JUST IN: Jesse Waters shouldn’t be hosting his show tonight on Fox News tonight. Is he the subsequent domino to fall on the network?
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) April 26, 2023
Susan Rice gone.
Buzz Feed dead.
Vice News possibly next.
CEO MSNBC resigned.
Don Lemon/CNN gone.
Bongino/Fox gone.
Carlson/ Fox gone.
Big shakeups within the media
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 24, 2023
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Comedy Under Attack: Stand-Up within the Age of Woke Mobs.
What number of security guards does it take to stage a comedy show?
That’s not a joke, and it’s definitely not funny. Comedians increasingly risk their lives for attempting to make us laugh.
The Slap heard ’around the world was only the start.
Yes, Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock on the 2022 Oscars gala got loads of attention. The media also pounced when a member of the audience jumped on stage on the Hollywood Bowl last yr and attacked Dave Chappelle, a knife in his pocket.
Other, more ominous threats of violence routinely fly under the media radar.
Right-leaning comedian Kvon, whose stage show is each traditional and mostly bipartisan, shared an Instagram post this week sharing the safety measures behind his recent show.
Read the entire thing.
THAT’S WHAT XI SAID! ‘The China Way:’ Biden Campaign Co-Chair Lavished Praise on China in Interview with CCP Propaganda Outlet.
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-chairman for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, heaped praise on China in an interview with Chinese state television, saying “doors opened” for his movie studio within the communist regime after he learned “the China way.”
Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks, said in a 2017 interview with CGTN America, a subsidiary of the CCP’s propaganda department, that business in China had proved “extremely rewarding.” He praised China’s technological innovation as “way ahead” of other countries, and downplayed concerns about China’s popularity for censoring American movies.
Katzenberg’s friendly relationship with China could present a political liability for Biden, who has come under scrutiny for failing to rise up to Beijing and for his son Hunter’s dealings there. National security officials have warned that the Chinese government increasingly tries to influence American foreign policy through business leaders and other influencers outside government.
Flashback: Biden Sold Out America to China While Working for Hollywood:
“A few of you were there. Literally when by end of that lunch we had a handshake,” Biden boasted to the MPAA. “The following yr the variety of blockbuster foreign movies showing in China has increased by over half and our share of the box office revenue has doubled — or your share of the box office revenue has doubled.”
“Keep me in mind for Chris [Dodd’s] assistant later,” he joked.
Biden understandably lost track of the difference between “your share” and “our share” because Hollywood has been a reliable fundraising machine for Biden. What was good for Hollywood was also good for Biden. Katzenberg got Oriental Dream Works, a $330-million three way partnership with the PRC, and eventually hosted Biden’s first Southern California fundraiser which brought in $700K.
2012 was an enormous yr for the adulterous nuptials of Hollywood and the Chinese Communist Party.
Just a few months after the meeting between Biden and Xi, China’s Wanda Group bought AMC Theaters for $2.6 billion. The Wanda Group, run by a billionaire Communist oligarch with close ties to regime officials, is working on a Communist theme park, and its investors allegedly include Xi’s sister. Beyond just owning the theaters, Wanda owns the Legendary Group which has a hand in an extended list of flicks from Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, to Pokemon, together with the King Kong and Jurassic Park sequels.
The one reason Hollywood movies can play in China is since the Communist leadership directly profits from them and controls what goes into them, either directly through ownership, or by forcing the industry to submit scripts for the approval of its Communist censors. HUAC can be superfluous today. The large studios who make up the MPAA are all working for the Communists. They usually’re pleased with it.
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for hundreds of thousands of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
h/t Limpan