Opening Monologue — The Joe Mangiacotti Show
WCRN 830 AM — Radio Central
Monday, May 5th, 2025 — Cinco de Mayo Edition
Good afternoon, my fellow common-sense citizens—and welcome to the Joe Mangiacotti Show, coming to you from the center of the dial, the center of New England, and the center of information—AM 830, WCRN Radio Central.
It’s Monday, May 5th—Cinco de Mayo—and while many Americans will be raising a glass tonight to celebrate freedom from French imperialism in Mexico, we’ve got to talk about our own struggle to keep tyranny and lawlessness from seeping in through our own cracks.
Let’s start with what I’m calling “The Public Broadcasting Meltdown.”
President Donald J. Trump—yes, President Trump—just signed an executive order cutting off taxpayer funding to NPR and PBS. Predictably, NPR’s top brass had a meltdown worthy of a toddler in the cereal aisle. CEO Katherine Maher, a woman who last year said the First Amendment was “the number one challenge to controlling the narrative,” is now clutching her pearls and claiming this is an attack on free speech.
Let’s be crystal clear: No one is shutting NPR down. This isn’t a gag order. This isn’t book burning. This is just the American taxpayer saying, “You wanna peddle propaganda? Fine. Just do it on your own dime.”
This isn’t censorship. This is accountability.
Now if you still believe NPR is some shining beacon of unbiased journalism, let me remind you—this is the same network that spent more airtime defending pronouns than investigating fentanyl deaths. The same PBS that had a host gushing to Nancy Pelosi like he was interviewing Taylor Swift: “You might not be able to hear it, but there’s a lot of applause in the room here for you!” Really? That’s journalism?
Sorry folks, but when public institutions go partisan, the public has the right—and the responsibility—to pull the plug.
Now, speaking of institutions we can’t trust anymore…
Let’s shift to Letitia James—yes, the New York Attorney General—who’s been so obsessed with Donald Trump that she forgot her job was to represent all New Yorkers. Now, she’s sent a referral for mortgage fraud to the feds based on Trump’s so-called “overvaluation” of Mar-a-Lago.
Here’s what’s crazy: No bank was defrauded. No loan was unpaid. No money was lost. This isn’t a crime—this is a political hit job disguised as legal work.
It’s lawfare, folks. And it undermines the real work of real law enforcement. Every hour Letitia James spends hunting Trump is an hour she’s not spending protecting the people of New York from rising crime, collapsing infrastructure, and yes—actual fraud.
And if you’re wondering what kind of fraud the Left is not interested in prosecuting, let’s talk about voter ID. Still.
Over in the UK—believe it or not—a high court just ruled that you can’t define a woman as an “adult human female.” That’s right. Literal, biological reality is now considered discriminatory. A woman is no longer a woman, and truth is now hate speech.
Meanwhile, here in America, the same ideological nonsense is seeping into law enforcement. Police departments are being ordered to use “affirming language” over accurate descriptions, and officers are told to log gender identity instead of biological sex on arrest reports. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you cannot enforce law and order if you’re not even allowed to describe reality.
And that brings us to the bigger problem: our justice system is no longer neutral.
We’ve got DAs letting rioters walk free, while parents at school board meetings get flagged as domestic threats. We’ve got FBI whistleblowers being punished while child traffickers walk out on bail. The message from the progressive machine is loud and clear: We don’t want law and order—we want power and control.
Now, I’m going to throw one more log on the fire before we hit the break—and it’s about the media meltdown over Elon Musk’s new platform policies. This week, Twitter—sorry, “X”—made headlines again by refusing to throttle political content just because it’s “offensive.”
Guess who’s angry? The same folks who claim to be defenders of free speech—until someone actually uses it.
You see, what scares the Left isn’t disinformation. It’s competition. They’re terrified that Americans—real, working-class, church-going, taxpaying Americans—might get news that hasn’t been filtered through NPR or PBS. And that, my friends, is why they need federal money—to prop up a narrative no one is buying unless it’s subsidized.
So here’s the bottom line on this Cinco de Mayo: Freedom is messy, but it’s ours. We don’t need state-funded storytellers, partisan prosecutors, or judges redefining science to protect feelings.
We need law. We need order. And we need common sense.
This is the fight for the soul of our country—and I’d rather we win it with truth, courage, and yes, our own hard-earned dollars—not a dime of yours stolen for spin.
Alright, we’re just getting started. After the break, I want to hear from you—do you support President Trump’s move to defund NPR and PBS? And what do you think law and order looks like in a world where “woman” is now a controversial term?
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