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- [Announcer] 1939 is
finding that the public

has new ideas of entertainment,

richly as it rewarded Walt Disney,

whose "Snow White" shattered traditions

and box office records...

- [Brent Bozell] Once upon a time,

Disney was once the family network...

(audience laughing)

the family studio.

If it was a Disney movie,

you knew it was going
to be safe for children.

(train bell clanging)

- [Announcer] Disneyland is
a delight for all youngsters.

- When I was a kid,

everybody looked forward to
Sunday evenings and Disney.

- [Miranda Devine]
Disney was the number one

wholesome family values
entertainment brand in the world.

(gentle music)

- When I was in the seventh
grade, a nun asked the class

who was the most admired
person in the world?

I said Walt Disney, and I
did for the obvious reason:

the man made people happy.

- [Walt Disney] I felt that
there should be something built,

some kind of an amusement enterprise built

where that the parents and the children

could have fun together.

So that's how Disneyland started.

(fireworks crackling)

- One of the strongest brands ever

in the world of entertainment.

(ominous music)

They threw it all away, deliberately.

(ominous music)

- Disney's brand has been
changed, it's been altered.

They've gotten very aggressive
in the political space,

talking about issues.

Florida legislation they've
been very vocal about.

They've talked about
presidential politics.

- [Reporter] It seems these days

everyone has an opinion about Disney.

- We're not happy about the fact

they're trying to groom our children

with things like the gay agenda.

We don't believe that little children

need to know issues like
that at their small age.

- You don't usually hear the
words "Disney" and "warning"

in the same sentence, well, until now.

- Do you think that Disney
should stay out of politics,

or do you think that they
should just be making movies

and parks that are fun and entertaining?

- Yeah, they should definitely
stay outta politics.

Just stick to movies, entertainment.

- Well, the happiest place on Earth

now becoming the most scrutinized on Earth

as Disney World pushes
progressive politics.

- Disney is no longer a trusted brand.

It's squandered that trust.

- Today, it's the anti-family network.

It's the anti-family studio.

- I'm Mercedes Schlapp.

Join me as we enter the
gates of today's Disney,

where children's TV shows,
movies, and characters

are served with a side of
sexuality and gender ideology,

a place that puts a political
agenda on a pedestal

and renders parents powerless.

So let's take a look at what's become

of the largest media
conglomerate in the world

and explore what's going on in
Walt's disenchanted kingdom.

- What's up, guys? This is Will Witt.

Today I am in Orlando,
asking people about Disney,

what they think about the
direction of the company,

and whether or not they're
offended by their old movies.

Let's do it.

(dramatic music)

What do you think Disney could do better?

- Go back to the roots. Go
back to how they used to be.

(dramatic music)

- [Will] What do you think
Walt Disney would think

of his company right now?

- I'd say he's...

He'd probably be maybe a
little bit disappointed

with the way it's been going.

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- Do you think for
children like your children

that their movies and things

should have political ideology in there

or should be more focused on
fun and values and things?

- Yeah, probably stay away from politics,

I would say, in general, yeah.

(dramatic music)

- Do you think that Disney

should be getting into political fights

or putting politics into their movies

or at their theme parks, things like that?

Or like the gender ideology
that they're talking about now?

- No.

The LGBTQ stuff that
they're putting in movies,

I don't agree with.

(dramatic music)

- They're no longer
saying "boys" and "girls"

because that might be
considered offensive.

You think that's a good thing?

- I think that's ridiculous.

- Ridiculous?
- Yeah.

- Why?

- Because there are boys and girls.

That's how God made it.

(dramatic music)

- At Disneyland and Disney World,

they took out where you
say "boys and girls".

- It's a children's place.

I mean, that's a place...

- What do they say?

- They say like "people".

Now it's just "people".

There are no boys and
girls. It's just people.

- People? (chuckles)

(dramatic music)

- Do you prefer your movies
to be fun and entertaining

rather than have some sort
of ideological message?

- Fun and entertaining.

(dramatic music)

- Do you want politics in your movies

or do you just wanna
have fun at the movies?

- Just wanna have fun at the movies.

(dramatic music)

- [Will] What do you guys
think about the direction

that Disney has taken recently?

- I believe it's the CEOs of this company

that's really making a mess of it all.

(dramatic music)

- We want freedom from the sexualization

that's going on at Disney World.

(dramatic music)

("London Bridge is Falling Down")

- There's something disturbing

lurking in the Magic Kingdom these days.

It's turning the place
where dreams are made

into something of a nightmare.

The world's leading family
entertainment company

is now cozying up to
the Chinese government,

while back at home they're
siding against parents

and pushing elementary schools
to discuss sexual orientation

and gender identity with kids
as young as kindergarten.

