In this episode, Mike Gallagher dives deep into a complex issue surrounding CBS and Stephen Colbert, where the notion of equal time and access in broadcasting is scrutinized. Mike shares his insights on the controversy that erupted between CBS and Colbert’s team over airing an interview with a U.S. Senate candidate from Texas. As the topic unravels, he finds himself unexpectedly aligning with those he disagrees with politically, emphasizing the importance of unbiased media platforms and regulations.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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When I make a mistake, I think it’s imperative that I acknowledge it and I apologize and set the record straight. And I want to make sure you understand how I got something wrong this week, and I do want to set the record straight. I don’t want to spend all day on this, but I do find it a compelling issue. And any time I agree with people across the aisle, I think it’s worth noting and it’s worth talking about. I know a little bit about broadcasting, okay? I’ve been at this a long time. I know about equal time and equal access. I know about the fairness doctrine and how Democrats would love to bring it back. I know a thing or two about the broadcasting business. I’ve been a decades-long broadcaster more years than I care to count. This week, there was a big hubbub with CBS and Stephen Colbert’s show. Now, I can sum this up quickly. He wanted to have a little-known state representative from Texas who wants to run, who’s a candidate for U.S. Senate. He wanted to put this guy on his show. And it was reported by Stephen Colbert that the CBS lawyers said, unless you put… his political opposition on, we’re not going to air the segment. And the way Colbert characterized it, CBS censored the show. CBS, I mean, he did the segment. You know, these shows at night, they tape them like late afternoon. He did the interview with James Tallarico, but then aired it on YouTube, which my friend Larry O’Connor said, over at Town Hall and WMAL in D.C., Larry believes this was the plan all along, to get a big digital surge because people were interested in the YouTube version of the interview that did not air on CBS. But here’s the dispute. It’s being suggested that Colbert is lying through his veneers about this. the circumstances behind the preemption of the segment. CBS is claiming we didn’t pull the plug on the segment. We told Colbert and his producers, if you’re going to have James Tallarico on, the Democrat candidate, you’ve got to have on his competition. You’ve got to have on his opponents. Well, Colbert didn’t want to do that. He doesn’t want to run out a bunch of other candidates. There’s about 19 candidates right now in the Texas race. So ultimately, he just said, all right, we’re not going to air it. But then he lied, or so the accusation goes, about the circumstances. Because he wants to gin up support for himself and Tallarico. Here’s what he said last night about – now imagine this. He gets a big fat paycheck from CBS, but they fired him. And the problem is they gave him until May. They gave him like almost a year. They announced last year they’re going to cancel the show. He’s out. He’s losing money. People aren’t watching, I guess. I don’t know what his – for whatever reason, CBS says no. Maybe they don’t want to hear him just bash – Trump and Republicans every night and try to prop up Democrats. Whatever reason, they fired him. But CBS, in its stupidity, gave this guy the longest goodbye, the longest farewell in broadcasting history. Here’s what he said last night, taunting his employer, you know, the people that give him the big fat paycheck. Here he is, spitting in their face, saying, well, we obeyed you, CBS.
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Fellas, I am well aware that we can book other guests. I didn’t need to be presented with that option. I’ve had Jasmine Crockett on my show twice. I could prove that to you. I can prove that to you, but the network won’t let me show you her picture without including her opponents. So I’ll have to show you this picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein instead. They made me do it. I didn’t want to. So. So we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube where it’s gotten millions of views.
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Look at that, spiking the football, taunting his boss, CBS. And, of course, what does he care? He’s out. But forget the obnoxiousness and this unfunny guy, Stephen Colbert. There is a point here about equal time, equal access. The accusation is that Trump, that Brendan Carr, who’s the new chairman of the FCC, not new, but the chairman of the FCC, a Trump appointee, The claim is he’s Trump-friendly, and he’s going to punish, he’s going to threaten shows like Stephen Colbert’s. But as Caitlin Collins said last night on Colbert’s show, they probably wouldn’t dream of applying the same FCC standard to a talk radio show like mine.
