Exclusive: Republicans huddle with FCC chair in closed-door meeting to dismantle DEI, liberal media machine



House Republicans met with FCC Chair Brendan Carr and Republican Study Committee Chair Rep. August Pfluger (Texas) on Wednesday to discuss the evolving media landscape under President Donald Trump's administration.

During the closed-door meeting that Blaze News was given exclusive access to, both Pfluger and Carr addressed concerns about the liberal bias in publicly funded platforms like NPR, as well as the importance of empowering local media.

Carr, who has been an FCC commissioner since 2017, homed in on the importance of free speech and the First Amendment and also of applying existing regulations evenly rather than to advance a political agenda.

'The RSC is committed to working alongside Chairman Carr to dismantle the censorship cartel, strengthen America's digital infrastructure through free-market principles, and restore free-speech rights for everyday Americans.'

"For too long in this government, particularly the last couple of years, your last name dictated how the government treated you," Carr said. "If your last name was Soros, the commission bent over backwards and gave you a special, unprecedented commission-level shortcut to buy 200 radio stations. If your last name was Musk, then you lost $800 million contracts that you lawfully got."

"Everybody now is going to get a fair shake going forward," Carr added.

In the meeting, Carr laid out a four-step plan to reduce media bias and restore the FCC's core principles, which include reining in Big Tech censorship, reinvigorating trust in national and local media, putting forward both economic and permitting reforms, and bolstering aspects of our national security.

With the support of Pfluger and RSC members, Carr is confident that he can accomplish these directives.

"We thank Chairman Carr for his bold leadership in confronting malign influences like George Soros that corrupt our media and silence conservative voices, and the committee fully supports his efforts to restore truth to our public disclosure while expanding broadband access to rural communities," Pfluger said.

"The RSC is committed to working alongside Chairman Carr to dismantle the censorship cartel, strengthen America's digital infrastructure through free-market principles, and restore free-speech rights for everyday Americans," Pfluger added.

Carr also spoke about some of the reforms he has already enacted. Prior to his becoming chair, Carr noted, DEI was the second-most highly prioritized core value of the FCC. Since then, Trump has issued an executive order uprooting DEI from all federal entities, and the FCC has followed suit.

"We've ended the FCC promotion of DEI," Carr said. "You would be outraged if you realized how much promoting DEI had been embedded in FCC work. ... We were spending millions and millions of dollars promoting DEI. Meanwhile, what fell by the wayside was the FCC's actual core work — and doing it competently — of connecting Americans."

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I am thankful for X-rays and washing machines



It is truly a remarkable thing for Americans to make a holiday out of gratefulness, and it is very fitting for us, as we are among the most fortunate of people on the face of the Earth.

We have so much to be grateful for in this country. We are incredibly wealthy compared to most countries; we have more freedoms afforded to us by our constitutional traditions; we have more opportunities for success and for failure.

She excitedly asked if she could press the buttons on the machine. Then she sat in front of it, watching it work as if it were entertainment.

It is a recognition of these blessings that made me a conservative and continues to sustain my belief in conservative values despite the constant challenges to that understanding of the world.

At the top of that list is the free market, which is the source of so many of the blessings we have to be grateful for. And this is not to say that the free market should be unfettered or that there are no abuses of this system. Of course there are abuses, and the causes for those abuses run a spectrum from lack of personal responsibility all of the way to systemic failures.

If anything, the free market brings us so many blessings that we take them for granted and forget quickly how our lives have improved in such a short time.

I have a great example showing this tendency. A while back I had a dental check-up, and the youngish assistant notified me that we were going to take X-rays of my teeth. I got ready to go to the X-ray room. Of course, she just pulled over the X-ray machine, put it up to my face, and snapped a few images.

“That machine is so amazing,” I said to her.

She didn't understand what I meant.

I explained that just a few years back, X-ray machines were much bigger and more expensive and it was not as convenient to take them. She had no clue.

I felt like that meme of an aged lady telling some young person about the olden days and young person responds by saying, “That’s great! Let's get you to bed, Grandma.”

Now part of the reason that story happened is simply because I am getting older, but it’s also because things get better and better every moment of every day through the invisible hand of the free market, and we benefit from it and take it all for granted.

It simply blows my mind that people are born on Earth in this age after thousands of years of incredible technological and scientific advancements, and instead of looking around in overwhelming wonder and gratefulness, they look for the problems and call for it all to be wiped away.

I’ll bother you with one more example that I always refer to when challenged on this subject, if you’ll indulge me. There is a Ted Talk that can be viewed on YouTube about the laundry washing machine and how it absolutely revolutionized women’s lives and changed human society.

Swedish academic Hans Rosling details the day when he was a child and his parents finally were able to save enough money to buy a washing machine. His grandmother, who had spent a lifetime heating water over a wood fire and washing the laundry of seven children by hand, excitedly asked if she could press the buttons on the machine. Then she sat in front of it, watching it work as if it were entertainment.