When Disney joined LGBTQ activists

against parents' rights in
their children's education,

it had many Disney fans asking

why didn't they take a page
from Frozen and just let it go?

- I've worked for Disney
for about 15 years.

In March here in Florida,

our state legislators started pushing

for Parental Rights in Education bill.

Initially the company said,

"Hey, we're not gonna get involved."

But then there's a small group
of employees in our company

that said, "Hey, we want
you to get involved."

(protestors cheering)

- [Reporter] Outside the
iconic Walt Disney Studios

in Burbank, California...

- [Protestors] Say gay! Say gay!

- [Reporter] Today dozens
of Disney employees

walked off the job.

- Well, I think what happened with Disney

was that the CEO got bullied

by his very activist, radical employees.

- Disney CEO Bob Chapek
is reversing course today,

now speaking out against

Florida's Parental Rights
and Education legislation,

dubbed by opponents as
the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

- And they lied about it.

They said it was the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Nothing to do with don't say gay at all.

Nothing to do with that. That was a lie.

- The bill is very innocuous.
It's family-friendly.

You don't wanna be involved
in telling little kids

about questioning their
sexuality and transgenderism

in kindergarten, first grade,
second grade, and third grade.

What's going on here?

- And that's exactly what
the elected representatives

of Florida did.

They began to address the
indoctrination in the classroom.

We're talking about
children as young as five

being exposed to topics, quite frankly,

that many of us didn't hear
about until we were teenagers.

And they're being forced,

rather than teaching them their ABCs

and how to tie their shoes,

we're teaching them how
to select their gender.

This is absurd.

- [Mercedes] When schools were closed

during the COVID lockdowns

and children turned to online learning,

many parents were shocked to find out

what schools were
pushing in the classroom.

- I mean, these are little, little kids.

They don't really need to know about

a thousand different genders
and gender fluidity and so on.

So it was a very mild pushback

on this encroachment into
children's education.

And the activists just went nuts.

- [Activists] We say gay!

We say gay!

Disney say gay! We won't go away!

- They're not willing to
just let kids be kids.

They have a goal, they have an agenda,

and they want to put
into the heads of kids,

if you think you're a boy, you may be one,

but you may not be one.

Same thing with the girls.

And if you have any doubts,
it's good to question it.

- The reason you see gender
dysphoria rates now skyrocketing

is in part because kids
are impressionable.

They are going to respond to their adults

and their cultural
leaders and their schools.

And so it's no surprise
that we are creating

the very problem that supposedly

the companies like Disney
we're aiming to solve.

- And it's much worse than that,

because as we know in
these elementary schools,

they're taking kindergartners
and first graders,

teaching them that they're gender fluid,

encouraging them to be
chemically castrated,

to have puberty blockers,

prepuberty kids to alter
their lives forever.

This is an atrocity against children,

and Disney has allowed
itself to become part of it.

- It's more than Disney being anti parent.

It is Disney being anti
the nuclear family.

And so when a parental
rights bill comes forward

that says parents have
rights, families have rights,

they don't believe parents have rights.

They don't believe in the nuclear family.

They see the nuclear
family as a threat to them.

A nuclear family that is
structured, that follows...

that believes in God, that
is not just offensive,

that's threatening to them.

- The vast majority of the gay community

is not behind this crap.

This is an activist wing.

Often think that cultural Marxism

is for mediocre people, mediocre minds.

The world is very simple

if you just think in
terms of races and genders

and you forget individuals
and how complicated they are.

- And we're talking about little kids.

They want them to
question their sexuality.

They just got off the tricycle.

- [Mercedes] Listen to
actual Disney employees,

called cast members,

and you might begin to see real problems

from within the company itself.

- There's a lot of employees,
people I work with,

who are part of the LGBTQ community,

and we have a lot of mutual
respect for each other.

A lot of them say, "Hey, I
understand what in action..."

Some of them agree that teachers

should not be talking to kids about this.

Well, they made a bigger mistake

by not listening to all of its employees

and, frankly, to most of its customers.

- The people who work at Disney,
they don't even want this.

We've seen the surveys on this.

- There's actually a lot
of surveys that came out

after Disney waddled into this
political debate in Florida

that said that over 60%
of Disney's customers

said they disagreed with Disney's decision

to wade into this political debate.

- And a Washington Post survey found

that by more than two to one

registered voters say it is inappropriate

for teachers to discuss LGBTQ issues

with students in kindergarten
through third grade.

For students in grades four and five,

a majority of 56% say it's inappropriate.

The Florida bill simply stated

what most parents took for granted:

sex should not be part of a five-, six-,

or seven-year-old's school day.

But Disney disagrees.

They publicly vowed to fight

the Parental Rights bill and overturn it.

- When they take on the
governor of their state,

a state which has been
very beneficial to Disney

and the preferences that
they have given them.

No one hired Disney to
shape public policy.

