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Howie Carr Rips Bloomberg TV For GameStop Stock Controversy Coverage

Carr took particular issue with Bloomberg TV and played a clip comparing Reddit investors to those who rioted on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

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Conservative talk show host Howie Carr did not hold back Thursday on The Howie Carr Show when he lashed out at the hedge fund managers trying to control the stock market and the media portrayal of recent events involving video game retailer GameStop.

“The so called ‘basket of deplorables’ have figured out how to beat the system and Wall Street and the media don’t like it,” Carr said.

Carr made his comments after users of the popular website Reddit bought stock in GameStop, after big investors on Wall Street speculated that the company’s stock prices would continue to drop.

“You have to love this story,” Carr said. “(Hedge Fund) Melvin Capital basically bet that GameStop prices would continue to drop and they would buy in at about six dollars a share. The normal people saw this as a chance to get their revenge. Now they (Melvin Capital) have to pay about 341 dollars a share. The big guys lost their shirts and I love it.”

What Carr didn’t love was the media coverage of the event.

“This is how left-winger George Soros made his money but because he works to elect liberal politicians it’s great. When regular people, many of whom I would guess are Trump supporters, do it, it has to be stopped. They (the media) act like it is the end of the world.”

Carr took particular issue with Bloomberg TV and played a clip comparing Reddit investors to those who rioted on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.  The clip says that the Reddit users were a “ mishmash of angry and frustrated people who have developed a mob mentality, just like the Capitol rioters”.

“That’s just ridiculous,” Carr complained. “From now on, every supposed tragedy is going to be compared to the Capitol Riots. It has somehow become worse than 9/11, Pearl Harbor and The Civil War. I thought we were supposed to celebrate diversity, but when people do something the media doesn’t like, it’s no longer a diverse group of people, it’s called a mishmash.”

Carr also criticized Wall Street and day trading apps, like Robinhood, for temporarily halting trading of GameStop shares to limit the losses of big time investors. According to CNBC, while the exact losses are not known, Melvin Capital has had an infusion of 3 billion dollars to “shore up financial stability”. As of Friday morning though According to The Wall Street Journal, trading of GameStop stock has resumed both on Wall Street and online.

Carr used a sports analogy to make a comparison.

“It’s like one football team who is supposed to win, but they are losing 28-0 at halftime. So the officials step in and change the rules and make each touchdown three points instead of seven so the team that is losing won’t be behind by so much,” Carr said. “It’s censorship of the market, just like censoring Twitter. I thought liberals liked the average guy, the 99 percent, but I guess not.”

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1110 KFAB Adds Emery Songer as Afternoon Host

“My wife and I can’t wait to be a part of the Omaha community and meet all the amazing people that make this city move.”

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1110 KFAB has added Emery Songer as the station’s new afternoon host.

Songer has previously worked as the morning show producer at 1040 WHO in Des Moines since 2018. Both stations are owned by iHeartMedia.

“I’m incredibly excited for this opportunity to be a part of Omaha and the KFAB team,” said Songer. “My wife and I can’t wait to be a part of the Omaha community and meet all the amazing people that make this city move.”

He will begin on Monday, June 26th. The afternoon show will be heard from 2:00-6:00 PM.

“Emery will continue KFAB’s nearly 100-year-old tradition of on-air personalities who are passionate about connecting with the community we serve,” said 1110 KFAB Program Director Scott Voorhees. “It’s not about hammering an agenda; it’s about entertaining and relevant conversations of interest to Omaha/Council Bluffs and the surrounding area.”

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Joe Pags: Viewers Would Give CNN Another Try if John Catsimatidis Bought It

“People are willing to come back. People are willing to see what you would do.”

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77 WABC owner John Catsimatidis has publicly shared he’d be interested in purchasing CNN, and would only command a $1 yearly salary to have the opportunity to operate the station. Joe Pags believes it could be exactly what the network needs.

During a conversation with Catsimatidis Thursday evening, Pags shared that his listeners had simply written off CNN.

“Early on in the program, I mentioned that you were making an offer for CNN. I opened up my phone lines, and they melted down,” said Pags. “I asked my listeners: Would you give CNN another chance? Now, John, my listeners don’t wanna give CNN another chance.

“But when I asked them that question and I told them who you were and the offer that you were making, they — to a person — said ‘Yeah, I’ll give them another try’. So people are willing to come back. People are willing to see what you would do.”

Pags then asked if there was a realistic possibility that Catsimatidis could purchase the network from Warner Bros. Discovery.

“I think it’s real. I think it could happen, but we need some common sense to preside,” Catsimatidis said.

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Megyn Kelly: Fox Wants to ‘Keep Tucker Carlson Muzzled’ Through 2025

“He was not fired, he was just booted off the show. They continue to pay him because they want to keep him muzzled through at least 2025.”

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On Thursday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly spoke with Chadwick Moore, author of the forthcoming book Tucker, to talk about Tucker Carlson’s first Tucker on Twitter episode and the news surrounding Fox’s reputation as a network post-Tucker.

Megyn Kelly started the show with a clip from the first episode of Tucker on Twitter, then followed up with the response he received from Fox lawyers.

“He reportedly got a letter from Fox News saying you breached your contract. You are required to stay exclusive to us because remember, as I first reported, he was not fired, he was just booted off the show. They continue to pay him because they want to keep him muzzled through at least 2025.

“Fox’s lawyer said something about him rendering services? Well, I don’t know if he’s actually rendering services if it’s not getting paid. What I was told initially is that Twitter is not mentioned in his noncompete, and that is why I suppose that Fox News employees are allowed to use Twitter to express their opinions on issues of the day and that would be apparently what Tucker did in this.”

“He’s not making money, he’s not an employee of Elon Musk or partnering with Elon Musk in any way and Fox people have said that they’re committed to keeping him off the air until 2025, until after the election is over and his contract runs out in early 2025,” said Moore. 

“I’m gonna get into the ratings but they’re absolutely abysmal in his time slot throughout the prime time,” Kelly argued. “I don’t know if we’re calling there’s a boycott or just people are done, it’s not like a temporary thing.” 

She then looked to her notes for the yearly comparison, “Year over year Fox lost 62%.“

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