According to the Daily Signal,
Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender
identity inside the building rather than their biological sex.
And they must be addressed by their preferred name and
pronouns in the workplace.
All these policies reportedly outlined in the company's employee handbook.
According to the Daily Signal, the handbook promises that Fox is dedicated
to expanding and strengthening reports, or I'm sorry,
efforts to sustain a more inclusive work environment.
It also states that employees who are transitioning their gender have the right
to be open about their transition and work in an environment free of harassment,
discrimination and without fear of transphobia.
It doesn't even stop there.
The handbook allegedly defines many LGBTQ terms like cisgender,
gender fluid and non binary.
>> Dear God, Fox has gone woke.
Stop the presses.
Particularly Fox's presses, assuming they have presses.
I don't think they have presses anymore, but if they did, you should stop them.
Because they've gone woke because Fox is complying with New York State and
city law and that's unacceptable.
That's the actual takeaway worded slightly differently from Rob Schmidt of Newsmax.
He's responding to a Daily Signal article that appears to show that Fox News has
taken the unprecedented and
unacceptable steps of protecting its employees from harassment.
No, really, that was one of the things that he cited,
that they should have a workplace free from harassment and that cannot be born.
We need to be free to harass these people clean out of the news industry.
But anyway, we're gonna get back to more of that.
But the interesting thing before we dive into the substance of it,
is that this is Newsmax attacking Fox.
And why wouldn't they?
They see an opening right now with Tucker Carlson being fired.
Newsmax wanna jump in that new audience.
But interestingly, it was pointed out by Matthew Gertz on Twitter,
Newsmax has an expansion of their studio going on right now in New York City.
So they already are there.
They're expanding to this massive 24,000 square foot office space.
And the thing about that is, New York City, as I just said,
has these guidelines.
That's what the law is.
You do actually have to do all of what he just cited from that Daily Signal article,
which means so will Newsmax, actually.
So as they're attacking Fox, they're gonna be doing the same thing.
Now, none of this matters.
It's literally the legally mandated bare minimum for
how you should treat your employees.
But they are just as culpable.
If Fox has gone woke, then Newsmax is rushing to go woke, too.
We're gonna get into what was revealed, Sabrina, but what do you think about this?
Are you worried about Fox going forward?
Are they gonna start supporting DSA members or what's going on over there?
>> [LAUGH] As cool as it would be if Fox became Team DSA or actually went woke.
It's not actually about them going woke,
as we know I think it's more about them not wanting to go broke.
I think they've been making a lot of expensive mistakes lately and
it's just a liability issue for them.
They don't want any harassment cases, they don't want any more lawsuits and
this would be an easy way to minimize it.
They're really crossing their fingers and hoping workers there aren't
actually reading their handbooks, which probably not.
They're reading truth social.
But if Newsmax is constructing more office spaces.
If they really have such an issue with people using the bathroom that
aligns with their preferred gender, why don't they just make more
single use stalls while they're doing their construction.
If it's that much of an issue for them.
But it's not.
It really isn't.
They're just projecting onto their audience what they think their audience
wanna hear.
But really, yeah, they're dumb.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
there's no reasoning with them to help them ameliorate the situation where and
they're being attacked by these trans people.
And let's just find a better way to defend yourself,
because they're not being attacked.
They are just going out looking for things to be offended about, looking for
rights to strip away.
There's no way to reassure them because they don't wanna be reassured.
They wanna be on the offense.
And so offensive they shall be.
But yeah, you point out totally reasonable things.
I would also say to any conservatives, I wanna reassure you that though Fox
will likely comply with these laws in New York, do we think it matters in practice?
Do we think that there's gonna be a rush of trans or
just generalized LGBTQ applicants to Fox?
Because they're gonna be. >> [LAUGH]
>> They're still saying all
the stuff they're saying.
And look again, obviously this is Griffith Newsmax doesn't care
about what's actually going on right there.
They wanna steal the audience.
This is a zero sum game.
It's all about money.
It's all about influence.
It's not about reality.
And I know that because other than maybe Matt Walsh,
who literally has not gone 5 seconds without saying the word trans for
the last 36 months, has anyone done more critical, offensive,
harassing coverage of trans people in the trans community than Fox?
And that has bought them nothing.
This tiny little bureaucratic thing that has nothing to do with their absolute
goblins and ghouls that they put in front of the camera that is enough to totally
ruin their cred that they've built up by attacking the trans community.
It's almost sad, but why don't we jump into it was actually found
the Daily Signals big expose on Fox going woke is written by Mary Margaret Olohan.
So she found that under the category of their regulations at Fox titled
Gender Transition, they promised that the company is dedicated to expanding and
strengthening efforts to sustain a more inclusive work environment.
The handbook also allows employees to use the bathrooms which reflect their gender
identity and outlines,
address code and use of pronouns that are inclusive of gender identity preferences.
All very reasonable things.