- The state does not own the children.

The children belong to the parents.

The parents by any survey
don't want it. Okay?

So just leave the kids alone.

- For Disney to come
out and put a statement

and say that the bill
should have never passed

and that they are going to
actively work to repeal it.

This state is governed by the interests

of the people of the state of Florida.

It is not based on the demands

of California corporate executives.

- Ron DeSantis decided
that he was going to revoke

the special tax privileges
that Disney had in Florida.

And so that's cost Disney a lot of money,

and it's also cost them a great deal

in terms of their reputation.

- Florida just upped its war
with the Walt Disney Company.

Big-time lawmakers voted today

to strip away special
political and financial powers

the company has had in
Orlando for 55 years.

- I think Disney is turning its back

on decades of goodwill,
decades of brand building,

decades of respect and love
and admiration from the culture

into a political organization.

I think it's a terrible move to make.

But they seem to be thinking
that they have to be

an activist organization,
that they have to speak out.

At the end of the day,

if Disney doesn't agree
with a rule, a law,

a new proposal, who cares?

That's not what we want from Disney.

We want entertainment, we want value,

we want distractions, we want escapism.

- [Mercedes] But escape
is seemingly impossible.

From kids programming to ESPN sports,

so much steeped in politics.

Here's Disney-owned ESPN commentators,

Courtney Lyle and Carolyn Peck.

- At three o'clock,
about eight minutes ago,

our LGBTQIA+ plus teammates at Disney

asked for our solidarity and support,

including our company's support

in opposition to the Parental
Rights in Education bill

in the state of Florida

and similar legislature
across the United States.

- And a threat to any human rights

is a threat to all human rights.

- I mean, somebody who
wants to watch a sports game

does not wanna listen
to a political debate.

- It's interesting how these
different parts of our culture

have been weaponized to
be more socially aware,

to kind of push social justice agendas.

And you think, well, sports
wouldn't be that, right?

- You probably thought ESPN

stood for Entertainment and
Sports Programming Network.

Increasingly it looks like
Endless Stupid Political Nagging.

- You shouldn't be for or against.

That's up to the people
when they leave sports.

They want to get involved in
politics? Yes, get involved.

Let sports be sports.

- [Mercedes] More and more
sports fans and Disney fans

seemed to be alienated by the company's

strong political positions.

Many of those featured in this film

reached out personally to
then Disney CEO Bob Chapek

for a simple dialogue.

- Back in April, I wrote
a letter to Bob Chapek.

He's the head of Disney.

I asked him if he would
sit down with Tony Perkins

or the Family Research Council and me

to talk about where
you're going with this.

I said, "You've been
speaking to the people

in the gay community, the
transgender community.

What about us?"

He wouldn't answer us.

- It's a funny phenomenon we have

in corporate America right now.

In the name of Inclusion,
capital "I" Inclusion.

We've actually created
a culture of exclusion

where certain points of
view just aren't welcome.

In the name of diversity

we have created a culture of conformity

where we reject the diversity of thought

and diversity of ideas

in the name of capital
"D" Diversity itself.

- [Mercedes] To get a firsthand
account of that rejection,

we asked those who know Disney best.

- I work for Disney. I've
been with Disney for 30 years.

- I worked for Disney for 11 years.

- 16 years now.

- For about 15 years.

- [Mercedes] Disney
employees describe to us

a disillusioning and fearful workplace.

- When I started with Walt Disney,

we never treated anybody differently.

Whether it was a guest, a cast member,

I didn't care your sexual
preference, your gender identity.

It didn't matter because
you were either working

or you were a guest, and
your goal as a cast member

is to make the guest experience
the best it can possibly be.

Over the last few years,

I started noticing we're
having more and more trainings.

How do we be inclusive?

How do we include so-and-so
into the group more?

But it's really only targeting one group.

It's not targeting every ethnicity,

every gender, every race.

It's targeting just the LGBTQ community.

- [Mercedes] For over half a century,

Disney has operated
under guiding principles

that have steered the company to success.

They call them the Four Keys.

- [Announcer] The Four Keys,

safety, courtesy, show, and efficiency,

have guided us from the very start.

These Four Keys have provided
a foundation for our culture

contributing to Disney's legacy

of customer service and care.

- [Mercedes] But in April of
2021, a new key was added.

- [Announcer] The addition of a fifth key,

the key of inclusion.

- It's very clear that the inclusive key

is really about the LGBTQ community.

But I think at the same time
it's not including everybody.

I don't think it's including Christians

or conservative people or, in
my case, unvaccinated people.

They're not feeling included at all.

I don't feel included.

- When that inclusion key came along,

all of a sudden there
were rules for inclusion

that if you weren't this, you're out.

- [Mercedes] We spoke to
one ex-Disney employee

who is also gay,

but the inclusion key
didn't work for him either.

