If you decided one day to go on YouTube looking for old Howard Stern clips, you&#8217;d have a lot of edgy, politically incorrect content to choose from. Stern&#8217;s many segments with an intellectually disabled dwarf comedian named Beetlejuice, for example, aren&#8217;t hard to find. There&#8217;s also a bunch of compilations of people fighting on Stern&#8217;s set, in the style of Jerry Springer, usually over money or adultery. There&#8217;s enough degeneracy to last you weeks, if for some reason you were inclined to watch it.
But there is some recurring Howard Stern content that&#8217;s not so easy to view, because by and large, it&#8217;s been scrubbed from most major video-sharing sites. The segments I&#8217;m talking about involve Stern speaking about his sexual attraction to children, specifically Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Again and again, for several years, Stern described the Olsen twins as sexually attractive. &#8220;They&#8217;re so amazingly hot,&#8221; Stern says in one of the segments, referring to the underage girls. In several cases, Stern brings up the girls unprompted, leading to awkward moments with his co-hosts.
Because it&#8217;s not possible to truly eliminate any content from the internet, you can still find this footage if you know where to look. A small handful of anonymous accounts have defied corporate censors and uploaded some of Stern&#8217;s many disturbing comments about children he finds sexually attractive. Here&#8217;s one example, where Stern laments that the girls, in his estimation, aren&#8217;t as attractive as they were when they were 13-years-old:
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Stern show with call in talking about not liking how they look anymore, preferred how they looked when they were 13/14. Disappointed because they were counting down to 18th birthday to have sex with them. <a href="https://t.co/JUyfOjS6rZ">pic.twitter.com/JUyfOjS6rZ</a>
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There are many more clips like this that we could play. Some are even more disturbing than the one you just heard. This is a grown man, in his 40s at the time, repeatedly sexualizing children who are barely teenagers. Many people have had their lives destroyed and been reduced to groveling apologies for saying things that are not even a tenth as bad as what Stern says there. And that wasn’t even a tenth as bad as other things Stern said.
These clips were nauseating and creepy when he made them and they&#8217;re nauseating and creepy now. There was never a point in American history where it was acceptable to sexualize children like this. But for years, Howard Stern continued doing just that, right out in the open. No one stopped him. He didn&#8217;t seem ashamed of it at all. He tracked the Olsen twins from puberty to adulthood, commenting on their sex appeal, as he perceived it, at every turn.
But somewhere along the line, Howard Stern and his team decided that he had to stop talking about the Olsen twins. And more than that, someone decided that all of Stern&#8217;s past comments about the Olsen twins needed to be purged from the internet. All the other degenerate segments could stay online but the stuff where he lusts after young children — well that had to go. It was different from all of his other smut. It was just too damning.
With that evidence (mostly) expunged from the internet, Stern has embraced pretty much every agenda item of the Fortune 500. He is now officially a woke hall monitor, by his own admission. In fact this week Stern proudly identified as &#8220;woke.&#8221; Listen:
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As part of his new &#8220;woke&#8221; persona, Stern attacked Lauren Boebert for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeberts-estranged-husband-posts-statement-after-theater-incident-i-was-unfaithful-to-lauren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inappropriate behavior</a> in a theater a few days ago. This is the guy who spent the first three decades of his career being a creepy, degenerate sex fiend. Now he&#8217;s playing the prude. He&#8217;s become a pathetic, old washed-up school marm but he&#8217;s now shielded by his new woke identity. He is immune from accusations of hypocrisy, just like he&#8217;s immune from accusations of being a dirty old man attracted to children.
It&#8217;s a revealing transformation, if only because it shows how little daylight there is between woke hall monitors and depraved pedophilic scumbags. Depraved pedophilic scumbags and woke hall monitors are not two destinations on opposite ends of the spectrum. They&#8217;re in the same neighborhood and there&#8217;s a lot of overlap. And they know it. Howard Stern knows it, which is why he&#8217;s sensitive about all those clips of him salivating over 13-year-old girls.
There are other old clips that are inconvenient for Stern, too, of course — clips that are particularly relevant after what&#8217;s just happened to Alex Jones. Jones, you&#8217;ll recall, was just ordered to pay something like a billion dollars to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. It bankrupted him. Of course Jones was wrong in what he said about Sandy Hook; he admits that. But as far as we know, Howard Stern has never apologized for his decision to mock the victims of the Columbine school shooting. In fact, Stern didn&#8217;t simply mock these victims, he said their killers should have raped them first, before executing them. Listen:
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This was Howard Stern the day after Columbine.
Yikes. <a href="https://t.co/rPVMjCTF4q">https://t.co/rPVMjCTF4q</a> <a href="https://t.co/WanI7f5Pv6">pic.twitter.com/WanI7f5Pv6</a>
&mdash; ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1704323051427402184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s pretty much the most vile thing a human being could possibly say. I personally give people a lot of leeway for “jokes” made years ago, in a different time, when people weren’t as sensitive and edgy humor wasn’t as edgy. But this is way beyond the bounds of what would have been considered remotely acceptable even in the ’90s. This is, again, perhaps the worst thing I’ve ever heard anyone say, ever. He is not only joking about a school shooting right after it happened — a day later — but lusting after the survivors and saying that the shooters should have raped their victims. And keep in mind that said all of this when he was a grown man in his mid 40s. But Howard Stern has never been banned from every social media platform for these comments. He wasn&#8217;t ordered to pay a billion dollars. He didn&#8217;t have to pay anything.
That&#8217;s because, fortunately for Stern, he mocked the Columbine victims prior to this new era of woke enlightenment, where free speech is illegal as long as it&#8217;s sufficiently offensive. And now, just to cover his bases, Stern has completed his transition into the cult of wokeness soon enough to protect himself against cancellation. Now they&#8217;re not going to come after him because he&#8217;s on their team.
Meanwhile, Russell Brand is being demonetized based on accusations alone. Unlike Howard Stern, Russell Brand never publicly expressed his sexual attraction to 13-year-old girls. But he has expressed skepticism about big pharma and the war in Ukraine. And for that reason, this week a &#8220;culture committee&#8221; in the UK parliament sent Rumble a letter requesting that they demonetize Russell Brand. The letter reads: &#8220;I am writing concerning the serious allegations regarding Russell Brand &#8230; We would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform.&#8221;
In the most passive-aggressive fashion imaginable, the U.K. parliament also sent a similar letter to TikTok: &#8220;We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr Brand is able to monetise his TikTok posts, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him, and what the platform is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behavior.&#8221;
Let&#8217;s take stock of what we&#8217;re seeing here. This is the government of the U.K. effectively telling multiple social media platforms to demonetize one of the most influential commentators on the planet, solely on the basis of unproven allegations. There is no plausible deniability here; they&#8217;re being pretty much as explicit as they can possibly be. Before the Twitter files came out, this would have been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. You weren&#8217;t allowed to think that governments were colluding with big tech to censor unapproved voices. Now the government is just coming out and admitting that&#8217;s exactly what it&#8217;s doing. This isn&#8217;t just happening in the U.K.; the Biden administration does it too.
Unlike its competitor YouTube, Rumble emphatically rejected the request from the U.K. government, to their credit. But YouTube is the far bigger platform, and their decision to instantaneously demonetize Russell Brand sets a very worrying precedent. It&#8217;s also totally incoherent. As Elijah Schaffer points out, Cardi B is currently fully monetized on YouTube. This is in spite of the fact that she openly admitted to drugging and robbing men. It&#8217;s on tape. Watch:
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Cardi B confessed — bragged about — violent felonies. Her history as a confessed date rapist has not precluded her from major corporate sponsorships or monetization on YouTube. &#8220;Double standard&#8221; isn&#8217;t the right term for this. It&#8217;s really one standard: if you&#8217;re useful to the Left, you can essentially do what you want. That&#8217;s the standard, consistently applied. No one can really deny that anymore. This is not an arbitrary application of shifting sets of standards. This, again, is one standard. Leftists are immune. That’s the rule.
With that in mind, what&#8217;s the appropriate response? Pointing out hypocrisy isn&#8217;t going to do anything. We&#8217;ve learned that much over the past few years. What&#8217;s needed is some courage. We need more of what Rumble is doing. Rumble knows that Russell Brand might actually be guilty of what he&#8217;s accused of doing. After all, he was an admitted sex-addicted degenerate back when these crimes supposedly occurred. It certainly isn&#8217;t outside of the realm of possibility that he did treat the women the way he&#8217;s accused of treating them.
But the leadership of Rumble understands that it makes no sense to un-person Russell Brand based on mere allegations, when we know for a fact that Brand&#8217;s critics are entirely motivated by politics. They want to mete out punishments only to enemies of the regime while its allies and lackeys are given exemptions. Kowtowing to these wannabe strongmen is not a smart or sustainable strategy. All we can really do now is ignore everything that the system says and assume, for all intents and purposes, that everyone they demonize is innocent. If we&#8217;re being honest, that&#8217;s not always going to be true. Sometimes we will be wrong, and we will defend people who are guilty. 
Sometimes the system will say something true or villainize someone who actually is a villain. But they lie so often about so many things and are so blatantly driven by ideology and narrative and are so wildly dishonest all the time, that we have to ignore them completely at this point. By defending and promoting the most odious among us — by embracing ghouls like Howard Stern and Cardi B — they&#8217;ve left us no choice.
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Howard Stern Enjoys Immunity While Russell Brand’s Career Is Destroyed

