Canadian politician Pierre Poilievre casually rebuffed a left-leaning reporter — while eating an apple — during a recent exchange that has since gone viral.
Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition since 2022, is currently running to serve as prime minister — and he made it clear that he was not going to allow reporters to set the narrative without a fight.
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&#8220;On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you&#8217;re obviously taking the populist pathway &#8230;&#8221; the reporter began.
&#8220;What does that mean?&#8221; Poilievre asked around a mouthful of his apple.
&#8220;Well, appealing to people&#8217;s more emotional levels, I would guess,&#8221; the reporter replied with a laugh. &#8220;I mean &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;What do you mean by that?&#8221; Poilievre pressed.
&#8220;Certainly you tap, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently —&#8221;
&#8220;Like what?&#8221; Poilievre asked between bites.
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&#8220;Uhh, left-wing, you know, this and that, right-wing, you know, that type of —&#8221; the reporter appeared to be caught off guard by the question.
&#8220;I almost never talk about — I never really talk about left or right, I don&#8217;t really believe in that,&#8221; Poilievre stated.
&#8220;Okay, a lot of people would say that you&#8217;re simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book —&#8221; the reporter tried a different tack.
&#8220;A lot of people — like which people would say that?&#8221; Poilievre asked, taking another bite.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m sure a great many Canadians, but —&#8221; the reporter tried to continue, laughing uncomfortably.
&#8220;Like who?&#8221; Poilievre was insistent.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know who, but —&#8221; the reporter protested.
&#8220;Well, you&#8217;re the one who asked the question,&#8221; Poilievre pointed out. &#8220;So you must know somebody.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay,&#8221; the reporter laughed again, trying to salvage the point. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some out there, but anyway, the point of this question is, why should Canadians trust you with their vote given not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page out of Donald Trump&#8217;s book, but also &#8230;&#8221;
Poilievre pushed back again, asking, &#8220;What are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you give me a page? Give me the page. You keep saying that —&#8221;
&#8220;In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left-wing and all of this, I mean, you make quite a — you know — it&#8217;s quite a play that you make on it, so —&#8221; the reporter appeared to struggle to find his question.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure — I don&#8217;t know what your question is,&#8221; Poilievre replied, appearing confused.
&#8220;Then forget that,&#8221; the reporter gave up, opting to strip the question down to its simplest form: &#8220;Why should Canadians trust you with their vote?&#8221;
Poilievre delivered a simple answer: &#8220;Common sense. Common sense. For a change, we&#8217;re going to make common sense common in this country. We don&#8217;t have any common sense in the current government.&#8221;
Poilievre went on to turn his attention to current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, explaining why he believed the liberals had failed at their chance to govern.

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“Better Call Saul” and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/breaking-bad">Breaking Bad</a>” actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Bob Odenkirk</a> acknowledged that he ignored the advice of a “cranky conservative” doctor and later had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/heart-attack">heart attack</a>. 
The 60-year-old discussed what happened during a recent episode of the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bob-erin-odenkirk/id1523507379?i=1000627705798">podcast</a> “Don’t Ask Tig.” 
&#8220;When I was 50, I went in, he was a heart doctor, Cedar-Sinai, and he had signs up all around his office at this point [saying] &#8216;We do not accept Obamacare,&#8217; and I hated this side of him that I only learned over time,&#8221; Odenkirk said.
The actor went on to say how the doctor, who he&#8217;d been seeing for 20 years, recommended taking statins to help lower his cholesterol. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Well, I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t have heart disease in my family.&#8217; He goes, &#8216;Just take &#8217;em,&#8221;&#8216; he went on. 
The “Nobody” star said he ended up getting a second opinion, and that doctor said he did not need medication. 
Odenkirk endured a near-fatal heart attack in 2021 while filming the award-winning series “Better Call Saul.” Per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/1112731181/better-call-saul-breaking-bad-bob-odenkirk-peter-gould-heart-attack">NPR</a>, the actor&#8217;s heart stopped beating for 18 minutes.
The &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; alum said he should have listened to the first doctor despite disagreeing with his conservative political leanings. 
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&#8220;And I had a heart attack. And I think the first doctor was right,&#8221; Odenkirk said. &#8220;The cranky conservative jackass was right, because he was a good doctor. His political point of view doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with his ability to judge your health and your health choices and needs.&#8221;
The actor said he returned to work after five weeks of recovery and felt more energized than ever. 
&#8220;I came out of it with a strangely fresh energy towards my whole life, like I was born again,&#8221; he explained, per NPR. &#8220;Like, &#8216;Hey, everybody!.. Let&#8217;s go back to work and make stuff!'&#8221;
During a 2017 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/15/bob-odenkirk-on-better-call-saul-s-future-and-unstable-president-trump">interview</a> with the Daily Beast, Odenkirk described himself as “obviously more of a liberal than I am a conservative” but also said, “you might be surprised at some of the positions I hold.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Sorbo</a> talked exclusively to The Daily Wire about what he said are the ongoing attacks on masculinity in our culture from movies and TV — and said it&#8217;s why he wrote his new children&#8217;s book &#8220;Test of Lionhood.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-sorbo-says-he-doesnt-want-to-hear-about-gun-control-after-biden-willingly-freed-an-incredibly-dangerous-arms-dealer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">64-year-old actor</a> said his book centers on a lion cub, who through a series of events, must face his own fears and accept a quest that &#8220;leads him to courage and strength&#8221; to save his sister. He said the reason he decided to do a kids’ book rather than one geared towards an older group is that kids today need to hear the message &#8220;let boys be boys and let girls be girls.&#8221;
&#8220;Look what we are doing to kids today from our public education system, through television and movies, this whole thing about toxic masculinity,&#8221; the &#8220;Hercules&#8221; star told us. &#8220;For decades now we have been trying to make men more feminine and we&#8217;re trying to make women more masculine.&#8221;
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Masculinity is under attack today. We need to teach our kids what Biblical masculinity looks like. 