- I'm a Born Again Christian.

- [Mercedes] He described
a disturbing environment,

especially over religious
exemptions for COVID vaccines.

- Absolutely I was discriminated against

because of my religion.

Disney decided that they wanted
to impose a vaccine mandate.

When they imposed this
mandate on employees,

I put in my accommodation from
that for religious purposes,

and I was now being forced to
disclose my religious beliefs

to the company from the very beginning.

That made me so uncomfortable.

That should be my choice
as to whether or not

I want to share that with somebody,

so the fact that I was now
being required to disclose that

in order to keep my job I
found to be very problematic.

- It's exactly not
inclusion. It's compliance.

And that's the way I felt about it.

That for all these years,
from all my experiences,

it had been inclusionary,

There is now in fact a group
that is persona non grata.

They really don't want that viewpoint.

So it's not inclusive.

- You're only celebrated as
a gay man at Disney, clearly,

if you have the right thoughts.

You are not celebrated if
you are at all conservative

or if you are nonconformist
in any other way.

That's actually in itself a bigoted way

of looking at a group of people.

- That then creates a culture

where nonconforming employees
fear for their jobs,

have to fear for putting
food on the dinner table,

may not get that promotion
that they were competing for.

So what's actually Disney doing

is they're using their corporate muscle

to move the cultural
pendulum in a direction

that actually we ostracize
anyone who decides

that that is not the direction
they wanna see Disney go.

- I can tell you that I've
received hundreds of emails,

phone calls, and letters from
Disney employees all over,

people that work at ESPN, people
that work here in Orlando,

people that work in Disneyland,

people that work in corporate
who have sent me letters

saying, "Thank you for standing up for us.

We are the silent majority.

I wish I had the courage to speak louder."

A lot of them are afraid
of losing your jobs.

- With a culture of fear spreading

among the ranks of many employees,

Disney quickly began altering
the characters' stories

and park experiences

that made them a beloved
brand all over the world.

Feature movies, cartoons,
family rides, TV shows,

products, books, characters,

Disney's inclusion warriors
left no stone unturned.

- [Emcee] Good evening ladies
and gentlemen, boys and girls.

- [Reporter] Big changes
coming to Disneyland.

Disney is doing away
with gendered greetings

throughout the park and resort.

Gone are "ladies and
gentlemen" or "boys and girls".

Instead, cast members
who recorded messages

will use, "Hello everyone."

- Disney's fairy godmothers-in-training

will now be gender neutral,

allowing male cast members to do the job.

Disney is allowing cast members
to have greater flexibility

in displaying tattoos,
hairstyles, and costume choices.

- [Mercedes] From introducing
burly, manly fairy godmothers

to tattooed, purple-haired Cinderellas,

Disney was throwing out dress
codes, decorum, standards,

boundaries, pronouns, and genders.

In other words, Walt Disney World

was fast becoming Walt Disney Woke.

- They've dropped the
term "boys and girls"

because they're all in to this
ideological, leftist agenda

that deconstructs the
family, human sexuality,

and ultimately Western civilization.

- Who is being offended?

Are you denying that there's such a thing

as a man and woman?

Your sex is assigned at birth.

No, your sex is determined by the father,

by the father and the father alone.

That's not right or wrong.

It's nature, and its nature's God.

They know that there is
such a thing as nature,

and if you talk about
nature as Jefferson did,

then you talk about nature's God,

and that's the one thing that sends chills

up the spine of the folks at Disney.

They don't wanna recognize
nature or nature's God.

- [Mercedes] So Disney was
battling parents and politicians,

politicizing its park experience,

and excluding many of its employees.

But what came next was
even more disturbing.

Whistleblowers from inside
the Disney organization

leaked internal videos
of top Disney executives

to journalist Christopher Rufo.

- Our leadership over
there has been so welcoming

to my not at all secret
gay agenda, and so...

- [Mercedes] Latoya Raveneau is a producer

and writer of children's cartoons

and programming for Disney.

She has worked on such
shows as "Puppy Pals",

"Super Monsters", and "Rise Up, Sing Out".

- I don't have to be afraid to like

let's have these two characters
kiss in the background.

I was just wherever I could

just basically adding queerness to like...

If you see anything queer in the show.

But I just was like, no one
would stop me, and no on...

- [Mercedes] Talk show host
Tammy Bruce, who is gay,

had this to say as a reaction.

- We've fought for years
to have Americans know

that we are not after their
children, because we're not.

And yet here you have this dynamic

that sets into motion this idea
that children are the focus.

I know lots of gay people.

I know plenty of transgender people.

No one likes what's going on here,

no one in this country, no
one on the Left or the Right.

This is not normal, and it's unacceptable,

and everyone should reject it

for the sake not only of your children

but also for the civil rights gains

that gays and lesbians
have made in this country.

