Jim Rutenberg
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207 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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And this legislation he had been working up against the platforms, which was very much in keeping with a unified MAGA theory of the case on speech, now it was applying as well to the Trump administration.
Rand Paul, maybe that should be no surprise, very libertarian-leaning Republican senator.
But John Thune, the leader of the Senate Republicans, was there with him, not nearly as outspoken.
And then you even had some podcasters, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, you know, he's kind of his own thing.
Yeah.
He didn't like it.
And part of the argument went, you do this now to a Kimmel, and when a Democratic administration's in, they're going to do it to us.
Yeah.
As we speak, the FCC has told the show The View that runs on ABC, we're watching you for violations of the equal time rules you have candidates on.
So they are full steam ahead on this.
Daniel Sir put it this way, which was, hey, as conservatives, we love the free market.
But when it comes to television, the free market is not helping us.
It's all become liberally biased, which is not fair.
But now the argument is the free market is not.
So we are going to use the power of the administrative state.
They don't say that, but that's what this is, to correct this imbalance that the market has allowed.
Daniel Sir had worked at the Federalist Society.
When I asked Daniel about these adjacencies with Leo and Leo's new work on culture, what he said was, yeah, absolutely.
I am fully supportive and I'd like to think that my effort helps his.
Because what Leonard Leo wants to do ultimately is bring more family-friendly, patriotic, and faith-based programming to television.
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