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March 3, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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How a Press Pass Can Save A City with Libby Emmons and William Kelly
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Chicago Journalist Under Fire 00:02:07
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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into the city of Chicago's crusade against the journalist.
Libby Emmons joins us to talk about a big announcement and also what is behind the proliferation of drag shows in front of children.
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Humanevents.com is a terrific website with now a new editor-in-chief, and she is a friend of the program.
She's done a great job of growing post-millennial.
And I think she's going to do a great job with human events as well.
It is Libby Emmons, and she's come on the program many times.
Libby, welcome back to the program.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Charlie, and thanks so much for the congratulations.
I'm excited to get started, hit the ground running.
Tell us about your vision for humanevents.com and what you want this website to be.
Yeah, so we have a great staff at Postmillennial, and they're going to be shouldering some of the workload at Human Events as well, which is exciting.
We also have a great spate of columnists already up at Human Events.
So we're going to continue working with them.
And what I'd really like to do is branch out a little bit into some of the international news that I think has really been popping lately and is not necessarily the post-millennial's purview.
Drag Queens Story Hours 00:13:37
So that's pretty interesting and exciting.
And also have some great columnists to tell us what they're thinking.
I'd like to do some more rapid response pieces so that we can tackle the analysis of breaking news every day as it comes in.
Yeah, so that's, you know, that's pretty much what we're looking at.
We often have great columns from you, Charlie.
We have Jack Pesobica's senior editor at Human Events, and he is usually entirely on fire.
So that's exciting as well.
Yeah, so that's what we're looking at.
I think it's going to be great.
So I want to get into this story here that you've been covering this theme, this genre.
And I'll be honest, Libby, you know, I was so appalled yesterday when I went to University of California, Santa Barbara, in one regard, of just the lackadaisical attitude that the college students had with trans individuals going after children.
They couldn't care less.
They said it's good.
It's fine.
You know, they think it's part of initiation.
Really, it's just really, you think about it.
Now, this is not an example that happened in America, but there's plenty of similar examples that have happened in America.
This one is so grotesque of a drag queen, erotic drag show for babies and children in the United Kingdom sparks international outrage for babies.
And I just have to say this, Libby.
As time goes on, Saurabh Amari looks better and better and better, and David French looks more and more like a fool.
And at the first viewing of that debate, I saw it more.
Saurabh won me over in some ways.
I was like, oh, maybe David French is right.
For those that don't know, it's kind of this wonky, nerdy, inner conservative piece of debate that went viral, what, four years ago, right, Libby?
When it was...
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, so Rob against David French and David French took the neoliberal, hey, I don't like drag queens, but I'm going to fight for their right to be able to expose themselves and, you know, do all this stuff.
And it's a small thing.
And so Rob was like, no, this is degeneracy.
It's licentiousness.
It's awful.
And David French made fun of him, like, oh, wow, it's going to be a big movement and it's really growing.
Well, it turns out it is.
And this is a drag queen in front of babies, erotic drag show in front of babies.
Parents are enthusiastically bringing their children to these.
This is the United Kingdom, not America, but there's plenty of examples in America.
Play Cut 99.
Now, for those on podcasting or radio, I struggle to even explain that.
I mean, Libby, how would you explain what we just saw?
Just complete quasi-naked degeneracy in front of babies, right?
Yeah, you have grown men doing flips and spinning around in barely any clothing and spreading their legs to the wild applause of parents who hold up their children to show them that this is normal behavior in our culture, that grown men wearing high heels and dancing around provocatively is what they can expect in life.
It has been really a wild ride with this whole drag queen situation.
As someone who came out of theater, I have a theater background.
I've been to a number of drag shows.
I've had friends and colleagues that have done drag, and it has always been a nightlife enterprise.
It's at over 21 establishments.
It's specifically for adults, by adults.
And this transformation has been totally insane to see essentially the canonization of drag queens as some sort of crazy progressive saint.
And the idea too, that we constantly hear that drag queens are not sexual, that this is not a sexualized activity.
And that is just such a lie.
And everyone knows that's a lie.
The names of drag queens are sexualized names.
That's the whole point.
The point isn't to be sort of friendly clowns or, you know, people dressed in garish Barney style cartoons.
This isn't Minnie Mouse over here.
