The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: NBC Guts DEI

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

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Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. All right, so first up here, the man alive. I'm telling you, some of this stuff does not want to load. All right, I'm having a little bit of a technical issue. So first up, I think I had this story before, but there is an update to it. I got a couple.

So this first story, do you guys remember the 70-year-old who apparently urinated all over $10,000 worth of food at a Sam's Club? Remember that story? So I didn't have this information. Patrick Mitchell, when authorities got there to arrest him, he was taking a nap on the lawn furniture that they had displayed in the middle. You know how they have all the stuff in the middle? And they have like the lawn furniture out. and sometimes they'll set up the umbrellas and all that. He was under an umbrella that was set up relaxing on a lounge chair.

I had no idea. That would have, and apparently there is cell phone images of him doing the deed. And the reason all this is coming out is because he's now going to court over it finally, even though he was originally arrested during the summer, but now the court cases. Now he's the litigations. I don't know what there is to litigate. I mean, you're literally videotape urinating on 188 cans of Vienna sausages. Oh, yeah.

And 345 cans of spam. Over $10,000. That's a lot. So anyway, just a little update to that story because I thought it was just hysterical that he's lounging on, you know, lounging on furniture. Let's see. A central Florida teenager was charged because deputies say he faked an abduction that caused an amber alert. Oh, okay. He's a minor. He's 17 years old. He apparently faked his

abduction. They issued a statewide amber alert. And then, well, he wasn't abducted. So he's been charged with presenting false evidence, making a false report of a crime, possession of a firearm. He apparently had a handgun. And shooting into a conveyance, according to the press release in the Marion County Sheriff's Office. it seems like the family was kind of end on it as well. I was thinking about this in context of media. Did you guys read about NBC that are having 150 layoffs? They're gutting black, Latino, Asian American, and LGBTQ plus.

They put the plus there because there was like a host of letters and numbers that fall. I don't even know what we talked about that yesterday. The verticals focused on those issues, but now apparently this is the headline and this is from, the rap. It says that it's a broader shift in media away from diversity efforts. That's not what it is. Newsrooms, for people to argue that newsrooms weren't already diverse, I think you're a racist if you are arguing that newsrooms weren't diverse before the alphabet, namely the T mafia. You know what I mean? If you did not realize that there was already a diverse representation of people in the news, you are a racist because you ignored them. You ignored and marginalized them and only began

really paying attention when it became trendy. And that's the truth of it. This wasn't about diversity. This was about critical race theory. And critical race theory, you can say DEI, all of it is really critical race theory. DEI is basically a subset of CRT. I've written and talked about CRT for a good night, like 15 years now. And to recap, critical race theory, in fact, you guys remember way back, this was right about the time that Andrew Breitbart passed away. And maybe you guys remember the, this, do you remember the video that he had talked about when it was Barack Obama hugging somebody? You guys remember that? There was this video. I was on CNN about it. I had to go out when I worked for Andrew at the time.

time. I was the editor of big journalism before everything got combined. They were able to obtain this video of Barack Obama on campus. And he was friends and very close with this professor named Derek Bell. And this is when he was a law student and it was at Harvard, Harvard Law. And he had spoken, there was a video that we had where he was in, he was at a rally there. And, he had given him a hug and they had spoken in defense of him and all this stuff. And this was in 1990 Obama spoke in support of Bell at this. They had a protest at Harvard and they were demanding diversity on the faculty. Now, all of this whole protest was started by this Derek Bell. Now, who is Derek Bell? Derek Bell is one of the biggest proponents of critical race theory in the

United States. And critical race theory comes from Marxism. It is a, it's a tenant of Marxism, Frankfurt School of Marxism. It's, I mean, it is designed to either supplant or work parallel to economics in terms of dividing the classes. So where economic Marxism would focus on dividing people by, you know, finances, income, et cetera, critical race theory is all about dividing by race. And intersectionality, where you check off all these boxes of things that you believe have been woefully done wrong to you, whether it's race or gender or whatever, that's what, when you have all of these things, that's what intersectionality is. That is a phrase from critical race theory.

And they used, they, they, critical race theory, they are the people who, you know, who promoted race as a social construct. And at the very heart of critical race theory is the idea of systemic racism. That is like the core belief of CRT. Now, why is that? The goal of CRT is to destabilize societies, not just with economic means as with what most people normally think of Marxist narrative warfare. But critical race theory is about destabilizing societies amongst people socially promoting actual, I mean, literally promoting segregation. That's why it's so the equity instead of equality, that's from critical race theory.

