Hour two opens with ABC’s first television interview with Alex Pretti’s family. We hear the family ask for accountability and an apology, then debate the conduct of protesters around federal officers, the duty to comply during tense encounters and the way ABC frames the story. We also compare that national attention with the coverage given to families cited in immigration-crime cases and ask how much media selection is driven by politics.
The media argument widens into anti-ICE activism, legal tactics and the old fight over clipped Trump rhetoric. We compare the reaction to Trump’s “bloodbath” comment with Larry Krasner’s remarks about the White House ballroom, then circle back to sports and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s infamous “E-L-G-S-E-S” Eagles chant. The mix stays fast, moving from serious media criticism to one of the city’s most replayable political bloopers.
Dolly Parton becomes the hour’s biggest entertainment discussion after we play her 2018 refusal to attack Trump and Trump’s recent praise for her after ordering flags to half-staff. We ask whether entertainers were better off staying publicly apolitical, using Michael Jordan and Hulk Hogan as comparisons, while Dawn adds Parton’s long support for troops and military families. Near the end of the hour.