This is the intentional inclusion, and I use that word deliberately of sexualized content for children so that children's barriers are broken down, their guards are broken down.
I remember when my son was little and I was taken by surprise when our library in Brooklyn was hosting drag story hours and there were kids, you know, in the room.
I didn't take my son because that's really just not my jam.
That's not what I'm looking for.
And that's a method to raise my son, obviously.
But you could see kids being sort of put off by the drag queens, like, I don't know.
You know, they're pre-verbal.
They don't want to get too close to the drag queens.
And the parents are just like, no, honey, this is perfectly great and acceptable and good.
And it's this intentional breaking down of children's barriers.
Children have, they know what's yucky.
They know in their stomach, they back away.
We should encourage their instincts and not try and suppress them.
And shows like this suppress children's instincts so that they can't recognize danger when it's staring them directly in the face.
Westerners are so entitled and they have no idea how most civilizations operate.
Roman historian writes, in Roman history, especially towards the fall of Rome, there were widespread sexual relationships between adult men and adolescent boys.
This had been a common feature of the Greek world and was adapted by the Romans, who saw it as a natural expression of male privilege and domination.
A Roman man would direct his sexual attention towards a slave boy or at times even a freeborn child and would continue to do so until the boy reached puberty.
These relationships were seen as acceptable or even idealized form of love, the kind of love expressed itself in a poem, story, or song.
In the Roman world, quote, a man's wife was often seen as beneath him and less than him, but a sexual relationship with another young boy represented a higher form of intellectual love and engagement.
It was a man joining with that which was equal and could therefore share experience and ideas with him in a way he could not with a woman.
Pedophilia was understood to be good, acceptable, moral, and loving in Roman times.
Libby, any thoughts before we go to break on that?
Yeah, so this was at the end of the Roman Empire, and I think we are clearly veering toward the end of our empire.
I wish it were not so.
But those anecdotes from Rome are actually used by people like state senator Scott Weiner in California to justify reducing the penalties for older gay men having relations of that nature with boys who are not yet of age.
Yeah, look, groomers can't reproduce, so they recruit instead.
And that's what we see time and time again.
And just a quick question, one minute remaining, Libby.
Why are parents seemingly okay with this?
That's, I mean, I under, there's three types of people, right?
There's infants, there's the protector of infants, and there's predators.
Predators are always going to be around infants, they're always going to be around the protectors of infants, is the group that the West really institutionalized as a moral good.
Why is that so hard to find now?
We have given up God in our culture.
We have absolutely destroyed the place that God once held.
We no longer can differentiate between right and wrong because we have relinquished God.
And so parents don't know right from wrong.
They don't know how to teach it to their children because they don't know it themselves and they don't know how to access it.
We have completely destroyed our moral center and we have destroyed our culture because of that.
Yeah.
And so, Libby, the other interesting wrinkle to this is I was recently with some people that do not see the world.
I do, not the campus visit, but some other upper middle class people.
And they said, Charlie, you know, why are you talking about the trans thing so much?
Because they watched the show and they said they didn't like it.
And they said, it's not a big deal.
And I said, you are aware of drag queens with kids.
They said, what are you talking about?
Libby, just to kind of communicate to our audience, there's a whole portion of America that has no idea this is going on.
Isn't that wild?
I have talked to my mother about that.
She's, she's kind of switching a little bit now.
She's leaning in my direction, but she is pretty progressive.
She's definitely leftist.
You know, she has one of those like love everybody or some flag on her house, you know.
And I've talked to her about it.
And I said, you know, mom, they're removing the breaths of healthy young girls in order to affirm to these girls that they can actually be males.
And my mom's like, what?
No, nobody's doing that.
And I'm like, mom, yeah, they're really doing it.
And this is how they go about doing it.
I explain it to her.
And she says, but that's awful.
Why are you telling me about this?
Well, mom, because these are the people you're voting for.
The people you're voting for are in favor of young girls doing this to themselves.
Mom, they're doing drag queen story hours instead of just perhaps having, you know, retired people at nursing homes maybe read to kids, grandparents whose kids moved across the country, something like that.
That would be cool.
No, and she's like, no, they're not.
They're not reading to children half naked and reading to them about how they can switch their sex.
I'm like, mom, no, they really, they're really doing this.
