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dd diehards are asking him, the water is selling on e-bay for big bucks, almost as much as the jar of fleas from the black plague adventure. to discuss this hot button racial topic, i now go to my all white panel. [laughter] >> jamie, what do you think of this? you probably don't even know this movie, do you, from 1946? >> well, i know of this movie. >> yes. >> there is certainly some problems with it. i have more of a problem with the water thing. it's like blowing my mind. it's blowing my mind. people pay a hundred dollars. if you want a bottle of water that may contain germs or feces
>> they lowered the boom on disney's favorite plume. bringing park lovers to their knees. disneyworld has closed their famous splash mountain water ride. no, not because the water was ripe for parasites. they shut it down because critics called the ride racist. particularly at issue was its use of imagery from the 1946 film "song of the south" whose post civil war theme is as popular as the little mermaid trapped in a tuna net. emily, she took that seriously. [laughter] >> she's freed, okay? interesting side note, 1946 was actually the year president biden started hiding classified documents in his garage. [laughter] >> the decision to shut down the attraction has caused backlash online where fans have posted tribute videos racking up millions of views and disney
enormity of what we all faced at the time. >> now pete, given what we know now about the efficacy of mask use, why would they want to memorialize the mask regime? it would be like dr. jill adding a few classified documents in hunter's laptop to her display. this makes no sense at all. >> it does make sense. it was the entirety around which they orbited for two years. it has infected their brain. of course they have to put it in the smithsonian. it make sense. >> i am waiting for hillary clinton to put a cigar and her display box and bring it home. from things remembered to things deliberately forgotten. disney world shuttered their iconic splash mountain attraction this week. they did purge the memory of the source material which most writers have never seen the 1946 movie song of the south.
disney world officially closings down splash mountain this week after two years after announcing the colt favorite ride would close among growing complaints theme of the attraction centered around the 1946 film song of the sage widely criticized for being racist, it's retheming based on princess tianna, still has splash mountain at two other make sure, back with me jonah goldberg, ashley allison and tia mutual. the idea here that this is being revamped the idea of looking into the reasons why the connection. what do you make of it. >> i think this is simple solution to a problem that has gone on for way too long, you ride roller coaster, particularly flash mountain
>> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ disney world is officially closing down splash mountain this week, after two years after announcing the favorite ride would close. an announcement coming from growing complaints about the theme of the attraction. centering around the 1946 film, some of the south. the movie wildly criticized for being racist. the park is re-theme-ing the ride, based on disney's first black princess, princess diana. disney still has flipped splash mountain rides, into other parks. back with me now, jonah goldberg, ashley ellison and téa mitchell. will save the blistering other day, the idea that this is being revamped. the idea of looking into the
>> dana: it's a decade olds disney world icon and now being shut down in the name of diversity. the splash mountain was originally inspired by the 1946 film song of the south. criticized for using racestery type. fans lined up for hours to get their last turn on the log flume ride which i've never heard that before. a log flume ride. i didn't know that. they have one in denver, i went to that a couple of times. disney says it will reopen as a new ride based on the 2009 movie the princess and the frog. the only original movie to star a black princess. if you went on those rides did you want to get wet? i didn't. i would hate that.
years riders took their final splashdown before it closed for good on sunday with some waiting nearly four hours at the height of the day. disney announcing in 2020 that it was planning to reimagine the ride after mounting complaints for its connection to the 1946 song of the south which has been criticized for racial stereotypes and nostalgic view of the post civil war south. the ride will be redesigned with disney's princess and the frog in mind, a movie featuring disney's first black princess tiana. still a petition mountain is still getting signatures. the petition says people don't understand when characters in song of the south who many have deemed to be a stereotype of a spiritual black man and claims there is a misunderstanding of his relationship with his employers on a georgia plantation which takes place after the civil war. it goes on to say, modifying
>> delta 1946, cancel takeoff plans. delta 1946, cancel takeoff plans. >> thankfully nobody was injured in that incident. the flight was delayed until the following day, but how did something like this even happen? let's get a better understanding. joining us now is a pilot, founder and instructor at sim tech aviation, julian alacon. thank you for being with us. so, how can this happen? >> at the end of the day, we make mistakes. and we eliminate mistakes by training. we are expected to perform at our highest level at every flight we do. in this case, the american airlines was at the wrong place at the wrong time, didn't follow the instructions of air traffic control. >> so air traffic would be telling the pilots then in the american airlines plane, stop, or don't go, right, there is
departing delta flight with 151 people on board aborted its takeoff stopping within 1,000 feet of an american airlines jet that was taxiing on the same runway. here is some of the audio from the control tower. >> delta 1946 cancel takeoff plans ch. delta 1943 cancel takeoff plans. >> all right. delta 1943. >> amazingly no one hurt in that incident. so the rescue efforts worked. up next, clinging to hope in ukraine. rescue workers are now sifting through rubble in search of survivors after a deadly missile strike. the latest in a live report for you. fears over rising covid cases in china are casting a cloud over the lunar new year travel season. the latest from hong kong. and the mayor of new york visits the u.s./mexico border
what do you think? if that is, in fact, the case, are we seeing the end of the trump era in the republican party? >> look, i think about history and i look at the 50th congress that came in in 1946, and it was called a do-nothing congress, and this looks like a do-nothing congress coming in on the house side. looks to me like they don't want to do much. if liz cheney had gotten the vote in the last two days, she would have voted against kevin mccarthy. she was not on the right wing side but on the truth side. this leadership is a problem and i am not sure they have a positive objective, and if joe biden runs again he will run against a do-nothing house of representatives, and they used to say back in truman's day, opened every day with a prayer and ended with a probe. if that's all they are going to do is make trouble for hunter biden and all that, and the way they looked yesterday that's what they want to be is a