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Back in November, the president suggested that FCC chair Brennan Carr look into ABC’s broadcasting license after Mary Bruce asked questions that he didn’t like. Yeah. And as a journalist, what do you make of Trump’s apparent weaponizing of the FCC?
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I think it’s something that the president, we didn’t see him do as much in his first term. It’s a way that he’s wielding his power so differently in the second term.
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I think there’s sort of the chains are off.
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Yeah. Ever since Brendan Carr, I mean, was in this position, I don’t think anything that he’s done is really that surprising if you’ve been covering Trump and paying attention. And so I think, you know, the question is how far he goes on his threats. Does he follow through? Does he even need to follow through? Or does just making the threat in and of itself already cause the
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For instance, if you threaten the network and they might just do it for you without actually making a ruling of any kind.
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And I think it’s actually a really slippery slope because I think that you’ve seen some people on the right cheering this and saying, well, that’s what we want Brendan Carr to do. I think that they don’t want a Democratic administration saying that right wing talk radio must give equal time to to Democrats or to see that moment. And so for me personally, on our show, I have Democrats and Republicans on. I want to know what everyone’s saying. I want my viewers to know what the debate is that’s in Washington. I don’t think anyone wants the federal government telling people who they should book on their show and who the guests should be on their show. Now.
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Let me shock you on two levels. Number one, I was wrong. I was assuming that the expectation was that Colbert was going to have on… his Republican opponent. And of course, that’s about three or four or five right now. It wasn’t even about that. It was about CBS’s lawyers saying he had to have on the Democrat opponents in the primary process, i.e. Jasmine Crockett. It wasn’t about the Republicans. It was about having on other Democrats. So I’m sorry that I didn’t have that right yesterday. And that’s what I want to set the record straight. But here’s the biggie. I think Caitlin Collins is right. And it’s hard for me to agree with her. Obviously, she’s biased. She’s part of the woke mainstream media. But she’s right. For conservatives to sit around and cheer about the FCC putting pressure on shows like Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel or any network… We all have the same set of FCC guidelines and regulations. And Caitlin Collins is absolutely correct. The reason Democrats want to bring back the fairness doctrine is it would destroy talk radio. Let me ask you something. Would you like my show if every thought or idea or position I had had to then be countered by a liberal? Say Jessica Tarloff. In other words, would you be comfortable, would you accept my company that I work for saying we’re going to have equal access, we’re going to give equal time for every idea, every thought, every guest, we’re going to have for every conservative viewpoint, It’s going to be met with equal time by a liberal viewpoint. Now, I know the answer to that. Of course you wouldn’t. You could say you would. You might say, oh, that might be kind of interesting. I love how Jesse beats up on Jessica Tarloff, yada, yada, yada. Look, well, that’s not equal time. There’s four of them on the five and one of her. Okay? She’s not equally represented because there’s no expectation that they have to. The fairness doctrine would insist, would mandate, that for every conservative view on a talk show like mine, there would have to be a liberal point of view, and that would destroy our entire medium. Talk radio would evaporate. It would go out of business. Because you wouldn’t listen. You wouldn’t watch. We are the alternative. to the mainstream media. We are the alternative to the left-leaning media bias. That’s why shows like mine are so successful. Let me take it a step further, and let me end it with this before I turn it over to you. Caitlin Collins is absolutely correct. If we don’t want the FCC telling a talk show like mine what kind of guests we can put on, They ought to leave Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and Fallon and all the rest of them alone. They can put on whoever they want to put on. If you want an alternative to the leftist biased media, you tune to this show. If you like the leftism and the bias and the, as my friend Hannity calls it, the media mob, well then watch Colbert. We have to be savvy and aware enough to recognize that to the left, Colbert is a folk hero. He’s a martyr. He’s a hero. They love this guy. And they watch the show so that he’ll beat up Donald Trump and conservatives. Okay, let him do it. You don’t like it, don’t watch it. So… Sad to say, sorry to say, but for once, I’m agreeing with the other side. How about you? Let’s find out. 800-655-MIKE. I know we’re a little bit in the weeds on this with the FCC and equal time and all that, equal access, but I want to get your reaction to what Caitlin Collins said. I want to get your reaction to what I’m saying. I want to see if you think I’m right. that the FCC ought to stay the heck out of it, whether it’s radio or TV. 800-655-6453. Flood the zone here in the Relief Factor studios. I want you to jam up my phone lines with your perspective, your reaction, your call. 800-655-6453. From city streets to mountain trails, your gear should go wherever life takes you. That’s why at Modern Rugged Leather, every bag is handcrafted from premium, responsibly sourced leather designed to look sharp, last long, and tell a story of its own. Every stitch. Buckle and strap reflects timeless craftsmanship and is backed by a lifetime warranty because quality shouldn’t quit when the adventure begins. Whether it’s the boardroom or the back roads, modern rugged leather helps you carry confidence every single step of the way. Modern rugged leather, modern style, timeless durability, backed for life. Life takes you places. Make sure your gear keeps up. Shop the full collection and find yours today at ModernRugged.com. ModernRugged.com. That’s ModernRugged.com.
