j.k. rowling is virtually a billionaire or maybe she is a billionaire noam chomsky very famous for his of the far left stance on everything and they feel threatened because they're not sufficiently wolk enough or in case of j.k. rowling she dared to say a woman is a woman and a man isn't a woman this is this is outrageous but it is worse than that because this cancel culture is reaching down into the society to completely anonymous normal citizens who may say something that gets recorder or they may tweet something or they may post something on facebook and and this cancel culture is getting them fired and ruining their lives the best example of it and i know you know about it is the washington post going after a completely anonymous woman who attended a party 2 years ago and wore black face and they brought it up again and when she told her boss the washington post would be calling she was fired on the spot that this is outrageous that they're doing this to i don't know if a famous people famous people you know are subject to criticism all the time it's it goes of being famous but just o

j.k. rowling has recently faced a wave of outrage after expressing her views on the issue of transgenders and feminism. resistance must not be allowed to harden into his own brand of dogma or coersion the democratic conclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides well we have come to expect this on the radical right since sorious ness is also spreading more widely in our culture and intolerance of opposing views of vogue for public shaming and ostracism and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty well that after instantly to a backlash from both sides of the political divide leftists quickly denounced it as a display of elitism and fear of accountability while those on the right pointed to the poll corsi of some of the signatories who have themselves called for the consolation of others. following the backlash a couple of the signatories that have a parent even disavowed the letter we spoke to political studies professor roger berkovitz who is one of those who signed the letter he beli

j.k. rowling complete when she did and survive it. they have accumulated enough capital.he people completely screwed by it are people like artisan poets and untenured professors who aren't famous and no one knows about and they are having to go bag to get support after they hr whatever it is. >> martha: you got her analysis of what we are going through. in the end weiss prove neither important nor successful enough to overcome that mob. now she is gone but not without a few parting shots. in her resignation letter she described them as out of touch. she says they failed to learn essential lessons from the 2016 election, lessons about the importance of understanding other americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society. those things have not been learned. that might sound very familiar because it's exec out "the new york times," former public editor liz spade said to tucker in december of 2016. remember this. >> i consider it almost unrecognized point of view that the times has that comes from being i

j.k. rowling and everybody else, i'm glad o w to see bari weiss o her thing, andrew sullivan resigned.'m hoping there's going to be some sort of real come back to reality in this ridiculous cancel culture is going to end. >> brian: adjust my final wrap up for you, we have no time for you to comment, but when things got -- people started thinking that you were too conservative to book, you wrote your own movies, produced her own movies, did your own thing, that's why you cannot be stopped, you are a farce. top of the resume is fox & friends host. i hope that still stays on their at the top of the ledger. good job, talk to you soon. >> thanks, brian, cheers. >> brian: let's be honest, we didn't even inconvenience them, all they did was put his knee on his desk and clicked on skype. the coronavirus outbreak appears to be getting worse and farther although these mayin be issues with how state laboratories are reporting new cases. did you hear about this? wf l -- wofl's robert gutierrez has the story in our orlando affiliates. robert, what did you discover about how they're counting the cor

j.k. rowling's is over -- in. j.k. ing and other authors are among the signatories of a letter that will be published in harper's magazine cautioning against what they term is a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that are weakening open debate and tolerance. the letter says the way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. we refuse any false choice between justice and freedom which cannot exist without each other. one of the big issues in november as we deal with the coronavirus pandemic will be health care. the trump administration continues its efforts to get rid of obamacare and that will be a rallying point for democrats who want to stop him. tonight correspondent mike meredith looks at where the battle lines are being drawn. >> it's a law that saves lives. >> democrats campaign on health care almost every election in this year the issue may matter more than ever. >> health care is still the number one kitchen table issue in america.

j.k. rowling, any of the other hypofile people who can withstand this sort of pressure. this cancel culture is meant to silence the people who don't have protection, who don't have power, who don't have a platform to appear on their web site or on tv. those are the people who are really is suffering, and that's really the vice and the negative aspect of cancel culture. there was a poll recently out that something like two-thirds of people in the u.s. and i think almost 80% of conservatives feel that they cannot speak their minds on issues. that's the really pernicious aspect of it. so cancel culture is a lot more than mere criticism. gerry: yeah, you're right. it's not just people like you who speak out publicly and, you know, get denounced and an effort to fire you, but for every one person like you, there are many, many people who are even silenced, who are shocked into silence by that kind of behavior because they don't want to risk getting out there and being denounced. >> that's right. so when the dean of the law school announces that we're not going to fire this pe

j.k. rowling, gloria steinem, other signing an open letter published, calling for openness to opposing viewsow is dave rubin host of "the rubin report." pretty fascinating because as soon as the letter comes out you had people apologizing. i want to read one of these tweets. she signed the letter and she said, "i did not know who else had signed it, i thought i was endorsing a well-meaning message against internet shaming. i thought, good company. the consequences are mind to bear and i'm so sorry." she canceled herself. >> oh the web we weave when we decide to cancel everybody. love, it's nice, were all glad to see it. it's nice to see liberals finally coming around and realizing, cancel culture isn't about taking conservatives. it might take them out too. for the record, there is a couple people who signed this thing who tried to cancel me. it's nice, but ultimately it's a bunch of words and i don't see the radicals looking at this thing and going, let's wrap up cancel culture. if anything they prove and hear that they're going to keep attacking and people who have signed it will back out.

