Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. He
Speaker 1: says he's a black Nazi. So he's a black Nazi.
Speaker 1: I mean their presidential nominee is a white Nazi. There's
Speaker 1: a guy Fuentes, he's a Latino Nazi. They have Laura Lomer,
Speaker 1: Trump's choice for governor of North Carolina. And remember, if
Speaker 1: he's the nominee or the presumptive nominee for something and
Speaker 1: you take him off the ballot, that's a cou Trump said. So,
Speaker 1: Trump's choice for governor of North Carolina went online and
Speaker 1: wrote he was a black Nazi who supported reinstating slavery,
Speaker 1: who loved transgender porn, who loved a porn site called
Speaker 1: Nude Africa, and who declared he was a per And then,
Speaker 1: according to CNN, there was the gross stuff. The only
Speaker 1: surprise to me about Mark Robinson is how did he
Speaker 1: not wind up is Trump's running mate. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: try to explain this. Years ago, I asked a therapist
Speaker 1: friend of mine about this exact phenomenon. Because the country,
Speaker 1: the world, particularly the religious and political worlds, they are
Speaker 1: filled with Mark Robinson's. This guy went on to threaten
Speaker 1: transgender people he's anti Semitic, he's Old Testament kill people religious.
Speaker 1: And yet, like fifteen years ago, he was posting under
Speaker 1: an online user name quote, I like watching tranny on
Speaker 1: girl porn exclamation point un quote. So this is how
Speaker 1: she explained it. Imagine that there's a child who believes
Speaker 1: they're supposed to feed a certain way, that they've been
Speaker 1: told there's one way that's normal and everything else is sick.
Speaker 1: That they've been told, if you're going to behave this way,
Speaker 1: you're going to heaven. If you don't, you're going to hell.
Speaker 1: And depending on how much you don't and how badly
Speaker 1: you don't, that's how long you're going to be in hell,
Speaker 1: or how much you're going to be burned in hell
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then as you become an adult, you
Speaker 1: find out that you really enjoy all the things they
Speaker 1: told you are going to send you to hell, and
Speaker 1: in many cases you enjoy them in a sexual way.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Mark Robinson. Sounds like hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: people in this country, most of whom represent the Republican
Speaker 1: Party in Congress in any event, So what do these
Speaker 1: people do to function? Now? I forget what the technical
Speaker 1: term for this was in psychological circles. But I do
Speaker 1: remember that. To explain it to a dumb layman like me,
Speaker 1: my friend the therapist said, think of this in terms
Speaker 1: of numbers. Each time this guy gives in to his
Speaker 1: desire to watch transgender porn, he scores against himself in
Speaker 1: his mind subconsciously a one, so that each time you're
Speaker 1: kind of paying for your sins literally one cent plus
Speaker 1: one cent plus one cent until you get to like
Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand dollars. Each time you talk about owning slaves,
Speaker 1: that's another one cent, another two say here we go,
Speaker 1: and soon your debt, your evil. The amount of evil
Speaker 1: is quantifiable in your own mind. Whether or not you
Speaker 1: actually ever dream up an actual number is irrelevant. But
Speaker 1: in your mind, you've done this much evil, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to hell for this length of time, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna burn this much unless you come up with
Speaker 1: a different, bigger score on the other side of what
Speaker 1: is literally in your mind a psychological equation. If you
Speaker 1: are thirty seven thousand points or dollars in day to
Speaker 1: transgender porn and the website Nude Africa, and if you're
Speaker 1: going to call yourself a black Nazi and you're thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand down. The way to rationalize this is to
Speaker 1: go and do something that gives you a score of
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty seven thousand against all these things
Speaker 1: you have sinned. Your chance to not erase the sin
Speaker 1: and not even stop doing the sin, but just to overshadow,
Speaker 1: obscure completely, overshadow, completely, dwarf the idea that you participated
Speaker 1: in any of these things. Well, I can't be a perv.