DEI is just an action of critical race theory. That lends itself to the hiring practices and the changing of your employee structure. So back to the point, the video where Barack Obama was hugging Derek Bell, one of the reasons that was that we came out with that was because we were talking about, this is back in 2012, critical race theory. It was like the last video that Andrew had published and it was the last story rollout that he directed before he passed away. And it was about the talking, trying to inform people about critical race theory and warning them of what was to come. And we were out there warning people about this and warning this, you know, Derek Bell started this at Harvard and it went from there. And it was Barack Obama that helped mainstream it amongst the students. So that's why it was so incredibly important.

And a lot of people didn't really understand it at the time. A lot of people came out and defended him in 2012 when we started our expose of this. So the whole point is this critical race. theory, this is what they were using as it means to determine hiring in newsrooms. And you guys saw this. You guys saw everything, whether it was a school board fight. You guys saw all of this. All of this unfolded. All of it unfolded. And it was all because you had Derek Bell, who was a Marxist, Barack Obama who was a Marxist, and Obama mainstreamed it amongst the student body. And to this point with these newsrooms, so the newsrooms, they were all about trying to,

they wanted to really promote stories through that CRT lens. And so this is where you get into the hiring of people who maybe didn't have the resume or the merit, but that's where intersectionality, remember the CRT term, that's where the intersectionality comes if you were black, if you were gay, if you were lesbian, if you were trans, if you were whatever, the more of those intersectional boxes that you could check, that was a substitute in the context of critical race theory, that is a substitute for merit. And so that's how a lot of these hiring practices went. So now here we are.

Today, NBC News is eliminating its teams that specifically only covered those issues. You realize that they had like a handful of staffers for specifically alphabet plus issues. Do you really need that many staff? What in the world? I mean, you have news and then you have things that you're trying to make news. So I think that their insistence at trying to explain that this is a shift away from quote unquote diversity efforts. This is a shift away from propaganda. So the NBC laying off 150 people, that's pretty big.

But that's not all. They also have, in addition to that, you have the Los Angeles Times. Same thing. They're trying to divert, well, undiversify, I guess you could say. The media is changing. And then, of course, you have the CBS thing. You have the CBS thing where they acquired the free press. And by the way, those are the people, and I'll talk about this more, that's the entity with which I'm doing the debate coming up after the election.

I'm debating Alan Dershowitz in Chicago on gun control. And the free press, and Barry Weiss, she's moderating. The free press is hosting it. You know CBS acquired, the CBS Paramount acquired them and a major deal. And she's going to be heading up the news and political department at CBS. And a lot of people in the media are livid. there are all those old school lefties that were really trying to incorporate CRT into every aspect of the newsroom. It affected the story.

I mean, you've got to realize critical race theory affected everything from how police staffed to the stories that you watched on TV, to the things that you read online, the movies that you watched, the music you listened to. it kicked off the behavioral credit thing that they were trying to do with banks. I mean, this literally spawned since 2012 a host of things. And now it's changing in the media because the media realizes the way that they were doing it is not working anymore. And this is a huge shift in media. And remember, Barry Weiss was run out of the New York Times. And what's funny is she checks all these intersectional boxes, right? She's a lesbian.

She's a woman. She's Jewish. You would think that that would be considered a protected class with the left. But all of those intersectional boxes are rendered irrelevant if you are not a far left progressive. It's not even good enough to be an independent. It's not even good enough, as you can see with John Fetterman, to be a moderate. If you are not far left, you are persona non grata. Intersectionality is no longer applicable to you.

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PayPal's crypto partner minted a whopping $300 trillion worth of stable coins and what it called a technical error. Why can't these technical errors ever happen to me? Why are we always left out, Kane? I mean, that would be great. There aren't even enough dollars in global circulation, note CNBC, to back it. That would literally require, not theoretically, but really require more than double of the world's estimated total GDP. It's insane. and they said Paxos mistakenly minted the stable coins as part of an internal transfer

before it then immediately identified the error and burned off the excess PYUSD. That's what they said in a social media statement. That makes me, see, this is why people question not like crypto. I've got to be honest with it. It's why this stuff like this. I'm just saying, just saying. This 75% Americans report soaring prices. Now, granted, this is from The Guardian, which is a British turd of a publication.