And I think there's an incredulousness to so many who just don't want to believe that it's happening.
And you and I can see it.
It's like we, it's here.
Yeah.
And then, and so then I showed some videos, and then I was met with the minimization argument.
Oh, that's rare.
It's extreme.
That's not everywhere.
And then I'm like, this is this is this is Georgia.
Okay.
This is not Seattle.
I'm like, oh, no, this, this is propaganda.
That's what they're like, this is Texas.
And it pains me because you show them a video of it.
And eventually maybe they can move on.
And it's interesting, Libby, because the minimization argument is widespread.
So yesterday when I was having a dialogue with a kid who is very pro-abortion, he was sweet about it, but he was totally wrong.
I just said, hey, just so, because he was very pro-abortion, how many abortions do you think there are in America every year?
He said, 20,000.
I said, yeah, try a million.
And it was really telling to me because, first of all, they have no idea what they're talking about, first of all.
But the scale of the thing is important, isn't it, though, Libby?
Because it really is.
The scale, I mean, again, I don't want to get too into the abortion topic right now.
I'm obviously very pro-life, but a million abortions a year is a much different moral crisis than 20,000, right?
So you can probably see why that kid was a little nonchalant about it because he thought it was 20,000 a year.
Yeah, it's okay, 20,000.
A million.
Okay, that's a factor of what, that's a factor of not just, that's almost a factor of like 15 or 20.
It's unbelievable.
Libby, your thoughts.
Yeah, no, I'm with you on that.
I think that, I think that there are so many more abortions than people are aware of.
And there are states that do not actually keep track of the number of abortions that are done in their states.
California, I believe, doesn't really keep track.
And there are the most abortions, is my understanding in California.
Don't quote me on that entirely, but I'm sure that's not.
Not only that, California has aborted more than the entire population of Canada since Roe versus Wade.
That's shocking.
Yeah, go.
I did not know that.
I have to interject.
It was just, and we're going to play the tape.
But the kid was like, so many people in this community have been affected by Roe versus Wade.
I was like, dude, how is that?
Abortion's a constitutional right in California.
You're just like making stuff up now.
Sorry, please continue.
Yeah.
No, that's shocking.
I remember one thing that when I was my mother, as I said, very left, she was horrified when I came to live with her when I was almost 16.
She was horrified that I was pro-life.
I had been raised Catholic up until that point.
My CCD had shown us a video of abortion, I believe, when I was in eighth grade.
And I was like, well, we're done there.
It's not getting involved.
It's powerful.
It's very persistent.
It's really horrifying.
And I remember reading about something Mother Teresa said when she was asked, she's such a fascinating character in theology, but she had said, she had been asked about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
And she, you know, why has this not happened yet?
She was asked.
And she said, well, you know, God says that he keeps sending him and you keep aborting him.
It's just quite a spiffy little comeback.
But when you think about it, there is a huge scale.
And it starts to make you think about the number of talented, beautiful, creative, loving, kind, world-changing, spectacular human beings who we will never know.
If you hear my voice, you are a former fetus.
And it just, it's sad because it shows the left has so little hope in humanity.
How many Steve Jobs, how many game changers, how many amazing entrepreneurs were aborted?
And that's a real tragedy.
Libby, God bless you.
Good luck with human events.
We're behind you.
Everyone, check out humanevents.com.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
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We are going to get into a topic that fires me up significantly because it is close to home, literally.
And that is the intentional destruction thanks to the parasites and the locusts that have taken over Illinois and Chicago and destroyed the once greatest state and city in America.
And they did it through a planned demolition so quickly.
We have a great guest to help talk about his own personal experience about how he's suing the city.
He's had his press credentials pulled.
There's so many different angles to this.
It's William J. Kelly.
And boy, he is relentless and he's trying to hold these people accountable.
William, welcome to the program.
Thank you, brother.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
So, William, just have to kind of rant for a second here.
I love Chicago.
The city is completely falling apart.
You're one of the only Maverick journalists that's actually trying to hold these people accountable.
I visit from time to time, and I was just there this last weekend, and it depresses me what has happened to our beautiful city.
Just, William, for a national audience, just walk through the last couple years, especially of what's happened in Chicago and what it used to be, even five years ago.
