Rob Carson of Newsmax speaks on Freedom of Speech in Olathe

Comedian and national broadcast personality Rob Carson is the host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show ‘The Rob Carson Show’ on Newsmax. on Wednesday, July 19, Carson spoke at the Olathe Community Center on the importance of freedom of speech for an event hosted by Convention of States. Around 100 people were in attendance and tables where people could get more information were set up for both Convention of States and Moms for Liberty.

In his speech, Carson spoke on how he got into his line of career work.

“I moved to Kansas City and I started working at KCMO radio about eight years ago,” Carson said. “Like most radio companies, they fired me two years into a three year deal because I made too much money, so I said, ‘Okay, I’ll just do a nationally syndicated show.’”

He explained how he built a studio while in Washington D.C., but his first fulltime talk radio job was KCMO, starting when he was 49 years old. After they let him go, he no longer had a fulltime gig, which led to marital issues until he began selling cars at a dealership.

Carson goes onto explain how one day CEO and majority owner of Newsmax Media calls him, offering him a job as a talk show personality.

“About two and a half, three years ago, he gave me a TV show called ‘Rob Carson’s What in the World?’ it’s on weekends on Newsmax, first and only comedy show on Newsmax,” Carson said.

From there, he got his own podcast and eventually a radio division where they are on 39 radio stations around the country.

Carson then moved into the topic of the evening.

“I want to talk a little bit about freedom of speech because it is sacred because the only reason why the United States became the greatest engine of individual and economic freedom in the history of mankind was because of the First Amendment, backed up by the Second Amendment,” Carson said. “London existed for a thousand years before we did, and before the U.S. was founded, they were still crapping in the street. They had the same materials. They had the same minds. They were just covered in a different fashion.”

He went onto state the First Amendment is “incredibly important” and that it’s been “assaulted in a very profound fashion.” Carson then recalls back to March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was first starting. It was during this time he read an article by World Net Daily on air before he was on Newsmax.

“MIT PhD reveals sinister theory about coronavirus. ‘As an MIT PhD in Biological Engineering who studies & does research nearly every day on the Immune System, the #coronavirus fear mongering by the Deep State will go down in history as one of the biggest fraud to manipulate economies, suppress dissent, & push MANDATED Medicine!’ That was March 9,” Carson said.

He claims that after he started talking about the article, he was immediately taken down from all social media platforms.

“It was not soon there after that I noticed the federal government and the mainstream media had a new expression, and it was called ‘disinformation,’” Carson said. “And they were acting like I heard it my entire life. Like I should know what disinformation is.”

Carson said after a little bit of research he found out that Josef Stalin came up with the expression ‘dezinformatsiya’ in 1923. He called it ‘dezinformatsiya’ because Stalin wanted it to sound “western” so it wouldn’t be scary, Carson said, stating Stalin went onto create his “Department of Disinformation.”

“Our DHS, it was unveiled two years ago, was already well underway,” Carson said. “We are in the middle of a Stalinist, Maoist revolution in this country. We are in the middle of a war. Everything that you’re seeing. All of this nonsense. Everything from transgender B.S. at schools to COVID protocols to Russia collusion to all of the madness in American cities—that’s the war.”

Carson went onto say he relies on three things including life experience, research, and common sense. Through his common sense he came to the conclusion that Donald Trump wouldn’t collude with Russia as Hillary Clinton was “bought and paid for” while Trump was a “hawk on defense” and energy. Carson also said masks were stupid and came up with the expression, “Don’t catch the stupid,” which he says at the end of his show.

“When you contract mania, then anything is possible,” Carson said. “Voltaire had an expression that a listener emailed months ago, and he said, ‘Those who are made to believe absurdities will commit atrocities.’”

He then gave the example of surgically transitioning children which he refers to as “Mengelesque,” referring to Nazi officer and physician Josef Mengele, who performed deadly experiments on prisoners and was nicknamed the “Angel of Death.”

“It is utterly ridiculous what we have been through in this country in regard to freedom of expression,” Carson said before talking about an expression he came up with two years ago: ‘Dissent is not disinformation.’ He went onto explain that he shared the expression with a guy he had on his show earlier that day, stating, “Disinformation was meant to kill dissent.”

Carson went onto do comedy which included recordings of parodies he did on the ‘Rush Limbaugh Show.’ These parodies poked fun of American political commentator Rush Limbaugh, former President Barack Obama, and VP Kamala Harris. He also highlighted issues he’s faced regarding censorship including the government working with Facebook and Twitter to censor people like him. The censorship caused issues that he talked about such as the 2020 election and the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Whenever I heard the words ‘disinformation’ or ‘misinformation’ about an opinion that I had, I said, ‘If the mainstream media of the deep state/Democrat party, which includes a lot of Republicans… all say that an opinion that I have is disinformation or misinformation it means they know I know the truth,’” Carson said. “And I was right. And everyone of these dominoes keeps falling.”

Carson ended his speech, explaining why it’s a good thing for people to be offended by the things that other people say.

“If you’ve been offended at all by what I’ve said tonight, yay! If you got offended, oh, my God, I love it, not because I like offending people, it’s because I can,” Carson said. “And you can be offended. And you know what? That’s what freedom of speech is. You can be offended and if you don’t like it, you can leave or you can turn to another channel. That’s a great thing.”

He encouraged attendees to embrace being offended, realize good is going to win, and that he supports Convention of States as it will keep the fight from getting physical.

The evening ended with attendees asking questions and Director of Convention of States Kansas David Copeland giving Carson a lapel pin.