Speaker 1: I can't really love transgender porn. I don't really reinstate
Speaker 1: slavery because I'm persecuting the other people who do. And
Speaker 1: look how many times I've done it. I have one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven thousand points on the Persecute transgender
Speaker 1: people scoreboard. It's as simple as that. That's why they
Speaker 1: all wind up doing this. There's no way for them
Speaker 1: to change the way they feel or the gratification they get,
Speaker 1: particularly if it's sexual, my friend explained to me. So
Speaker 1: they have to then try to punish other people who
Speaker 1: feel the same way. It is at first illogical, not natural,
Speaker 1: and seemingly so much work for no good reason. And
Speaker 1: the more you think about it, the more it makes
Speaker 1: sense because the second part of This is, as my
Speaker 1: friend pointed out, that the Mark Robinson's of this world,
Speaker 1: when the scoreboard reads one hundred and thirty seven thousand
Speaker 1: against perversion and sin at only thirty seven thousand four
Speaker 1: perversion and sin, they can sit there and go, you know,
Speaker 1: I have a little margin here to play with. I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to go do ten thousand more in sin,
Speaker 1: because running for office on a promise of punishing and
Speaker 1: killing the sinners is by itself one hundred thousand. I
Speaker 1: wonder how much somebody like Trump would know about bribing
Speaker 1: union bosses. Now. I don't have any inside information about
Speaker 1: Sean O'Brien, and I'm certainly not suggesting that his national
Speaker 1: teamsters are sitting out the election and not endorsing Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: even though they have endorsed every Democrat who's run for
Speaker 1: resident since nineteen ninety six. I'm not saying that's the
Speaker 1: result of anything in particular, anything except a full and
Speaker 1: fair voter poll, or or whatever it is they said
Speaker 1: they did before they said they weren't going to do
Speaker 1: anything in this election, even though Sean O'Brien went and
Speaker 1: spoke at the Republican National Convention just because Harris has
Speaker 1: since been endorsed by Teamsters regional councils in Michigan. That's
Speaker 1: a quarter million Teamsters right there, and California, Hawaii and Guam,
Speaker 1: and the Battleground in Nevada that's another group of Teamsters
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand, plus the local councils in Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Miami and Greater New York, and the Teamsters
Speaker 1: National Black Caucus. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: what the National Teamsters decided they had the votes for.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there was anything like bribing a union
Speaker 1: boss involved, just because there are a million, three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand Teamsters nationally and they voted no endorsement, per President O'Brien,
Speaker 1: and now it looks like a majority of them will
Speaker 1: be endorsing her via their regional councils. Anyway, that's no
Speaker 1: reason to assume there's helter skelter hanky panky run willy
Speaker 1: nilly in union Land. But I do wonder how much
Speaker 1: somebody like Trump would know about bribing a union boss,
Speaker 1: given what he spent his life doing. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you another story. This one is from my late father.
Speaker 1: We have to go back in time a little put
Speaker 1: yourself in the mind of being it. Just before Christmas
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, We're in Binghamton, New York. It's a
Speaker 1: little warm for the time of year, at a new
Speaker 1: mall Cornell, my college has broken for the winter. And
Speaker 1: by total coincidence, my dad, an architect who worked largely
Speaker 1: in malls, is going to be in bingham to New York,
Speaker 1: an hour away from Cornell, on the day that my
Speaker 1: friends are leaving Ithaca to go home to their home
Speaker 1: in outside Philadelphia. And we can time this perfectly. Exactly
Speaker 1: where they have to hang a right which gets them
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, when going straight takes you to New York
Speaker 1: is the mall my father's going to be at that
Speaker 1: particular night. So I pile in the car with them,
Speaker 1: and I get out at the mall and there's my
Speaker 1: dad's car, and on a foggy night, fifty fifty five degrees,
Speaker 1: foggier and foggier, finally out my father comes and says
Speaker 1: he's got somebody with him, and he goes, this is
Speaker 1: my son. He's a senior at Cornell. We think he's
Speaker 1: a saying he's going to graduate in the spring. You
Speaker 1: are going to graduate Argie, the whole routine. Now, my
Speaker 1: father had worked as an architect. He got his first
Speaker 1: license in nineteen sixty seven and wound up being licensed
Speaker 1: in forty of the states, which was pretty good for
Speaker 1: a guy who never actually went to college. But before that,
Speaker 1: he'd been a draftsman working for a firm in New
Speaker 1: York for about fifteen years. He did the nitty gritty stuff,
Speaker 1: and when it came time to get stuff built, he
Speaker 1: had to go there and deal with the union bosses,
Speaker 1: and he had to go there and deal with the
Speaker 1: contractors and the owners, and the inspectors and the city people.
