On the topic of Talk Shows working for the powers that be, here's a foreshadowing of future events to come. If the purge does happen this scenario might not come to be at all

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32HZGGf87E&t=2m35s

also

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag44dRO8LEA

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33rUJGrshU

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PJFw5xxyAg&t=2m58s