- It's hard to really oversee

everything that your child is gonna watch.

But now Disney+ is one of those channels

where we have to be a little more careful

to think about what kind of messages

are in that programming.

It's not as simple as it used to be.

- Instead of portraying
the well-loved characters,

Aladdin and Little Mermaid
and Buzz Light year

and all the people and the
stories and the characters

that kids for generations had loved,

they decided that they wanted
to do some social engineering,

and the result was that kids are confused,

parents are annoyed.

- I think everybody has equal rights.

Nobody has extra rights.

We don't alter everything

just so that we can
advocate a particular group.

What they've been doing is
taking some of their productions

and just gratuitously
inserting gay characters

and gay scenes when it has
nothing to do with the story,

just so that they can say,
"See, we're being sensitive."

But who are you being sensitive to?

Are you being sensitive to everybody

or are you catering to a particular group?

- [Baymax] Excuse me.

Which of these products
would you recommend?

- Oh, um...

Well, these are the tampons I usually use.

- [Baymax] Thank you.

- [Shopper] I prefer pads.

They're more comfortable for me.

- [Baymax] Thank you.

- I always get the ones with wings.

- [Baymax] Thank you.

- Get unscented.

- Why on earth you need to
have a transgender character

with a very masculine
voice in a supermarket

asking people for help
to find sanitary napkins?

Why are you doing that other
than to confuse children

to try and inject your trans agenda

into their developing minds?

That's not really up to Disney to do.

It's up to parents to teach their children

about these issues and
according to their own values.

- The new film "Light year"
tells Buzz Lightyear's history

before "Toy Story",

the movie that first made
that character famous.

But the new film is causing controversy,

and that is your big
story tonight at 7:00.

- [Reporter] A day camp was
slated to see the movie today,

but it was abruptly canceled

because of a kiss between
two female characters.

- Yeah, that same-sex kiss
and relationship in the movie

got a lot of media play.

Given all the headlines
about Disney in recent months

and this happening as well.

I think it did steer
some people away from it.

This is Disney, this is Pixar.

This is a brand that's
been very successful.

So it was deemed a huge
disappointment at the box office.

- It tanked.

This is not what parents want.

I think they believe that
this is a fad with Americans.

Yeah, they're concerned right
now, but they'll get over it.

They'll accept our agenda.

- There's a big difference
between tolerance

and affirmation.

Tolerance, yes.

Of gays and transgender people
we have to have tolerance.

But to affirm something,

when you get into the
questions of behavior.

- It seems as if this is a company

that does not love children

and put children at the
center of its universe.

It's about adults sort of
finding some sort of identity

or expression through
manipulating children.

- [Mercedes] That was all too clear

as president of Disney
Entertainment, Karey Burke,

felt the need to discuss her own children

as it related to her job

in promoting more LGBTQ Disney stars.

- I'm here as a mother of
two queer children, actually,

one transgender child
and one pansexual child.

And also as a leader.

Many, many, many LGBTQIA
characters in our stories,

and yet we don't have enough leads.

- Walt Disney must be
turning over in his grave

to think that he sees now
the grooming of little kids

to question their own sexuality

with this gender-affirming nonsense,

which leads to all kinds of
problems with the teenagers,

puberty blockers, chemical castration.

Have we all lost our mind?

- In fact, Miss Burke
announced that 50%, half,

of all Disney characters in all movies,

shows, and stories will be LGBTQIA

or from underrepresented
groups in the future.

But it's not up to Disney

to teach kids about
sex or gender identity.

Isn't that the parent's job?

- I think people need to step
back and ask the question

is Disney a product of the culture

or are they shaping the culture?

You see, I think Disney is a
part of shaping the culture.

And from the beginning,
when we started with Disney

and Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse.

We now stand at where they're promoting

Little Demon and a child of Satan.

That's where Disney has come.

(censored)

- Well, once she gets to know you,

I'm sure she'll jump at the
chance to slit your wrists!

- I don't bleed (censored)!

(hard rock music)

- [Mercedes] "Little
Demon" is a cartoon series

streaming on Disney+,

centered around the story of Chrissy,

a teenage girl who is the Antichrist.

Chrissy's mother, who is a Wiccan,

gives birth after mating with Satan.

- Remember me, mother (censored).

- The human brain is a very,
very complex organ system,

and it has billions and
billions of neurons,

hundreds of billions of interconnections.

It remembers everything you've ever seen

and everything you've ever heard.

These things that we are
teaching these young children

and that we're exposing
them to, they're in there.

They're going to affect them.

They're gonna affect who they
become and how they think.

- The Judeo-Christian
concept of man and society

and of morality. going
back to the Decalogue,

to the Ten Commandments,

that's been at the heart
of Western civilization

for 2,000 years.

