Two conservative media biggies are turning their attention to rampant political correctness and speech shaming on America’s college campuses.
Adam Carolla, host of the top-ranked podcast, “The Adam Carolla Show,” and radio talk show host Dennis Prager, have teamed for a movie called “No Safe Spaces.” Their Indiegogo fundraising effort has already collected nearly half the initial $500,000 budget.
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Contributors get a “Safe Spaces Coloring Book.” Its cover mocks: “Cry. Cope. Color.”
Among the anti-PC coloring choices is a chance to put new faces on Mt Rushmore, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, Fidel Castro, Rep. Maxine Waters and abortion advocate Sandra Fluke.
“Your money won’t be spent on caviar and deep tissue massages,” the two conservatives promised Indiegogo donors. “You will be financing a college tour that will take Carolla and Prager deep into the belly of the illiberal beast.”
Prager added, “If these students don’t understand the very concept of free speech, our whole nation is in trouble.”
Prager and Carolla sent us this writeup of their plans:
The film takes Prager and Carolla to college campuses across the country, interviewing students and professors, comedians and commentators on the left and right, and those who have been impacted by the silencing of different voices on campus, analyzing the value of so-called safe-spaces. Viewers will also be taken back into time to Prager and Carolla’s youth with dramatic and comedic recreations of life-shaping moments in their lives including Prager’s visit to the totalitarian Soviet state and Carolla’s experience growing up in a single parent household.
The duo first made news last year when their attempt to speak at California State University Northridge was canceled days before the planned event by administrators. The University later relented under pressure from the duo’s legal team and they were allowed to make their speeches which were taped for the film. The event was made into an album, which went on to become the #1 bestselling comedy album on iTunes.
Prager and Carolla make for an unexpected duo in this road-trip, buddy film. Dennis is an Ivy League educated religious scholar. Carolla is an atheist who never when to college. Despite having very different backgrounds, Prager and Carolla share a deep concern with the direction of our country and believe what’s happening on college campuses today is the bleeding edge of our cultural decline.
The film will be produced by Mark Joseph, whose most recent projects include Martin Sheen’s The Vessel with Martin Sheen and Jerry Lewis’s Max Rose and directed by Justin Folk for Madison McQueen and MJM Entertainment Group in association with Dangerous Documentaries.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