That’s why I wrote a kid’s book titled The Test of Lionhood with <a href="https://twitter.com/Bravebooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bravebooks</a>! You can get it for free when you subscribe to the book of the month club. <a href="https://t.co/JeLKjmcO6T">https://t.co/JeLKjmcO6T</a>
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&#8220;We need our boys to become strong men who can lead their families, communities, in a more positive direction,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Bible calls for us [men] to be providers. For men to be providers and that takes nothing away from women.”
The &#8220;Andromeda&#8221; star said it&#8217;s clear the &#8220;family unit is under attack,&#8221; especially fatherhood, not just in entertainment, but in every aspect of our lives.
&#8220;The Bible teaches us to honor the father, sitcoms teach us to dishonor the father,&#8221; he added. &#8220;For a confused generation of men, which we have now, it&#8217;s much easier for public schools, universities, TV, movies, government, to control that.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a total opposite of a generation of men that are seeking the truth,&#8221; Sorbo continued. &#8220;Which is why I think they reject people like me who stand up for Conservative values and christian values.&#8221;
However, the superstar said he does see a sign of hope that people are getting tired of the woke agenda coming out of Hollywood, noting the success of the independent film &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-jim-caviezel-sends-message-to-fans-as-sound-of-freedom-surpasses-150-million-mark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound of Freedom</a>,&#8221; which did better at the domestic box office than Disney&#8217;s latest &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; movie.
&#8220;I think people are getting sick of the crap Hollywood&#8217;s doing,&#8221; Sorbo said. &#8220;Case in point Hollywood, Hollywood&#8217;s about to be on its way to lose well over one billion dollars in theaters this year.&#8221;
&#8220;What does that show you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It shows you people are sick of this woke stuff &#8230; People are tired of the woke stuff from Hollywood and they are tired of the woke message.&#8221;
The actor, who has a new movie coming out of his Sorbo Studios in October called &#8220;Miracle In East Texas,&#8221; admitted &#8220;we got a culture battle on our hands. Hollywood&#8217;s winning it, but tied is turning. People are sick of it and the lions out there are waking up.&#8221;
&#8220;Test of Lionhood&#8221; can be found at <a href="https://bravebooks.us/products/freedom-island-book-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brave Books.</a> And for information about his upcoming movie and to watch the trailer go to <a href="https://www.sorbostudios.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sorbosstudios.com</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-way-street-kevin-sorbo-says-hollywood-canceled-him-because-hes-christian-and-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;One-Way Street&#8217;: Kevin Sorbo Says Hollywood Canceled Him Because He&#8217;s &#8216;Christian&#8217; And &#8216;Conservative&#8217;</a>

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Kevin Sorbo Talks About Attacks On Masculinity In The Culture, New Children's Book, And More

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-kevin-sorbo-challenges-critics-claiming-old-white-men-cant-decide-roe-v-wade-with-historic-throwback-shot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Sorbo</a> said he was dropped by his agent and canceled by Hollywood because he&#8217;s a &#8220;Christian&#8221; and &#8220;conservative&#8221; after his career had taken off following his role in the &#8217;90s TV show &#8220;Hercules.&#8221;
The 64-year-old actor told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hercules-actor-kevin-sorbo-hollywood-canceled-christian-beliefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> that he was &#8220;blackballed&#8221; in the entertainment industry, and his agent and manager told him his religious and political beliefs were to blame for why the offers for work dried up.
&#8220;It was sad to me, you know, my manager and agent for so many years said that we can&#8217;t get you jobs anymore, work with you because of you being a Christian, being a conservative,&#8221; Sorbo said.
&#8220;And I almost had to laugh at that because it&#8217;s an industry that screams for tolerance, and yet it&#8217;s a one-way street,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It screams for freedom of speech. But Hollywood&#8217;s a one-way street as well. And that&#8217;s just too bad, you know. But I love the industry. I love the movies and TV.&#8221;
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&#8220;It was really weird,&#8221; the actor continued. &#8220;I mean, here&#8217;s the thing. We have such a huge divide in our country right now, and it&#8217;s perpetuated by the mainstream media, perpetuated by movies, TV. I don&#8217;t harbor that kind of anger and hatred towards people. I have a different point of view.&#8221;
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Kevin&#8217;s wife, Sam Sorbo, told the outlet that her husband was even kicked off LinkedIn and Facebook for his beliefs.
&#8220;Even LinkedIn took me down,&#8221; Sorbo said with a laugh. &#8220;They don&#8217;t like the truth. I say on [X, formerly Twitter], I said, &#8216;I need more conspiracy theories because all of mine came true.&#8217; But did Facebook apologize for taking me down even though I was right? No, because they don&#8217;t like the truth. The truth is too difficult for some people to take.&#8221;
The comments came as Sorbo and his wife promoted their upcoming movie &#8220;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8531464/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_8_nm_0_q_Miracle%2520In%2520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miracle in East Texas</a>,&#8221; coming out of the couple&#8217;s <a href="https://www.sorbostudios.com/miracle-in-east-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sorbo Studios</a> in October. He said it&#8217;s a movie based on a true story &#8220;about love and hope and faith and laughter.&#8221;
Sorbo and Sam tied the knot in 1998 and have two sons, Braeden, 21, and Shane, 19, and a daughter, Octavia, 17.