j.k. rowling warned against the intolerance of opposing views. "the lifeblood of a liberal society's daily becoming more constricted." >> there is a regime of intimidation against differences of opinion. >> jimmy kimmel apologize for a black face get 20 years ago, "the new york times" editor was forced to resign because of a u.s. senator's commentary. actor terry crews attacked this week for hoping "black lives matter" doesn't morph into a pickle "black lives matter." >> ironically the harper's letter itself created a backlash on the left. the authors belittled as privileged and self-important with one saying that cancel culture doesn't exist. >> john: thank you. about 100 ford employees are asking the automaker to reconsider building police vehicles. "the detroit free press" reports ford executives have also fielded questions during at least one virtual town hall and in a series of letters since the death of george floyd in late may. ward's chief communications officer says the company wants to hear from all employees and be transparent about it

j.k. rowling among others. a two-year audit commissioned by facebook has cited what it calls "serious setbacks" in the company's efforts on civil rights. it cites a hands-off approach to hate speech and misinformation from president trump and oers. now ycotting facebook over the issue. two more big companies are moving to cut their pandemic losses. y united airlines says it y off 36,000 employees, nearly half its u.s. work force, unss enough take early retirement. and, brooks brothers is filing for federal bankruptcy protection, after 200 years in siness. w wall street today, the jones industrial average gained 177 points to close at 26,067. the nasdaq rose 148 points, to another record close, and the s&p 500 added 24 points. and, the "ivy league" conference sports, including college football, for its eight members. the move was widely reported the ivy league is the first division one conference to take that step. still to come on the newshour:g understande testing shortages plagng the country. north carolina's

j.k. rowling and feminist icon gloria steinem are the more than 100 names attached.they call the rising intolerance of opposing views. power panel now. kevin my color, radio host. john summers, former communications director to harry reid. john, why are democrats doing this? >> i think it's important to recognize that boycotts are very rarely successful. as we all know. they're also not limited to one political ideology. colin kaepernick, nike, nfl, we've seen it with president trump attempting to ban tiktok, and even evangelicals going after howard stern to get him off the air. this isn't something that is unique to one political party or ideology. i think the authors of the letter aren't wrong. in america you have the right to say about anything you want, but people of the right to hold you accountable. >> harris: kevin? >> not only are boycotts sometimes unwise, they can be flat out crazy. what we have seen in the american culture over the last six weeks, since the death of george floyd has spoken loudly to this. their bed calls to cancel everything. this last wee

j.k. rowling has come under fire for her opinions about the transgender movement.er people. she has been very good in that regard. but she has also decided to defend women spaces. and she has gotten slammed and dragged all over twitter. you know, her speech -- they are calling her transphobic. they are saying that her speech is violent. so we need to end cancel culture right now that's what the original letter was all about. griff: all right, rob smith strong words there. we will see where this goes. thank you for joining us today. pete: thanks, rob. >> thank you. griff: big show still ahead. country music star randy house big star lori allen benjamin watson, bill bennett and corey lewandowski all on deck. ♪ ♪ what do we want for dinner? burger... i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. saturday edition of "fox & friends." and we start this hour with a fox news alert. as we follow two big breaking stories from the white house first president trump commuting roger

j.k. rowlings to stop the cancel culture in its tracks. it has ended careers. steve: j.k. rowling famous for the harry potter books, of course, she and 150 other authors and other gary, simon rushdie. they wrote this open letter that appeared in harper's magazine yesterday defending the open debate and freedom of thought and speech. think about that. it's an open letter warning of an intolerant climate for free speech. we all want free speech, don't we? part of what they wrote says this: the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. the restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or intolerant society invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everybody less capable of democratic participation. so they say this is a real threat to our society as we know it. ainsley: yeah. they make some good points. we have been talking about all these statues coming down and, brian, have you been very vocal about this because of the history of our past of so many lead

j.k. rowling, gloria steinem and others penned a letter saying, the brief exchange of information and ideasood of liberal society is daily becoming more constricted. they go on to say, where do you stand on that cancel culture that seems to be accelerated in this day? >> she has spoken out in a bad way against the lgbt qi a+ community. but what i think is a culture of accountability. if you do something wrong then you should be held accountable. we are not canceling people because they wake up in the morning and say hello, these are people who are doing things rooted in racism and sexism. these are people who need to be held accountable so if people are opposing cancel culture than my question to you is, how do you hold something accountable. people need to be held to a standard when they do think that it is a detriment because of their race, color and creed up. >> in that letter they talk about a tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. braddock? >> this is just crazy talk. again, they use their platform as a way of picking people down. and we talk about er