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Changing of the Guard: Disney Coup Returns Woke-Meister Bob Iger to Throne of Magic Kingdom

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Disney board of directors dumps short-term CEO Bob Chapek and restores Woke-Meister Bob Iger to the throne of the Magic Kingdom's content slag heap. The Disney Plus streaming service lost $1.5 billion, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis no longer coddles the corporation, or tolerates its sexual-identity antics. Can this former promoter of American values and good clean fun, recover from its long descent into valuelessness? Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott have co-hosted a current events show multiple times each week since 2009, thanks to our Members and donors. To donate: https://BillWhittle.com/donate-to-Bill-Whittle/ To join: https://BillWhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Did you guys hear about the big shakeup at Walt Disney Company? Yes, I did. Yeah.

0:05.4

What's his name? Iger. Iger's back. Bob Chapick was the, this is what I get for reading

0:13.0

everything. I need to watch TV more. Is he the guy who was in Chapie? He's been the CEO since Bob Iger retired a couple of years ago. And I don't know if

0:25.0

you're aware of this, but over the last year, year and a half, Disney has been one of the

0:28.3

worst performing major stocks. Markets down about a third, a little less than a third now. Disney

0:33.2

shares are down more than 50%. And, well, there's been a board shakeup. And I think what shocked

0:40.7

everybody, it wasn't so much that they got rid of Chepec, but that they brought back Bob Iger

0:45.6

for two more years. Who knows? Who knows? Maybe longer. And you know it was all above board. And the way

0:52.9

democratically run companies are run these days by leading progressive thought leaders because the way the employees found out about it was Bob Eager wrote an email to them that basically said, oh, I'm humbled and startled that here I am and I'm back. So he announced his own, it was almost like it was a military coup and he was in charge now.

1:12.9

Right.

1:14.3

They should have done a video with two soldiers standing behind him.

1:17.9

That's right.

1:18.9

So there's actually quite a lot going on here with this.

1:22.0

Oh, yeah.

1:23.7

Chepec was trying, he didn't have anything like the authority.

1:27.0

I forget who's the guy at Warner who just basically went in and canceled Bat Girl? You just said it's garbage. We just, anyway, that guy, whose name alludes me like everything else, that guy had actual power. But Cheapac was trying to detoxify Disney and he was doing it as fast as he could, but he didn't have

1:47.3

anything like that kind of unilateral power.

1:50.2

So, so Chepeg was trying to get Disney to be less aggressively woke.

1:55.5

And all of the people that got Disney's stock price in half were people who were appointed by

2:00.6

Bob Eiger. Yeah, I who were appointed by Bob Iger.

2:01.7

Yeah, I was going to say Iger's the architect of a lot of this.

2:04.1

Absolutely.

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