God bless you.
You know what?
Thank you.
Now, am I going to have to pay for some therapy as a result of this?
Maybe, you know, as you know, I was born and raised in Chicago.
I love Chicago with all of my heart.
My whole dream was to be a journalist in Chicago.
And I, quite honestly, achieved my dream.
You know, TV, radio, print, Emmy Award-winning.
And I was very, very, I guess you could say, I knew that, I always knew that we were on the like the brink of total destruction and collapse, but I had no idea that 2020 was going to hit so hard.
Who did, right?
And it was like right around my birthday and St. Patrick's Day, March, you know, 10th through the 17th on 2020 that Lightfoot and Predsker just locked it down.
Schools, church, businesses, they canceled the St. Patrick's Day parade.
Okay.
So, you know, I took that.
Not only did I take it hard, I took it personally.
I mean, you know, and I remember, and I decided that I was going to ask questions, you know, like we read history books about people in Germany who were, you know, who asked questions and things like this, you know?
And I thought, hey, you know what?
I'm going to be that guy.
I'm going to go and I'm going to ask Mayor Lori Lightfoot questions.
God bless you too, brother.
I know you're going to be in town for.
I will.
I hope to see you there.
Happy birthday.
Yeah, Candace and I. Great.
No, please continue.
And so here's what happened.
I can't really take a huge amount of credit.
Lori Lightfoot brought this on herself.
I showed up at her press conferences.
I asked her basic questions.
Any reporter should be asking about lockdowns, crime, looting, the smash and grab, the carjackings, etc.
And all Lori and Lori Lightfoot, every time, went ballistic.
And these videos went viral.
Millions of views, likes, comments, and shares.
And honestly, if you've never seen them, Google Lori Lightfoot Reporter or go to reporter William JKelly.com.
They're all there.
And there's, and you can scroll until you literally fall asleep in the middle of the night watching videos.
I want to play one of these tapes, and I'm going to give you credit.
I think you were instrumental in ending her political career because, look, we need citizen journalists just to ask basic questions.
And look, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, they don't ask these questions.
Their regime meets.
And by the way, what's really sad is the city I grew up in, I grew up in the suburbs, that the area I grew up in is the trib used to ask really good questions.
I grew up that the trib used to actually get into adversarial back and forth with the dailies and with the aldermen.
And it was good for ratings and it was good for the Sunday edition.
WGN used to go into City Hall trying to almost challenge the consensus, not defend it.
So we'll talk about that in a second.
Let's go to 90, play cut 97, please.
Mayor Lightfoot, I can totally understand why you would think another $100 million in grants would buy you the votes necessary to win re-election.
But the business experts and this is okay, folks.
This is what he's like.
He works for a right-wing news organization, and he does this kind of stuff all the time.
Feel free.
Go ahead, sir.
The business experts and the crime experts that I talk to say that downtown Chicago has already reached the tipping point.
Now, William, that's just one of many.
We're going to play some more, but your basic premise was: I love Chicago.
I have some energy and I have some hustle and some spirit.
I'm just going to go ask questions.
And you got under her skin.
It's really a simple story, isn't it?
Love of city, challenge powerful people with questions.
Charlie, thank you.
You know what?
I truly appreciate you because Chicago reporters, it wasn't until like the 20th time I went viral asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot, challenging her on lockdowns, lootings, carjackings, and mass shootings and having her literally call me stupid.
I mean, you know, and it wasn't until like the 20th time that this went viral that Chicago reporters were like, oh, we're going to have to, we're going to have to get on this, this, on the same page as William Kelly.
Otherwise, we're going to look like we're just working for life.
Which is what, so I do have a question, though.
I mean, was WBBM and WGN and the Trib and the Sun-Times, were they not asking any critical questions?
Don't they have to live in this city as well?
Mayor Lightfoot would say crime is down.
They would report crime is down.
The numbers are down, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
So Orwellian.
It's just we're not at war with Eurasia.
War is peace and ignorance is strength.
Please continue.
Charlie, thank God.
You know what?
This is therapeutic for me.
Thank you so much.
There you go.
I am your colleague.
No, if I start crying, you're going to have to cut away.
All right.
I will.
You got it.
But at any rate, so yeah, that's exactly what happened.
