Actor Rob Schneider, the previous “Saturday Evening Dwell” star and outspoken supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, desires the billionaire proprietor of the Los Angeles Occasions to fund a chat present to rival “The View” that may attraction to conservatives, based on a report.
The “Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo” star pitched the thought final month whereas assembly with Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong on the newspaper’s El Segundo places of work, Oliver Darcy reported in his Standing e-newsletter.
Schneider was joined by Cheryl Hines, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star who’s married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee to run the Division of Well being and Human Companies, the report added.
Quickly-Shiong — who blocked the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris — invited the pair as a result of he wished to provide them a tour of the newsroom in addition to to spotlight the newspaper’s video capabilities, Standing reported.
It was through the tour that Schneider reportedly pitched Quickly-Shiong on making a conservative various to ABC’s lefty gabfest that includes Pleasure Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin.
A spokesperson for Schneider confirmed that the comic met with Quickly-Shiong.
“Rob did have a beautiful assembly with Mr. Quickly-Shiong and appreciated the brand new route the LA Occasions is taking,” the rep mentioned.
The spokesperson declined to say whether or not the 2 mentioned teaming up on a present.
The Publish has sought remark from the LA Occasions and Hines.
In accordance with Standing, the sight of Schneider, Hines — an avowed liberal — and Quickly-Shiong strolling by means of the Occasions places of work had staffers “bewildered.”
When rumors unfold contained in the newsroom that the Occasions might be concerned in partnering with Schneider, some journalists grew “understandably alarmed by the notion,” Darcy wrote in Standing.
Schneider’s purported pitch comes after The Publish reported solely that executives at ABC father or mother firm Disney have been in “panic mode” to discover conservative voices to steadiness the principally anti-Trump opinions expressed on the present following the election.
Final month, Schneider instructed Fox Information that he was launching a ladies’s discuss present for his new media firm, “‘No Apologies Media,” that may function a substitute for “The View.”
“It will likely be the alternative as a result of this shall be entertaining. It’ll be humorous,” he mentioned.
Schneider has not been shy about expressing his approval of Quickly-Shiong, who angered hundreds of his readers in addition to a number of of his editorial board members and newsroom staffers along with his resolution to kill the endorsement for Harris simply weeks earlier than the Nov. 5 election.
On his X account, Schneider wrote final month: “Guess what?! It’s OKAY to purchase the [Los Angeles Times] once more… You’ll see WHY SOON?!”
The caption was posted above a photograph through which Schneider is seen studying a replica of the broadsheet.
Schneider — who has been essential of COVID lockdown measures and vaccines — wrote a follow-up put up which learn: “Congratulations to [Soon-Shiong] for making [the Los Angeles Times] a newspaper for ALL CALIFORNIANS once more! I sit up for ALL of your NEW tasks!”
The put up was punctuated with an emoji of a smiling face with one eye winking.
Quickly-Shiong, the South African-born billionaire who made his fortune in drugs and biotechnology, has sought to diversify his newspaper’s editorial board by including Scott Jennings, a frequent op-ed contributor to the Occasions, to the editorial board.
Final month, Darcy reported in Standing that Quickly-Shiong instructed editorial board members to “take a break from writing about” Trump.
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