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Every Life, a new pro-life diaper company, released a powerful ad Thursday that highlights the company&#8217;s mission to provide diapers for every baby.
Every Life was launched by PublicSq., an online marketplace that works to help “freedom-loving Americans” find businesses that align with their values.
The evocative Every Life video ad begins by calling out companies who have embraced anti-life values.
&#8220;While so many companies are promoting what is wrong, we choose to celebrate what is right — life,&#8221; a woman&#8217;s voice says in the ad as the video shows a pregnant woman gazing at her unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
&#8220;Every miracle from God, boy and girl, black, tan, and white, planned and unplanned, gifted and special,&#8221; the ad continues, showing video of babies and affectionate parents. &#8220;Every one of them is celebrated here.&#8221;
&#8220;Every Life, where changing diapers changes lives,&#8221; the ad concludes.
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PublicSq. <a href="https://www.outkick.com/meet-publicsq-the-conservative-alternative-to-amazon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brands</a> itself as a conservative alternative to Amazon. The San Diego-based company was launched as an app in October, 2021 and describes itself as &#8220;America&#8217;s Marketplace.&#8221; So far, PublicSq. has attracted more than a million users and more than 55,000 businesses. The company is set to go public in the near future.
&#8220;You asked, we heard you. Meet @everylife! A diaper company that believes every new life is worthy of celebration; Black. Tan. White. Planned and Unplanned.&#8221; PublicSq. wrote in a tweet Thursday.
&#8220;EveryLife will never donate your hard-earned money to organizations that destroy innocent life — but their competitors do!&#8221; PublicSq. added in its tweet.
&#8220;We started this company with a simple mission: to provide premium products for every baby. Because every baby is a miracle from God who deserves to be loved, protected, and supported,&#8221; Every Life <a href="https://everylife.com/pages/our-mission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> on its website.
Every Life also includes a program called &#8220;Buy For a Cause,&#8221; which allows people to buy diapers and wipes for families in need.
PublicSq. has quickly gained a reputation a pro-life company.
Last month, PublicSq. <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/16/conservative-ceo-will-give-baby-bonus-employees-help-build-strong-families/#:~:text=The%20policy%20has%20been%20a,families%20make%20a%20strong%20nation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it would pay its employees a $5,000 &#8220;baby bonus&#8221; as a response to progressive companies <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html#:~:text=Intuit%20said%20Friday%20it%20would,live%2C”%20the%20company%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> they would cover the travel expenses for their female employees&#8217; abortions.
“I was shocked by that because it’s an immoral and egregious act for an employer to pay for an employee to terminate their children,” PublicSq. Founder and CEO Michael Seifert told The Daily Signal. “That’s my opinion. But on top of that, it was also a very blatantly obvious move for just more productivity out of their employees. And it was a stifling of [employees’] potential desires to have families.”
The companies travel expenses offer was a reaction to the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision last year to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide. After it was overturned, Republican legislatures across the country enacted abortion bans on a state level, meaning women in some states must travel to a different state to obtain an abortion.
PublicSq. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bud-light-boycott-sends-customers-flocking-new-conservative-marketplace-1802723" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it saw a sizable portion of users use its platform to find beer after the backlash to Bud Light over its partnership with trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Affirmative action</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-bidens-epa-says-agency-does-not-have-authority-to-regulate-carbon-dioxide-emissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive overreach</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-christian-graphic-designer-who-refused-to-work-on-same-sex-weddings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free speech</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-delivers-defeat-to-biden-admin-on-student-loan-forgiveness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Student loans</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-massive-blow-against-bidens-employer-mandate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Jab</a>: All of these issues have been before the Supreme Court in recent years, and have all ended in a 6-3 vote — with all of the conservative justices voting in the majority.
The rulings have been monumental and have shifted the country to the Right. Decades of liberal jurisprudence have been rolled back. Conservatives are celebrating. These are some sweet, sweet legal victories. Liberals are certainly doing everything that they can to smear the court as illegitimate. It seems the court is now a conservative powerhouse — and ideally, it&#8217;s just getting started.
Now, on paper, a review of how judges voted in this most recent term shows that Democrat-appointed and Republican-appointed judges aren&#8217;t necessarily voting strictly along ideology lines in most cases.
Per <a href="https://twitter.com/whignewtons/status/1674800421985038336?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News&#8217; Sarah Isgur</a>, there has been a unanimous decision 50% of the time this term, at least one liberal justice has been in the majority 89% of the time, and there has been a 6-3 decision with all Republican appointees on the same side a mere 8% of the time.
&#8220;Voting blocs weren&#8217;t that different. If you only look at the non-unanimous cases, the 3 Democratic appointees voted together 24% of the time and the 6 Republican appointees voted together 17% of the time,&#8221; she added.
Obviously, some court cases are bigger than others. So those stats don&#8217;t tell the whole story.
This week alone, affirmative action was rolled back, free speech was protected, and the Biden administration&#8217;s student loan plan was stuck down. Justices in the majority systematically dismantled the three liberal dissenters in each case.