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Great. I’m like the previous text line person. I want to know why they care on a daily basis what Mike Gallagher says.
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Well, so far they don’t care about us, but they seem to care what Stephen Colbert is saying.
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But if you had to get, you mentioned Jessica Tarloff, who you’re right, everybody off this station would switch her off. I don’t understand. I don’t understand why. Is it a physical thing that if you had a physical guest in the studio with you, you’d have to have then the counterpart to that physical guest?
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Right. Well, see, it would it wouldn’t work. And see that. And they know it. That’s why they want. You know what I mean? That’s why they want the fairness doctor. The left does because they know they’d blow up talk radio. They would destroy our whole our whole company.
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But like anything else, it’s supply and demand anyway. Anybody can switch the dial any day, but I don’t understand that I’m telling you what to say.
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Exactly. Well, that’s the point. And we don’t need to belabor this, but at the end of the day, if we feel that way about talk radio or the programming you see on Salem News Channel every day, then we need to feel that way about CBS. And… Frankly, the pushback is against Brendan. Look, you want to talk about the role of the FCC? I got a question. I know about the dirty words that I can’t say on this show. Why did Bad Bunny get away with it? Why does Bad Bunny get to curse and be filthy at the Super Bowl halftime show simply because the language was in Spanish? Why isn’t Brendan Carr and the FCC doing something about that? Hey, meanwhile, hey, New Yorkers, you having fun yet with your new mayor? Wait till you get a load of the latest he’s pulling. That’s next. Real assets that are titled in your name outside the bank. That’s why I want to tell you about American Independence Gold. American Independence Gold is a veteran-owned company that stands strong for patriots. What I love is that every purchase supports the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, helping injured and fallen heroes and their families. And these are experts in precious metals. They help everyday Americans move their cash, IRA, or 401K into physical gold and silver, real assets you can actually hold and touch. The truth is, powerful elites are pushing chaos, war, and central bank digital currency systems that they can track and control. We’ll be right back. That’s 888-670-7011, 888-670-7011. Or go to MikeGallagherGold.com, MikeGallagherGold.com. That’s MikeGallagherGold.com. Secure your future today. American Independence Gold, backed by veterans, building a stronger America.
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It’s true. As your next mayor, I will freeze your rent.
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Paid for by Zoran for NYC.
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In order to get to this point of closing the gap on both this fiscal year and the next fiscal year, we are forced to raid the Rainy Day Fund, the Retiree Health Benefits Trust Reserve, and to increase property taxes across these.
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You want to know what the property tax increase is? You sitting down? Well, Roger P. Shulman can tell us. He’s in the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom, and he joins us to tell us about, I call him Zoron the Destroyer, because, Roger, this guy’s doing a lot of damage to New York City already, isn’t he?
