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Speaker 1: When Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson are raging against their president,

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Speaker 1: you know a line has been crossed. Crew said, the

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Speaker 1: FCC threat from Brendan Carr was straight out of Good Fellows.

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Speaker 1: It's got mafia written all over it. It's important not

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Speaker 1: to forget. Actually, we have the confluence here of several

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Speaker 1: stories in the Kimel scrap. One, the absurdity of defending

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Speaker 1: free speech while closing it down. The First Amendment is

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Speaker 1: critical until it isn't apparently. Two the lack of corporate spine.

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Speaker 1: Both Kimmel and Colbert have been dumped mainly because the

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Speaker 1: companies that own the networks were looking for FEC approval

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Speaker 1: to do business. The fact they were being compromised by

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Speaker 1: standout at tactics doesn't appear to bother them. It reminds

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Speaker 1: me a lot of COVID Actually in this country. The

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Speaker 1: number of corporates who privately raged against the government, we're

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Speaker 1: nowhere to be seen publicly. It's amazing what power driving

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Speaker 1: fear can do to a business. And then three, the

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Speaker 1: simple reality that despite one and two, these late night

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Speaker 1: shows have in fact dug their own grave. They are

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Speaker 1: broadcasting failures, their arrogance to ignore the mood of the

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Speaker 1: audience has seeing their ratings crater and along with an

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Speaker 1: advertising revenue. Where once Leno and Letterman kept it light

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Speaker 1: and far, Kimmel and co. Have turned their shows into

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Speaker 1: anks fests with less humor and more campaigning. I mean,

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Speaker 1: no one wants to be lectured at eleven o'clock at night,

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Speaker 1: and they fail to see it. Like it or not,

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Speaker 1: the Trump train is rolling and their fury belongs largely

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Speaker 1: in places like California. The rest of America is not interested.

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Speaker 1: So in the midst of the mess, who is the

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Speaker 1: biggest criminal here? Is it the President for being a hypocrite?

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Speaker 1: Is it the networks for being spineless? Or is it

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Speaker 1: the shows for being out of touch with their audiences?

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Speaker 1: And while you work that out, the indisputable bit is

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Speaker 1: the biggest losers are of course the show is the

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Speaker 1: president's not for turning in his time limited anyway. The

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Speaker 1: networks will move on with their FCC permissions, but the

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Speaker 1: shows they're gone. The landscape is irrevocably changed. The big

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Speaker 1: question left is who's next. For more from the Mic

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Speaker 1: asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks, the'd be from

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