Speaker 1: He had to deal with people on a granular level,
Speaker 1: as they say. So my dad is talking to me
Speaker 1: about as we got up into the car and this
Speaker 1: foggy night, And it was foggy enough that at one point,
Speaker 1: as we drove away from this mall, I said, when
Speaker 1: did they put that Christmas tree up? And he went,
Speaker 1: what Christmas tree? There was a giant Christmas tree in
Speaker 1: the parking lot, which we could not see even though
Speaker 1: we were standing ten feet from it. Now the fog
Speaker 1: is clearing it like it had just grown there. So
Speaker 1: this is a very weird night to begin with, plus,
Speaker 1: I'm almost an adult, not quite. I haven't turned twenty
Speaker 1: years old yet. Maybe I'm graduating, maybe I'm not. And
Speaker 1: I say something, and to this day, I don't remember
Speaker 1: what it was to my dad about construction. And he
Speaker 1: almost swerves off the highway and says, look, I thought
Speaker 1: I raised you well. And I went, what's wrong? He goes,
Speaker 1: you've reached your age, you nearly twenty years old, and
Speaker 1: you don't understand that everything that gets built involves a bribe.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I mean, I guess that's true,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that we've ever discussed. Oh, we
Speaker 1: discussed it before you came with me on that one
Speaker 1: job in Queens in nineteen sixty seven. I said, I
Speaker 1: was eight years old. Dad goes on to explain that
Speaker 1: everything that is built, certainly everything that is built in
Speaker 1: New York, and everything that he has seen in his
Speaker 1: world travels, well, his national travels. He used to go
Speaker 1: around the country. He had a mall and Nacadochius, Texas
Speaker 1: that he had six different stores in. He was at
Speaker 1: one point the architect who had something like three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty different Baskin Robbins's around the country. That he
Speaker 1: had designed. He was expert and intuitive and at great
Speaker 1: demand for being able to put your standard boilerplate, official
Speaker 1: restaurant or store design into an irregular space. So a
Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins that needed to be I don't know, forty
Speaker 1: feet by forty feet, he could put it in a
Speaker 1: thirty six by forty seven foot square and you, mister
Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins, would never know the difference. That was what
Speaker 1: he excelled in. He didn't think it was pretty, that
Speaker 1: creative or anything. He just that was what he was
Speaker 1: good at. So Dad is now explaining to me that
Speaker 1: no matter where you go, somebody is going to get bribed.
Speaker 1: And I'm, of course at nineteen like you bribed someone.
Speaker 1: He said, no, I don't do the bribes. I have
Speaker 1: seen a few of them. That guy I introduced you to,
Speaker 1: he got a bribe. But that's I know, because right
Speaker 1: before the bribe came in, the guy I'm working for
Speaker 1: asked me to leave, and I went and looked at
Speaker 1: some other stores in the mall and I said, on
Speaker 1: the way out, how long He said five minutes? And
Speaker 1: I know what was done. Then this way we'll get
Speaker 1: it done on time. The man that you just were
Speaker 1: introduced to He told me just before I introduced him
Speaker 1: to you, just before you became visible in the fog,
Speaker 1: he said, We're taken care of. This will get open
Speaker 1: on time. Whatever it was February fifteenth, April first, everything
Speaker 1: that gets built union, non union, somebody has gotten a
Speaker 1: little taste, as they say in the Godfather movies. So
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about how it is that after
Speaker 1: a tradition of nearly thirty years of always endorsing the Democrat,
Speaker 1: and the rather obvious truth that no matter how bad
Speaker 1: sometimes democrats, individual democrats or individual democratic presidents have been
Speaker 1: for unions, that they have always been better than Republicans
Speaker 1: have been for you, Unions at least the last sixty
Speaker 1: years worth of them have been. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: beyond that. I'm just a simple country commentator. But my
Speaker 1: dad was a near witness to bribery of union officials
Speaker 1: in every state of the Union in which he had
Speaker 1: a license to practice architecture. That's forty of them, that's
Speaker 1: four fifths. And what was it Trump did before he
Speaker 1: went on TV and people went who is this ass?
Speaker 1: And he became a star, and then they became president.
Speaker 1: What was it he did before that? Did he build things?
