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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan Edwards

Daily Wire will spend $100m to produce conservative kids’ entertainment to rival ‘woke’ Disney

For The Washington Post

Ben Shapiro grew up loving Disney movies, he told his podcast listeners last week. The conservative firebrand passed that love on to his kids by taking them to Disneyland as soon as they were old enough - 6 months of age in the Shapiro household.

But then Disney got political, he claimed. Gay characters appeared in their movies and those characters sometimes kissed each other. Shapiro said the company he once loved was “being held hostage by the woke.”

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