Howard Stern Enjoys Immunity While Russell Brand's Career Is Destroyed

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Howard Stern

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Woke Culture

Longtime Howard Stern listeners grimaced when the shock jock cried, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-your-freedom-howard-stern-latest-celeb-to-blast-unvaccinated-say-hospitals-shouldnt-treat-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“F*** their freedom”</a> to anyone who didn’t take the COVID vaccine. Radio’s legendary bad boy took the government’s side, casting liberty in the circular file.
Fans figured the man who famously fought the FCC to tell fart jokes on his terms couldn’t sink any lower. Think again.
Stern recently came out of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1813-how-howard-stern-avoided-cancellation-member-exclusive">closet as woke</a>, a descriptor that completes his transformation from radio rebel to progressive scold.
<blockquote>“To me, the opposite of woke is being asleep …and if woke means I can’t get behind [former President Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I’m for the vaccine — dude, call me woke as you f&#8212;ing want … I am woke, motherf&#8212;er. And I love it.”</blockquote>
It’s a stunning about-face given his decades of raucous radio and ability to capture the Id of the nation. And he had no other option, at least if he wanted to keep cashing those sweet SiriusXM checks.
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Stern’s transformation didn’t happen overnight. The talk show titan slowly let go of his sexually outrageous banter, a shift that coincided with growing older. Even hardcore Stern fans might flinch at the 60-something star (he’s 69 now) ogling girls young enough to be his granddaughter.
Everyone grows up. Even the so-called King of All Media (a name he gave himself, and it more or less stuck).
He mended fences with longtime frenemies like Rosie O’Donnell and Kathie Lee Gifford and shared how extensive therapy allowed him to evolve.
The broadcaster doubled down on his signature interviews, leaning into satellite radio’s ability to broadcast indefinitely without a commercial break.
The new, improved Howie had some perks, including a second look from the mainstream media.
Reporters loathed Stern for years, incorrectly predicting his career implosion and framing stories about him in the most negative light possible. He raged against the press portrait on air, but he seemed to draw strength from his enemies.
It was Stern against the world, and his listeners had his back.
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Except Stern started to like it when the media reconsidered his work and legacy. He earned sympathetic notices after opening up about both therapy and a cancer scare. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/howard-stern-reveals-cancer-scare-trump-regrets-details-a-dishy-new-book-1208773/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The press even feted him</a> when he produced a tome of his best celebrity interviews, “Howard Stern Comes Again.”
He began hobnobbing with celebrities, not berating them from his SiriusXM perch.
Other elements of his broadcast persona morphed as well. His politically ambiguous nature shifted to the Left, becoming both predictable and erratic. He fawned over both Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, figures with closets chock full of skeletons.
The old, straight-shooting Stern became a watered-down Rachel Maddow, subservient to liberal power. Suffice it to say he rages against former President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he once regularly invited him into his studio for ribald chats.
The worst part of Stern 2.0? The man who fought for free speech suddenly went silent as Cancel Culture roared into the public’s consciousness. Few were better positioned to address the issue, at least on paper.
Stern had his satellite radio perch, which gave him more freedom than most broadcasters have. He knew the cultural landscape well, having fought to say what he wanted, when he wanted <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4695519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during the 1990s</a>.
And few talk show hosts knew the comedic mindset better than Stern. He worked for decades alongside comic firecrackers like Artie Lange and Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling. Plus, every significant comedian passed through Stern’s studio over the years, including Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O’Brien, and more.
There’s a catch, though.
Stern’s radio career teems with “problematic” material. Skit after skit. Song parody after song parody. Stern dressed in blackface, used racially insensitive words (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXPVw9R9bg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the “n-word”)</a>, and embraced minority stereotypes for yuks.
Day after day. Month after month. Year after year.
And that doesn’t hint at his decades of objectifying women, aggressively coaxing them to remove their clothes in-studio and reveal their most intimate feelings.
All of it on air to titillate the listener and, to use the Left’s language, strip women of their agency. Literally and figuratively.
The mob swiftly came for stars with far less offensive legacies.
Kevin Hart lost the Oscar hosting gig for a single monologue deemed homophobic. “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon did an on-air struggle session after his 20-year-old blackface sketch resurfaced following the George Floyd protests.
Stern trumps them all.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Homeless Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Lesbian Dial-a-Date</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Black Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Guess Who’s the Jew (with Kurt Waldheim, Jr.)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Regular treks to “The Homo Room” with Out of the Closet Stern </li>
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Any single sketch could get him canceled, let alone an entire career full of inappropriate material.
The <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/howard-stern-blackface-trump-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke mob knocked on Stern’s studio door</a> three years ago, weeks after Floyd’s death. Stern confessed to his thought crimes, claimed he renounced his old material and, shrewdly, blamed Donald Trump, Jr. for pushing the old material to the surface.
Next, he brought up his new, woke bona fides.
<blockquote>“I’m not a hater … I’m excited about gay rights, telling you not to beat up gay people. I’m excited about the changes that are coming out of Black Lives Matter. I think real change might be in the air,” he said before one more odd Trump attack. “If you solve the pandemic, then we can review all my old shows.”</blockquote>
And it worked.
The mob moved on to other targets. They haven&#8217;t gone after him since, and likely never will. The woke mob turns on fellow wokesters last.
Stern still could resist the woke siren song, the cultural movement that essentially devalues his legacy. He could renounce traditional media and go rogue, broadcasting via freer speech platforms like Rumble or follow Joe Rogan to the podcasting realm.
He’d make much less money there, though, and the media’s love for him would evaporate in a New York minute.
Stern made a calculated choice and went woke instead, shattering his legend in the process. 

