Welcome back to the Dirt Show. You know, you can now watch the Dirt Show live on either

rumble or YouTube. If you want to send me messages as we're talking real-time messages,

it has to be sent to YouTube and I can read them on the side and I'll try to pick them

up as I'm talking to you so they can come in in real-time. Since we spoke last week,

there have been a lot of media developments. As you remember, the last show was my criticism of Fox

for settling a suit that I believe they could have won in the end, although they might have lost

that trial because the judge seemed to have been very biased against their position,

but I think it would have won on appeal. I was critical and I said on this podcast that would

cause self-sensorship. Well, my predictions are generally pretty right on and so today both Fox

and CNN engaged in self-sensorship, Fox by firing its most prominent online presence, obviously,

Tucker Carlson, who had the eight o'clock slot, the most important slot on Fox and who had

the largest audience, twice as large at CNN and MSNBC, only about half as large as O'Reilly,

who also got canned, but for I think rather different reasons. And then at the same time,

probably coincidentally, but who knows, Don Lemon either got fired or got just dismissed or

was made an offer that he didn't accept. It's a little unclear, CNN has one narrative, and

Don Lemon has another narrative, I believe, Don Lemon's narrative, I think he was fired.

The cases are rather distinguishable. I mean, Don Lemon did some things that

may very well warrant a firing. I mean, the worst thing he did was, you remember the case of

that guy? What's his name? Elon Smollett, the Smollett, who was, you know, being investigated for

making up a full story about a racial attack. And Don Lemon, supposed to be only a journalist,

gave him essentially legal advice not to give up his cell phone. That's not something a journalist

should do. It was much, much, much worse than anything that Chris Cuomo did, but Chris also was fired.

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