000 But in any case, it is normally this imperial majestic scene with grandeur and people cheering and clapping and standing. 0.94

00:39:58.000 And so if you reduce it to like 25 people in the room, it seems kind of pathetic. 0.92

00:40:01.000 Does it not? 0.67

00:40:03.000 According to Axios, McCarthy and other Republican leaders were frustrated by the declaration.

00:40:08.000 McCarthy said something to the effect of, Democrats fly on planes with more people than they plan to allow on the floor.

00:40:14.000 Although a spokesperson for Pelosi has said no final decisions have yet been reached, McCarthy reportedly told colleagues attendance could be limited to 50 people total, 25 members from each party.

00:40:23.000 His joint address last year was attended by 55 House Democrats and 25 House Republicans, along with 35 Senate Democrats and 25 Senate Republicans.

00:40:30.000 So there'd be fewer people now.

00:40:33.000 In the chamber than there were last year, despite the fact that Washington D.C.

00:40:37.000 recorded 61 new cases total on February 1.

00:40:42.000 So they just can't get a grip on any of this.

00:40:44.000 It's pretty astonishing stuff.

00:40:47.000 And you understand why.

00:40:48.000 I mean, they don't want a full room for Joe Biden because, again, Joe Biden is very, very unpopular.

00:40:53.000 And we're about to head into a particularly difficult economic patch right here.

00:40:57.000 A report came out yesterday showing that private payrolls actually lost workers last month.

00:41:01.000 Remember, we're supposed to be in economic boom times.

00:41:04.000 We're in the middle of an artificially induced economic coma in 2020.

00:41:07.000 The economy was sailing until that point.

00:41:09.000 We had higher wages.

00:41:10.000 We had higher growth.

00:41:11.000 We had more people in the employment force.

00:41:13.000 And then we put the economy into a coma for no reason.

00:41:17.000 At the beginning, we thought there was a reason.

00:41:19.000 It turns out there was no reason.

00:41:20.000 We put the economy into a complete coma.

00:41:22.000 We told everybody to stay in their home for like a year and a half, and we just blew money Out the wazoo.

00:41:28.000 And then, we got the vaccines.

00:41:30.000 And at that point, Joe Biden should have been like, okay, we're done.

00:41:32.000 Everybody back to normal.

00:41:33.000 Enjoy your lives.

00:41:34.000 Because he had boxed himself in by saying that he was going to end the virus.

00:41:34.000 But he couldn't.

00:41:38.000 So instead, we are still doing this stupid nonsense. 1.00

00:41:40.000 Which means that the U.S. 0.95

00:41:41.000 private sector lost 301,000 jobs in January as the Omicron variant of COVID forced millions of Americans out of work, according to data released Wednesday by payroll processor ADP.

00:41:52.000 The ADP National Employment Report showed sharp, broad declines in private sector payrolls for the first time since December of 2020.

00:41:58.000 The labor market recovery took a step back at the start of 2022 due to the effect of the Omicron variant and its significant, though likely temporary, impact to job growth, said the ADP Chief Economist, Nilo Richardson.

00:42:10.000 Now, the experts had suggested we were going to gain about 200,000 jobs in January.

00:42:15.000 So that means they missed by half a million jobs because they went the wrong direction in January.

00:42:23.000 The U.S.

00:42:23.000 added just 199,000 jobs in December.

00:42:25.000 Economists are bracing for overall job losses in January.

00:42:28.000 They expect the labor market to bounce back as Omicron fades, but we keep hearing that over and over.

00:42:31.000 See, the thing is, you actually have to let Omicron fade if Omicron is going to fade.

00:42:36.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:42:36.000 You keep treating it as a crisis.

00:42:39.000 And the Democrats keep boxing themselves in on this stuff because they're treating it as a crisis.

00:42:43.000 So, for example, this is the best story of the day on Omicron.

00:42:45.000 L.A.

00:42:45.000 Mayor Eric Garcetti, who's just an incompetent, just a wild incompetent, Garcetti claimed that he held his breath when he posed for a maskless photo with Magic Johnson at a football game.

00:42:54.000 So apparently everybody was going to take a photo with Magic Johnson at this football game, this L.A. 0.90

00:43:00.000 Rams football game.

00:43:01.000 Governor Gavin Newsom took one with Magic.

00:43:03.000 Magic, of course, is 62 years old and HIV positive, which means he's immunocompromised and he is slightly overweight at this point.

00:43:10.000 And he is, you know, in that age range that is not particularly safe.

00:43:16.000 And Newsom got blasted for it.

00:43:17.000 Well, it turns out Garcetti also took a picture with Magic at this football game.

