The Drive at 5 + The Return of the Mystery Movie Clip
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:
- Attorney James Jordan— Litigation Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a Maine hospital which has sued a former employee and her 15-year-old son, after the publication of an op-ed critical of the hospital’s allegedly relaxed safety standards. You can read more here: https://reason.com/2023/08/25/hospital-threatens-defamation-suit-over-a-15-year-olds-change-org-petition/
- During Monday’s White House press briefing, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Benjamin was bizarrely asked if there was a connection between the Jacksonville shooting and Governor Ron DeSantis’ advocacy against “critical race theory” being taught in Florida public schools. Benjamin, perhaps just as outrageously, refused to deny that there could be a connection.
- The Afternoon Mystery Movie Clip is BACK! But probably only because all of the other show hosts are on vacation…
- Republican candidate for president Vivek Ramaswamy called out Congresswoman Ayana Pressley for suggesting that skin color should determine how a person votes. While appearing on MSNBC with Joy Reid, Rep. Pressley doubled-down calling Republican rhetoric “dangerous.”
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| 0:00.0 | W-P-H-D-L-E-P-H-D-H-D-W-O-G-L-H-D-D-3, Philadelphia, from the Cheerio Volos studios, where relationships matter. |
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| 0:14.0 | Will be brought to you, this is the next generation of talk. |
| 0:20.0 | Now, this is the drive at 5.30 minutes of non-stop talk with Rich, CEO Lee. |
| 0:30.0 | While freedom of speech is under attack in this country, the first amendment, it seems like every day there's another story of people trying to censor, cancel, and punish people for speech. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back to the show, glad you're here. 855-3912-10, on Twitter, at Rich, CEO Lee, don't forget. |
| 0:48.5 | Friday, our big show live at the Grand Hotel of Cape May, New Jersey. I want to see you there live in person. |
| 0:54.5 | It's going to be a great day, 3-7 pm, so come out and see us, alright? |
| 0:59.0 | You don't want to miss these live shows, they are always fun. |
| 1:02.0 | Let me welcome to the program, James Jordan, from the organization that I think is one of the absolute best in this country, the Foundation, for individual rights and expression. |
| 1:12.0 | James Jordan is a litigation fellow there. |
| 1:15.0 | Councillor, how are you today? |
| 1:17.0 | I'm doing well, Rich. How are you? |
| 1:19.0 | I'm doing well. I appreciate your time. I appreciate the great work that Fire does to protect free speech rights in this country. |
| 1:26.0 | I think it's incredibly important. You're doing something right now where you have a young man who wrote an op-ed. |
| 1:33.0 | And there's now a hospital who's trying to sue him. Tell us about it. |
| 1:39.0 | Sure, so our client is a 14-year-old who, you know, he learned about his local hospital's patient care protocols, and he took issue with them. |
| 1:51.0 | He didn't think that they were doing enough. So he wrote an op-ed in his campus newspaper, just calling for people to look into that. |
| 2:00.0 | He also started a Change.org petition. He addressed it to his local congressman, and he was just hoping to get signatures for that. |
| 2:09.0 | And then the hospital responded by delivering a lawsuit threat actually against our client's mother, who was a former doctor at the hospital, but based entirely on what he was advocating for. |
| 2:27.0 | All right, so what is their argument that the kid is a defamation lawsuit? So what does that mean? What is the legal standard for defamation? |
| 2:38.0 | Well, they're stating that a lot of the statements that our client put in his advocacy are false. |
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