Indeed, the liberal dissenters seemed as if they were looking at another case altogether — to paraphrase Justice Neil Gorsuch&#8217;s rebuke in the majority opinion in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. In that decision, the high court cited the First Amendment in ruling that Lorie Smith could not be forced by state civil rights law to design websites that run counter to her sincerely-held religious beliefs.
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&#8220;The dissent abandons what this court&#8217;s cases have recognized time and time again: A commitment to speech for only some persons and some messages is no commitment at all,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-christian-graphic-designer-who-refused-to-work-on-same-sex-weddings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Of the decision, Law Professor Jonathan Turley said, &#8220;This will go down as one of the most important free speech cases in the history of the court.&#8221;
On affirmative action, Justice Clarence Thomas spent his time dismantling Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s entire worldview.
&#8220;Make no mistake: Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will ‘tell us [what] is required to level the playing field’ among castes and classifications that they alone can divine…&#8221;
The student loan decision, while not upending the sort of wrongly decided precedent found in affirmative action or free speech, is still a gigantic deal.
Here too, the majority opinion and the dissenting opinion show how different the conservative vs. the liberal view of the Constitution truly is. It seems abundantly obvious that President Joe Biden and the Democrats forced the loan forgiveness through while knowing it was illegal.
To that extent, Chief Justice John Roberts even cited former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s observations that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-quoted-pelosi-in-decision-that-killed-bidens-student-debt-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">president can&#8217;t cancel student debt</a>.
As described by conservative <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1674792698086293505?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commentator</a> Jason Rantz, &#8220;Biden and the Democrats knew what they were doing was overreach. And the Liberal SCOTUS judges who chose ideology over the law should feel abject shame for their dissent, which is meant to divide.&#8221;
One could rebut that liberal judges tend to always choose ideology over the law — which is how you get judicial activism. Conservative justices haven&#8217;t always put up the best fight against those efforts. Readers should remember that it wasn&#8217;t too long ago that Roberts was delivering victories for President Barack Obama — so much so that he even developed a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion-roberts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reputation as a liberal</a>.
Now though, the court is beginning to undo decades of bad decisions, while at the same exposing the nonsensical ideology that has guided it.
So perhaps the reason for the freakout over the court this week is two-fold: The first reason is that Leftists can&#8217;t stand when things don&#8217;t go their way. The second is that after so many years of the court siding with a liberal interpretation of the Constitution, including when it had the votes to stave off the leftward lurch, the court&#8217;s move to the right now feels like a massive whiplash.
That has to hurt.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Hollywood star Gary Sinise knows being a conservative in Tinseltown isn&#8217;t easy, but acknowledged that he&#8217;s had a great career despite being outspoken about his political beliefs.
During Friday&#8217;s episode of CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Who&#8217;s Talking to Chris Wallace?,&#8221; the host asked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gary-sinise">67-year-old actor</a> about his decision to start the conservative group, Friends of Abe, for right-leaning Hollywood figures in 2004 and not just sticking to acting, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/gary-sinise-conservative-hollywood-political-beliefs-1235312439/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
Sinise, who is best known for his role as Lt. Dan, the wounded veteran in the hit movie &#8220;Forrest Gump,&#8221; said the group started &#8220;during the early days of the Iraq War,&#8221; because he and his friends wanted to make sure soldiers never suffered for their service like Vietnam veterans did.
&#8220;I think so much was motivated by … what happened to our Vietnam veterans and the lack of support that they got and the way they were treated, and then we regretted it later on,&#8221; Sinise said.
&#8220;I didn’t want our Iraq War and Afghanistan veterans to fall prey to any of that kind of stuff,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I just wanted to get in there and support them. So, I started looking for people that were just in the same camp as me on that subject. And I found other folks in the movie and television business who enjoyed getting together.&#8221;
When asked if he thought his Hollywood career could&#8217;ve been bigger if he had just focused on acting, Sinise said he&#8217;s had a &#8220;blessed career&#8221; and that he &#8220;can&#8217;t complain,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/gary-sinise-on-how-conservative-views-affected-career-it-played-a-major-role/">New York Post</a> reported.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a blessed career in the movie and television and theater business,&#8221; Sinise shared. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done amazing things, I&#8217;ve worked with amazing people, and it really played a major role, if not the key element, in what I&#8217;m doing today on the service side.&#8221;
The star said he got to a point in his career where he could &#8220;pick and choose&#8221; roles that were &#8220;very specifically&#8221; based on the issues that matter to him, like &#8220;giving back and trying to serve our veteran community and our first responder community.&#8221;
In 2011, the &#8220;CSI:NY&#8221; star took his role as Lt. Dan one step further and founded the Gary Sinise Foundation, which offers a variety of programs and services for wounded veterans of all military branches.

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Soon, when you flip on AT&amp;T&#8217;s DirectTV, you&#8217;ll be able to find tens of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal news</a> networks, but only two conservative-leaning channels — Fox News and The First.
Are those the only two conservative news stations in existence? No. In fact, there&#8217;s an even more popular channel than The First that DirectTV has elected not to carry: Newsmax.
Newsmax, the fourth highest-rated cable news network, just got the boot from DirectTV despite its success and popularity. Another Right-leaning network, OAN, was kicked off of DirecTV last spring.
The decision to cut ties with Newsmax, according to the company&#8217;s founder &amp; CEO Chris Ruddy, is a &#8220;blatant act of political discrimination and censorship.&#8221;
Indeed, Ruddy appears to be correct.