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Celebrity Sightings In New York City – May 09, 2019

Howard Stern 2.0: Why The Notorious Shock Jock Had No Choice But To Go Woke

Celebrities

Covid vaccine

Wokeness

“Saturday Night Live” alum <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rob-schneider" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Schneider</a> has spent years saying what you’re not supposed to say in Tinsel Town.
Consider: Free speech matters. The Democratic Party has gone off the rails. The COVID vaccines aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
He even chatted with conservative firebrand <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hc-x5RJpE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Beck</a> and headlined a Fox Nation comedy special, “Woke Up in America.” That’s a lot of liberal Hollywood no-nos for one artist.
To make matters worse, Schneider embraced the Democratic candidate threatening to make President Joe Biden a one-term leader, old-school liberal Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 
The far-Left Rolling Stone, which no longer cherishes free speech as it did during its formative years, slammed the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rob-schneider-politics-conservative-anti-vaxxer-1234779419/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comic’s Red Pill transformation</a> earlier this year.
Still, Hollywood does allow some high-profile conservative actors to stay gainfully employed. And you can count their numbers on one hand. Chris Pratt. Jon Voight. Kelsey Grammer. Clint Eastwood. Tim Allen.
Surely, industry gatekeepers can fondly recall “The Hot Chick,” the “Grown Ups” franchise and, of course, “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” and keep Schneider in their plans.
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What Schneider shared on X might have hurt any chances of continuing goodwill within the walls of Hollywood.
The 59-year-old weighed in on TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, the trans female whose brief Bud Light sponsorship caused the brand to suffer a major sales collapse. One Tweet could sever his decades-long ties with La La Land.
“If you believe there is such a thing as ‘cultural appropriation.’ Then certainly this gentleman is guilty of ‘gender appropriation.’” Schneider said, referring to Mulvaney, on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. 
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If you believe there is such a thing as ‘cultural appropriation.’ Then certainly this gentleman is guilty of ‘gender appropriation.’ <a href="https://t.co/I4FmVfCGvt">pic.twitter.com/I4FmVfCGvt</a>
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By the Left’s standards, the comic actor “misgendered” Mulvaney and accused the TikTok star of pretending to be a woman.
Right-leaning influencers have made similar arguments about Mulvaney, but they neither tour the country as a stand-up or regularly appear in comedy features.
Naturally, the tweet earned both praise and condemnation on social media, meaning plenty of people will have heard about it before the Outrage Machine moves on to a fresh topic.
The trans debate remains the third rail of Western culture. Say the wrong thing in the cultural discussion on the topic and future gigs could dry up. Just ask Roisin Murphy, the Irish singer who criticized puberty blockers before swiftly apologized for sharing the “wrong” opinion on the topic.
Murphy lost several gigs and her label <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12469639/Roisin-Murphy-cancelled-London-gigs-new-album-trans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refuses to promote her new album</a>.
Rocker Dee Snider <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/well-said-80s-glam-rocker-dee-snider-backs-kiss-stars-controversial-statement-against-normalizing-child-sex-changes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> parents shouldn’t automatically transition their children if they share gender-fluid behavior, and a Pride event in San Francisco kicked the Twisted Sister alum off its planned event. Rock legend Carlos Santana similarly defied the trans community’s bullet points and quickly apologized. The most obvious example, of course, remains <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">author J.K. Rowling.</a> She went from cultural darling to a pariah in some circles for deviating from a small part of the trans movement’s agenda.
Why would Schneider risk his professional hide for a hot take like this?
Schneider has said in the recent past that he has no choice but to speak his truth about the current state of affairs. He’s not dumb, though. He understands the ramifications for saying the “wrong” thing in an industry renowned for its progressive groupthink.
And he’s willing to roll the dice on his career.
That may explain his Fox Nation ties and recent attempts to work outside the Hollywood ecosystem. Last year, Schneider independently directed and starred in “Daddy Daughter Trip,” a kid-friendly romp starring his real-life daughter. 
Schneider plays a financially strapped Dad who uses his imagination to give his child the vacation of her dreams.
The film got very little attention in theaters (boxofficemojo.com doesn’t have any listing under Domestic Box Office) and isn’t available on any streaming platform or VOD service. Could this be connected to the star’s Right-leaning transformation? Or, it’s another sign of how challenging it can be to truly be an independent artist in this cultural space.
The comic actor has other films lined up for release, including “Pledge Trip” and “Dead Wrong,” but neither appear like the comedy blockbusters he once regularly churned out. He also will provide a voice for the upcoming Daily Wire pre-school series, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Chilla,</a>” part of the company’s aggressive foray into children’s entertainment.
And yet, Schneider still has close ties to mainstream Hollywood. Adam Sandler. 
The fellow “SNL” alum has tapped Schneider’s grab-bag of comic tricks for more than a dozen films over the years, including recent comedies like “The Wrong Missy,” “Sandy Wexler” and “Hubie Halloween.”
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The parts range in size, but by keeping his professional bond with Sandler, Schneider&#8217;s odds of finding steady work and major exposure seem good. The feeling appears to be mutual.
Plus, Sandler remains one of the most powerful artists in Hollywood. He recently signed a four-movie deal worth $250 million. He regularly appears in comedy films for Netflix as well, including the recent “Murder Mystery 2” while simultaneously earning raves for dramatic work in films like 2019’s “Uncut Gems.”
Schneider may be transitioning to a new chapter in his storied career, one that exists outside the Hollywood gatekeepers but allows him to do, or say, whatever he pleases.
Having a few powerful friends support him along the way can only help.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Celebrities Visit SiriusXM – June 20, 2023

Rob Schneider Defies Hollywood Gatekeepers By Saying All The Things You’re Not Supposed To Say

