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Daily Wire to make conservative kids’ shows to rival ‘woke’ Disney

March 31, 2022 at 7:01 a.m. EDT
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on “The Ben Shapiro Show” in 2018. (Jessica Pons for The Washington Post)
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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.”