And then they realized, you know, this Kelly guy is going viral every week, millions of views, comments, likes, and shares.
We're going to have to at least like pretend that we are also questioning Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
And you're right.
That is exactly when it became, you know, this idea, you know, the, you know, like the old, what do they call it, the, you know, Wizard of Oz, you know, they pulled back the curtain.
And what do we have here?
This little like Mayor Lightfoot, you know, and all of a sudden, people started to realize that she wasn't all powerful and that she wasn't telling the truth and that she was vulnerable and that somebody might actually be able to beat her in an election.
And, you know, and now here we are.
Now, I got a little bit of a conspiracy theory here, William.
You know, she said, I only want to take questions from black reporters.
Was that her way of saying I don't want to take questions from William Kelly?
I'm just asking the question because go ahead.
Well, you know what?
You know, she literally revoked my media credential.
She said that I could no longer enter City Hall press conferences.
You know, and this was tough for me.
You know, I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, unlike her.
You know, I love Chicago with all of my heart, and I've always said that.
But, you know, I'm a journalist.
This is my job.
You know, as I'm sure you know, most journalists don't make a lot of money.
You know, they do it because they love the practice of it.
Yeah, they want to see their name in the byline.
They want to, you know, they have a dream that maybe they can make a difference or something.
I get it.
You know, and that's all I really was about.
And so, you know, she revoked my media credential.
I actually tried to go to City Hall.
The last press conference I tried to attend, I wanted to ask her about the spike in police suicides, you know, a serious issue.
I, you know, I grew up in a cop neighborhood on the south side, the 19th ward, you know, a lot of Chicago city employees, police, fire, you know, teachers, et cetera.
And, you know, this was a very important people.
You know, here's what happened.
People started contacting me and saying, hey, Kelly, you're the only guy.
Could you please, at the next city council press, you know, conference, ask Mayor Lightfoot about her policies about the, you know, regarding time off for the Chicago police.
We've got a spike in the police suicides.
Could you do that?
Could you do that for us?
And I'd be like, I'll try.
And then I show up at the press at the city hall and they tell me my media credential has been revoked.
I want to talk about that, but I want to play more your tape here because it's important for the audience to understand the importance of your work.
Play cut 102.
It's important.
Every time you have a press conference, you say crime is down.
The economy is booming.
Well, that's not true, but get to your question, sir.
Real Chicagoans are asking me, how could you possibly even consider running for reelection as mayor of the city of Chicago after all the harm you've caused?
Well, I disagree with you fundamentally.
And I don't think I need to address any and dignify your comments one second further.
And for asking these questions, they pulled your press credentials and you're suing them.
So, William, I'm just curious, do they have a right to pull your press credentials?
Walk us through your complaint.
Well, we are in federal court.
The entire complaint, by the way, because the truth has nothing to hide, can be found at reporterwilliamjkelly.com and click it, read it, and decide for yourself.
You know, I believe that it is a clear First Amendment case.
Freedom of the press, free work.
You know, I was interviewing, believe it or not, Mayor Lightfoot on a city sidewalk.
Okay.
And when they decided that they couldn't have any more of this, we were getting closer and closer to her reelection campaign.
She's, you know, and she did, she just realized that she could not possibly get re-elected mayor of the city of Chicago if I kept, you know, if one reporter kept showing up asking her real questions.
And so, so, yeah, so we're in federal court as we speak.
And, you know, it's, it's not easy.
I'm not going to lie.
I mean, we, we're, we're still fighting, despite the fact that she's already lost her, she's not even in the runoff anymore.
And her police chief has already, you know, turned in his notice that he's leaving town.
Yes.
We, you know, they still haven't renewed my press credentials.
So I'm still fighting to get my freedom of speech back.
And I think that there are a lot of reporters, you know, if they can do this to me in Chicago, then they can do this to other reporters, other radio hosts.
They can do this to other platforms, bloggers, websites.
They're going to try to shut down.
I mean, Mayor Lightfoot is not unique, sadly.
Fighting for Press Credentials 00:02:24
There are a lot of Democrats around the country that want due to their, you know, if they've got a reporter who keeps asking, you know, asking them questions.
This is why.
Yeah, this is why reporters don't ask tough questions because they lose access.
Exactly.