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Phillip C. McGraw</a>, commonly known as Dr. Phil, told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that the political fringes in U.S. politics were responsible for tearing the country apart and not the traditional &#8220;Left versus Right&#8221; fighting.
McGraw made the remarks during a special appearance on Cruz’s “Verdict” podcast while discussing things that can get a person &#8220;canceled&#8221; in today&#8217;s world.
&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re talking about science, history, biology, you pick it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What&#8217;s happening right now, in my opinion, is the narrative in America is being hijacked. And it&#8217;s being hijacked by the fringe. It&#8217;s not even, it&#8217;s not like the Left versus the Right. It&#8217;s the fringe. And I call it the tyranny of the fringe.&#8221;
McGraw said that the &#8220;factions in the fringe&#8221; use emotional extortion to try to bend people to their way of thinking on issues ranging from toxic masculinity to transgenderism to the history of slavery in the U.S.
&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t fall in line, then that&#8217;s where canceled culture comes in, and you get attacked, and you get attacked on the internet, to the point that they&#8217;ll contact your job, they&#8217;ll contact your church, they’ll contact your friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s something that I know, a lot of people listening, read &#8216;1984.&#8217; Which by the way, was written in 1948, by Orwell, how prophetic was he in writing this, and he talked about how people would be &#8216;unpersoned.'&#8221;
&#8220;We call it canceled culture, they call it &#8216;unpersoned,&#8217; where they would just, they would just delete that person, they would just take away everything from them. And that&#8217;s what happens in canceled culture,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You take away people&#8217;s livelihood, you take away their support system, you take away their friends. And I&#8217;m not saying there aren&#8217;t people in this society that have done terrible and egregious things that don&#8217;t deserve to play in the game. But there are also a lot of people that get swept up into not buying into the rhetoric.&#8221;
McGraw said that &#8220;a tiny percent of fringe tyrants&#8221; will single out and attack anyone online who doesn&#8217;t fall into line and will try to &#8220;eliminate them.&#8221;
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Roseanne Barr says she was independent decades before it became cool.
The “domestic goddess” who revolutionized TV with her blue-collar hit “Roseanne” says success gave her the freedom to do almost anything she pleased in the 1990s. And she ruffled plenty of feathers at ABC during her turbulent times on the sitcom.
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Now, she’s calling the shots again but in a new marketplace and for a radically different reason.
Barr is back after one awful, racially-charged tweet targeting Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett ended her “Roseanne” reboot. She returned to the stage earlier this year via Fox Nation’s “Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!” The fiery stand-up special featured her take on the ABC dismissal, the current state of politics, and more.
“It was the end of my blacklisting … I wasn’t offered any paying jobs for five years,” says Barr, who once ran for the Green Party’s presidential ticket, a campaign captured in 2015’s “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3791268/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roseanne for President!”</a> but now supports former President Donald Trump. And the 70-year-old comic is just warming up.
“The Roseanne Barr Podcast” taps into her decades of stand-up experience, ability to spark debate and, of course, lets her share that signature cackle. Recent “Roseanne Barr Podcast” guests include “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, comedian Ron White, and author Michael Malice.
“I like talking to people, finding out about them,” says Barr, who still mourns the loss of her short-lived talk show in 2000. She often has an ulterior motive on the podcast, though, one that clashes with the divisive zeitgeist.
“My role right now is to remind people as much as I can that we agree on far more than we disagree. We’d be doing a lot better if we took that to heart,” she says. “That’s what I really like doing, finding some agreement in the middle of some disagreement.”
Ironically, her canceled “Roseanne” reboot pitted Trump and Hillary supporters against each other, only to embrace what united them more than political squabbles.
She learned it from the best in the business.
“The greatest television comic was Johnny Carson, and that’s what he did. He kept it right down the middle,” she says. “That’s where all the power is, straight down mainstream.”
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Barr is blunt and open in conversation, not willing to pre-package her thoughts. 
Her envelope-shredding style still generates blowback. YouTube recently pulled an episode of her appearance on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast after she cracked about <a href="https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/youtube-removes-roseanne-barr-holocaust-denial-joke-video-1235659288/">Holocaust denial</a>.
Barr will be forever stained in the public square by the infamous tweet, but a former colleague shed light on the matter that got little attention at the time. Norm Macdonald worked as a writer on the original “Roseanne” show and shared how Barr <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/why-norm-macdonalds-new-talk-show-wont-target-trump-2-1141832/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went out of her way to hire minority scribes</a> for the show.
Barr adds context to Macdonald’s anecdote.
“I had to force that network that called me a racist to have an integrated crew,” Barr says. “I threatened to leave the show.”
“Roseanne” 2.0 ended with the star’s dismissal, but the show’s remaining players reunited for “The Conners,” which was renewed for a sixth season earlier this year. Barr has had harsh words for former co-stars like Sara Gilbert, who attacked Barr following the infamous tweet.
Co-star John Goodman, who played her husband on the original series and continues via “The Conners,” has defended Barr in the past. The “Raising Arizona” star claimed she’s not a racist and praised their professional bond.
Except Goodman said it long after her ABC dismissal, the moment when it could have saved both Barr’s Hollywood career and her sitcom. 
The distinction isn’t lost on Barr.
“I just want him to keep my name out of his mouth. I don’t want him to say one word about me,” she says.
Feminists were similarly silent in the immediate aftermath of the Twitter controversy, but Barr wasn’t surprised by that turn of events.
“They never had my back, ever. They would come up to me at parties and whisper, ‘thank you,’” she says, referring to her work breaking barriers for women in Hollywood. “None of them are really for women.”
Barr craves the ability to speak her mind, which makes podcasting such a snug fit for her brand of humor. She’s also plugged into the emerging Austin comedy scene, buoyed by Joe Rogan and his Comedy Mothership.
“I found I have complete freedom here in a blue city,” she says, adding Austin residents embrace edgy material. “They’re liberal yet they’re thinkers and they like it when you stretch their minds &#8230; I say things now that I can‘t say on YouTube. I’m finding that it’s more freedom than I’ve ever had on stage.”
“Austin is gonna end up as the center of the whole new comedy universe, and it’s all because of Joe Rogan,” the Texas resident says.
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Barr will soon share her comic stylings on Elon Musk’s X platform, formerly known as Twitter. The untitled show comes via a partnership with Publicsq, an online marketplace dedicated to Right-leaning consumers.
“They came and said they wanted to hire me to push the envelope. I love doing that … bringing up subjects that other people stay away from, to tie things together and connect dots that people should be looking at,” she says. “It’ll be funny but also have some undercurrent of alarm.”
Barr’s legacy, notwithstanding TwitterGate, is secure given her decades on TV, movies and stand-up stages. Retirement isn’t an option, for now.
“Part of me being a comic is a desire to set it right in a joke, to explain or turn it upside down or look at it deeply,” she says of her craft. “I’m not done yet … it’s so important to laugh right now.”
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For better and sometimes worse, Barr has been famous for more than 35 years. Being such a recognizable star, let alone someone associated with blue-collar values, has been complicated for Barr.
“There were times in my life where it was kinda scary [being recognized in public] or I didn’t like it sometimes, and sometimes it was nice,” she says. “Now, after everything that happened to me, I’ve changed. I’m just so appreciative of it because it’s different now … it’s how you’d greet some family members you haven’t seen for a long time. It’s very loving. They’re so nice to me after all this time.”
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Roseanne Barr Visits “Gutfeld!”

‘I’m Not Done Yet’: Roseanne Barr On Cancel Culture, Podcasting, And A New ‘Comedy Universe’

'I'm Not Done Yet': Roseanne Barr On Cancel Culture, Podcasting, And A New 'Comedy Universe'

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interview

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-aniston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Aniston</a> said she&#8217;s tired of &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; during a recent interview, suggesting that she would probably be canceled for saying so.
The 54-year-old actress spoke to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/style/jennifer-aniston-morning-show-season-3-59413d2f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> and explained that while she wasn&#8217;t personally harassed by disgraced movie mogul <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-movie-mogul-harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-in-los-angeles-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvey Weinstein</a>, she doesn&#8217;t put everyone who has done something wrong in the same &#8220;basket.&#8221;
&#8220;I probably just got canceled by saying that,&#8221; Aniston said. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t understand what it means &#8230; Is there no redemption? I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket.&#8221;
The &#8220;Friends&#8221; alum went on to recall how Weinstein made people feel nervous and one time she was in her trailer on the set of a movie and he showed up to pitch her something.
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Jennifer Aniston said she was never harassed by Harvey Weinstein, but &quot;he came to visit me on a movie&#8230; And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2XBAcOOK1V">https://t.co/2XBAcOOK1V</a>
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&#8220;He&#8217;s not a guy, you’re like, &#8216;God, I can’t wait to hang out with Harvey [Weinstein],'&#8221; the superstar actress said. &#8220;Never. You were actually like, &#8216;Oh, God, OK, suck it up.'&#8221;
&#8220;I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.&#8221;
Weinstein was at the center of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-hollywood-and-total-collapse-metoo-christian-toto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MeToo movement</a> in 2017 after numerous stars accused him of sexual misconduct. He is currently serving 39 years behind bars after being convicted in Los Angeles and New York for rape and sexual assault, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/jennifer-aniston-cancel-culture-harvey-weinstein-1235701941/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted.
The disgraced movie producer told WSJ that the &#8220;Horrible Bosses&#8221; star &#8220;never had any uncomfortable instances with me.&#8221;
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An email from Weinstein about Aniston, in which the convicted sexual offender wished the actress dead, made the news in 2020, <a href="https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/weinstein-jennifer-aniston-should-be-killed-1203529141/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> reported.
Unsealed court documents revealed an email Weinstein wrote in 2017 said, &#8220;Jen Aniston should be killed.&#8221; It was in response to a media inquiry into allegations that Weinstein had allegedly groped the &#8220;Murder Mystery&#8221; star.
At the time, a rep for Aniston told Variety the &#8220;claims are false. Jennifer has not been harassed or assaulted by Harvey.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-aniston-says-a-whole-generation-of-people-think-friends-is-offensive-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Aniston Says &#8216;A Whole Generation Of People&#8217; Think &#8216;Friends&#8217; Is &#8216;Offensive&#8217; Now</a>

The 30th Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Montecito Award

Jennifer Aniston Says She’s Done With ‘Cancel Culture’