AT&amp;T&#8217;s decision to nix both OAN and Newsmax came after Representatives Jerry McNerney (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) <a href="https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.house.gov/files/Eshoo-McNerney-TV-Misinfo%20Letters-2.22.21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> in 2021 to the company demanding information as to what &#8220;action&#8221; it was taking to counter the usual allegations of misinformation and disinformation on conservative channels — Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN.
The two alleged that that trio of channels served as &#8220;hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.&#8221;
To back up their claims, McNerney and Eshoo cited a bevy of Left-wing outlets and watchdogs that all push Democratic propaganda around the clock.
Absent in the two&#8217;s concerns was anything about the Russia collusion hoax narrative, global warming falsehoods, myths about police violence, or any other leftist narrative that is based on lies. More alarmingly at the time, hardly any other cable channel seemed concerned that the government was, in effect, pressuring a private company to silence a media company.
Eshoo insisted she eschewed any direct violations of the First Amendment by claiming the letter was just &#8220;asking questions&#8221; and not explicitly asking for the networks to be dropped.
Of course, there&#8217;s the old saying: Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.
Perhaps the silent signal was sent to AT&amp;T loud and clear to toe the leftist line.
Per Newsmax, the idea that it was a financial decision doesn&#8217;t make any sense.
&#8220;DirecTV pays cable license fees to all top 75 cable channels and to all 22 liberal news and information channels it carries,&#8221; Newsmax <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-at-t-directv/2023/01/24/id/1105756/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an editorial. &#8220;Almost all of these channels are paid hefty license fees significantly more than Newsmax was seeking — and despite the fact that most of the channels have much lower ratings than Newsmax.&#8221;
Republicans on Capitol Hill are promising to get to the bottom of it. Congressman James Comer (R-KY), chair of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Newsmax that he is &#8220;very concerned&#8221; by it and will use his power to investigate.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had several people from AT&amp;T reach out to me,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-directv-newsmax/2023/01/27/id/1106175/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a meeting with them and, hopefully, we can get this resolved.&#8221;
Now, politicians such as Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), former President Donald J. Trump, and more are encouraging millions of Americans to dump AT&amp;T to send a message loud and clear message with their hard-earned dollars.
AT&amp;T&#8217;s decision comes amidst the backdrop of various corporations pushing the woke agenda. Evidence abounds that Big Tech has been in bed with the FBI and other actors to put the kibosh on Right-leaning media and speech that goes against the government-media complex agenda. Conservatives, it seems, are outnumbered in every sector of society.
Newsmax reels in &#8220;25 million Americans on cable alone&#8221; according to the company. They are now all being funneled to Fox News or the upstart First TV. But, for those who think it&#8217;s no big deal that liberal networks outnumber conservative channels 22:2 on AT&amp;T, they should remember that the censorship might not end there.
As Congressman Eli Crane (R-AZ) explained, &#8220;First @OANN, now @NEWSMAX… This is an unacceptable attack on free speech, and every American should be outraged.&#8221;
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First <a href="https://twitter.com/OANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OANN</a>, now <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NEWSMAX</a>…
This is an unacceptable attack on free speech, and every American should be outraged. <a href="https://t.co/6tAgzBNl8n">https://t.co/6tAgzBNl8n</a>
&mdash; Eli Crane for Congress (@EliCraneAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliCraneAZ/status/1618358248817709056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Given DirecTV&#8217;s alleged political bias, it seems that conservative media is being blocked out on cable, thus allowing legacy media and the liberal TV industry to control the narrative even tighter. That stranglehold isn&#8217;t enough for anti-free speech actors. Leftists want to have complete dominance over the flow of information and the news so that they can dictate the direction of the country.
The antidote to that propaganda is the truth, which is why conservative outlets — such as Newsmax and others — are silenced by their opponents.
Author&#8217;s Note: Tim Meads is a former Newsmax.com opinion editor.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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What’s With AT&T’s DirecTV Kicking Out Conservative Newsmax And OAN?

What's With AT&T's DirecTV Kicking Out Conservative Newsmax And OAN?

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Legacy Media

Conservative television and movie star Kelsey Grammer stars in an upcoming movie called the &#8220;Jesus Revolution,&#8221; a film about a real-life spiritual awakening, something he&#8217;s familiar with following a series of tragedies in his life.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kelsey-grammer-reproductive-rights-dishonest-name-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">67-year-old</a> actor will join Angel Studios&#8216; “<a href="https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen/pif" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Chosen</a>&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-under-an-assault-the-chosen-star-jonathan-roumie-blasts-media-at-march-for-life-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Roumie</a> who plays hippie preacher Lonnie Frisbee in the film directed by Jon Erwin. It deals with the true story of the &#8220;national spiritual awakening&#8221; of the &#8220;early 1970s and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California,&#8221; according to a news release, <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/erwin-brothers-film-jesus-revolution-to-star-kelsey-grammer-jonathan-roumie-of-the-chosen.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian Headlines</a> reported.
&#8220;Jesus has been a profound influence in my life,&#8221; Grammer shared with the outlet. &#8220;I am proud to be a part of this film.&#8221;
The actor brings the late Chuck Smith, the pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement and mentor to Pastor Greg Laurie, to life, the outlet noted. Produced by Kingdom Story Company and Lionsgate, the &#8220;<a href="https://jesusrevolution.movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesus Revolution</a>,&#8221; centers on Laurie, then a young man who experienced a spiritual awakening under Smith&#8217;s guidance.
&#8220;The movie is set in a very specific time and place, but the theme of finding a deeper meaning to life, in the midst of a fractured and broken world, is timeless,&#8221; Erwin shared.
