Listen to a radio station owned by Cumulus Broadcasting and you’ll likely hear an on-air announcement asking job-hunters to submit resumes and job applications. “We have a blast here,” the announcer says. He also mentions that applicants “must be fully vaccinated.” That’s right — even to APPLY for a job at a Cumulus station, one must be fully vaccinated. Don’t even bother if you’re not. Current employees were required to be fully vaccinated as of October 11.

No Jab — No Job

According to CEO Mary Berner, the only exceptions are those who permanently work from remote locations or those “with legal exceptions.” Her memo to staffers said that, “We believe that Force Cumulus is at our best when we’re working together in offices. To do that as safely as we reasonably can, we’re requiring that everyone be vaccinated except those legally excepted. It would neither be fair nor do we have the bandwidth to make exceptions based on personal preferences.”

Already, some Cumulus employees, including several on-air hosts, are gone after refusing the vaccine. As Inside Radio reports, Tron Simpson, a weekend host at “NewsRadio 740” KVOR and KKFM 98.1 in Colorado Springs, is out. “As of this moment,” he said on-air, “I will no longer be hosting a talk show on KVOR, nor announcing on KKFM, as I have been terminated due to my refusal because of doctor’s orders to receive the Chinese COVID-19 injections.”

That’s right — even doctor’s orders make no difference to the suits. The airshift right before Simpson’s is also available, as host Jeff Crank quit rather than be vaccinated. Others were denied either religious or medical exemptions by Cumulus Media corporate.

You Can’t Have Both

Dan Bongino’s radio show is syndicated by Cumulus-owned company Westwood One. (They also syndicate Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Chris Plante.) Bongino is vaccinated, though he had to think long and hard about that because of cancer treatments he was undergoing — his doctor recommended going ahead — but he’s decided he’ll part ways with Cumulus if they enforce this mandate. “You can have me, or you can have a vaccine mandate, but you can’t have both,” he said Monday on The Dan Bongino Show.

He said, “If the company is going to make political decisions — and I believe this was a political decision; I don’t believe this is based in any science; I could argue it all day — they should at least recognize that the company makes a lot of money from people who have the opposite political persuasion.”

Speaking in support of those being given an ultimatum, he said, “I have no intentions of letting these guys get let go, get harassed, because they made a private and personal medical decision on only one of the biggest issues of our time.”

He said that in our constitutional republic, people have the right to make their own medical decisions and should be able to take into account, for example, natural immunity, which is a real thing. “There is an even ‘realer’ thing called freedom and liberty,” he said.

Corporate Executives Play “Pretend Dr. Fauci”

“Have these companies ever thought of the countless numbers of moms and dads, sitting at some kitchen table trying to explain to their kids how they have to move out because Daddy doesn’t have a job because a bunch of people in the C-suite thought it would be a good idea to play ‘Pretend Dr. Fauci’ for a minute?”

Bongino clarified that he doesn’t work for Cumulus or anyone else but instead has “a partnership” with them. “Cumulus is going to have to make a decision with me if they want to continue this partnership or they don’t,” he said. “But I’m talking to you on their airwaves. They don’t have to let that happen. You have a choice. I work with you. I do not work for you; I never will. You may have other people in a corner, but you don’t have me.”

Of course, Bongino also has a relationship with Fox News, with his Saturday evening TV show iUnfiltered and a live-streamed radio show on Fox Nation. (Full disclosure: I also have a past relationship with Cumulus, as they syndicated my radio show.) The Fox News policy, though stringent, is different, however, in that it’s at least possible to avoid vaccination by testing daily for COVID-19. Like Bongino, I am vaccinated but believe this is a personal decision to be made with the advice of one’s doctor, not the order of one’s boss.

Fighting Back Against Tyranny

Over at ESPN, sideline reporter Allison Williams is leaving her job after 10 years rather than be vaccinated. She says her doctors, including a fertility specialist, advised her not to get the vaccine since she and her husband are trying to conceive their second child. Apparently, ESPN doesn’t allow medical exceptions, either. What is it with corporate executives trying to play doctor?

ESPN, which is owned by Disney, announced in July that they’d be mandating the vaccine for “most employees.” Previously, they’d said it would be considered a personal decision, but, in Williams’ words, “Their values have clearly changed.”

“I understand that,” she continued. “I don’t know what it’s like to run a multibillion-dollar company and to have shareholders and board members and financial quotas to answer to, and not to mention societal and political pressure, so I respect that their values have changed. I had hoped that they would respect that mine had not.”

As reported at The Federalist, she said through her tears that she hoped anyone else facing “medical coercion from their employers and the government” would “stand up for what they believe and fight back against tyranny.” She doesn’t know what’s next for her or her career but said she looks forward to returning to the job that she loves with “the ESPN family.” She clings to her faith and hopes things will get better.

“Until then,” she said, I’m going to go hug my baby.”

Country star Travis Tritt has had enough of this, and announced Monday that he won’t be playing at venues that require COVID vaccinations or face masks as a condition of attending.

But the tyrannical vaccine decisions keep coming, this one by a judge who refused to let a dad see his 3-year-old daughter unless he gets vaccinated or submits to weekly COVID tests. The dad has already had COVID and, according to his lawyer, had a bad reaction to another vaccine.

Some judges like to play doctor, too. And this one sees a person who doesn’t want to be vaccinated as someone who is “seizing upon misinformation, conspiracy theories, and muddled notions of ‘individual liberty.’” If anyone has a muddled notion of individual liberty, it’s this judge.

Mike Huckabee is the former governor of Arkansas and longtime conservative commentator on issues in culture and current events. A New York Times best-selling author, he hosts the weekly talk show Huckabee on TBN. 

Originally published at MikeHuckabee.com. Reprinted with permission.