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A California mother has recently found herself out of a job after she spoke out at her district school board meeting about the adoption of a controversial sex-ed curriculum.
Janet Roberson, a real estate agent and mother of three in the northern California town of Benicia recently attended her school board meeting to voice her concerns about a new curriculum that teaches K-12 students about puberty blockers and gender transitioning, among other concerning aspects. The Benicia Unified School District meeting was uneventful, and she made her comments without incident.
<blockquote>“Teaching kids that there isn’t standard or truth and that you can believe anything that you want to believe is not scientifically accurate or medically correct. For example, the notion that a girl can decide to be a boy, or a boy can decide to be a girl is not true and should not be taught.&#8221;</blockquote>
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In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, Roberson says a couple of days later, a distasteful and slanderous letter to the editor appeared in their local publication, accusing her of being a racist, transphobe, and a Nazi, among other slurs.
<blockquote>“There&#8217;s a fellow in town who’s known to write letters to the newspapers and such. And I&#8217;ve never met him. He doesn&#8217;t know me. He&#8217;s never asked me directly my opinion, but I guess he decided that because of what I said, I was a transphobe and a homophobe. And he said I was a racist and kind of extrapolated all these things. I was shocked when I saw that. I almost kind of chuckled because it was so absurd and not true, obviously&#8230; And so, for that to then propel what happened next absolutely shocked me.”</blockquote>
Shortly after the letter’s publication, a team member from <a href="https://www.compass.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Compass</a>, the real estate agency Roberson has been selling with since 2020, contacted her to say they had decided to terminate her contract immediately. Having sold over $7 million in property for the company last year alone, Roberson inquired about the reasoning behind the decision.
She was told they were under no obligation to explain their decision.
While large, corporate real estate companies are common across America, it is equally common to keep employees for administrative work and contract with local agents across the nation. Agents spend thousands of their own dollars branding themselves for the company and in return, they enjoy the benefits and sales opportunities that come with being a part of a larger business. It is a typical arrangement in the industry. Roberson says she was “crushed” by the decision.
<blockquote>&#8220;I was absolutely crushed. … these are people I really loved working with, respected, I still do. I was absolutely devastated. And then I thought, what am I going to do?&#8221;</blockquote>
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The California mother of three began digging for information, and soon discovered that the treasurer of a local Democrat group — Progressive Democrats of Benicia — and member of the activist group Benicia Resists sent the original complaint to Compass. Roberson was able to <a href="https://www.beniciafreedom.org/_files/ugd/73bc3f_b0cf62ef9e194af58da36f0831129c36.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtain the original email</a> from <a href="https://progressivedemocratsofbenicia.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Progressive Democrat treasurer Nathalie Christian</a>, who referred to Roberson’s beliefs as “hateful” and accused her of “internalized hate” for black and transgender people.
<blockquote>“It seems unfair to me that Compass, whose DEI policies I have reviewed at length, would be associated with such a hateful person…”</blockquote>
Christian went on to let Compass know she would be publishing an article on the matter in her <a href="https://beniciaindependent.com/topics/resist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">activist publication</a> by May 1 and asked the agency to provide comment by then.
By May 1, Roberson had been fired.
Compass could not be reached for comment, but in a previous statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/mother-claims-she-lost-her-job-called-transphobic-after-opposing-sexual-ideology-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox New Digital</a>, the real estate giant pointed to Roberson’s typical independent contractor status as their defense.
<blockquote>&#8220;&#8216;[S]he was an independent contractor who worked on an agent team, and the decision to disassociate her license was made at the request of her team leader in late April 2023,&#8217; the spokesperson said.&#8221;</blockquote>
In the past, Roberson has been very vocal in her district about issues like mask mandates and CRT. She established a <a href="https://www.beniciafreedom.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website as a resource</a> for local parents and residents. She speculates that it may be what prompted the vitriolic responses from the Progressive Democrats of Benicia member and others regarding her peaceful school board appearance last April.
The successful real estate agent tells The Daily Wire she wasn’t sure what to do for herself after being let go. She contacted several lawyers to discuss options around slander and unfair employment practices, but unfortunately anti-SLAPP laws often prevent an independent contractor from availing themselves of the same worker protections W-2 employees have. Even when attorney’s do work for an independent contractor, the costs of litigation are often prohibitive, and Roberson has now lost her main source of income.
As a last resort, the Benicia mother called on her real estate marketing skills to make a video, which she posted to social media last Tuesday. In <a href="https://twitter.com/JZachreson/status/1691569735241228531?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the video, she recounts</a> her experience as a proud parent and resident of Benicia and the controversy caused by Nathalie Christian and others surrounding her comments at her own school board meeting.
<blockquote>&#8220;I&#8217;m the mom of an elementary schooler, a middle schooler, and a high schooler,&#8221; the site reads. &#8220;On April 20, I spoke at a school board meeting to express my concerns about the inappropriate new sex-ed curriculum being taught to 10- and 12-year-olds. Then the bullies in town began a campaign to destroy me.&#8221;</blockquote>
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📣: California mom breaks silence on losing job for speaking at her children’s school board meeting.
This well-mannered mom spoke at the <a href="https://twitter.com/BeniciaUSD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BeniciaUSD</a> board meeting, expressing concern the new sex-ed curriculum was teaching 10 year-olds they could choose their own gender.
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Her story has since gone viral after StudentsFirstCA co-founder Jonathon Zachreson shared the video, which garnered a <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1691698018876018821?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comment from Elon Musk.</a>
Roberson says she wishes to make it clear that she harbors no resentment towards the school board and has been treated respectfully. The Daily Wire reached out to Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Damon Wright, who told this publication his school district supports parent input and community “dialogue” and specifically Roberson’s right to participate in that dialogue.
<blockquote>“The Benicia Unified School District provided Ms. Roberson a platform to speak during Public Comment and did not play a role in her employment matter. BUSD remains open to engaging our community in dialogue about our District and program. Our School Board meetings have historically been and will remain a platform for the community to speak to topics during our Public Comment portion of the agenda. While we do not respond to public comment during the meeting, we hear and consider all voices in our decision-making process, and we follow up on questions to our Board or potential issues that may impact our students or staff. As an organization, we do not engage in matters outside the scope of our work. Ms. Roberson is a parent of BUSD students and a member of our community. The District values and solicits her input and input from other community members with a vested interest in our organization.”</blockquote>
Janet Roberson told The Daily Wire she wishes her former real estate agency embraced all diversity, including ideological diversity, and would like to see some accountability from Compass. She feels she deserves at least an explanation from a firm for which she’s made millions of dollars.
<blockquote>“I would love someone to have the courage to stand up and say, &#8216;I was the decision maker, it was me.&#8217; I mean, if you make a decision to move forward based on whatever their decision-making was, at least stand behind that…someone to come forward and say, &#8216;yeah, it was my decision.&#8217; And I would love to know why that person didn&#8217;t reach out to me and talk to me and hear what my view was.”</blockquote>
Friends of Janet Roberson have launched a <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/cancledmom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GiveSendGo campaign</a> to help with legal expenses should she decide to pursue this further.
<a href="http://justkiradavis.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kira Davis</a> is a Conservative and writer who has been working in punditry for almost a dozen years now. She immigrated to the United States from Canada at the age of eighteen. Kira currently resides in California with her husband, two children, and many, many, many insane voters. Follow her @RealKiraDavis
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Lizzo is just one example of an increasingly common phenomenon: high-profile employers facing media scandals and expensive litigation due to toxic workplace allegations.
According to recent reports, pop star Lizzo has been dropped from the shortlist of performers being considered for the Super Bowl halftime show. This is the latest public setback for the embattled star, who was recently sued by three former dancers alleging that her company created a hostile work environment of weight-shaming, sexual harassment, extreme stress, and other problems. The resulting media coverage presented a damning story to the public, and Lizzo&#8217;s online streams and downloads plummeted dramatically while her image transformed overnight.
However, as is common in many of these situations, the lawsuit generating such breathless negative media coverage is itself quite weak. The suit is rife with questionable assumptions and leaps of logic. The most publicly damaging allegations — such as those of weight shaming lack any substantiation whatsoever. At times the lawsuit reads like the diary of a person afflicted by paranoia. Perhaps this is why Lizzo and her team confronted the main claimant about her mental health at one point, as the lawsuit alleges.
Yet the flawed nature of the lawsuit has not prevented it from causing tremendous damage to Lizzo&#8217;s image. Almost no one will actually read the lawsuit or read it with a critical eye, as the claimants and their attorneys well know, but bad headlines generated by the lawsuit are the real objective anyway. Those headlines can force an employer to the settlement table, no matter the facts: many of these suits are blatant money grabs aimed at easy settlements.
Toxic workplace allegations are becoming increasingly common, particularly in situations with high-profile targets and heavy media attention. Often these allegations entail lawsuits, but in many cases, damaging media coverage is the goal of disgruntled ex-employees. 
Recently, talk show host and pop star Kelly Clarkson was accused by multiple anonymous employees in a hit piece by Rolling Stone. According to her accusers, her highly rated “The Kelly Clarkson Show” is run by overly demanding producers who don&#8217;t pay lower-level staff what they believe they should make. Similar allegations dogged the canceled HBO Max shows “Lovecraft Country” and “The Other Two,” while the Woody Harrelson series “The White House Plumbers” officially paused production to deal with workplace toxicity claims. In another arena, famous celebrity chef and restauranteur Barbara Lynch found herself besieged in the press recently over her supposedly toxic managerial style.
If you find such claims highly subjective, you are correct. In fact, the problem with many of these toxic workplace scandals is their basis on the claimant&#8217;s subjective perception and understanding of events. Whereas the bar for establishing a toxic workplace claim was once quite high, it has now become unnecessary to prove anything at all to launch a negative media campaign, damage the target&#8217;s reputation, or even cancel the target altogether.
In hindsight, Ellen DeGeneres may have been the canary in the coal mine. In 2020, the media gleefully disseminated and amplified the claims of anonymous ex-employees who complained about the high-stress environment on “The Ellen Show.” A number of these overwrought allegations bordered on the comical, and one might wonder how much of this much ado about nothing is the result of a discordance between generational worldviews: one can detect in many of these allegations a particular whine indicative of a younger, self-entitled perspective. At any rate, despite any proof of actual misconduct, “The Ellen Show” was canceled within months.
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If it feels as if we have been down this road before, perhaps that is because the new #ToxicWork movement feels similar to #MeToo in a number of concerning respects. Both movements contain threads of well-intentioned sentiment but are all too often weaponized to settle personal grievances, generate media coverage, and make money. And just as heavily publicized #MeToo claims often rely less on legitimate evidence of wrongdoing and more on subjective &#8220;she-said&#8221; accounts, so too do many allegations of workplace toxicity presented in the media and in high-profile civil litigation. In far too many situations, the truth doesn&#8217;t matter and it certainly doesn&#8217;t outweigh the power of dramatic, attention-grabbing misconduct headlines. And of course, the reputational and professional damage done is generally irreparable even if the claims can be legally invalidated.
Perhaps we would do well to take a lesson from #MeToo&#8217;s failures all too clearly illustrated in the hoax against Johnny Depp exposed last year in court and reserve judgment on toxic workplace allegations until such claims have been proved in court. A successful career takes decades to build but only hours to destroy in our current cancel culture.
Kristen Lacefield, PhD, Lecturer of English &amp; Media Studies. Kristen is an independent new media journalist and one of the most outspoken critics of the #MeToo movement and cancel culture. She is known as &#8220;Colonel Kurtz&#8221; on social media and broadcasts on Instagram and YouTube.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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If you thought progressives ruled the narrative film space, wait ‘til you see what documentarians are up to these days.
Time and again nonfiction filmmakers tell stories shot through a hard-Left lens across all major platforms.
That’s changing. Slowly.
The following eight films are all less than 10-years-old. They lack the budgets of their deep-pocketed peers and a few slipped past most consumers.
They’re still powerful films that deserve your attention. Conservatives would be wise to watch them all — stat — and then tell a friend to do the same.
<h2><a href="https://www.canwetakeajoke.com/">Can We Take A Joke?</a> (2015)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602143" style="width: 398px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602143" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602143 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/Picture21-388x576.jpg" alt="" width="388" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/Picture21-388x576.jpg 388w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/Picture21-202x300.jpg 202w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/Picture21.jpg 582w" sizes="(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px" />Courtesy Rottentomatoes.com</div>
How did director Ted Balaker see the attacks on comedy coming before the rest of us? His <a href="https://www.canwetakeajoke.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2015 film</a> lets comedians defend their craft amidst early examples of what would be later known as Cancel Culture. Adam Carolla, Jim Norton, and the late, great Gilbert Gottfried share how the best comedy comes from an uncensored mind, and why it’s critical that comics have the freedom to say what they want.
Years later, stand-ups like Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan learned the hard way what happens when you let the woke movement get a toehold in the culture.
<h2><a href="https://nosafespaces.com/">No Safe Spaces</a> (2019)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602165" style="width: 403px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602165" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602165 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/no-safe-spaces-movie-poster-393x576.jpg" alt="" width="393" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/no-safe-spaces-movie-poster-393x576.jpg 393w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/no-safe-spaces-movie-poster-205x300.jpg 205w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/no-safe-spaces-movie-poster.jpg 420w" sizes="(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px" />Courtesy nosafespaces.com</div>
