Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September eighteenth, twenty twenty five. This is
Speaker 1: the warning, and it is another dark day for free
Speaker 1: speech in the United States. Is the Trump regime continues
Speaker 1: its campaign to stifle it and crush it. And of
Speaker 1: course they are abetted by their greatest ally greed. And
Speaker 1: so it is that extremeist media executives and greedy media
Speaker 1: executives have conspired together to decide what it is and
Speaker 1: what it is not that you are allowed to laugh about.
Speaker 1: And certainly in this new America, one thing that we
Speaker 1: must not laugh at is Donald Trump. We must not
Speaker 1: laugh at jd. Vance or Christy No or Cash Patel.
Speaker 1: We must not laugh at Pambondy. We must not laugh
Speaker 1: at the excesses, the abuse, the lies, the preposterous abuses
Speaker 1: being directed at us the people, by a government supposedly
Speaker 1: of the people, by.
Speaker 2: The people, for the people.
Speaker 1: No, you must be nice to Donald Trump. Now, there
Speaker 1: are many people who say many things about Donald Trump
Speaker 1: over on Fox News. They will lie for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: they will debase, they will degrade, and they will say
Speaker 1: that the cornerstone of our society an election was one that.
Speaker 2: In fact was lost.
Speaker 1: Fox News poisons the minds of the American people.
Speaker 2: That's what they do.
Speaker 1: Other people point out factually that what Fox is spewing
Speaker 1: is poisoned. They try to be the antidote to it.
Speaker 1: They try to warn people about what's happening.
Speaker 2: I try to do that at the warning.
Speaker 1: But the most potent weapon against the dictator, against the
Speaker 1: tyrde against the autocrat is laughter. And man, oh man,
Speaker 1: is Jimmy Kimmel funny. He may be the funniest person
Speaker 1: in the country of three hundred and forty million of
Speaker 1: US and his target is Donald Trump. And that made
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel a dangerous man who had to be taken out,
Speaker 1: and so he was. Jimmy Kimmel was fired taken off
Speaker 1: the air by cowards at ABC, and that decision belonged
Speaker 1: to Bob Iger. If you care about the United States,
Speaker 1: unplugged your Disney apps, do not go to their theme parks.
Speaker 1: The Disney Corporation does not care about you. Now, there
Speaker 1: are other companies in America that we we all talk
Speaker 1: about every day. Companies like Sinclair and companies like Nextstar.
Speaker 1: Nextstar delivers the television programs that you see. They're the
Speaker 1: back office, if you will, and they are involved right
Speaker 1: now in the giant merger with another company. These two
Speaker 1: companies you can see their brands right there, together will
Speaker 1: reach an astounding amount of American television households and control
Speaker 1: what flows into them. And this multi billion dollar merger
Speaker 1: needs government approval, and the condition obviously of the approval
Speaker 1: was you fire Jimmy Kimmel. A similar condition imposed on
Speaker 1: CBS that you get rid of Stephen.
Speaker 2: Colbert because they're not nice to Trump.
Speaker 1: And so the government, the Trump regime, is abusing power
Speaker 1: to stifle dissent. What Nextstar did is a corrupt act,
Speaker 1: and the freedom of information campaigns that will demonstrate in
Speaker 1: evidence that because there is an email trail between Next
Speaker 1: Star and Sinclair and Brandon Carr, the.
Speaker 2: Fascist at the FCC, that will show all of this.
Speaker 1: The fingerprints on the proverbial murder weapon will be everywhere.
Speaker 1: But the main thing that we must talk about is
Speaker 1: the sick and twisted statement released by Sinclair Broadcasting. Sinclair
Speaker 1: Broadcasting is a far right media company that gave the
Speaker 1: fascist Boris Epstein, a Trump liar, an ability to reach
Speaker 1: to majority of the country with insane commentaries, devoid of facts, divisive, purposeless,
Speaker 1: not to make communities better but to advance an ideology
Speaker 1: through the television, and television has always been a powerful
Speaker 1: propaganda tool, powerful ever invented. And there's something that you
Speaker 1: need to appreciate in this dangerous moment. Let me read
Speaker 1: from you the statement released by Sinclair Broadcasting on the
Speaker 1: firing of Jimmy Kimmel. The statement was released under the
Speaker 1: name of the vice chairman, Jason Smith. You can see
Speaker 1: mister Smith here, that's mister Smith's picture. Has discussed with
Speaker 1: ABC earlier today. Sinclair decided can definitely preempt Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 1: Live beginning tonight. Following these discussions, ABC as suspended production
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Kimmel Wive. Now never mind the hundreds of
Speaker 1: people involved in the production, in their jobs, their lives
Speaker 1: ruined by free speech advocates, Mister Kimmel's remarks were inappropriated,
Speaker 1: deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country, said
Speaker 1: the unelected vice chairman, Jason Smith.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful,
Speaker 1: constructive dialogue in our communities.
