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or Kennedy forwarded her clip on X and added his comment. So why did a former NPR editor find that their $200 million DC newsroom had 87 Democrats in editorial positions and zero Republicans? So the CEO of NPR wants us to believe that they're nonpartisan, but 100% of their editors, and there are a lot of them, 87 of them, every one of them is a Democrat. I'm not sure I believe her. Well, let's se…
← Previous segment →omething very cool is brewing. And later he said working on a new way to make creative viral videos fast. It's being called Imagine. So maybe Grok will be your solution to meme making.
I don't know if it will suggest a meme or if you have to just pick your own image and then add your own text, or will it use AI to suggest viral videos. I don't know if AI is up to that. So I'm going to guess it's just helping you make your own memes. I doubt it could make a meme that anybody would care about, but we'll see. If it can, that would be indeed very cool.
All right. Here's what I love. So Dana Bash was on CNN and she was reading a Truth Social post by Trump. And in that post, Trump was saying he was talking about the fake news PBS and NPR, and he said that they were even worse than CNN. Now, because he's the president of the United States, whatever he says that's provocative is news. So CNN, whose job is to cover the news, has to read out loud or show that the president of the United States calls them fake news.
So let me ask you this. I've told you that I like watching the news for the humor. And honestly, that's not hyperbole. I watch the news, you know, somewhat to be informed, but also because it's funny so often. Now, what would be funnier than Trump making the fake news cover the real news that the president of the United States calls the fake news the fake news?
Let me read that again because I'm so proud of it. I wrote this. What is funnier than Trump making the fake news cover the real news that the president of the United States calls the fake news the fake news? Nothing. There's nothing funnier than that. The fact that Trump has made the fake news punch themselves on air. I've got a message from the president. Oh, whoa. Stop hitting me. No, I can't. Now that's funny.
All right. Joy Reid was a guest on Piers Morgan's show and he shows a video of her crying after getting fired from MSNBC, and she claimed that part of the reason she got fired is that she's a Black woman. And Piers Morgan pushed back and he said, "Let's be honest. I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you're a Black woman."
So I'm going to side with Joy Reid, who believes she was fired by MSNBC, the most left-leaning place on Earth, because of her Black woman status. But she's not alone. There's a pattern that's been developed because another Black woman named Stephen Colbert. Steven Colbert. There's another Black woman who's been cancelled. Apparently she had a show on late night, some kind of late night show she had, and I've never saw it, but I've heard of it.
So Black woman Stephen Colbert has also been cancelled. Now, it's not because she apparently said bad things about her employer and about the $16 million lawsuit to Trump. He called it a big fat bribe, but it probably wasn't because of that. It was pro—wait, what? Somebody's telling me that Stephen Colbert is a white man. Well, how's that possible? I thought they were just cancelling Black women, but he's a white man, Canadian. Oh, wow.
All right. Well, I have all that wrong. So forget everything I said. Turns out that Stephen Colbert is and was a white man. A white man. All right, good.
But the reason for the cancellation appears to be low ratings. They were insufficient for monetizing it. So they're losing money on late night. If you're losing money on late night, aren't you probably losing money on everything? Because late night used to be the big money maker, right? It used to be that Johnny Carson was the big money maker.
Adam Schiff was just on Stephen Colbert. I wonder why they're getting cancelled. Huh.
All right. Well, according to Axios, Trump is really serious about turning Alcatraz into a maximum security prison. And officials made a preliminary cost estimate, and I guess Bondi and Burgum toured it yesterday, and it's going to cost $2 billion to turn the old closed prison of Alca
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traz into a new modern prison. Do you think that'll actually happen? Why in the world would they think it's a good idea to turn Alcatraz into a prison? There's got to be a cheaper way to do it than putting it on a stupid island. Wouldn't that be the most expensive way you could build a building on an island? I mean, seriously. And so somebody has to ask Trump, if he's an expert on building stuff…
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