If you don't have the
Judeo-Christian idea of morality

as the heart of society,

it's going to be replaced by something.

- The current crop of
executives and the employees

have inherited a great cultural tradition

and a trove of beautiful children's shows.

And for them to be so
arrogant as to step in

and decide that, from their
great enlightened vantage point,

they know better than all of the people

that came before them, on
whose shoulders they stand,

is the height of arrogance.

- Disney is a company whose mission

is to be the world's premier
entertainment company.

Simple enough.

However, Disney has taken on

a different social agenda as well,

or many different social agendas,

to say that that's not enough

just to provide entertainment
to families and their children

and to make money doing
it, that's not enough,

that they also need to
address other social causes

and address other, in their
view, social injustices as well.

- What do social and political agendas

have to do with making money?

Disney has always been motivated
by the almighty dollar.

Why are they getting more involved

in political and culture wars

that have nothing to do
with their core business?

Today, major corporations like Disney

are becoming increasingly involved

in everything from sexual
politics to climate change.

That pleases huge asset
management companies.

These companies are using your retirement

and investment dollars
not based on profits,

but on a company's environmental,

social and governance score.

It's something called ESG,
and it's big business.

- The top shareholders of
Disney are three firms,

are Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.

These happen to be three of the largest,

I think the three largest

passive asset managers in the world

that together manage over $20 trillion.

That's about the scale of the U.S. GDP

in the hands of three firms

that are all leaders in the ESG movement.

- [Mercedes] Larry Fink
is the CEO of BlackRock,

which is one of the largest shareholders

of the Disney Corporation.

Fink is also a big believer in ESG

and says the goal of companies

is not about providing the best products

to make the most money.

It's about creating social change.

- The purpose of a company,

and as we are now raising questions,

what is the true purpose of a company,

you raised the purpose
that it has profitability

for your shareholders.

I think that is evolving and changing.

- It absolutely has nothing to do

with advancing the
interest of stockholders

and everything to do with
advancing the interests

of the ESG proponents

who rule like monarchs on top of Disney.

- [Mercedes] But there
is mounting evidence

that ESG-based investing
is terribly flawed.

Despite a strong rating on the ESG scale,

Disney's war with legislators in Florida

and miserable box office
returns were taking their toll.

Disney was among the worst performers

in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average in 2022.

- Breaking news tonight, a
massive shake-up at Disney.

- The stunning development in
the business world overnight.

Bob Iger is back at the top of Disney

just two years after retiring
from a legendary run.

He replaces his own successor, Bob Chapek,

after the company suffered
a disappointing earnings

last quarter, and that's not it.

- [Mercedes] As Disney
shares were in a nosedive,

the Disney board suddenly
replaced the company's CEO.

At an employee town hall meeting,

new CEO Bob Iger seemed to
choose his words carefully

when it came to what some referred to

as the company's get
woke, go broke agenda.

- When you tell stories,
it's a delicate balance.

You're talking to an audience,

but it's also important
to listen to an audience.

It's important to have respect

for the people that you're serving,

that you're trying to reach,
and not have disdain for it.

That said, we're not gonna make
everybody happy all the time

and we're not gonna try to.

- [Mercedes] Disney's new CEO

seemed to admit the
happiest place on Earth

was no longer willing to
make everybody, well, happy.

- They stopped going to
these big franchise movies

and stopped buying the toys,

and they stopped going to Disney World.

And so you see it's the the old
adage of get woke, go broke.

- Walt Disney once said,

"I believe that the spiritual
and intellectual freedom,

which we Americans enjoy, is
our greatest cultural blessing.

Therefore, it seems to me
that the first duty of culture

is to defend freedom
and resist all tyranny."

That celebration of freedom,

which embodied so much of
Disney's work, stands in jeopardy.

Today's Disney is taking some dangerous

and destructive political
positions around the world.

(traditional Chinese music)

- Red China is one of the most
oppressive nations on Earth.

It is also, by the way,

an enemy of the United States of America.

But if you're Hollywood and
you wanna make a lot of money

and you want to go to that market,

all you have to do is
genuflect before them

and ask them, what's the
censorship they would like?

And then Disney self-censors itself.

Then it will turn around
in the United States

and talk about how it is
committed to free expression.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

- They desperately wanna
crack the Chinese marketplace.

It's a booming market.

There are lots and lots of theaters,

more opening all the time.

And if an American film goes
to China, opens and opens big,

you're talking millions
and millions of dollars.

So in order to appease that market,

you cut out scenes that are
existing in the American films

to make sure that the censors
aren't angry about them.

- Why is it that Disney
can put this gay agenda,

shoving it down our throats in
the United States of America?

When they send their movies over to China,

they cut those scenes.

When they send their
movies to the Middle East,

they cut those scenes.