&#8220;In his iconic performances, Kelsey has a proven ability to connect with audiences in a real, vulnerable way, which will make him a tremendous presence in this film,&#8221; he added.
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Grammer is probably best known for his roes as Dr. Frasier CraneHowever, unlike the calm, smooth, mild mannered character people saw on their TV screens, Grammer dealt with tremendous loss throughout his life that &#8220;nearly destroyed&#8221; <a style="text-align: center;" href="https://www.smoothradio.com/news/entertainment/kelsey-grammer-life-family-tragedy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">him</a> and an addiction to alcohol that landed him behind bars.
In 2017, the &#8220;Down Periscope&#8221; star admitted that as a child he had &#8220;spiritual youth,&#8221; but after losing one loved one after another, that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/faith">faith</a> was challenged. It started when he was 12.
After his father, Frank Allen Grammer Jr., left his mother, Grammer and his mom moved in with his grandfather. His grandfather, however, soon contracted cancer and died. 
Then, when he was 13, his father was killed in a home invasion. In 1975, Kelsey&#8217;s sister, Karen, was <a href="https://www.smoothradio.com/news/entertainment/kelsey-grammer-life-family-tragedy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kidnapped</a> by four men, raped, and eventually murdered by a man named Freddie Lee Glenn.
&#8220;I miss her in my bones,&#8221; Kelsey wrote to the parole board in 2009, the outlet noted. &#8220;I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her — I could not &#8230; It very nearly destroyed me.&#8221;
And then, in 1980, his half-brothers, Stephen and Billy, died in a diving accident.
With one tragedy after another, Kelsey admitted at one point, &#8220;I probably lost it [his faith],&#8221; <a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/frasier-sequel-kelsey-grammer-paramount-plus-newsupdate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Radio Times</a> noted. &#8220;I abandoned the effort to find a reason to be alive.&#8221;
The actor said he started drinking to try and escape the pain of his past.
&#8220;I was running away from the feelings that weren&#8217;t, you know, as comfortable as I wanted them to do be, and maybe I do have a self-destructive part of me,&#8221; Grammer shared.
But through these new emotional difficulties he kept his faith.
&#8220;Kayte and I had a couple of miscarriages before we had our first child,&#8221; the actor explained. &#8220;That was devastating. These things are hard. But when it&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s magnificent.&#8221;
In 2021, Grammer told <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/frasier-kelsey-grammer-faith-american-brewing-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News,</a> that faith is &#8220;something you have to fight for&#8221; as he looked back on how far he&#8217;s come with his addiction, when he promoted his business the Faith American Brewing Company and talked about his children.
&#8220;It&#8217;s no accident that it&#8217;s called Faith American,&#8221; Grammer explained at the time. &#8220;My daughter&#8217;s name is Faith, but there&#8217;s also action in faith. Faith is something you have to fight for.&#8221;
&#8220;We fought for this beautiful child in our lives, and she&#8217;s our first child,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And the idea of America is still something I&#8217;m willing to fight for. So faith in America, we&#8217;re still doing it … I&#8217;m very proud of it.&#8221;
These days, Grammer is called dad by seven children: Spencer, with ex-wife Doreen Alderman; Greer, with hair and makeup stylist Barrie Buckner; Mason and Jude, with ex-wife Camille Donatacci; and Faith, Kelsey Jr., and Auden, whom he shares with Kayte.
&#8220;As a Christian, we always fail because we can&#8217;t become Christ,&#8221; <a href="https://inews.co.uk/essentials/kelsey-grammer-i-can-try-least-emulate-christs-best-qualities-even-i-may-fall-short-78725" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grammer previously shared</a>. &#8220;But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.&#8221;
&#8220;Jesus Revolution&#8221; hits theaters February 22.

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There exists in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> a small contingency of fringe radicals intent on holding their party hostage simply out of personal vendettas or in order to make grandstanding declarations, only to come up short. At the same time, the party establishment runs roughshod over their far-fetched dreams of shaking up the system.
Of course, we&#8217;re talking about &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-squad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Squad</a>&#8221; — comprised of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashia Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), among others.
In light of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-concessions-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-gave-to-republican-holdouts-to-win-their-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20 McCarthy holdouts</a> securing essentially all of their demands last week, it would appear that leftists are wondering when these so-called &#8220;progressives&#8221; will start battling the Democratic leaders effectively as well. According to some, the holdouts provided a roadmap for victory.
That raises the question, when is the last time — if ever in living memory —that Republicans were credited by their opponents for their political strategy?
&#8220;In the last week, the Republican right fought Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker of the House and showed everyone how to play political hardball to build power,&#8221; Jacobin writer Neal Meyer <a href="https://jacobin.com/2023/01/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-bid-far-right-congressional-strategy-lessons-for-left/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a>. &#8220;The Left, with growing socialist caucuses at the state level and a growing bench of progressive representatives in DC, needs to learn some lessons.&#8221;
Meyer —obviously — does not support the goals of the Freedom Caucus. He wants America to become more socialist.  Yet, he gives credit to the GOP representatives who successfully negotiated Congress to become more conservative.
&#8220;They deserve every decent person’s scorn,&#8221; Meyer said of folks like Congressmen Chip Roy (R-TX) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL). &#8220;But when it comes to tactics, one has to admit that they know how to play.&#8221;
The author also does a terrific job of highlighting the concessions secured:
<blockquote>McCarthy agreed to add three members from the Freedom Caucus to the House Rules Committee. That will allow the far right to help shape the issues to be considered by the House. McCarthy’s own PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, agreed not to intervene in open primaries against far-right candidates. McCarthy agreed to bring back the Holman Rule, which allows legislators to propose defunding specific federal programs, to fire specific federal officials, and to slash officials’ pay.