Speaker 2: We appreciate FCC.
Speaker 1: Chairman cars remarks today and this incident highlights the critical
Speaker 1: need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to
Speaker 1: address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks.
Speaker 1: Sinclair's ABC stations will air a special in remembrance of
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk this Friday during Jimmy Kimmel Live's time slot.
Speaker 1: The special will also air across Sinclair stations this weekend.
Speaker 1: In addition, Sinclair is offering the special to all ABC
Speaker 1: affiliates across the country. He goes on and on, and
Speaker 1: then he says. Sinclair also calls upon mister Kimmel to
Speaker 1: issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we
Speaker 1: ask mister Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to
Speaker 1: the Kirk family. In turning point USA, Regardless of ABC
Speaker 1: plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not
Speaker 1: to return Jimmy Kimmel Live to our air until we
Speaker 1: are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold
Speaker 1: the standards expected of a national broadcast platform. This is propaganda,
Speaker 1: This is nonsense, and it's all lies, and you should
Speaker 1: understand something.
Speaker 2: What Jimmy Kimmel said was true.
Speaker 1: The murderer grew up in a maga family with a
Speaker 1: gun fetish, inconvenient though that may be.
Speaker 2: And here's another truth.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was a racist, and he was a divider,
Speaker 1: and he humiliated people, and he dehumanized people, black people
Speaker 1: who he thought were less than gay people. Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: was a fascist. He deserved, like I have said, for
Speaker 1: a week, to be debated, not murdered. But what we
Speaker 1: are seeing is the abuse of a corpse by a
Speaker 1: fascist political movement to demand obedience to a cause that
Speaker 1: must be resistant.
Speaker 2: What happened to Jimmy Kimmel's no joke, and it's just
Speaker 2: getting started.
Speaker 1: But let me say this, the majority of people in
Speaker 1: this country will take no lectures from some vice chairman
Speaker 1: in Baltimore who put Boris Epstein on the air about
Speaker 1: what's decent and not. They may own the majority of
Speaker 1: affiliates in the country, but they have no damn right
Speaker 1: to tell you what to believe or to demand apologies
Speaker 1: to fascists for their hurt feelings. The Democratic Party is weak.
Speaker 1: The newsrooms and networks are run by weak people, pathetic people.
Speaker 1: The anchors on the air are weak and pathetic people
Speaker 1: like Joe and Mika. There are millions of Americans out
Speaker 1: there who best tough enough and get hard and get ready,
Speaker 1: because these people aren't playing around. What they are doing
Speaker 1: is precisely what the Nazis did with a thirty year
Speaker 1: old pimp named Horst Vessel. He was a brown shirt
Speaker 1: murdered by communists who was made a symbol of the state.
Speaker 1: The Horst Vessel song became the Nazi national anthem as
Speaker 1: Horst Vessel became a symbol of the state as the
Speaker 1: consolidated their political power. Charlie Kirk, in my mind, was
Speaker 1: not a patriot, never served his country, not for an hour,
Speaker 1: not for a day, not for a minute, not for
Speaker 1: a second. Charlie Kirk divided his country, and I and
Speaker 1: many people like me will not be brought to our
Speaker 1: knees by these fascists.
Speaker 2: For their performative mourning. They are doing their.
Speaker 1: Best, with many allies, through many corrupt acts, to turn
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk into Horse Vessel, and they are succeeding at
Speaker 1: some level. But America is in Germany in the thirties,
Speaker 1: and the First Amendment reigns. Unplug your cable box from
Speaker 1: Saint Clair, turn it off. You don't need it. You
Speaker 1: can stream it, and you can find your way to
Speaker 1: the news you need to survive an authoritarian takeover that
Speaker 1: now wivertly seeks to censor where you can say, where
Speaker 1: you can think, where you can write, all the while
Speaker 1: demanding free speech. It's quite a trick, and it's a
Speaker 1: trick should reject because it's very dangerous. This is the warning,
Speaker 1: and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite
Speaker 1: you to join this community where I promise to be honest,
Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.
Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel
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Speaker 2: Thank you.