Speaker 1: Do I remember that? Really? Is that why his name
Speaker 1: is on all those buildings that were all built with
Speaker 1: either union or non union labor, in which everything had
Speaker 1: to be approved by a local government inspector and things
Speaker 1: to open on time, And Trump buildings always opened on time.
Speaker 1: I wonder how that happened. As I said, I I
Speaker 1: wonder how much somebody like Trump would know about bribing
Speaker 1: a union boss. Heading into the weekend, polls all over
Speaker 1: the map, as you know, except for a couple of
Speaker 1: consistent through lines. The New York Times Siena poll that
Speaker 1: essentially shows the race tide before the debate, the Times poll,
Speaker 1: the same one was Trump by two. The Times poll
Speaker 1: has been an outlier all along, and the idea that
Speaker 1: the informator of the New York Times is anything special
Speaker 1: any longer has left the building except the building that
Speaker 1: houses the New York Times, so there's nothing special. It's
Speaker 1: not likely to be that they're right and everybody else
Speaker 1: is wrong, because even the New York Times Siena poll,
Speaker 1: like almost every other poll for the last six weeks,
Speaker 1: shows one through line continued ongoing in incremental, sometimes really
Speaker 1: small improvement, for Kamala Harris. The other national polls that
Speaker 1: came out yesterday are suggestive of potential blowouts. Outward Intelligence
Speaker 1: poll Harris by seven, Florida Atlantic University Harris by four,
Speaker 1: you Gov for The Economist Harris by four. There are
Speaker 1: two out of about twenty five national polls that do
Speaker 1: not show Kamala Harris ahead of Trump. One was Atlas Intel,
Speaker 1: which last week had Trump up by three. Nate Silver
Speaker 1: likes Atlas Intel. I don't know anymore about Nate Silver.
Speaker 1: My opinion of him changes day to day. The other
Speaker 1: one was the New York Times poll, and even in
Speaker 1: that it has gone from Harris minus two to even
Speaker 1: the point of this through line is the possession arrow
Speaker 1: is pointing to Kamala Harris. The other through line, of course,
Speaker 1: in the total national vote doesn't matter, as you know,
Speaker 1: it's the swing states, and the other through line happens
Speaker 1: to be in oh a swing state Pennsylvania. The Times
Speaker 1: poll has her up by four. If we are suggesting
Speaker 1: that the Time Siena poll has been running as an
Speaker 1: outlier against the Democrats for the whole of this year,
Speaker 1: four point lead in Pennsylvania for Kamala Harris is worth
Speaker 1: the weekend of Champagne. Quinnipiac we mentioned the other day,
Speaker 1: has her up by six In Pennsylvania. Marrist and the
Speaker 1: Washington Posts separately have her up by just one. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, other hand, other hand, there is one
Speaker 1: poll this month that has Trump up in Pennsylvania one.
Speaker 1: What's happening? Well, The easiest explanation is the oldest one.
Speaker 1: Polling sucks. It's too easy. In point of fact, the
Speaker 1: polls are not as bad as they used to be.
Speaker 1: They're better than they were in twenty twenty, when they
Speaker 1: were far better than they were in twenty sixteen. But
Speaker 1: we keep ignoring one fundamental thing that the pollsters are
Speaker 1: so used to that they don't really make a big
Speaker 1: deal of anymore. The polls offer two flavors of results.
Speaker 1: Who is leading among registered voters and who is leading
Speaker 1: among likely voters. Registered voters is defined. Are you registered
Speaker 1: to vote? Yes, I am, You're a registered voter. They
Speaker 1: don't ask people in this way are you a likely voter?
Speaker 1: They try to ascertain in their own opinion if this
Speaker 1: person is in fact likely to vote. The idea of
Speaker 1: the likely voter is the better number. It is more predictive,
Speaker 1: but it can be played like a two dollars banjo.
Speaker 1: That is where pollsters can be prejudiced towards one side
Speaker 1: or the other. These people who say they're going to
Speaker 1: vote for Harris, we're going to declare them not likely voters.
Speaker 1: Or these people that say they're going to vote for Harris,
Speaker 1: we're going to declare them likely voters. Each polster has
Speaker 1: his own definition of likely voter, and the ones that
Speaker 1: are playing it straight. Did they vote in the last
Speaker 1: state election, did they vote in the last national election,
Speaker 1: do they know the candidates? Did they vote in both
Speaker 1: the nationals and locals? Did they vote in mid terms?