Things that you'd be giving to your employees at Fox News that
would then allow those employees to help you work in the country.
They're not gonna be changing Fox from within.
They'd be assisting in the mission.
But that's not enough.
It's not enough to just criticize them either.
Now the boycotts are being called for.
So Matt Walsh tweeted a lot of stuff and nobody got time for all of it.
But in Party says Fox needs to get the full Bud Light treatment.
They are actively working to suppress conservative voices while
promoting leftism in its most radical form.
Enough is enough.
Now, look, I'm gonna assume that he doesn't mean, like generalized leftism,
tons of leftism.
I think maybe he just means specifically,
it's like they're letting them use the bathrooms and pronouns.
And I would challenge him.
Is that really leftism in its most radical form?
Is that really leftism at all?
Does that have anything to do with leftism?
What does that have to do with politics?
This is a personal thing.
This is a gender identity thing.
This is a cultural thing.
This isn't about redistribution of wealth.
This isn't about tax codes.
What are you talking about?
That it's, I know that you wanna tie it to the left because you think it's harder to
attack the left on its actual policies,
because you know that even your viewers really like a lot of that stuff.
So instead, you create this boogeyman of a fake version of the trans community
that doesn't actually exist, doing things that they don't actually do.
And then you attack that.
You gradually get people to hate it and fear it and then you tie that to the left.
It's an end round because you're unable to actually fight against leftist policies.
But what does it have to do at the end of the day with it?
And also, Fox needs to get the full Bud Light treatment.
You just mean it needs to get boycotted.
Just say that it needs to be boycotted.
That's what you're doing to Bud Light.
You wanna do it to this.
During our production meeting, I was saying, Sabrina,
this is kinda like what happens with things like Coke.
In a lot of parts of the country, they just call all soda Coke because I guess
having a brand makes it more exciting or something.
It's just a boycott, buddy.
You could just say that.
But Sabrina, what do you think?
Should Fox be worried about this becoming a big issue,
hurting their viewership even more?
>> No, I don't think it's gonna be a huge issue at all.
But in regards to Matt Walsh, I really do want him
to expand on what exactly is Bud Light treatment.
Like you said, it's boycotting, but also, dare I say it's, canceling.
Is he trying to cancel Bud Light?
Matt Walsh and hypocrites like him are so against cancel culture,
which in my opinion doesn't really exist anyway.
But this isn't new.
Conservatives have always been trying to tear down and just absolutely crush
anything that doesn't align with their own personal values.
So it's very, very funny to me that he won't call it boycotting.
He won't call it canceling.
He has to call it the Bud Light treatment because that'll resonate
with his audience.
But I don't think Fox has too much to worry about in regards to their handbook.
It's objectively a really good thing.
>> I'm really glad that you pointed out, because it's funny how a lot of the times
the right will purposefully take terms that means something and
then they just drain it of all of its meaning.
So fake news meant something.
They just started calling all news fake news and
now fake news doesn't mean anything anymore.
It's one of the ways they win is by stripping language of its meaning,
its significance.
Generally, that's us having to then change our language because they've ruined it.
They've poisoned the well.
Here they have to run from their own language because they've created these
constructs that they know they're playing into.
So now they need to avoid actually using the term.
And it's great, too, that it's not like Fox needs to get the Bud Light treatment,
needs to get canceled, as you pointed out.
Because, I don't know,
Sean Hannity did something in his personal life that was bad.
This is explicitly canceling them for political correctness.
They're trying to do what is politically required.
And when I say politically correct is here, I mean legally correct.
And he is saying, I don't like your political statement.
It was not, from my perspective, politically correct.
And thus I have a big issue with you.
You could not come up with something that is more emblematic of exactly what
they say the left does that they shouldn't do.
It is the exact same thing.
Because those attacks, the cancel culture, it's never meant anything.
It was never an actual standard that was meant to apply to everyone.
It was a convenient way to attack the left, generalized left,
including Democrats.
And that's it.
But anyway, this is also personal, by the way.
For the same reason that Newsmax is trying to take Fox's audience.
Now Matt Walsh is really mad because Big Daddy Tucker Carlson isn't there anymore
to put him on air.
Tucker Carlson would put Matt Walsh on the show every week.
I don't know, every month.
I don't watch it.
I don't know.
But he was on there often in any event and that was valuable.
That would be a way to expand his reach, get more people to go watch him.
That's what he wants.
Because this is about money.
This isn't about the actual policy.
And so all of them are just eating each other because they just desperately want
more pointless money that they'll never be able to spend.
And so he'd been bringing him on.
God knows now what's gonna happen.
Although Matt Walsh appears to think there was no chance of him being brought
back on, because he's definitely burning the bridge now.
And so he's gonna be fine.
He's gonna be paid by millionaires and billionaires for the rest of his life.
But one of the avenues for more money might have been cut off, Sabrina.
>> Boohoo.
Poor Matt Walsh.
I am so sorry for him.
>> You sound it.
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