- One of the frustrations I have

as an entertainment
reporter and film critic

is that sometimes actors,
celebrities, even studios,

will be very aggressive.

They want to use their
voice and their clout

to send a message to
maybe change some things.

Yet when the product goes overseas

and the overseas countries

are committing human rights abuses

or conducting cultural experiments,

that activism just goes away.

- There is drama at Disney

over its latest release of "Mulan".

- [Reporter] In the credits of the film,

Disney thanks controversial
government agencies

in China's Xinjiang province.

That's where reportedly more
than one million Muslims

are being held in concentration camps.

- The Uyghur region is slave labor camps

where they're exterminating
people, and they're Muslims.

You see the hypocrisy.

And Disney goes along
with it 'cause it's money.

There's a billion and a half Chinese.

- What does that actually do?

When Disney repeatedly
critiques alleged injustice

here in the United States

without saying a peep about
actual human rights atrocities,

to the contrary, actually lying prostrate

in front of their Chinese overlords.

- [Mercedes] From Hong
Kong to South Korea.

People were shocked to
see an American company

so closely aligned with
the Chinese government.

They called for boycotts,

among cries for freedom and democracy.

- And it is one of the
most despicable aspects

of the new Disney.

And it is this kowtowing
to communist China,

to totalitarian regimes,
jettisoning American values

and basically aiding and abetting
the worst kind of genocide

that was going on against the Uyghurs.

- So Xi Jinping in China
has built a great wall,

a great Chinese wall,

that says that you can't
enter the Chinese market

if you criticize the CCP.

But here's the dirty little secret.

If you critique the United States,

we'll roll out the red carpet to you.

- [Mercedes] As Disney draws attention

to past injustices in the United States,

they were accused of racially doctoring

their own marketing material overseas.

Non-white actors in Chinese posters

for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

were eliminated or diminished.

Lead Black actor John Boyega

was vastly reduced on
the poster for China.

- Fans of the "Star Wars"
series are complaining

that the Chinese poster for
the latest film is racist.

So let's take a look at why.

- Well, it's certainly disturbing

that Disney would take a black
character off of a poster

because it was going to China

and they felt that it was inappropriate

for reasons that escape me,
quite frankly. (chuckles)

- When you think about the poster incident

with John Boyega kind of being
shrunk or kind of diminished,

it should be part of the conversation.

And I think if you're at Disney

and you care about human rights

and you care about
progress and social justice

and you talk about it in certain arenas,

in certain states with
certain legislation,

and then you ignore bigger issues,

it just shows that
there's an inauthenticity

that's behind the scenes.

- At the same time,

Disney has thrown their
beloved films under the bus,

pulling classic films
like "Dumbo", "Peter Pan",

the "Aristocats" and
"Swiss Family Robinson",

so that children could not
view them from their accounts,

and labeling them as offensive.

Tinkerbell and Captain
Hook, even the Muppets

were called potentially
problematic by Disney

as they slapped warning labels

on scores of classic films and TV shows.

- Well, another cultural icon taking fire.

This time it's the one
and only "Muppet Show".

The Disney+ streaming service

has begun offering the series

and is including a disclaimer warning

of, quote, "offensive content".

- It's what they're promoting lately

that is offensive to people.

Since when did the Muppets
ever become controversial

except with the elites who work at Disney?

- It's just part of this
really nauseating trend

where the platforms
don't trust the audiences

to make their own decisions

and that we're so fragile that,

if we see a cultural moment

that doesn't exactly
represent where we are today,

we'll be afraid, we'll shrink away,

we'll do something violent.

It's silly.

- It's almost hilarious
if it wasn't so sad

that they are putting stamps
on their own great products

and saying that this could
have some offensive content

and this could be racist.

If you spend all your
time with a microscope,

trying to find something
that will offend somebody,

you'd never have any
time to actually spend

on creating inspirational material.

- [Reporter] "Lady and the Tramp"

contains stereotypes of Asians.

- [Cat] Do you seeing that
thing swimming round and round?

- When "Lady and the Tramp" came out,

that movie was so extraordinary

that, generations later,
children are watching it.

My grandchildren are watching it.

But wait a minute, it's a racist movie

because of the Siamese cats? (laughs)

It's a laugh. That was offensive?

So out they go.

- And that's what a lot
of this wokeness does.

It creates conflict where no
conflict actually existed.

It creates offense where no
offense actually existed.

Why should you give someone else the power

to tell you what you're
supposed to be offended by?

- A horrible, big circus.

That's what movie
director Tim Burton called

working with Disney after
his recent remake of "Dumbo".

The director, who has made
many hits for the studio

over the decades, said, "My
days with Disney are done.

I realized that I was Dumbo,

that I was working in
this horrible big circus

and I needed to escape."