But inflation, it's still a reality. We're not going to Biden this stuff. There's still pessimism about the economy. And honestly, regardless of, you know, who they voted for, on the right, people are pretty divided as to whether or not, you know, the economy is going to hold. Now, the president says that there's virtually no inflation. There is some. There's a new Harris poll showing that Americans are still reporting soaring inflation. A lot of people are pretty pessimistic about the economy.

I know Kane saying let Trump cook, are you going to say, what? What? Get on the, what? What? I'm just saying. I think what they're mistaking are these companies responding to what they believe the tariffs will do. And so companies are trying to protect themselves. Customers may see a little increase in price, but we're talking about actual inflation. It's not really there.

It's way down. There are certain things that are more. That is for sure. And some of it is because, I mean, we really could. Like, for instance, construction costs, Gim, any Christmas. But that's also because we don't have a lot of those resources here domestically, and that's a huge problem with it. But it's going to be harder to create them domestically if we can't get a handle on the pricing, you know.

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Okay, and I want to get to that, absolutely. But do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons and leave the leadership in Gaza? I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that's affordable for all. And as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace. And that is the future that we have to fight for. But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza. I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question

of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law. And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about. That's not an answer. That isn't an answer. You know, maybe the New York YRs, middle-aged YRs, maybe if they weren't texting so much and doing all of that, they could have maybe put up a bigger fight to this guy because he's leading. He's going to win.

He's going to be mayor of New York. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of this third hour. That's Zoran Mamdani, who was on Fox yesterday. I didn't hear a condemnation, Kane, did you? No. And he's the anti-gun character. Yeah.

Like what? Yeah, he's anti-gunn except for Hamas. He doesn't think Hamas should let, you know, guns for Hamas, but not for you. That's the real truth of it. So he repeatedly, repeatedly refused to say that they should. And that's one of the conditions, you know, the peace deal that Trump outlined the 20-point peace plan. That's one of the conditions of it. It's absolutely one of the conditions of it.

And he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't say it. He wouldn't say that he could not even back, like back something, back up something that simple, which is a real problem. I don't know. And he's leading. He's leading. Is that in New York? The biggest, you know, the biggest city really in the world.

And he's leading there. He's going to be mayor. And it's going to be horrible. It's going to be so bad. And I think people vote for them. Should not be barred from leaving. I think people should be forced to live under what they voted for. Is that, I mean, call it tyranny.

That's why I'm not running for office ever, because I would make that happen. Let people suffer under the indignity of their own vote. Just crazy. But he would not even say, could not even. couldn't even do that. Just wow. It's pathetic. And he's going to win.

It's crazy, but he's going to win. He couldn't even, and that was just like one part of it. I mean, this was a train wreck interview. Martha McHallan's not even a difficult interviewer. He is, he's just, he's so bad. Listen to this. Listen to this. Audio sum by 28.

This is cut 28, where he talks about the tax levels. If he wins, this is what people are going to pay in tax. Listen. So a lot of individuals in this city pay more than 50% of their income in taxes. When you talk about a fair share, how much more than, what is the fair share? What's the number? I've said that we should increase personal income taxes by 2% by 2% is fair. And my point is this, give up more than half of your income. If you're making a million dollars in New York City or more than that, you can afford to pay 2% more. And the reasons you can afford to do so is because that money will be used to better your quality of life as well. Because when I speak to the wealthiest New Yorkers,

I hear concerns about the cleanliness of the city, the quality of life in this city, questions of public safety. This money is the money that will be used to deliver on those things so that we can ensure that we have a return on investment for all of the money that we are raising and spending right here. But wait a minute, though. Like what? So it's already, they're already the highest taxed one of, the highest taxed people in the nation. why isn't that all, why aren't all of those issues met now? Thank you. If you're already paying, people are paying 52% of their paychecks and taxes already. Why isn't it working? You already have Democrat leadership.

Now you're going to get even worse Democrat leadership. I wish that would have been the follow up. Well, wait a minute. Why isn't that working now? Over 52% of your paycheck goes to the government in New York. Why is crime out of control? Why are the streets filled with homeless and drug dealers and everything else? Why are they hemorrhaging high earners?

Why isn't it working? He's never been asked to that question. I thought I was anticipating waiting for that to be the follow-up and it wasn't. I'm like, okay, well. But why isn't, why not ask him that question? I feel like that's that's fair to ask. 52% can you imagine? This is cut 26.