00:43:21.000 So Newsom's answer was that he was carrying his mask, which obviously protects you from COVID because it's magic.

00:43:28.000 It's like a talismanic totem that you carry around.

00:43:30.000 It's fantastic.

00:43:31.000 Also, Eric Garcetti said, I held my breath.

00:43:34.000 That's a good one.

00:43:35.000 He held his breath.

00:43:37.000 He said, I'll take personal responsibility.

00:43:38.000 If it makes you and everybody else happy, or even the photographers with people where I'm literally holding my breath for two seconds, I won't even do that.

00:43:45.000 Wow.

00:43:46.000 So mask mandates remain in place.

00:43:48.000 In Los Angeles.

00:43:50.000 But also, you could hold your breath.

00:43:51.000 By the way, that should always be your excuse from now on.

00:43:53.000 If somebody ever tells... There are so many excuses you can use that the left has used here.

00:43:57.000 If you're not wearing a mask in a public place, and somebody questions you about it, you can say, like San Francisco Mayor London Breed, that you feel the spirit moving you.

00:44:04.000 And if that doesn't work, you can always just say that you've been holding your breath.

00:44:07.000 For like two hours, you've just been holding your breath.

00:44:09.000 No biggie.

00:44:09.000 You've been holding your breath.

00:44:10.000 Or you can use the Gavin Newsom excuse.

00:44:12.000 And you can say, look, here's my mask right here.

00:44:14.000 It's on my hand.

00:44:15.000 Right here, on my hand.

00:44:16.000 And my hand is how COVID transmits.

00:44:18.000 Here's the thing.

00:44:19.000 If they can't let go of it, nobody else is gonna let go of it either.

00:44:21.000 I mean, right now, the army is already firing unvaccinated soldiers.

00:44:25.000 Firing them!

00:44:26.000 Okay, this is the youngest, healthiest cohort of Americans.

00:44:31.000 Pretty much everybody at this point has gotten Omicron, right?

00:44:33.000 Omicron is extraordinarily transmissible.

00:44:36.000 Omicron is, again, something like 140 times as transmissible as the original variant, which was more transmissible than the flu in the first place.

00:44:43.000 And now there's a new variant that has cropped up that's 50% more transmissible than that.

00:44:47.000 But now they're getting rid.

00:44:48.000 They're literally making us less militarily ready because people are not vaccinated, even though vaccination does not prevent you transmitting the virus or getting the virus.

00:44:58.000 In a statement, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth described the action as necessary for Army readiness, adding that unvaccinated soldiers present a risk to the force.

00:45:05.000 Why?

00:45:07.000 You have to explain.

00:45:07.000 Why do unvaccinated soldiers present a risk to the force?

00:45:10.000 We now know that the Pfizer shots are not preventing the transmission of COVID.

00:45:15.000 So if that is the case, that's the CDC that says that, by the way, not me, the CDC.

00:45:20.000 If that's the case, how does it?

00:45:22.000 How is it worse for military readiness to have people who are unvaxxed in the military than it is to just get rid of all of those people in the military?

00:45:30.000 Genius upon genius.

00:45:31.000 Meanwhile, on the economy, the same folks who have been blowing money out the wazoo are now facing some pretty severe economic riptides here.

00:45:41.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Greg Ip reporting, if you were born after 1980, The monetary tightening that the Fed said this week will begin in March will be like any you've ever seen.

00:45:48.000 This is for two reasons, both unsettling for markets.

00:45:50.000 First, when the Fed began raising interest rates in 94, 99, 2000 and 2015, inflation was near or below its desired level.

00:45:57.000 The tightening was preemptive.

00:45:58.000 Today, inflation is too high.

00:46:00.000 Even if December's 7% rate is adjusted for temporary effects like oil prices and used car shortages, underlying inflation is well above 2%.

00:46:09.000 The Fed is so far behind the curve, it needs to get interest rates up almost irrespective of what incoming data say about the economy or inflation.

00:46:15.000 Also, the Fed won't hold the market's hand by committing to a particular path of rate increases, so this is uncertainty and deflation at the same point.

00:46:23.000 Which is dangerous stuff in a market that is still being roiled by the regulatory excesses of the Biden administration.

00:46:31.000 So if you think things are bad for Joe Biden right now, just wait a couple of months because things can get a lot worse.

00:46:36.000 It always goes darkest just before it goes pitch black.

00:46:39.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:46:43.000 In the meantime, go check out our newest podcast, Morning Wire.

00:46:45.000 Today's episode is available right now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, make sure to tune in.

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00:47:27.000 On today's episode, CNN President Jeff Zucker resigns amid controversy, Whoopi Goldberg is suspended, and a new study finds that COVID lockdowns are counterproductive.

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