Actor Rob Schneider, the previous “Saturday Night time Dwell” star and outspoken supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, needs the billionaire proprietor of the Los Angeles Instances to fund a chat present to rival “The View” that might enchantment to conservatives, in line with a report.
The “Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo” star met with Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong on the newspaper’s El Segundo places of work final month to pitch him on the concept, Oliver Darcy reported in his Standing e-newsletter.
Schneider was joined by Cheryl Hines, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star who’s married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee to run the Division of Well being and Human Companies, the report added.
Quickly-Shiong — who blocked the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris — invited the pair as a result of he wished to provide them a tour of the newsroom in addition to to spotlight the newspaper’s video capabilities, Standing reported.
It was through the tour that Schneider reportedly pitched Quickly-Shiong on making a conservative various to ABC’s lefty gabfest that includes Pleasure Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin.
A spokesperson for Schneider confirmed that the comic met with Quickly-Shiong.
“Rob did have a beautiful assembly with Mr. Quickly-Shiong and favored the brand new course the LA Instances is taking,” the rep mentioned.
The spokesperson declined to say whether or not the 2 mentioned teaming up on a present.
The Submit has sought remark from the LA Instances and Hines.
In accordance with Standing, the sight of Schneider, Hines — an avowed liberal — and Quickly-Shiong strolling via the Instances places of work had staffers “bewildered.”
When rumors unfold contained in the newsroom that the Instances may very well be concerned in partnering with Schneider, some journalists grew “understandably alarmed by the notion,” Darcy wrote in Standing.
Schneider’s purported pitch comes after The Submit reported solely that executives at ABC guardian firm Disney have been in “panic mode” to discover conservative voices to stability the principally anti-Trump opinions expressed on the present following the election.
Final month, Schneider advised Fox Information that he was launching a girls’s speak present for his new media firm, “‘No Apologies Media,” that might function a substitute for “The View.”
“It is going to be the alternative as a result of this shall be entertaining. It’ll be humorous,” he mentioned.
Schneider has not been shy about expressing his approval of Quickly-Shiong, who angered 1000’s of his readers in addition to a number of of his editorial board members and newsroom staffers along with his determination to kill the endorsement for Harris simply week earlier than the Nov. 5 election.
On his X account, Schneider wrote final month: “Guess what?! It’s OKAY to purchase the [Los Angeles Times] once more… You’ll see WHY SOON?!”
The caption was posted above a photograph wherein Schneider is seen studying a replica of the broadsheet.
Schneider — who has been essential of COVID lockdown measures and vaccines — wrote a follow-up publish which learn: “Congratulations to [Soon-Shiong] for making [the Los Angeles Times] a newspaper for ALL CALIFORNIANS once more! I sit up for ALL of your NEW initiatives!”
The publish was punctuated with an emoji of a smiling face with one eye winking.
Quickly-Shiong, the South African-born billionaire who made his fortune in medication and biotechnology, has sought to diversify his newspaper’s editorial board by including Scott Jennings, a frequent op-ed contributor to the Instances, to the editorial board.
Final month, Darcy reported in Standing that Quickly-Shiong advised editorial board members to “take a break from writing about” Trump.