He was asked, well, how does it help affordability? Because you know you have companies that are fleeing Manhattan. I don't know what they're going to replace that tax revenue with. Listen, that JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have moved major operations to Texas. They've not abandoned New York, but they're hedging their bets on New York. because of the increased taxes that they see coming if you become mayor. So when they do that, jobs move out of the city as well. So how does that help affordability if people in the city don't have the jobs that they had that they once had here?

Well, I'm looking to make this a city that every person chooses, whether they're a business leader or they're someone who works for that business. And the key ways of doing that are actually delivering quality of life, public safety, and affordability for each and every person. because what we're seeing right now is we have a broken status quo. We have a corrupt political system. And we have the politicians that sustain that. That's really what's on the ballot is whether New Yorkers want to continue that or that they actually want a city they can afford. Wait, that's not even answering the question. That's a Kamala Harris word salad.

He's asked, well, how does it help affordability when corporations that bear a lot of the tax burden when they're leaving because of your policies? And he's like, well, we're going to do this by making, you know, life affordable. wait, you're going to help affordability from massive corporations fleeing by making life affordable. Do you realize how stupid that sounds? He's a bimbo. He is a nepo baby bimbo. Just reminder, he's never worked, ever. He has literally never held a job ever.

and he somehow thinks I just, I, that this is going to, his mom directed his failed rap video, he tried to be a rapper, that didn't work, and I guess the next best thing is try to run for mayor in New York City. So his idea to help affordability from corporations leaving New York City is to make life affordable. How? Well, the corruption in the government, you know. He sounds like a moronic college freshman. Well, we're like going to make it like the government's corrupt. It's crazy.

We're going to make the life affordable. You know, the government's so corrupt. What are you talking about? Can you just like stop with the platitudes for a second and actually think and give an answer? That is embarrassing. That's not all of it. Last one, cut 27. What is he going to say about Thatcher's quote on socialism?

city's already in debt. The governor says no to new taxes. Like Margaret Thatcher said, you know, socialism's great until you run out of everyone else's money. Other people's money. Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if he had $959 million, he'd give it to Elon Musk and tax credits because that's exactly what he did. And I bring that up to you to say that it's often a question of whether you have the willingness to spend that money to benefit working class people, not where that money is in the first place. So what would you cut? I don't think he understands what tax credits are.

tax credits that's that's a reduction in the income tax that you owe so you're not you no one's paying you you're keeping more of what you earn and it's a common thing for cities to use this to generate and attract in businesses it's like look all right we're going to give you a one year or a two year little stay on the taxes that we would require from businesses so you can get up and running get these jobs going, and then you'll start having to pay taxes. So tax credits are really a benefit to the businesses because government's already over taxes. It's, there's a financial illiteracy there. And you know why the people who pay more in taxes get bigger tax breaks?

That's a cyclical answer, by the way. I'll say it again. Do you know why the people who pay more in taxes get bigger tax breaks? I just answered it. The people who pay more in taxes get bigger tax breaks because they pay more in taxes. Never forget that the top, what is it? Like the top 50% pay like 98%? The top 6% or 7% pays more than 50% of the entire burden.

And then the bottom pay nothing. It is completely lopsided. It's so disproportionate. The top 1% of taxpayers, they paid the highest average income tax rate. In fact, it's the most. I'm looking at data from 2022. So the average income tax rate in 22 was 14%. The top 1% they paid actually way over that.

It was they got 23 average rate, six times higher than the 3% average rate. The top 50% average rate, the top 50% average rate, the top 50%. paid 97% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 50% only paid, actually they paid less than three. Good God. Yeah. So we, and by the way, our progressive tax system needs to be completely looked at. The more you make, the more you pay.

It's punitive. It's theft. 10% of my salary as opposed to 10% of, say, Donald Trump's salary or whatever, his 10% is paying way more. And we're still both paying 10%. Honestly, all of the discussion. about civil wars over everything other than this is stupid. But if you talk to me about a civil war over this, I'm in. Because it's, I mean, we literally went to war for less than this back in the day.

It's so bad. This is so bad. So the top 1% they pay, I mean, they have a rate six times higher than the average rate. This is Matt. By what, this is literally the summary of all of the latest federal income tax data. I'm looking at this. It punishes success. It's published.

It punishes success. So, and yes, the top one percent pay the most. They pay six times higher than everyone else. So what is he talking about? He's an economically illiterate moron. Good grief. And this is

what they're, this is what they're paying. And they're going to pay more. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.