{"id":2494255,"date":"2025-10-03T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-concha-says-the-first-amendment-is-under-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:41:30","slug":"joe-concha-says-the-first-amendment-is-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-concha-says-the-first-amendment-is-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Concha says the First Amendment is under attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-concha-says-the-first-amendment-is-under-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2494255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses concerns about free speech being under attack,especially in the United Kingdom,where people are reportedly getting arrested or investigated for simply liking or viewing certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for ...\">social media posts<\/a>. Joe rogan criticized these actions as undermining a fundamental principle of the Western world. Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha echoed these concerns,praising the late Charlie Kirk&#8217;s commitment to free speech,noting Kirk welcomed debates with those who disagreed with him,an openness that ultimately led to his tragic death.Concha also criticized what he sees as Democratic hypocrisy regarding free speech issues,highlighting contrasting reactions to controversial actions by Donald Trump and others. the article mentions a decline in public trust toward mainstream media, referencing a Gallup poll showing over 70% of Americans distrust legacy media. Sean Hannity weighed in, emphasizing resistance against efforts to cancel or silence conservative voices, and affirming that threats to free speech are mostly emanating from the political left. The piece also touches on recent political controversies, such as comments by Jimmy Kimmel and impending Senate testimony by Brendan Carr, illustrating ongoing debates about freedom of expression in the U.S. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Joe Concha says the First Amendment is under attack<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2363620\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Senior Writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Concha<\/a> discussed how free speech is under attack, following reports that people in the United Kingdom are getting arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-bans-controversial-un-official-from-country-over-anti-semitic-comments\/\" title=\"Israel bars UN official for &#039;anti-Semitic&#039; remarks\">liking social media posts<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Podcaster<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-rogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Joe Rogan<\/a> said on his show Wednesday that people in the United Kingdom are getting arrested or investigated for liking or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >viewing social media posts<\/a>. Rogan called it an attack on one of the most &ldquo;fundamental principles of the Western world.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3835788\/doj-investigation-wrongful-arrest-conservative-influencer-nick-sortor-portland\/\">DOJ orders investigation into &#8216;wrongful arrest&#8217; of conservative influencer Nick Sortor in Portland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3836039\/colorado-state-electric-vehicle-tax-rebate-federal-tax-credits-expire\/\">Colorado announces state electric vehicle tax rebate as federal tax credits expire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3835852\/trump-hard-deadline-peace-deal-hamas\/\">Trump sets hard deadline for peace deal before unleashing &#8216;all HELL&#8217; on Hamas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3161926&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=a24754b55dde52ddb6bec8f313272ad9\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concha said that he agreed with Rogan and highlighted Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s support of the First Amendment&nbsp;on an appearance on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Hannity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one believed in the First Amendment more than Charlie did,&rdquo; Concha said. &ldquo;He would literally embrace people who disagreed with him to come up and debate him at college campuses. The ones that debated him most were the ones who disagreed with him most, and that&rsquo;s something that got him shot and killed.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concha also criticized what he called the hypocrisy of Democrats&rsquo; rhetoric, describing it as &ldquo;31 flavors of delusional.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The difference is between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits,&rdquo; Concha said. &ldquo;What we&rsquo;re seeing from Democrats right now is when they go off on Donald Trump putting up a sombrero video over Hakeem Jeffries, they go nuts about that, but yet they have no problem calling Donald Trump Hitler, authoritarian, a fascist that wasn&rsquo;t a line, but apparently this is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Concha discussed free speech and trust in legacy media on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Hannity<\/em>, noting that it is reaching an all-time low.<\/p>\n<p>More than seven in 10 Americans expressed distrust in the mainstream media, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/695762\/trust-media-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup poll<\/a> released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sean-hannity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Hannity<\/a> said he doesn&rsquo;t support cancelling or boycotting a person because he lived through two decades of people trying to do that to him. Hannity also said it would be conservative voices that would be silenced and that the left would have no problem with that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3834087\/brendan-carr-senate-hearing-jimmy-kimmel-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>BRENDAN CARR TO TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE AFTER DRAWING CRITICISM FOR JIMMY KIMMEL COMMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In terms of the First Amendment, Sean, you&rsquo;re exactly right about that it&rsquo;s coming from the left, not the right, as far as believing in just saying what you want,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We saw it with Jimmy Kimmel, right, he has an opinion and suddenly, wow, everybody is like &lsquo;oh boy, my goodnes,s gratuitous, that&rsquo;s horrible,&rsquo; but in the end that&rsquo;s where we are at this point,&rdquo; Concha added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Concha warns First Amendment is under threat amid UK arrests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2494256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25275005362119.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[23094,33332,32311,52093,38975],"class_list":["post-2494255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-constitutional-rights","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-joe-concha","tag-media-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25275005362119.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494259,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494255\/revisions\/2494259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}