Most significantly, he agreed to bring back the “motion to vacate the chair,” which will allow just one Republican to call for a snap vote to remove the speaker.</blockquote>
The Jacobin writer is correct to say that the ability of only one Republican to be able to bring forth a vote to remove McCarthy, or another Speaker, is the &#8220;most&#8221; significant victory.
Why?
Well, that&#8217;s what gives the conservative base actual leverage under a McCarthy speakership. Should he backtrack on his promises, then McCarthy will almost assuredly find himself without the gavel shortly thereafter.
This &#8220;motion to vacate the chair&#8221; is actually a return to how Congress operated before ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) won back the position in 2018.
Meyer claims that the goals sought by the 19 members of the Freedom Caucus and their one ally outside the group are &#8220;detestable.&#8221; Yet, he is fair enough to recognize that &#8220;every one of the concessions granted to the Right bolsters the morale of its base and will strengthen its hand in Congress in the months to come.&#8221;
Indeed, looking at the rhetoric of AOC, Omar, and the others who promised to change D.C. to help the marginalized, you have to wonder if they mean it at all. They certainly have little to no victories to show their supporters. Pelosi and other party leaders have, for lack of a better term, dog-walked &#8220;The Squad.&#8221;
In typical leftist fashion, Meyer states that conservatives now can &#8220;propagandize&#8221; from &#8220;bully pulpits.&#8221; He wants the Left to copy them to spread democratic socialist propaganda from the same position.
Of course, that would imply that he wants the Left to mislead Americans to adopt a collectivist society and fundamentally change the way our capitalist system operates. That&#8217;s how socialism always works — the implementation of it relies not on truth and data, rather, it depends on willfully selling a false product to the masses that sounds nice to useful idiots but does not deliver as promised.
Most Republican voters, at least those who support the reforms introduced last week, simply want the federal government to tell the truth, for Republicans to stay true to their campaign promises, and want to stop the Left in its tracks while offering a conservative vision of the country.
If you&#8217;re a Democratic voter who supports a socialist agenda, you must be asking if you have any real representation in Congress at all. For the first time in a while, the grassroots don&#8217;t have that problem.
Of course, well done is better than well said. So the real fruit of the Speaker&#8217;s battle will be seen in the years to come based on whether or not we start to see the federal government shift more conservative.
It&#8217;s a long battle, but at least it seems there are Republicans who are not only &#8220;prepared to fight&#8221; but win for their voters. &#8220;The Squad&#8221; can&#8217;t say the same right now.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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McCarthy Holdouts Teach ‘The Squad’ How To Fight And Win

McCarthy Holdouts Teach 'The Squad' How To Fight And Win

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The Squad

Just be normal. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis</a>&#8216; vision of the world is so normal that he is now considered an exceptional individual in contemporary politics by comparison to the vast majority of politicians who are disconnected from reality.
What is meant by normal is the idea that hard work matters, families are the bedrock of any community, and America is an exceptional nation that deserves protection from threats from outside and within, among other tried and true methods of governance.
All of that used to be commonplace in society. Men and women living out those ideas made America the greatest country in the history of the world. Anything that went against those notions was considered an aberration in politics that should be guarded against.
However, over the past few decades, the Left has trashed those principles. Instead, generations have been taught that the U.S. is an evil nation with irredeemable sins. The institutions that created America and transformed the world — the argument goes — need to be completely dismantled and remade in a collectivist vision for a better future.
That message has received very little pushback in the public sphere. It has been hard to find anybody expressing those values concisely and effectively.
Yet on Tuesday, the re-elected chief executive laid out his successes in the Sunshine State and guiding belief system in a complete rejection of the status quo.
&#8220;We reject this woke ideology,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/freedom-lives-here-ron-desantis-sworn-in-for-second-term-as-florida-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, speaking on behalf of Floridians&#8217; opposition to leftism run amok. &#8220;We seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy! We will not allow reality, facts, and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob.&#8221;
What exactly does that &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology entail?
As the potential 2024 presidential candidate put it, it&#8217;s one that &#8220;rejects merit and achievement&#8221; while advocating  &#8220;identity essentialism.&#8221; It coddles criminals while attacking families. It expands the government while trampling on individual rights. It spoils the innocence of children while shielding the guilt of &#8220;entrenched bureaucrats in D.C., jet-setters in Davos, and corporations wielding public power&#8221; who want to control life.
In other words — it is a complete abandonment of the Judeo-Christian principles laid out by our Founding Fathers and the belief in individual responsibility and limited government.
Those promoting said &#8220;philosophical lunacy&#8221; are not limited to the Democrats alone, it should be noted. Many establishment Republicans are all too happy to go along with this as well.
So, if that is what the Left in all its forms stands for, then what does DeSantis&#8217; brand believe should be put forth?
Well, he really stands for the idea that Americans should have pride in their country, work to make a community better, have a government that defends its citizens, and a nation that promotes its founding ideals.
More than that, he wants each person to believe in himself or herself.
&#8220;Decline is a choice. Success is attainable. And freedom is worth fighting for,&#8221; the governor stated on Tuesday.
None of what he said are new ideas, really. He spoke a timeless message that can be applied to any American in any situation — not just politics.