Speaker 1: You get a score. You could have ten polsters though
Speaker 1: poll literally the same eleven hundred people in Pennsylvania or
Speaker 1: anywhere else, and based on the different definitions of likely voter,
Speaker 1: the same posters interviewing the same eleven hundred people could
Speaker 1: give you a final score of Harris leading by six,
Speaker 1: Harris leading by four, or Harris leading by one. The
Speaker 1: key thing in Pennsylvania is the number of polsters who,
Speaker 1: no matter what they do to get this number, can
Speaker 1: put together. Trump ahead in Pennsylvania is nearly extinct. There's
Speaker 1: also one interior polling number worth mentioning I'll give Axios
Speaker 1: credit on this, while they were whining at the same
Speaker 1: time about Harris not giving them an interview, and they're
Speaker 1: on a record pace not to give any interviews before
Speaker 1: the leg because they're trying to hire it. Okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: you're that important. They're running a campaign. They're not running
Speaker 1: to win over the vote of Jim Van Dehi, all right.
Speaker 1: So while they're complaining about that, Axios did conclude quoting
Speaker 1: their headline, Harris closes trust gap with Trump on the economy,
Speaker 1: Forty six percent of voters say they trust Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: to handle the economy, the same share as Trump, according
Speaker 1: to the Morning Consult poll, which was conducted in late
Speaker 1: August and released Thursday Morning. They took their time on
Speaker 1: this pole. A separate survey Axios notes from FT Michigan Ross,
Speaker 1: taken after the debate and released last Sunday, shows Harris
Speaker 1: with a slight edge over Trump when it comes to
Speaker 1: the economy. I have noted this before that these numbers
Speaker 1: are basically all within a range. Trump by a point,
Speaker 1: Harris by a point. Even That's it. And the important
Speaker 1: point there again goes back to the possession arrow and
Speaker 1: the momentum this was Trump by ten over Biden, and
Speaker 1: earlier than that it was even higher than that. And
Speaker 1: remember the dreams of knocking Ted Cruz out of the Senate.
Speaker 1: It may not last because the Democrats seem to have
Speaker 1: spent like ninety percent of their ad budget in Texas,
Speaker 1: while the Republicans have about that much left. But according
Speaker 1: to Morning Consults, Colin Hall red leeds Ted Cruz in
Speaker 1: the Texas Senate race forty five forty four. The Saint
Speaker 1: Foster put out its first entirely post debate polls for
Speaker 1: the swing states. It's Trump by one in Georgia, but
Speaker 1: otherwise clean sweep. Harris, Harris by one in Arizona, Harris
Speaker 1: by two in North care Carolina and Pennsylvania. Harris by
Speaker 1: four in Nevada, Harris by six in Wisconsin, Harris by
Speaker 1: eight in Michigan. Again, trends, and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see those post Mark Robinson polls in North Carolina. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, they're going to read Morning Consult North
Speaker 1: Carolina poll for Ashleymadison dot com. Lastly, comic relief bottom line.
Speaker 1: Take this with you, Smile over the weekend as you
Speaker 1: think about it. Trump is again hallucinating after he got
Speaker 1: up in an abandoned New York hockey arena the other
Speaker 1: night and announced he can win that state when he's
Speaker 1: losing it by twenty He went into Fox News on
Speaker 1: the show of the guy nearly as delusional as he is,
Speaker 1: the guy Gutfeld, who has shown up to that office
Speaker 1: every day for what ten fifteen years, has never made
Speaker 1: one joke that actually had a laugh in it, and
Speaker 1: thinks he is Mark Twain. Well, Trump got an even
Speaker 1: bigger non laugh. He selected his wine for the night,
Speaker 1: the fact checking at the debate, and I suppose we
Speaker 1: should be happy that he was fact checking debates from
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four rather than twenty sixteen. Trump said on
Speaker 1: the Gutfeld Show, they didn't correct her once, and they
Speaker 1: corrected me everything I said, practically, I think nine times
Speaker 1: or eleven times, and the audience was absolutely they went crazy,
Speaker 1: and I walked off unquote. Trump thinks there was an
Speaker 1: audience at his debate against Kamala Harris. Hece, you're forgetting
Speaker 1: there was no audience. On the other hand, if your
Speaker 1: ego is so large that it has to be continued
