Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
22 Jun 2026 Acquired The Walt Disney Company
“I turned over every stone I possibly could on this company and we spent, I don't know, the better part of the year so far researching this and I found zero evidence of that.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 22 Jun 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Walt Disney Company
Transcript context
…Yeah, and of course this would lead to the famous Hollywood blacklist and all the terrible stuff that comes out of that. One thing later sort of by association with this, people would accuse Walt of being anti-Semitic since much of the communist movement in the US and especially in Hollywood was in the Jewish community. Gabler investigates this pretty thoroughly in his book and concludes that there's not any evidence that Walt ever really was anti-Semitic. I turned over every stone I possibly could on this company and we spent, I don't know, the better part of the year so far researching this and I found zero evidence of that. Yeah, yeah, definitely anti-communist for sure. But anyway, so speaking of the war.…
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