Carolla, again, is center stage alongside Dennis Prager <a href="https://nosafespaces.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in another docu-warning</a> we failed to heed. The dissimilar talkers explore the attacks on free speech happening on college campuses nationwide.
The film introduced audiences to Bret Weinstein, the liberal professor who was all but chased off campus for having an “unapproved” opinion on race relations. Other tales are equally alarming.
Director Justin Folk took an incendiary topic and made it lively, informative, and more than a little scary. Michael Meyers has nothing on woke college students eager to snag another professorial scalp for their mantle.
<h2><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman#">What Is A Woman?</a> (2022)</h2>
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Folk’s follow-up documentary &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8221; with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> didn’t merely rattle the zeitgeist. It shook a nation afraid of answering one of the most obvious questions ever asked, one that even stumped a Supreme Court nominee.
Walsh proves the perfect tour guide through a carnival of mistruths, evasions, and dangerous orthodoxies. Most film critics purposely ignored it, hoping their silence would help the movie drop off the pop culture radar. Nothing doing.
And when Twitter employees staged an internal rebellion restricting viewers from watching &#8220;What is a Woman?,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-parent-should-watch-this-elon-musk-retweets-what-is-a-woman-to-his-140m-followers">Elon Musk personally stepped in</a>, pinning the documentary on his personal profile page followed by 140 million people with the simple statement: “Every parent should watch this.”
<h2><a href="https://essentialchurchmovie.com/">The Essential Church</a> (2023)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602171" style="width: 399px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602171" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602171 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-389x576.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-389x576.jpg 389w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-203x300.jpg 203w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-768x1138.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/TEC-Poster_Revised_Final_RGB-100-scaled.jpg 1728w" sizes="(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px" />Courtesy Essentialchurchmovie.com</div>
The pandemic lockdowns forbid many churchgoers from entering their place of worship, forcing them to stay home rather than find comfort in their faith. Oh, but you could still protest on behalf of Black Lives Matter and celebrate the election of Joe Biden.
We need a dozen documentaries to record the injustices doled out during the pandemic. “<a href="https://essentialchurchmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Essential Church</a>” takes a laser-focused approach to how it impacted religious people and how some Christians refused to obey factually wobbly rules.
It’s a powerful documentary that captures church culture better any movie in recent memory. It also effectively mocks the political cowards who demanded we stay locked down but couldn’t defend their orders in a court of law.
<h2><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words">Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words</a> (2020)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602245" style="width: 399px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602245" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602245 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/2Created-Equal-Release-One-Sheet-27x40-300DPI-scaled-1-389x576.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/2Created-Equal-Release-One-Sheet-27x40-300DPI-scaled-1-389x576.jpg 389w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/2Created-Equal-Release-One-Sheet-27x40-300DPI-scaled-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/2Created-Equal-Release-One-Sheet-27x40-300DPI-scaled-1-768x1137.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/2Created-Equal-Release-One-Sheet-27x40-300DPI-scaled-1.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px" />Courtesy Justicethomasmovie.com</div>
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is famous for both his fierce conservative spirit and reclusive public persona. We rarely hear from the veteran justice, but he changed that with <a href="https://www.justicethomasmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this bracing documentary</a>.
Thomas shares his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarkable story</a>, from his hardscrabble roots to the events that made him shift to the Right. It turns out Thomas is a natural storyteller, and his life offers profound lessons for every American.
<h2><a href="https://whatkilledmichaelbrown.com/">What Killed Michael Brown?</a> (2020)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602253" style="width: 402px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602253" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602253 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-392x576.jpg" alt="" width="392" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-392x576.jpg 392w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-204x300.jpg 204w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-768x1127.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-1046x1536.jpg 1046w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2-1395x2048.jpg 1395w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/WhatKilledMichaelBrown_1Sht_Art_R2_V2.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px" />Courtesy whatkilledmichaelbrown.com</div>
That provocative title sets the stage for director Eli Steele’s <a href="https://whatkilledmichaelbrown.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essential documentary</a>. Steele visits Ferguson, Missouri, the town where the hulking Brown died at the hands of a police officer. The documentary’s jazz-inflected score underlines the many lies spread about Brown’s death and how various parties used his tragic passing to benefit their agendas.
The “Hands up Don’t Shoot” narrative gets the fact-checking it richly deserves, but the film also compares the nonviolent protests of the 1960s, when racism ran unchecked in much of America, to the “mostly peaceful” version we have today.
<h2><a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whenthemobcame">When The Mob Came</a> (2023)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602261" style="width: 399px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602261" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602261 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/MOB-597496_550x814-1-copy-389x576.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/MOB-597496_550x814-1-copy-389x576.jpg 389w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/MOB-597496_550x814-1-copy-203x300.jpg 203w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/MOB-597496_550x814-1-copy.jpg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px" />Courtesy Caylan Ford. Vimeo.</div>
The people who ended <a href="https://www.caylanford.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caylan Ford’s</a> political dreams made but one mistake. They didn’t realize she’s a first-rated filmmaker who could turn her injustices into a harrowing feature.
Ford <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whenthemobcame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tells her story</a> in heartbreaking fashion, but she isn’t interested in martyr status. She wants everyone to witness how a mob shredded her public life and what it took to rebuild it. Why? So it never happens to anyone ever again.
<h2><a href="https://www.rushtojudgmentdocumentary.com/">Rush To Judgment</a> (2021)</h2>
<div id="attachment_602135" style="width: 394px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-602135" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-602135 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/rush-poster-quotes-july23-winner-2021_orig-384x576.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/rush-poster-quotes-july23-winner-2021_orig-384x576.jpg 384w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/rush-poster-quotes-july23-winner-2021_orig-200x300.jpg 200w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/08/rush-poster-quotes-july23-winner-2021_orig.jpg 533w" sizes="(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px" />Courtesy rushtojudgmentdocumentary.com</div>
Social media and journalists tried to turn teen Nick Sandmann into the personification of MAGA Nation following a 2019 incident in D.C. Instead, both parties shamed themselves by selectively editing the kerfuffle in the worst way possible.
“<a href="https://www.rushtojudgmentdocumentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Judgment</a>” has all the receipts, from celebrities slamming Sandmann and friends without having all the details at their disposal (<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/430946-covington-catholic-lawyer-looking-very-carefully-at-bill-maher-over-defamatory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher dubbed him a “little prick”)</a> to media players eager to flex their Trump Derangement Syndrome, facts be darned.
The film has more empathy than necessary for the journalists who fell for the false narrative. Otherwise, it’s a blistering and necessary takedown.
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The best part of this list? Other films, like Nick Searcy’s “Capitol Punishment” and “The Plot Against the President” could have easily made it. We’re seeing more Right-leaning documentaries than ever before, a wonderful trend that will help a country reeling from one party rule in the government … and Hollywood.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
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I am often accused of being a pessimist, but I think this is an unfair charge. I’m not a pessimist. I’m simply a realist. I understand that human nature is what it is, and therefore people tend to act a certain way, and that results in many predictable conclusions. It’s not my fault that those conclusions are often depressing, enraging, perplexing, or disappointing. I wish it wasn’t this way, but I prefer to see things as they are rather than as I wish they would be. 
In other words, again, I’m a realist. 
But every once in a blue moon I will put my realist glasses down and try on a pair with a rosier tint. I will try to adopt the mentality of someone is more naively optimistic. And, every time I do this, I regret it. Case in point. This weekend, the pop star Ne-Yo got a lot of attention for some comments he made during an appearance on a show called VladTV. During the conversation with host Gloria Velez, the singer was asked about his views on gender ideology. He responded with a lengthy and rather well spoken monologue on the topic. You could tell that this is a subject he’d spent some time thinking about. And his thoughts were quite lucid on the topic:
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Now, fans of this show might have a pretty good idea who he was just quoting there. He was in fact directly referring to something I said during my Dr. Phil episode. Here it is: 
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Me and Ne-Yo on the same page. A classic collaboration. So far so good. But of course we know that the Left can not allow someone like Ne-Yo to say these kinds of things. They believe they own him. He belongs to them, both because he is a mainstream celebrity and because he’s a black man. By the Left’s thinking, Ne-Yo owes them his unthinking fealty. So the outrage mob set to work, screaming that he was a transphobic and a bigot and on and on. But he did not relent. In fact, he addressed the comments in an instagram post where he appeared to double down:
<blockquote>“1st and foremost, I CONDEMN NO ONE. Who am I to condemn anybody? Your life, your kids, your choice. I was asked a question and I answered it. My opinion is mine. I’m not asking anybody to agree with me nor am I telling you what you can and cannot do with your children. I stated my opinion on a matter and that’s that… Why should I care if my opinion upsets you when you don’t care if yours upsets anyone? Opinions aren’t special. We all have one. People voice them regularly whether they’re asked or not. I was actually asked mine. Agreeing to disagree is not a declaration of war. Y’all do whatever the hell y’all want to. But my feelings on the matter are mine. Same way yours are yours. Meanwhile, I love everybody. Don’t agree with some of y’all’s ideals … but love you no less.”</blockquote>
Now, if you inspect this statement closely, you will can see that this is not really a double down. In fact, you can detect the seeds of equivocation already. Which is why I almost posted a tweet predicting that he would fully cave to the mob within the next 24 hours. But I stopped myself, put on my little-worn rose colored glasses, and decided to be positive and optimistic instead. I sent out a tweet simply congratulating Ne-Yo for taking this stand, and I left it at that. 
And then, an hour later, as if to punish me for dabbling with optimism, Ne-Yo posted another statement. Here’s what it said: 
<blockquote>“After much reflection, I’d like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity. I’ve always been an advocate for love and inclusivity in the LGBTQI+ community, so I understand how my comments could’ve been interpreted as insensitive and offensive. Gender identity is nuanced and I can honestly admit that I plan to better educate myself on the topic, so I can approach future conversations with more empathy. At the end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone’s freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness.”</blockquote>
Now, we have seen many people utterly debase themselves and shed whatever scraps of dignity they still had left, all in a vain attempt to appease the zombie hordes. We have seen many targets of the outrage mob, in this exact situation, decide to betray the very people who were defending them while bending the knee to a bunch of pitchfork-wielding troglodytes who will still hate them even after they apologize. We have seen all of this, more times than we can count or want to count. But what makes this one especially grotesque is that Ne-Yo’s original statement was spoken with such force and eloquence that you can tell this is an issue he really cares about and has long reflected on. In other words, this isn’t someone pathetically apologizing for some off the cuff remark. This is someone apologizing for saying something that, it’s clear, he truly and deeply believes.
If I took this final statement seriously I might ask what arguments did the other side make to convince him that “gender identity is nuanced”? What facts did they present to make him question his previous belief that it’s a bad idea to transition a five 5-year-old boy? What actual points did they make to persuade him that actually it’s a good idea to castrate and sterilize children? Before, he said little children are too young to consent to these things. What happened to make him suddenly feel otherwise? What did the other side say to lead him to the conclusion that he needs to “educate himself” more on the topic? I would ask him to tell us more about this &#8220;Road to Damascus&#8221; moment. What was said to him in that blinding light? What great truth was revealed? 
I would ask all of that, but I know the answer. We all do. The other side made no argument. They presented no facts. They did not give any reason to actually believe anything they say on this subject. Instead his handlers, and his PR team, and his record label executives told him to bend the knee or else. They threatened him with loss of revenue, and who knows what other kind of blackmail, and they wrote up a statement for him to post — and he posted it. 
This is, of course, by no means meant to let him off the hook. Far from it. He gave up his soul for fear and greed. He is a coward and a traitor to himself and his own belief system. Many such cases, and each case is just as shameful and disgusting as the last.
But it is worth reflecting on the fact that, out of all of the Ne-Yos of the world, who have prostrated themselves before the mob of trans activists and offered their own integrity up as sacrifice for their sins — out of all of these people, and their forced scripted apologies, not one of them has ever said “You know, the trans activists made such and such point and it really made me think differently about this situation.” That has never happened. The trans activists have persuaded many people, but have persuaded none. They have won millions of converts, and also not a single convert. That’s because their position is one so laughably incoherent, so ridiculous and irrational, so nakedly insane, that no sane person could ever truly be convinced by it. That’s why they don’t bother convincing. They can’t. Instead they use intimidation, threats, coercion, fear. That is how they have assembled an army marching under a flag that none of them believe in. They have built a house of cards and imprisoned millions of people inside of it. All that any of them have to do is push gently against one of the walls and it all comes tumbling down. The trans activists recognize this, which is why they must be so quick to squash dissent whenever it arises. And lucky for them, there are many cowards in the country who are quite easily squashed.
But the good news is that these kinds of tactics can only work for so long. A position so absurd and morally depraved can only be defended for so long. Eventually that house of cards will come tumbling down anyway, one way or another. We are watching it happen right now, as we speak, in fact. And Ne-Yo, along with the rest of the coward contingent, will be on the inside when it falls.
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Update: Ne-Yo released an additional statement late in the day.