Speaker 1: onto the person standing next to you, ah maybe that
Speaker 1: guy does count as your audience. Also of interest here
Speaker 1: the Late News comparatively speaking last night from an anti
Speaker 1: anti Semitism dinner at which Donald Trump, because the comparisons
Speaker 1: to Hitler are apparently insufficient in his mind, decided to
Speaker 1: warn the Jewish people of this country that they will
Speaker 1: be at fault if he is not elected president. He
Speaker 1: is moving ever closer to Hitler. That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I first made a comparison between
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. I know I implied it
Speaker 1: in the article that I wrote for the BBC website
Speaker 1: in twenty and sixteen about the early versions of Trump's
Speaker 1: plan to remove millions of people here from this country,
Speaker 1: and the realization that was not widespread at that point
Speaker 1: that you could not simply expect immigrants or other people
Speaker 1: who Trump did not like, to simply line up and
Speaker 1: march out of the country without some kind of intermediary
Speaker 1: stage in which they would be kept in camps in concentration,
Speaker 1: or as I put it, camps with concentration, or as
Speaker 1: their known concentration camps. Trump, as we know since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety when it was revealed by his first wife that
Speaker 1: he kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a bedside table,
Speaker 1: and it was very important to him that when this
Speaker 1: was found out, it was confirmed that the book had
Speaker 1: been given to him by somebody who was Jewish, and
Speaker 1: that it was not mind comp it was a book
Speaker 1: of speeches, and if he did have it, he never
Speaker 1: read it. Anti Semitism is at the core of who
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is, and in increasingly people have recognized that
Speaker 1: the historical comparison to Hitler nineteen twenty nine, thirty thirty one,
Speaker 1: thirty two and the Trump of today is apt. Everybody
Speaker 1: seems to think it's when made a comparison to Hitler
Speaker 1: at the lowest point in his non humanity. That's not
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. We're talking about what you would
Speaker 1: have seen if you had looked at Hitler in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty two. That is where we are with Trump, and
Speaker 1: if there was any doubt remaining of this, it ended
Speaker 1: last night. Trump has been through the course of this
Speaker 1: entire campaign saying that the Democrats are not serving Israel
Speaker 1: and that anyone who's Jewish in this country who would
Speaker 1: vote for a Democrat needs to and I'm quoting him here,
Speaker 1: get their head examined because long ago, sometime before he
Speaker 1: first needed to have his head examined. Trump utterly conflated
Speaker 1: in a per anti Semitic meme, the idea that the
Speaker 1: Jews are loyal first to Israel, the Jews of America
Speaker 1: are first loyal to Israel, the Jews of Holland, or
Speaker 1: first loyal to the Jews of Australia. It is the
Speaker 1: most common form of anti Semitism, and those who are
Speaker 1: afflicted with it don't think they are being particularly anti Semitic. Well,
Speaker 1: now there is a secondary stage up from that, and
Speaker 1: Trump reached it last night at a dinner at which
Speaker 1: he was given an award and introduced by this Adelson
Speaker 1: woman who is pouring millions of dollars into the attempt
Speaker 1: to get Trump elected again and again. Trump with this
Speaker 1: confusion between the idea that support for Jewish people and
Speaker 1: support for Israel must overlap entirely, now he has gone
Speaker 1: to the next stage. Jewish support for Trump is not
Speaker 1: what it should be. And he openly and without any
Speaker 1: kind of reservation, and in a sad tone of voice,
Speaker 1: as if he was warning the Jews of America that
Speaker 1: he's going to have to do something about them if
Speaker 1: he wins and they have not supported him. He basically
Speaker 1: in advance blamed Jewish Americans for the possibility that he
Speaker 1: would not be returned to the presidency. I'm going to
Speaker 1: play the whole clip. I have no comment to make afterwards.
Speaker 1: It speaks for itself, and the reverse of what he
Speaker 1: says is true. If any Jewish American votes for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: they need to have their head examined. If any Gentile
Speaker 1: American votes for Donald Trump, they need to have their
Speaker 1: head examined too.
