The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
18 Feb 2025
Chapter 1: What new podcast is Megyn Kelly launching?
You can't make certain hiring and firing decisions based on those things, but you being a bad person is not illegal, right? Anyway, here they talk to the German prosecutor, And was the questioning like, what business do you have criminalizing the thoughts of your citizenry? That's not how it went, sought for.
What's the typical reaction when the police show up at somebody's door and they say, hey, we believe you wrote this on the Internet?
They say, in Germany we say, das wird man wohl doch mal sagen dürfen. So we are here with crimes of talking, posting on the Internet. And the people are surprised that this is really illegal to post these kind of words. They don't think it was illegal? No, they don't think it was illegal. And they say, no, that's my free speech.
And we say, no, yeah, free speech as well, but it also has its limits.
It has its limits. And Michael, the way they styled the whole piece with Sharon Alfonsi at the top, and she was the interviewer there, was civility has its, I mean, free speech has its limits because civility. That's what we're looking for. Actually, we have that. I'll let you hear it, and then I'll give you the floor. Watch.
In the United States, most of what anyone says, sends, or streams online, even if it's hate-filled or toxic, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But Germany is trying to bring some civility to the World Wide Web by policing it in a way most Americans could never imagine. German authorities have started prosecuting online trolls. It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning.
And we were with state police as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany. Inside, six armed officers searched the suspect's home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime, posting a racist cartoon online.
Go ahead, Michael. Your thoughts.
I love the appetite that you saw from the interviewer here. Oh, they didn't know that it was illegal, really, and then you showed up and you got them. If only we could bring these great ideas. She's obviously eager, like so much of the left, to import.
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Chapter 3: What was J.D. Vance's controversial speech about?
people too and that's why it's okay when you read mencken he goes after the people who live in baltimore and his peers and and politicians and people on both sides of the aisle with just as much viciousness as he did uh the people in rural tennessee that's what's missing from this show um it just it it's it's not funny because it's just a stereotype and it's it's not meant to go in all directions
And it's mean. It's like, you know, Tom Hanks, I'm sure he's worth a billion dollars. I'm sure he's got multiple mansions across the world. He probably has or at least can afford a yacht, every fancy sports car he wants. And you know who got it for him? All of us. Guys like the one he's making fun of right there who went to see Forrest Gump and
And big and all the fun Tom Hanks movies and never once thought that he was judging them as stupid, rural, worth nothing racists.
But he just he just pulled Forrest Gump down the river. He did a Forrest Gump imitation. And now he's now he's a racist. He just all that good work went away.
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