I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Brightport News, and this is the Brightbert News Daily podcast.

We begin

today's show with another Ted Cruz disappointment. He made a 180-degree flip and is apparently

going to join the establishment media in supporting the JCPA media cartel bill. It's truly an appalling

move that will only serve one of the worst industries in the world. And I beg the question,

why? Why would Cruz do this? I try to explain it all in the opening. Next, we take on the Fed's

decision to raise interest rates, another 75 basis points. This is exactly what everyone expected,

and it probably won't reduce inflation. So why bother? We explore that as well. We touch on quite a bit more in the

opening, especially an update on the man who allegedly killed a maggot with his car, a Maga

Republican because he was allegedly an extremist of some kind. He is now out on bond. Terrific.

Our guest today is Larry Elder. Larry Elder was, of course, my first boss in

the conservative movement and interned for him when I was just coming out of high school and into

college a little bit, and his new movie Uncle Tom 2 is sensational, and you should all watch it.

We explore the true history of Black America with truly one of the right's most agile minds, Larry himself.

All right.

All right. All that in the show.

Let's get into it. It gives me not only no pleasure.

It makes me very upset to report this, but Senator Ted Cruz has somehow decided that he's going to join the

Democrats, Amy Klobuchar in particular, and support the media cartel censorship bill known as the

JCPA. And they have teamed together to cut a backroom deal. The details are somewhat murky.

And the, but now the conservative icon, Ted Cruz, has now gone

against the base and he joined the political immediate establishments to push this bill through

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