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A journalist whose family was targeted by Nazi Germany was fired from his position as an editorial board member for The Seattle Times after he was accused of “defending” Adolf Hitler on Twitter.
David Josef Volodzko began his career as a university lecturer but decided to switch to journalism to report on injustices throughout the world. He has spent the past 15 years covering stories about refugees, prisoners of war, and war itself. In <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/seattle-times-writer-fired-over-hitler-lenin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an essay</a> about his firing posted to Bari Weiss’ Substack “The Free Press,” Volodzko describes himself as a democratic socialist and notes that his wife is a DEI trainer.
None of that prepared him for the current cancel culture movement.
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Volodzko thought that he, his wife, and his baby daughter would fit in perfectly in ultra-progressive Seattle.
His first official column for the Times was about Seattle’s statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Volodzko wrote about how the people of the Fremont neighborhood in which it stands dress it up and make it a joke, but also about his own family’s struggles and Lenin’s genocidal killings.
He received positive and negative responses, as any columnist would. The column was never the issue, but the words Volodzko used to post it on Twitter cost him his job.
“In fact, while Hitler has become the great symbol of evil in history books, he too was less evil than Lenin because Hitler only targeted people he personally believed were harmful to society whereas Lenin targeted even those he himself didn’t believe were harmful in any way,” Volodzko wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
He followed up this post by explaining that he was only comparing the two by their intentions, not their actual atrocities.
“Hitler was more evil than Lenin if we’re looking at what they did to people and that’s a pretty important metric for assessing evil!” he wrote.
As Volodzko noted in his essay, this is the kind of topic one could debate in person, but not on Twitter. “And the argument I was making is a fraught one even under the best of circumstances—you don’t need to compare anyone to Hitler to argue that they are evil — and my delivery was poor, to say the least,” he wrote.
He was accused of “defending” Hitler and had his life threatened.
Six days later, Volodzko thought his job was safe after he was told the media outlet stood by him. But he was soon fired for “poor judgment” and “continuing to engage online.” After he was terminated, the paper issued an apology statement that appeared to contradict that reasoning.
“An editorial writer engaged in Twitter recently in a way that is inconsistent with our company values,” the paper wrote. “We apologize for any pain we have caused our readers, our employees and the community.”
Volodzko is now trying to earn income through his Substack, “<a href="https://volodzko.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Radicalist</a>,” in which he covers political extremism from communism to fascism and the cancel culture environment of which he is a recent victim.
On Saturday, Elon Musk announced that his company – which he has renamed X – would fight for anyone punished by an employer for their actions on his platform.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-vows-to-go-to-war-against-companies-that-punish-employees-for-activity-on-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “No limit. Please let us know.”
Volodzko responded to the tweet with his Substack essay, and Musk eventually responded by saying: “This does sound like a good case.”
It is unclear whether anything will come of Musk’s response, and any action would not be immediate for Volodzko and his family, but it does provide some hope.