Burton went on to label Disney
homogenized and consolidated

with less room for
different types of things,

a far cry from Walt's vision

as a place dedicated to
the ideals, the dreams,

and the hard facts that created America.

- You have to really kind of go

into the Disney inner brain trust

to know what they're thinking these days,

but it certainly doesn't
seem like the Disney of old.

The Disney of old was family-friendly,

they cared about storytelling,

they cared about making
a pleasant experience

with good, old-school lessons and values.

I don't see that as
exactly the same today.

There seems to be a more modern agenda,

and I think it's really
detached from the brand itself.

- I would hope and pray that
they would come to their senses

and ask themselves, is
what we're doing now

creating more harmony?

Is it creating a better social climate?

Is it strengthening families?

Is it strengthening communities?

And if the answers to those things is no,

maybe you need to rethink it.

- [Mercedes] And the
blogosphere seems to agree

the Disney train is becoming derailed.

- Their not so secret
gay agenda got exposed.

They're about to lose the Mickey
Mouse trademark this year.

All of their sexual predator
employees are being exposed.

They're kind of digging their own grave.

- I watched everything up to date so far

and I hope the show can change my mind

and if it does, I'll change my score,

but right now the show is a dud.

- Disney launched new
LGBTQ's Pride collection

clothing line for kids.

Disney said in a statement,

"We stand in solidarity

with our LGBTQIA+ community everywhere."

Curious, are you going to
be making this clothing line

available in China?

I mean you say everywhere, but...

- Polls show Disney's negative perception

in the American public has exploded.

Disney's approval rating has
fallen from 77% last year

to just 51% today.

NBC released a poll that found

only 33% had a positive opinion of Disney.

Vast numbers of people
who Disney once enchanted

are now disenchanted
by the house of mouse.

For now, our ride through
Walt's disenchanted kingdom

has come to an end.

As Disney sows seeds of division

by injecting sex, race, and politics

into just about everything,

will more people turn their back

on the once happiest place on Earth?

There's evidence they already are.

(soft whooshing)

(dramatic electronic music)

- People have gotten offended
by a lot of old Disney movies.

Have you heard about that at all?

- Old Disney movies?
Yeah, I've heard that.

- Do you think that people

should be offended by those things

or do you think people
are overreacting a bit?

- Um, probably overreacting
a little bit, I would say.

- This is the message at
the beginning of the movie.

It says, "This program
includes negative depictions

and/or mistreatment of
people or cultures."

Is this mean to other cultures?

Would this hurt people's feelings
because of their culture?

- No.

- No?

What about this? Aladdin.

- No.

- No?

It's almost like some people
are looking to get offended.

- Right, they're trying to
find a reason to get offended.

Yeah.

- Do you think that, for
kids who wanna watch movies

and stuff like that for
entertainment or fun,

do you think it's good

to put a political
message in there at all?

- I think that kids should be little,

and they don't really need to focus

on political stuff right now.

Maybe whenever they're
older, but not right now.

I think they should enjoy their time.

- Yeah.

Me personally, I wouldn't
put anything like that

'cause kids are little
and they won't understand

what's going on in there.

- Like this. This is from "Peter Pan".

(park goer laughs)

Do you think that's offensive?

- I'm actually Native American.

I don't really think it's offensive

as long as you don't
mean it in offensive way.

- Right.

How about this?

Does this hurt Native Americans' feelings?

- No.

- Why does this not offend
you as a Native American?

- It's getting our culture out there.

People are learning about
us. They know we're here now.

A lot of people, they
see Native Americans,

they're like, "Whoa, that's so cool!"

So I think it's a great way

to just kind of tell
people we're still here.

- Do you think that people get offended

too easily at things?

- Yes.

- Yes? Why do you say that?

- Because some things
they just overreact to.

- Yeah.

It's like this, like the King Louis one

in "The Jungle Book".

People have said that this
is a stereotypical black guy

and that it's hurtful to black people.

Do you find that offensive to people?

- Um...

I don't.

I don't personally.

Blacks, we were kind of the architects

of a lot of soul music and jazz
music and blues and whatnot.

- In a way it's almost
a celebration kind of.

- Yeah.

- I mean, so using that music
or that type of archetype,

it's just the way it is,
you know what I mean?

Cultures and races,
they can be celebrated,

you know what I mean?

- What do you think
Disney could do better?

- When we were kids growing up,

it was just a different environment.

It was just a fun place.

There was no politics involved,
no ideologies involved.

- It was just fun.

Going to Disney growing
up was so much fun,

and watching Disney movies

was the highlight of my childhood.

And now I actually think twice

about letting my kids
watch certain things.

- Is this mean to women?

- Yes.

- Yes? Why is it mean to women?

- Because they wanna be a mermaid,

but nobody can be a mermaid in real life.

- That's true. It's mermaid phobic.