Speaker 2: But i will put it to you very simply and gently,
Speaker 2: I really haven't been treated right. But you haven't been
Speaker 2: treated right because you're putting yourself in great danger and
Speaker 2: the United States hasn't been treated right. So if I
Speaker 2: don't win this election, and I've been very good, you know,
Speaker 2: they say Trump's been right about everything. I've been right
Speaker 2: about a lot of things. Even Ted will admit that
Speaker 2: I've been right about a lot of things. A lot
Speaker 2: of things that a lot of people said no, that
Speaker 2: won't happen. But a lot of bad things happened, and
Speaker 2: some good things I've been right about too, And I
Speaker 2: only want to be So I'm not going to call
Speaker 2: this as a prediction. But in my opinion, the Jewish
Speaker 2: people would have a lot to do with a loss
Speaker 2: if I'm at forty percent, if I'm at forethink of it,
Speaker 2: I mean sixty percent of voting for Kamala, who in
Speaker 2: particular is a bad Democrat. The Democrats are bad to Israel,
Speaker 2: very bad. They'll never change because they have a section
Speaker 2: of their party now which has become amazingly and quickly
Speaker 2: very powerful both ways. I mean, Chuck Schumer is a
Speaker 2: Palestinian who would have thought that was going to happen.
Speaker 2: What the hell happened to him? I saw him the
Speaker 2: other day. He was dressed in one of their robes.
Speaker 2: Now that'll be next.
Speaker 1: James Thurber's best known work, best loved work, and maybe
Speaker 1: just best work, has been made into two different films,
Speaker 1: neither of which is really satisfactory, but each gives you
Speaker 1: just a glimpse of what your imagination is doing as
Speaker 1: you hear or read his words. It is a universal
Speaker 1: It is the story of everybody who's ever lived, who
Speaker 1: has ever daydreamed. It is the secret life of Walter
Speaker 1: Mitty by James Thurber. We're going through. The Commander's voice
Speaker 1: was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full dress
Speaker 1: uniform with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly
Speaker 1: over one cold gray eye. We can't make it, sir.
Speaker 1: It's spoiling for a hurricane. If you ask me, I'm
Speaker 1: not asking you, Lieutenant Berg, said the commander. Throw on
Speaker 1: the power lights, rever up to eighty five hundred. We're
Speaker 1: going through. The pounding of the cylinders increased to pocket,
Speaker 1: the pocket to pocket, to pocket to pocket. The commander
Speaker 1: stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He
Speaker 1: walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. Sweitch
Speaker 1: on number eight auxiliary. He shouted, switch on number eight auxiliary,
Speaker 1: repeated Lieutenant Berg. Full strength and number three turret, shouted
Speaker 1: the commander, full strength and number three turret. The crew,
Speaker 1: bending to the various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight
Speaker 1: engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. The
Speaker 1: old man will get us through, they said to one another.
Speaker 1: The old man ain't afraid of hell, not the fast.
Speaker 1: You're driving too fast, said missus Middy. What are you
Speaker 1: driving so fast for? Hmmm, said Walter Middy. He looked
Speaker 1: at his wife in the seat beside him with shocked astonishment.
Speaker 1: She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had
Speaker 1: yelled at him in a crowd. Up to fifty five,
Speaker 1: she said, you know I don't like to go more
Speaker 1: than forty. You're up to fifty five. Walter Midty drove
Speaker 1: on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the s
Speaker 1: N two two through the worst storm in twenty years
Speaker 1: of Navy flying, fading in the remote intimate airways of
Speaker 1: his mind. You're ten step again, said missus Midty. It's
Speaker 1: one of your days. I wish you'd let doctor Renshaw
Speaker 1: look you over. Walter Mitty stopped the car in front
Speaker 1: of the building where his wife went to have her
Speaker 1: hair done. Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having
Speaker 1: the hair done, she said, I don't need overshoes, said Mitty.
Speaker 1: She put her mirror back into her bag. We've been
Speaker 1: all through that, she said, getting out of the car.
Speaker 1: You're not a young man any longer. He raced the
Speaker 1: engine a little. Why don't you wear your gloves? Have
Speaker 1: you lost your gloves? Walter Mitty reached in a pocket
Speaker 1: and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but
Speaker 1: after she had turned and gone into the building, and
Speaker 1: he had driven on to a red light. He took
Speaker 1: them off again. Pick it up, brother snapped the cop
Speaker 1: as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his
Speaker 1: gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly
Speaker 1: for a time, and then he drove past the hospital
Speaker 1: on his way to the parking lot. It's the millionaire
Speaker 1: banker Wellington, McMillan, said the pretty nurse. Yes, said Walter Mitty,
Speaker 1: removing his gloves slowly. Who has the case, Doctor Renshawn,
Speaker 1: Doctor Renbow. But there are two specialists here, doctor Remington
Speaker 1: from New York and mister Prichard Mitford from London. He
Speaker 1: flew over. The door opened down a long cool carter,
Speaker 1: and doctor Renshaw came out. He looked distraught and haggard.