“To my grandmother, the washing machine was a miracle,” he explained.

He goes on to explain how that one technological advancement that we all take for granted allowed women to have more leisure time, and that allowed for some of them to read, and even more advancements gave them the freedom to work and find their own careers.

Go watch it. It’s worth your time, and it only has 736,000 views, shamefully, after being available for 10 years.

It really is worthwhile to stop and consider just how much freedom we have been given, for good and bad, because of all the advancements invented and developed in the free market — and to remember those blessings when we decide whether to be on the side of policies that increase freedom or on the side of those designed to stomp it out.

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Woke Economists’ Kamala Endorsement Prioritizes Ideology Over Reality

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Tech legend DESTROYS Kamala’s plan to fight ‘price gouging’ as socialist policy that will result in BREADLINES



Kamala Harris’ plan to fight “price gouging” with price controls may be enough to fool low information voters, but it’s not fooling America’s best and brightest.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is one of them, telling his audience “I don’t like her very much.”

Tech legend David Friedberg from the “All-In Podcast” is another one — and he has a warning for those who blindly believe what Harris is saying about the supposed “price gouging” taking place at the grocery store.

“I unequivocally hate socialism. Socialism destroys innovation, destroys productivity, and destroys individual liberties,” Friedberg said in response to her plan.

“The free market works in that everyone is always competing with each other, creating new productivity improvements, and as a result, over time, prices come down. Except when the government intervenes and gets involved,” he continued.

“I would argue that the real cause of price inflation in food is not the supposed price gouging by corporate players in the AG and food industry, all of whom are deeply competitive with one another, but rather is the result of the inflation associated with government spending and stimulus coming out of COVID.”

Friedberg then pointed out that the FED balance sheet from COVID until today has grown from 4.2 trillion to 7.2 trillion, which is a growth of 70%.

“The Federal Reserve went out and they bought assets and they issued debt to banks and introduced liquidity into the system,” he explained, noting that the result of this was that the M2 money supply increased from 15 trillion to 21 trillion since COVID, which is a 40% increase.

“So, now there is more money in the system, so the cost of everything should go up. Which is exactly what we’ve seen,” he said, before sending a warning.

“Every socialist experiment in human history has started with caps on food, and it has resulted in breadlines,” he said. “This is a mistake, it is a problem, it is anti-American, it is anti-free market, it is anti-innovation, it is anti-productivity, and ultimately, it’s anti-liberty, and I cannot stand it.”


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Watch: Mark Levin educates Marxist Democrats on basic economics



The left desperately needs a lesson in economics, and Mark Levin is here to supply it — because Marxists like Robert Reich are failing to do the job.

Reich claims that the “crises” Republicans are concerned about are “totally made up” in order to “distract from the real crises facing Americans” like “growing concentration of wealth” and the “worsening climate crisis.”

“I’m tired of this Marxist claptrap with class warfare,” Levin says, before destroying Reich’s argument.

“According to the Marxists,” he begins, “there’s only one pie. And the more somebody takes out of that pie, the less pie you have to eat. That’s not how market capitalism works.”

“Under capitalism,” he continues, “the pie gets bigger and bigger and bigger except when these masterminds Bernie Sanders, Biden, Reich jump in. And they try and decide who will and who will not succeed.”

This is precisely why the attack on entire industries like automobiles — by “Democratic socialists” like Biden — is going to hurt the economy more than help it.

“The more the government rules over the economy, the harder it is for the economy to grow. And sometimes it begins to shrink,” Levin explains.

Leftists also seem to operate under the belief that there is no middle class in this country.

“We have a massive middle class in this country. Why? Because the government dictated it? No. Because the Industrial Revolution,” Levin says, noting that the Industrial Revolution “was the greatest period of economic growth mankind has ever experienced.”

“Ever since, the Marxists, the Democrats, have done everything they can to it. They hate capitalism,” he adds.


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Oh. My. Gosh. His AOC impression is HILARIOUS



Oh. My. Gosh. Pat Gray makes the best impression of Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez.

In this clip, Pat read the transcript from an episode of "Influencers" with Andy Serwer. The Congresswoman from New York had some rather vague things to say about why she believes capitalism no longer suits America.

Ocasio-Cortez attempted to define "capitalism": "Capitalism at its core, what we're talking about when we talk about that is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost. Many of these price increases are potentially due to just straight price gouging by corporations. If we allow a full just continuation of student loan payments, we are talking about a catastrophic development for millions."

"Listen to this sentence," Pat laughs, "What we are talking about when we talk about that." You have to hear Pat read this story in his best "AOC" voice. "And that is people who have so much money that their money makes money and they don't have to work, and they can control industry," Pat mocked.


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