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Certainly is. 9.5% property tax increase is what he wants, 10%. So if you’re paying $10,000, ooh, add another $1,000, and that’s a lot of money, and most people are paying more than that. Millionaires and billionaires, Mike, and you have left New York City and are moving to Florida, climbing on their private jets and taking all the money that they spend elsewhere because they just don’t want to do that anymore. He also wants to get the state legislature to approve an increase in the combined corporate tax rate of just over 22 percent. Blames Mayor Eric Adams, the former mayor for the big mess. He wants the new funding used for free bus services, tuition free college and other campaign pledges. This as 19 people froze solid on the sidewalks of New York and seven more died of freezing to death in their homes. And this is the most civilized, most cultural, richest city on the planet. And look what’s happening here. It’s just a horrible situation. And only 12% think the city spends money wisely. Only 22% feel safe on the subway at night. Felony assaults are up at a 24% high. And… Things are not going well there. And we were talking about when a billionaire or millionaire leaves town, those are the people who spend a lot of money on hair care, spas, putting the airplane in the hangar for $40,000 a month. A lot more than just taxes lose when you lose the high-end people. And right now, they’re paying 40% of the taxes in the city of New York.
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Well, you mentioned, and to me, look, I hate to say this, but I almost hope this guy bankrupts the city. And that has happened before. I remember years and years ago, I remember when, I forget who the president was, basically said, hey, New York. I think it was Jerry Ford. Was it Carter? Maybe it was Ford. I thought it was Ford who basically says, you’re on your own. In other words, you guys are going to figure it out. You created this mess. The federal taxpayer can’t bail you out. And if New Yorkers are stupid enough to elect Zoran Mamdani mayor, then they’re going to have to live with it. But there’s also, as you say, a human side to this, Roger. Sixteen people froze to death. And it has to do, apparently, with Zoran Mamdani’s refusal to do these homeless encampment sweeps. In other words, scooping up the homeless off the streets in the midst of a horrible winter weather event and getting them into shelters. Well, Zoran thinks that’s somehow offensive to the homeless people’s rights, and he doesn’t want to hurt their—I don’t know what his thinking is. It’s hard to know what a radical leftist thinks. With more snow headed for New York this weekend and Sunday, I guess, they’re going to expect maybe another winter, big winter event. He’s going to return the homeless sweeps. They’re going to go back to the prior administration and sweep up the homeless. Because he doesn’t want to have more people die. Now, I’m glad that he realizes what can happen when you don’t take… But there’s a real human toll here. And it actually leads, Roger, these goofy pie-in-the-sky socialist ideas lead to a human tragedy. Loss of life.
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Well, they don’t work. Go to Cuba, go to Venezuela, go to any of these places, and you see the problems that they have with health care, the fire department. All of these things fall apart when you don’t have a good structure. And it seems that capitalism, which everybody seems to think is out of fashion now, capitalism seems to work fairly well in these situations.
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Don’t tell that to Zoran or his followers. They hate capitalism.
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Well, and another thing, the call to prayer in New York City, the Muslim call to prayer, what you’ll find in the Muslim countries in Saudi Arabia, there’s no head rabbi and there’s no Catholic bishop. They do not allow any other religion to be demonstrated at all. So it’s kind of a one-way street. We allow everything here. Yet these countries where this originates are very, very strict about not allowing other religions to participate.
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The surging Muslim call to prayer now in the streets of New York as early as 5 in the morning is really getting a lot of attention as well. I’m glad you brought it up. And as always, I appreciate your reporting. Roger P. Shulman, keep fighting the good fight from the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom. Here’s Mom Donnie yesterday after promising, oh, I’m going to freeze your rent. We’re going to make New York City more affordable. Pardon me, how in the hell do you claim that you’re making New York more affordable for people who live there with a nearly 10% property tax increase? Here’s Zoran the Destroyer.
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At the heart of this path is a property tax increase. This would effectively be a tax on working and middle class New Yorkers who have a median income of $122,000. The second path also requires us to raid our reserves. It would mean withdrawing $980 million from our city’s rainy day fund in fiscal year 2026 and $229 million from the retiree health benefit trust in fiscal year 2027. These are steps that have been taken before, but only in moments of extraordinary external crisis. Mayor Bloomberg’s response to the 2008 financial collapse and Mayor de Blasio’s response to the enormous revenue shortfall caused by the pandemic. We do not want to have to turn to such drastic measures to balance our budget.