DeSantis also emphasized his state&#8217;s reliance on God, in the great tradition of American history. He promised to fight back against a federal government that has let America&#8217;s borders become porous and enacted energy policies that make us dependent on others.
But more than that, the governor also emphasized that &#8220;results matter.&#8221;
&#8220;We lead not by mere words, but by deeds,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;Four years ago, we promised to pursue a bold agenda. We did just that and we have produced results.&#8221;
Again, that is an entirely all-American message. In the U.S., we don&#8217;t play to have fun, we play to win; well done is better than well said; rely on yourself and your family, not welfare; all men are created equal; having responsibility is a good thing; faith matters above anything else.
Even the mere fact that DeSantis was willing to describe that as &#8220;normalcy&#8221; shows that he is ready and willing to fight the Left.
Consider that for most of our history, it hasn&#8217;t been the goal to view others in terms of racial or class groups, but to view each other as individuals. That hasn&#8217;t always happened in practice, but in theory, that was the objective as laid out in the Declaration of Independence. It isn&#8217;t in our heritage to depend on the government. Yet now, with radical gender theory and Critical Race Theory pervasive, all of that is at risk. The Left truly wants to &#8220;fundamentally transform&#8221; America and divide us by race, gender, and class while increasing government control.
The worldview that is being pushed now by the Democratic Party isn&#8217;t &#8220;normal&#8221; in America.
For some reason, many Republicans are afraid to put forth a positive vision of the future.
DeSantis is one of the best communicators of what our nation can look like — if only we have politicians willing to stand up. He does so not by lamenting upon the past, but by taking the lessons from history and applying them to the challenges at hand. Furthermore, he isn&#8217;t afraid to wield government power to implement his goals.
There are other Republicans who fit that description as well — Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) and Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), for example.
To that extent, perhaps the greatest lesson of recent elections is that voters simply want competent Republicans in office who reflect the values they were raised with.
Americans are looking for elected officials who you would trust your kids around, or ones you would want to attend a BBQ with. These are men and women who have manners, but aren&#8217;t wussies and are tough when needed, and above all, are actually conservative populists with the results to back it up — in other words, authentic Americans.
If the GOP is looking for a creed to follow as the fight continues, they should glean ideas from DeSantis&#8217; second inaugural address.
Ultimately, DeSantis&#8217; speech is refreshing because it&#8217;s a message that we haven&#8217;t heard in a while, but one all patriotic Americans understand all too well.
The full text of the address can be read <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2023/01/03/governor-desantis-delivers-inaugural-address-sets-priorities-for-second-term/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Just Be Normal: DeSantis’ Winning Political Message

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Fans love that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-allen">Tim Allen</a> is reprising his role as Santa for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Disney+</a> miniseries, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">The Santa Clauses</a>,” but some critics are complaining he’s too much of a “right-wing Santa.”
The 69-year-old actor is one of the few openly conservative people in Hollywood. This makes it no surprise that critics zeroed in on a single line in the new “Santa Clauses” series that follows up on the popular “The Santa Clause” movie franchise, which premiered in 1994.
Allen again plays toy salesman Scott Calvin, who becomes Santa, but now he’s looking for a suitable successor to wear the red suit. One reviewer described the character as a “cranky, conservative Santa Claus.”
In one scene, Allen’s character complains about the state of modern society. “&#8217;Saying ‘Merry Christmas to all’ has suddenly become problematic,” he observes.
 “What was going on in the minds of the writers as they penned this semi-political one-liner?” an article on The A.V. Club <a href="https://www.avclub.com/the-santa-clauses-saying-merry-christmas-problematic-1849792146">wondered</a>.
DigitalTrends had a similar <a href="https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/the-santa-clauses-series-review/">reaction</a> to that moment. “To suggest it strips the story of some of its charm is an understatement, but with only two episodes to go on, the series’ plans for its right-wing Santa are almost certainly going to make or break the show,” that reviewer observed, also noting how Allen’s character seems “like he’s spent too much of the Christmas offseason watching Fox News.”
Showrunner Jack Burditt addressed the line during an <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/11/the-santa-clauses-how-creator-jack-burditt-and-star-tim-allen-were-shrewdly-tricked-into-doing-the-disney-comedy-1235173505/">interview</a> with Deadline. The interviewer explicitly asked about the “lightning rod” quote and asked if there was any “back and forth” on including it. Burditt said the writers did consider the implications.
“Yeah, we did,” the showrunner said. “This is something that I just think is silly but then I’m like, I don’t know.&#8221;
“I mean, look, we also had a joke at one point where Santa is on his rounds, they’re going in for a landing and somebody’s shooting something up at him. And Noel the elf [who rides with Santa], says something like, ‘A war on Christmas!’ I’m like, yeah, I don’t wanna go that far,” he continued.
Allen has been a target in Hollywood not just because he’s conservative, but also due to the success of his comedy series “Last Man Standing,” which was a ratings success until it was abruptly canceled. 
The “Home Improvement” alum blamed his political beliefs on the show’s cancelation. 
“There’s nothing more dangerous to me, especially in this climate, than a funny, likable conservative,” Allen <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/09/27/tim-allen-thinks-conservative-politics-might-be-why-last-man-standing-got-canceled/">said</a> at the time. 
“That was the most dangerous thing. Because he was mitigated on his show by a family of women that had different opinions — but the guy was a likable guy, a principled guy, just about work and ethics and all this stuff. I think there’s nothing more dangerous now than a likable conservative character.”
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