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Country superstar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jason-aldean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Aldean</a> is speaking out after the Left hurled accusations of racism at him due to his anti-violence and pro-America song, &#8220;Try That In A Small Town.&#8221; In short, it&#8217;s clear that Aldean won&#8217;t be apologizing anytime soon and is instead choosing to double down on his patriotic message.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long-a** week,&#8221; he said on Friday night in Cincinnati to thousands of concert-goers. Aldean has been slammed by fellow country artists and dragged in the media because he had the gall to condemn rioting and sucker punches.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I&#8217;m this, suggesting I&#8217;m that,&#8221; he said, prompting boos from the crowd. &#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing &#8230; I feel like everybody&#8217;s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s true. What I am is a proud American. I am proud to be from here.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reported earlier this week the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-aldean-responds-to-backlash-over-new-music-video-that-slams-leftist-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46-year-old</a> country singer’s song hit the airwaves in May, but it wasn’t until he released a video for it on July 14 that the song began receiving criticism. Country Music Television (CMT) even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cmt-yanks-jason-aldeans-anti-riot-music-video-from-airwaves-amid-claims-its-pro-lynching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled</a> the singer’s music video in the wake of the controversy generated by the Left.
“I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bull**** started happening to us,&#8221; he added. The crowd began a &#8220;USA! USA! USA!&#8221; chant in response.
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🇺🇸 USA Chants Break Out as Jason Aldean Addresses the Media Attacks on Him This Week
“I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullsh*t started happening to us.”
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Despite the Left&#8217;s efforts to effectively cancel Aldean, &#8220;Try That In A Small Town&#8221; has become one of the most popular songs in America, even earning the #1 spot on iTunes this week.
The music video can be viewed here:
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