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Speaking of New York, there’s a view of LaGuardia Airport outside New York City on our Salem News Channel camera network. We appreciate you watching Salem News Channel, snc.tv. Thanks for listening to AM 970, The Answer, the home of Joe Piscopo in the morning. And, you know, Joe is as heartbroken as… Now, Joe’s a Jersey guy, but, of course, he spends a lot of time in New York, and no one can believe it. It’s like they’re all acting like they’re in a state of shock that Mamdani is pulling all the… 9.5% property tax increase. And, of course, you know, a little inside baseball here. If you’re not aware of this from outside of New York, what he’s doing is he’s battling the governor who says, we’re not going to just slap… successful financial New Yorkers with some arbitrary wealth tax, which is what Mom Donnie wants. So Mom Donnie’s saying, okay, well then we’re going to go ahead and we’re going to hit everybody with a 9.5% property tax increase. Understand, he wants to fool people into thinking that renters aren’t going to be impacted. Well, renters are going to be impacted because landlords… and even corporations that have to pay the property taxes on the property they own, when they get slapped with an onerous, draconian property tax hike, they’re going to pass that on to the renters. Isn’t that clever, though? When you’re a socialist in a commie, when you’re Zoran the Destroyer, you say, I’m going to freeze your rents. Yeah. Good luck with that. Perry’s in Ohio, eight minutes before the hour. How glad are you that you’re living in the Buckeye State rather than New York City right now, Perry?
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Oh, I tell you, it’s amazing. But, you know, we’ve still got a little bit of trouble up there in Columbus.
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But, you know, that thing with Mendotti, he’s Maybe that’s a plan to run all the businesses out so you have all these empty places to put all the homeless. Exactly. You’re going to feed them anyway.
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You might as well house them. I saw Kevin O’Leary last night, Perry. Kevin O’Leary, I’m up against a hard break here, but you’ve got to hear this. The CNN panel went off the rails last night. I’ve got to play some of this for you. And Kevin O’Leary is pointing out, look, we’re going to make Zoran Mamdani Florida’s Real Estate Agent of the Year. Of course, the panel erupted. Abby’s yelling. They’re all squawking on Navarro. You want to hear the CNN panel? And this is not with Scott Jennings. Scott wasn’t on the panel last night. I guess he was otherwise engaged. You want to hear the panel go off the rails? I know it’s going to be 30 seconds of your life you can never get back, but I think it’ll put a smile on your face.
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The last word is, you’re all nuts.
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Like, that’s just… Oh, my God. Thank you, David. Guys, we’ve got to keep it together here, okay? Honestly, I mean, there’s a way to talk about these things. If you don’t have anything to say, just say that, and I won’t come to you next time. All right, next for us, everyone. Everyone, thank you for being here. Next. Excuse me. Excuse me. Stop.
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Kevin, stop.
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Next for us, we are honoring the civil rights icon when we come back.
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What a clown show. It’s got to be the worst television show in America. And that Abby Phillips is horrible. And what’s disarming about her, she’s got that soft-spoken… Did you hear her say, Kevin, stop? And it was Ana Navarro yelling? She doesn’t dare say, Ana, stop. She’s not going to have her fellow… But anyway, when they did let him speak, here was Kevin O’Leary, Mr. Wonderful, explaining what Mamdani’s tax hike is going to do to New Yorkers.
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So I guess he’s asking, what’s a 2% tax increase on a multimillionaire?
SPEAKER 11 :
If you’re already the highest tax jurisdiction in America, it’s a massive tax. You know, what I love about this guy, and I’m giving him credit, he goes big. He goes big, and he’s got a fantastic social media team. This is great. This is bat-poo-poo crazy, what he is proposing. And probably sometime next year, within 12 to 18 months, I will meet him in Miami and give him real estate advice. of the year award because I’m not happy with what’s happening. I can’t get across the bridge anymore. I live in Miami Beach. Everybody from New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts is moving into my neighborhood. I’m pissed off.
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