Ben Rhodes
speaker
103 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It wasn't until I walked up to him.
Now, there was a lynching in the 80s.
Okay.
Yeah, I agree with everything Keisha said.
Yeah, let's go for it.
Some people see this and they think, it's just one TV show, it's just Stephen Colbert, it's just Jimmy Kimmel, it's just late night.
What you have to see it as a part of a concerted strategy, where not only do you have pro-Trump oligarchs consolidate and control the media, Russia, if we're talking about Hungary, if we're talking about Turkey, you're talking about government-associated oligarchs, wealthy people with interests before the government, buying up the media because that's one way to retain favor with the leader.
But also, really importantly, it's the example that is set.
It's not just about what Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert said.
It's the fact that they basically got axed for their speech.
That is a message to every other broadcaster on every other medium in this country that if you say something the leader doesn't like, you're probably at risk of getting axed.
They want, Chris, people like you and me to be sitting here right now and have another voice in our head every time we open our mouths, that if we say the wrong thing, that might be it for us, too.
This is not just cancel culture.
It's way beyond that.
It's trying to enforce essentially an ideological test
on the broad-based news media that reaches the vast majority of Americans so that the only content they're seeing is essentially ideologically aligned with whatever Trump and his FCC director and a small group of people think.
That's what's happening.
We're pretty far along on this thing, right?
It took Putin a while.
They studied what Orban did.
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