So, William, I want to talk about this more after the break, but people ask me all the time, Charlie, what can I do?
What can I do if I live in a blue city?
Well, what did William Kelly do?
He applied for a press credential and asked tough questions and filmed it.
Why don't you do that?
And just act professionally, plainly ask powerful people what the heck you're doing to the place I love.
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So, William, Lori Lightfoot is not making the runoff.
I'm pleased with that.
You played a role in that.
But what about tell us a little bit about the runoff, Vallis?
I mean, when I was in politics in Chicago 10 years ago, Vallas is a bad dude.
Like he was not somebody I supported, but now he's the moderate against Brandon Johnson.
How should we think about this runoff, William Kelly?
Well, first of all, this is exactly why I want my media credential back.
I want to go to the press conferences.
I want to go to the events.
This is my media credential, by the way.
I don't know if you can see it.
It's an actual credential that the city of Chicago, believe it or not, issues so that you can be a real reporter, right?
And they can revoke it and prevent you from doing a job that should be constitutionally guaranteed, right?
I've had this credential for 10 years.
It actually says that it's still good, technically speaking.
If I don't know if you can zoom in on that, but I mean, but Lori Lightfoot revoked it because she thought my questions, which, by the way, if I were mayor of the city of Chicago, I would appreciate somebody asking me, you know, there was a mass shooting in front of Holy Name Cathedral.
Is it safe to go to church on Sunday?
You know, I wouldn't turn, I certainly wouldn't turn to that reporter and call him stupid for asking the question.
You know what I mean?
You know, so you know, but but I mean, yeah, so but I'm just curious, what is the process you had to do, go through to get that credential?
You have to apply for it, or what is the process?
Yeah, you had to prove that you actually worked for a media organization.
And I've had a radio show in Chicago off and on for, I don't know, 20 years.
I have my own Emmy Award-winning television production company.
I write for the, you know, the, I just had a great story in the Daily Mail, despite not having a Chicago media credential about the prisoners at Cook County Jail being pressured to vote in the election, regardless of their residency at William J. Kelly, you know, at William J. Kelly is where you can find that story or at the Daily Mail.
And, you know, I mean, so I've, I, you know, I've, I write for the, you know, the New York Post.
You know, I, you know, there, there's no question that I'm a journalist.
You know, the question is, you know, the problem was that I was asking real questions.
And I wasn't even, you know, technically speaking, I really wasn't even going after Mayor Whitefoot per se.
You know, I wasn't like the kind of reporters that you remember watching when you were a kid, you know, who literally were hateful against Richard Jay or even Richard M.
I mean, they were savages against.
And by the way, they loved it.
They would run it.
Literally within hours, the trib would have it in either the evening edition or the next, and it would just be pummeling Daly and his father.
And no, and they owned it.
And I'm so happy to talk to you, a Chicago guy who gets it.
You know, they would chase politicians down the street.
They would go to their homes, knock on the door, put their foot in the doorframe, you know, and they were heralded as great reporters.
I did that.
I went to City Hall press conferences and asked Mayor Lightfoot what I perceived, what I thought initially were just basic, you know, questions, you know, and not only did Mayor Lightfoot hate me, but other Chicago journalists seem to hate me for asking real questions.
This is how bad it's gotten, Charlie.
You know, we, I know you're coming to town for my birthday, March 9th.
That's why I'm coming, just for your birthday.
That's the only reason.
Yeah, right.
So I'm hoping that we can get together.
I'm hoping that maybe we can do some kind of a press conference or an event, you know, for this lawsuit against Lightfoot, you know, and not only for William Kelly in Chicago, but for the other reporters who are going to, I guarantee you, especially if I lose my lawsuit, heaven forbid, I guarantee you other reporters in other cities and states, especially heading into 2024, Charlie,
do you think other Democrats and other cities, if they see that Mayor Lightfoot can discriminate against William Kelly in Chicago, you think that that will embolden them?
It's called legal precedent, by the way.
I'm not just like making this up.
You know, if they're able to prevent me from getting, you know, getting my media credential back and covering a mayor's race, then trust me, Charlie, they're going to come after you.
They're going to try to prevent you from here.
William, great job.
We will see you in Chicago.
I want Chicago to be restored to what it once was, and it starts with exposing bad people.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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