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<\/p>\nRUSH: Look at Bob Iger. So Bob Iger, he runs a business. Disney is a network that got started doing what? Making programs and theme parks for who? Children! Children! Kids! Little babies, who grow up to become Disney fans. They watch Disney TV shows, they watch Disney movies, they buy Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse dolls, they go to the theme park.<\/p>\n
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So Bob Iger is out there, and he is livid over the anti-abortion bill in Georgia. And he\u2019s saying (paraphrasing), \u201cYou know what, we may have to pull out of there. We may not be able to shoot in Georgia.\u201d This is audio sound bite number 24. This is Bob Iger on Wednesday on the Reuters website.<\/p>\n
IGER: If it becomes law, it will be very difficult to produce there. I rather doubt we will. I don\u2019t think, one, I think many people who work for us will not want to work there. And we\u2019ll have to heed their wishes in that regard. If it becomes law, I don\u2019t see how it\u2019s practical for us to continue to shoot there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. “We can\u2019t shoot in a state that\u2019s gonna protect children. We can\u2019t do business in a state that\u2019s going to finally take action to make sure children are not wantonly killed — and, in fact, we\u2019re gonna take our production and we\u2019re gonna go back to” where? Hollywood? Hollywood, where we have a paragon of virtue? Hollywood, which is apparently morally correct? “No, we can\u2019t shoot where these scumbags are in Georgia passing all these restrictive abortion bills, protecting our audience.<\/p>\n
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“We can\u2019t shoot in a state that\u2019s gonna protect our audience. We can\u2019t do that! We\u2019ve gotta go back to a state that\u2019s wiping our audience out because that\u2019s what our employees are going to demand.” To think, at one time they were touting this guy as a potential Democrat candidate to go against Trump. This guy would be not that difficult to beat just on this decision alone. On the other hand, over here we got all these people who think Donald Trump\u2019s the scumbag!<\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s the scumbag! People in Georgia are scumbags! People in Missouri are scumbag. We can\u2019t do business in Georgia! We can\u2019t do business in North Carolina. We can\u2019t do business in Missouri. We can\u2019t do business with these bigots!”<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Earlier in the broadcast today, we pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of Disney. Now, the current CEO of Disney is Bob Iger. By the way, a little point of reference. When I arrived in New York in 1988, this program was originally syndicated by a former president of the ABC Radio networks, Edward McLaughlin, and he retired from ABC when Capital Cities subsumed ABC and a lot of ABC executives were given very attractive retirement packages. And one of the things Ed got was two hours of satellite time to fill however he wanted and make a business of it, and that\u2019s how this program got started.<\/p>\n
At the time Bob Iger was at ABC, Cap City, he survived the Cap Cities merger and his star was golden. I remember I had a couple of meetings with Bob Iger involved about the possibility of a TV show way, way, way, way back in the early nineties, and even sat next to him at a dinner party at Barbara Walters\u2019 house. He was always a nice guy. And I can understand why his star was golden at ABC.<\/p>\n
Now, he still is essentially the president of ABC. ABC now has become Disney, ESPN and so forth. And he hasn\u2019t aged at all. I mean, if you wanted to put a picture of the quintessential CEO picture next to the definition in the dictionary, Bob Iger would be it.<\/p>\n
So Bob Iger went out and said — in fact, let\u2019s grab the sound bite again. I think it\u2019s 24. This is what Iger said yesterday on the Reuters website. They did an interview. All of the media is fit to be tied over the anti-abortion law in Georgia and other states, and this is what Iger said about it.<\/p>\n
IGER: If it becomes law, it will be very difficult to produce there. I rather doubt we will. I don\u2019t think, one, I think many people who work for us will not want to work there. And we\u2019ll have to heed their wishes in that regard. If it becomes law, I don\u2019t see how it\u2019s practical for us to continue to shoot there.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is just hypocritical and crazy. Disney is a company founded on programming and facilities for children. And the abortion law in Georgia is designed to save and protect children. And we can\u2019t have that. The way Disney is looking at this, we can\u2019t have our audience protected. We can\u2019t do business in a state that\u2019s looking out for our audience and our future audience. We can\u2019t have that. We\u2019ve gotta leave that state.<\/p>\n
And where are they gonna go? Why did they leave Hollywood in the first place? ‘Cause it cost so damn much money to produce things there, so then they go to Canada. Canada\u2019s appropriately liberal, it\u2019s a little cheaper. They run out of Hollywood. Why do they leave Hollywood? To get away from unions, to make things cheaper.<\/p>\n
So they go to Georgia. There\u2019s a lot of Hollywood TV and movie production happening in Georgia. The Avengers: Endgame, for example, was shot in Georgia. Did you know that? Okay. You knew that. It\u2019s hard to get something past Mr. Snerdley. Because there aren\u2019t any unions, it\u2019s much cheaper.<\/p>\n
Now all of a sudden what Iger is telling us is that the people who work for Disney are not gonna work there if this abortion law passes because it\u2019s an oppressive state, oppressive to women, but it\u2019s protecting Disney\u2019s audience!<\/p>\n
So what are they gonna do? Are they gonna head back to Hollywood and the moral, ethical superiority and clarity of Hollywood? Are they gonna have to find some other place that undercuts unions and is cheap to produce that still sees the right way on abortion? You know what\u2019s amazing is these states, Georgia and some of the others, they bend over backwards to get these Hollywood production teams in town. They give them tax breaks and any number of other favorable treatments, which is fine. I\u2019m not complaining about that. States can run their shows however they want.<\/p>\n
But after being granted all these concessions because everybody\u2019s a groupie, everybody wants Hollywood in town, everybody wants the production of Hollywood material to happen in their neighborhood or their state, then they turn around and sabotage these states this way and hold them in economic hostage.<\/p>\n
But in Disney\u2019s case, it\u2019s stunning because this is Disney\u2019s audience! Children. That Georgia is seeking to protect. And it\u2019s a state law. Missouri\u2019s got one similar. Alabama. Look, Mr. Iger, you gotta understand what\u2019s happening here. In the states of New York and Virginia, they pass laws claiming you can abort a baby after it is born and they get a standing ovation for this?<\/p>\n
This is murder! Except that it isn\u2019t murder if the woman says, “Well, I want to abort the baby anyway.\u201d If the abortion fails, they can still, as Ralph Northam said, make the baby comfortable for a while, give it a pill, and then you whap it. Well, there are people in this country that are appalled by this, and they see standing ovations for the killing of babies after they\u2019re born? What do you think is gonna happen?<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s a reaction here like in physics, in Georgia, in Alabama, in Missouri, they\u2019re going the other way. Okay, you\u2019re gonna do that, we\u2019re gonna make it illegal to have an abortion, period, depending on this or that. So Hollywood comes along, and said, “We can\u2019t we can\u2019t do business there.” Well, the reason I went through this again is \u2019cause there\u2019s a new story here.<\/p>\n
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This is from Breitbart. WarnerMedia, which is the parent of CNN, HBO, TNT, which is now owned by AT&T. AT&T just bought all this. Warner Media has threatened also to boycott Georgia over the abortion law. \u201c