BREITBART UPSTREAM 4/28/26 with Jerome Hudson

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SPEAKER_00 1:01

Let's start there. The White House Correspondents Dinner. What are your thoughts? What do you got?

SPEAKER_01 1:08

No, I mean the Washington Hilton, right? I'm sure you said it, has that very dark irony uh of being the site of an attempted presidential assassination. Um, of course, James Brady uh took a bullet, paralyzed, and had neurological issues for the rest of his natural life. Um after Hinckley tried to kill President Reagan. Hinkley actually came out yesterday. I don't know if you saw that and agreed with President Trump.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Oh, I missed that.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Yeah, I know. He came out yesterday. He's like obviously he's been out of prison for a few years and he went on tour, which is just incredible.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

But yeah, coming to a parking garage near you, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yeah, I hadn't really heard from him in a while, and then yesterday CMZ get a video of him agreeing with President Trump that the Washington Hilton is no place to actually have an event posting the president and the vice president and the line of succession. Uh but you know, I the the event was was awful enough. Um but the making light of the life of the President of the United States has been a recurring theme on the left uh for many years. I mean, we're we've just we're just 10 plus years uh in into the outright naked uh promotion of the death of President Trump. And you even have now school teachers and administrators being put on leave once again uh being sad over the fact um that Cole Allen wasn't actually able to take the president's life. I'm I'm literally writing an article now about Jimmy Kimmel making more uh Melania Trump expectant widow jokes. He he went on his show last night and responded to the president and the first lady calling for his job. They did that because on Thursday night uh broadcast of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABT, Jimmy Kimmel uh said that Melania Trump had the the glow of an expectant widow. Now, last night on Monday's broadcast, Jimmy Kimmel didn't walk it back. He basically defended it and made even more jokes. Um the thing about Kimmel is the night that he came back to his ABC show after being suspended for saying that a MAGA person tried to kill Charlie Kirk. It was a three-minute um monologue that Jimmy Kimmel did the night he came off of suspension. And he he just he you know, he said that he would never make light of the murder of Charlie Kirk. Uh and it was never his intent to diminish or downplay the fact that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Um but then he he started to attack the administration. Um and and I re-watched it because I just wanted to sort of see what kind of attack that he would make at last night, which was I was totally wrong. It was a much more remorseful Jimmy Kimmel last September. But even in that sort of apology, non-apology, he continued to show that he is the reason that the FCC actually has restrictions on broadcast network TV uh broadcast, like his show. The View is essentially a news program. Jimmy Kimmel's late night TV show, according to federal law, is essentially a news program. And time and time again, and and the reason that they that these FCC restrictions exist for elections, who you can bring on, the candidates that you can bring on. If you bring on one, you have to bring on them all.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

And we have to do the same thing in radio, as you know.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Right. These are public broadcasts, uh airwaves. They're essentially free for Disney to air Jimmy Kimball, which is why, you know, yes, free speech exists, but you but it is essentially the taxpayer allowing a raving Democrat operative. Jimmy Kreml has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. He's raised millions of dollars for the Senate Democrats campaign fund. He has repeatedly campaigned for Senator Jackie Rosen out in November. So he is a hard-left Democrat Party activist and fundraiser with an hour-long TV show on public airways that have restrictions on the type of rhetoric because of just the way that Jimmy Kimmel operates that TV show. It's highly frustrating because he is the smart man. He is surrounded by smart lawyers who constantly and repeatedly tell him what is okay and what isn't okay. And Disney allows it to happen. They completely flaunt uh federal law in allowing it to happen. If Jimmy Kimmel wanted to compete with uh uh Greg Guttville and have his own late-night show where he wanted to spew actual falsehoods on CNN or MS Now, he could totally do that. You literally, under law, can't do the outright Democrat left-wing activism that Jimmy Kimmel does on ABC. But but he gets away with it. And now the advertisement people are calling for boycotts of ABC's advertisers, which is really where the rubber meets the road because ABC is willing and fine with you know being needled by uh the FCC and the Trump administration when the ladies of the view repeatedly go off the rails in the same way that Jimmy Kimmel does. But once people start threatening the wallet, the advertisers, then it becomes then it becomes a different story because that's the bottom line. And that's really at the end of the day, the only thing that matters.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Well, I wanted you to clarify something because you know we see, and a lot of times it's erroneous reporting or exaggerating. So because you're in the bid, specifically reporting on entertainment, the the reports that I get are it losing so much money per year. It's really terrible in the ratings. But you can't get the breakdowns because you have to pay for those ratings to get the breakdowns. From what I gather, it's still really stinks. I mean, forget what you think of it and what I think of it as far as the ratings and the money it makes. It's horrible. How is it still on the air?

