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Speaker 1: Everybody, and welcome to this commentary here on the warning

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Speaker 1: on sub stack, this Monday morning in December, after a

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Speaker 1: truly terrible weekend in the United States and around the world.

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Speaker 1: But today I want to respond to something very awful,

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Speaker 1: very directly and very clearly, and that is about the

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Speaker 1: murder of Rob Reiner and his wife by their son

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Speaker 1: in their home. In response to the murder of Rob

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Speaker 1: and Michelle Reiner, the President of the United States, a

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Speaker 1: very sick man named Donald Trump, said this about one

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Speaker 1: of the most accomplished comedic actors, directors, political activists of

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Speaker 1: his time, an American patriot, and his wife, a wonderful woman, Michelle.

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Speaker 1: He said, a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Rob Ryaner had tortured and struggling but once very talented

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Speaker 1: movie director and comedy stars passed away together with his

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Speaker 1: wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others

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Speaker 1: through his massive, unyielding and incurable afflection with a mind

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Speaker 1: crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to

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Speaker 1: as TDS, he was known to have driven people crazy

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Speaker 1: by his raging obsession. President Donald J. Trump with this

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Speaker 1: obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administrations are

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Speaker 1: past loc goals and expectations of greatness, and with the

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Speaker 1: golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.

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Speaker 1: May Rob and Michelle rest in peace. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: raise my voice and to say something today, to put

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Speaker 1: on the record for my children, for my friends, a

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Speaker 1: statement of opposition to this national degeneracy, to this evil.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what it is. It's evil. It cannot

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Speaker 1: be excused, it should not be countenanced. It must be

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Speaker 1: the ploor, and yet it will not be in our

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Speaker 1: upside down world where a media that was once esteemed

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Speaker 1: at places like CBS News no longer afflict the powerful,

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Speaker 1: but jen reflect and bend their knee on their behalf.

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Speaker 1: And that is what Rob Reiner was against. He was

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Speaker 1: an American patriot. He was a loving father and a

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Speaker 1: loving husband, and there are other people who can better

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Speaker 1: speak to that than I can. He was a brilliantly

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Speaker 1: funny actor, and I can test it at as somebody

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Speaker 1: who watching all the family laughs as hard Card today

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Speaker 1: is when I first saw that show. He was a

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Speaker 1: generational talent as a director, a genius, And there are

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Speaker 1: other people who can speak better a tot all of

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Speaker 1: those things. I knew Rob Reiner not as a best friend,

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Speaker 1: but as a fellow patriot, and he was somebody I

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Speaker 1: deeply respected, and I last saw him shortly after We're

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Speaker 1: right after the Blue Jays won the American League pennant

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Speaker 1: and would be playing the Dodgers at his beautiful home

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Speaker 1: in his office where he's recorded a lot of television

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Speaker 1: hits from, and it is an unostentatious place. There are

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Speaker 1: no gold traffics. There was a book about baseball and

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Speaker 1: an old weathered one on top of it, some old cameras.

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Speaker 1: Wife Michelle was a photographer, and some of the posters

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Speaker 1: from of the great movies Old Picture. You talked about

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Speaker 1: Norman Lear, another great patriot, as his second father in

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Speaker 1: that meeting be seventeen pilot, and that meeting was about politics.

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Speaker 1: Was there to talk to Rob about the Save America

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Speaker 1: movement and to brief him on what it was that

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Speaker 1: we were doing. Wanted to know more about the Liberty

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Speaker 1: Van program. Rob Reiner was a person who was deeply

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Speaker 1: committed to making the United States a better place. He's

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Speaker 1: exactly the type of person that's described in Our American

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Speaker 1: artistic community that is a great strength of the nation.

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Speaker 1: In President Kennedy's last address at Amherst College, where he

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Speaker 1: paid tribute to Robert Frost and to the American artist,

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Speaker 1: of which Rob Reiner was surely won. But he was

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Speaker 1: also a great patriot, a big hearted guy who loved

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Speaker 1: his country, who was humble, who didn't talk about him

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Speaker 1: being a world famous director when you were in his presence,

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Speaker 1: he talked about himself as a storyteller. And to see

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Speaker 1: him desecrated in a violent death, that is a fruit

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Speaker 1: of the addiction that Rob Ryan Or fought against. That

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is supposed to stand against, but instead it's

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Speaker 1: become a tool of his cruelty and there'll be no

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Speaker 1: opposition to it to My question is to all of

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Speaker 1: the people who work to work for Trump, all the

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Speaker 1: people on Fox News, in your six shows, the Jesse

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Speaker 1: Waters Show, Megan Kelly and her six show, all of them,

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Speaker 1: have you no decency? Supposed the question asked long ago,

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Speaker 1: have you no decency? Any of you? And of course

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Speaker 1: the answer to that question is no. You don't you

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Speaker 1: stand in common cause with Nazis and hatreds, terrible things,

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Speaker 1: abuses of power, and those people the Barry Weiss's of

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Speaker 1: the world dare to give moral lectures while they stand

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Speaker 1: in common cause with the Maga indecency as fellow travelers

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Speaker 1: or supplicants. It's outrageous and is despicable, and it's cowardly,

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Speaker 1: and it's awful. But Rob Reiner was not one of

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Speaker 1: those people. He was an American patriot, and man did

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Speaker 1: he love this country. And to see him smeared by

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States, and to see the

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Speaker 1: silence of the low men and women around him, to

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Speaker 1: hear it echo the nothingness, the perfect soliloquy for their neolism,

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Speaker 1: for their vandalism, for their grow testuaries. When we think

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Speaker 1: about this moment, let us reflect on this weekend of evil.

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Speaker 1: Let us reflect on the vileness of the reaction of

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Speaker 1: the leadership of the MAGA regime led by Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: the cancer that is alive in America, the viciousness, the venom,

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Speaker 1: all of it captured in a paragraph about a great

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Speaker 1: man with a big heart. Man, oh man, do we

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Speaker 1: have a sick man in the Oval Office? The exact

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Speaker 1: opposite of the type of man that Rob Reiner was.

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