Conservative commentator Dan Bongino threatened to quit his radio show if parent company Cumulus Media didn’t axe their vax mandate.
“You can have me, or you can have the mandate. But you can’t have both of us,” he threatened the company on-air. “There is a very real thing called natural immunity. There’s an even realer thing called freedom and liberty.”
“The Dan Bongino Show” is owned by Cumulus, who has imposed a vaccination mandate on employees that required them to be inoculated by the end September. The former secret service agent’s popular radio show is syndicated by Fox Nation.
“This is a constitutional republic. People have the right to make their own medical decisions, and the company has the right to do what it wants, as well,” Bongino argued on Monday.
“But if a company is going to make political decisions – and I believe this was a political decision, I don’t believe this is based in any science – I could argue it all day,” he went on. “And they should at least recognize that the company is earning a lot of money off people who have the opposite political persuasion.”
Bongino himself, who is currently being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, has already been vaccinated himself according to a tweet by the show. “He is not resisting the vaccine mandate for himself but for other employees who don’t have a platform to fight back as they risk unemployment if they don’t comply,” a Monday post from The Bongino Report explained.
Cumulus Media CEO Mary Berner announced the vaccine mandate was intended to get employees back into the office during a statement in August.
“Put simply, we believe that Force Cumulus is at our best when we’re working together in offices,” Berner said. “To do that as safely as we reasonably can, we’re requiring that everyone be vaccinated except those legally excepted. It would neither be fair nor do we have the bandwidth to make exceptions based on individual preferences.”
But some hosts, including Bongino, are pushing back against the requirement. “I promise you I have no intention of letting these guys get let go,” he noted. “Or get harassed because they made a private and personal medical decision on only one of the biggest issues of our time.”
.@dbongino publicly calls out Cumulus, who carries his radio show on hundreds of stations, for issuing its own vaccine mandate.
"I'm not letting this go."
Find your local station to listen LIVE: https://t.co/IK6DZpbTzJ
Or watch here: https://t.co/NaTE4NeVLy pic.twitter.com/7fAfJY9FoH
— Bongino Report (@BonginoReport) October 18, 2021
Tell Cumulus to fly a kite! Let’s Go Brandon!
Bongino, you are the lifeline of sanity. We see a world going raving mad in fascist abuse, it’s all happening again what we have seen time and time again by the hand of socialism. They pretend to save humanity from this and that and everything and every single time it comes with censoring, militia rule, coercion, berufsverbot and human decay.
Write Cumulus and let them know that if Bongino goes so do you!