SPEAKER_01 7:41

So that's so so like the conceit is actually in the fact that Jimmy Kimmel last night explained that he made the initial Trump, uh, Melania Trump expectant widow joke on Thursday night's broadcast, not Friday night, which would have been the actual night that that that so Jimmy Kimmel would have made a joke about Donald Trump fantasizing about Donald Trump dying 24 hours before a man tried to kill Donald Trump. The reason that Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have a Friday show or Stephen Colbert doesn't air on Friday or Fallon, because of what you just said, that these shows lose so much money that it it would take way too much money to produce that show five days a week, and so they cut it to four days a week. And Jimmy Kimmel just got extended last December by Disney. His current contract was due to end this May. They extended him through May of 2027. And that is unheard of. Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, they all signed multi-year deals. And so the writing is on the wall because of the financial squeeze that these late-night shows actually impose on the studios, which are in the business of making money. Making an entertaining series or or a TV show or movie for anyone under the sound of my voice is just a natural byproduct of Disney ABC television trying to make money, as much money as possible. And Jimmy Kimmel is not conducive to that to that outcome.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

So how in the world is he still on the air? Other than they like him where he's at because he keeps pushing that agenda.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Right. It's politics at the end of the day. It's the only uh explanation I could come to. And I I've approached that question from a hundred different angles. Why would uh Disney actually support a law in Florida that would allow a 30-year-old school teacher to talk about the sexual orientation of her six-year-old child? Why would Disney support a law that would ban that interaction between that adult and and that adolescent? Because they're politically driven to the most vile and insanely left-wing ideology on the planet today. Because, you know, give the left a chance. A week from now, they'll be they'll be talking about some some other crazy politics. Why would Disney invest millions and millions of dollars in their writers, producers, and directors, actors, uh in in animated products that are geared toward six and seven-year-olds that are chopped full of lesbian and gay and transgender uh storylines. And that is politically, that that doesn't, that's not again conducive to a family-friendly uh broadcast and entertainment conglomerate. Um, that is politics. And so the the business decisions are being driven by political ideologues. Dana Walden for years ran the TV division at Disney. She is best friends, essentially, with Kamala Harris. Dana Walden has been with Disney for over 30 years, and in that time, she has been one of the biggest champions of the Democratic Party. They're captured by this ideology, and it's not good for business, but it is good for ideology, which they believe ultimately is good for business.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

I guess that explains that.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

It's illogical. It is. And oftentimes it is hard for average people who don't live, eat, and breathe this stuff like you and I do, to understand the illogical decision of these giant conglomerates. At the end of the day, like you, if you and I open a bakery, like we opened that bakery because we had a dream and we were willing to risk it and borrow money or whatever, sacrifice our time, family or whatever, because we wanted to sell our cakes. And we wanted people to pay us large amounts of money for our cake, right? Like if we hire people, you and I, for our bakery, that's just a byproduct of something that we wanted to do. Like I I opened it. I don't know why you would have opened it with me, but I did it because I wanted to get rich selling cakes, right? But you know, it's like Disney's not Disney has for a long time just completely self-sabotage in that train of thought. Disney feels like, you know, they can make enough money off of superhero movies, and the amount of money that Jimmy Kimmel is losing on his little stupid nightly show is okay because he gets the left-wing talking points out there.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

That's right. He advances the he advances the cause. You're right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Same for same for Colbert at CBS, same for Seth Myers at NBC. Um, and but but they're killing the industry. These late-night shows will not exist, I'd say, in in a decade. It would shock me more if if if late the late-night TV show programming on the network uh broadcast existed a decade from now as they do in their current form. It is complete business self-sabotage what they've done. It is not as if it's it's not the proof of concept for success. Successful late-night TV shows don't exist today with Greg Uppfeld drawing in more viewers than Colbert found.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

That format is really cheap.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

And like Jim uh Carson and Conan O'Brien, they all used to get many millions more viewers than these buffoons get today. Double used to get more views. Colbert, when he got the job, was not rapidly anti-Trump, but he chose to be, which destroyed his ratings, and now he's gonna be off the air in about a month.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Well, at least, and by the way, if you want to read more about it, you can go to Breitbart.com slash entertainment and take a look at the article you wrote about Kimmel fantasized about Trump's death days before his assassination attempt. And also this, which I'm very thankful for, at least Bruce Springsteen sent prayers and thanks that Trump wasn't harmed. That that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

That's so wonderful of this. So he's on a 20-day tour. He launched it essentially at a No Kings rally, this 20-day tour. Bruce Springsteen did. He's he's he's charging$3,000. I think at one point was the cheapest ticket. So so much for Mr. Blue Collar. Yeah. Uh and every night on that tour, he essentially starts his concert and his performance with a preamble. Essentially, he he literally calls the uh immigration customs and enforcement uh the Gestapo. I mean, the Gestapo was a secret elite killing force for the for Nazi Germany. I mean, and so a man tries to make yet another attempt on the president's life two months after some shotgun-wielding dude broke a security barrier at Mar-a-Lago killed, right? Uh Bruce Bruce Springsteen, the night after someone makes the fourth attempt on the president's life. Oh, now he's sending thoughts and prayers. Please shut it. Go away. Sit down, shut up. No, actually keep doing it because people see through it. Springsteen's not selling out these concerts. No. It's only a 20, it's only a 20-day concert. Pretty much tells you he had trouble selling the tickets. Uh, you can't perform in the biggest arenas in LA, in the biggest arenas in New Jersey. You uh you you can't launch it, you don't launch a tour that you might lose money on. So he scales back uh the tour date, right, after promoting it forever.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Uh and so there are diminishing returns to this type of stuff, which is good to see market corrections like this.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

I love it. It's Jerome Hudson. Uh he is our Breitbart News Entertainment editor and does the uh upstream with the Breitbart segment with the Liz Galaway show with me next time. Every Tuesday at this time. Thank you, sir. Have yourself a wonderful day. Well thank you. We're being nice to one another and nobody paid me to be nice.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

No, I uh you know, hopefully like there's just like a different slate of news about it next two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

I hope so too. I'm getting I I have to be honest with you, I'm exhausted. All right, Jerome, have a good day.