Speaker 1: Hello Mitty, he said, we're having the devil's own time
Speaker 1: with McMillan, the millionaire banker and close personal friend of
Speaker 1: Roosevelt obstriosis of the ductal tract tertiary. Wish you'd take
Speaker 1: a look at him. Glad to, said Mitty. In the
Speaker 1: operating room, there were whispered introductions Doctor Remington, doctor Mitty,
Speaker 1: mister Richard Mitford, doctor Mitty, and I've read your book
Speaker 1: on scripto thracosis, said Richard Mitford, shaking hands. A brilliant performance, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, said Walter Mitty. Didn't know you're in the
Speaker 1: State's Mitty grumbled. Remington Cole's to Newcastle, bringing Midford to
Speaker 1: me up here for a tertiary. You are very kind,
Speaker 1: said Mitty. A huge, complicated machine connected to the operating
Speaker 1: table with many tubes and wires began at this moment
Speaker 1: to go pocket to pocketa POCKETA the new anesthetizer is
Speaker 1: giving way, shouted an interurn. There is no one in
Speaker 1: the East who knows how to fix it. Quiet man,
Speaker 1: said Mitty in a low, cool voice. He sprang to
Speaker 1: the machine, which was now going pocket to pocket to creep,
Speaker 1: pocket to pocket to creep. He began fingering delicately a
Speaker 1: roll of glistening dials. Give me a fountain pen, he snapped.
Speaker 1: Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled a faulty
Speaker 1: piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in
Speaker 1: its place. That will hold for ten minutes, he said,
Speaker 1: Get on with the operation. A nurse hurried over and
Speaker 1: whispered to Renshaw and Mitty saw the man turn pale.
Speaker 1: Coreopsis has set in, said Renshaw nervously. If you would
Speaker 1: take over, Middy. Mitty looked at him, and at the
Speaker 1: craven figure of Benbow who drank, and at the grave
Speaker 1: uncertain faces of the two great specialists. If you wish,
Speaker 1: he said. They slipped a white gown on him. He
Speaker 1: adjusted a mask and drew on thin gloves. Nurses handed
Speaker 1: him shiny, back it up, Mac, look out for that buick.
Speaker 1: Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. Wrong laye, Mac, said
Speaker 1: the parking lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. Gee yeah,
Speaker 1: muttered Mitty. He began cautious to back out of the
Speaker 1: lane marked exit. Only leave us sit there, said the attendant.
Speaker 1: I'll put her away. Mitty got out of the car.
Speaker 1: Hey better leave the key, oh, said Mitty, handing the
Speaker 1: man the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car,
Speaker 1: backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where
Speaker 1: it belonged. They're so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking
Speaker 1: along main Street. They think they know everything. Once he
Speaker 1: had tried to take his chains off outside New Milford,
Speaker 1: and he got them wound around the axles. The man
Speaker 1: had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind
Speaker 1: them a young, grinning garage man. Since then, Missus Mitty
Speaker 1: always made him drive to a garage to have the
Speaker 1: chains taken off. The Next time, he thought, I'll wear
Speaker 1: my right arm in a sling. They won't grin at me.
Speaker 1: Then I have my right arm in a sling, and
Speaker 1: they'll see. I couldn't possibly take the chains off myself.
Speaker 1: He kicked at the slush on the sidewalk. Overshoes, he
Speaker 1: said to himself, and he began looking for a shoe store.
Speaker 1: When he came out into the street again with the
Speaker 1: overshoes in a box under his arm, Walter Mitty began
Speaker 1: to wonder what the other thing was his wife had
Speaker 1: told him to get. She had told him twice before
Speaker 1: they set out from their house for Waterbury. In a way,
Speaker 1: he hated these weekly trips to town. He was always
Speaker 1: getting something wrong. Kleenex, he thoughts, quibbs, razor blades, now toothpaste,
Speaker 1: toothbrush by carbon at Carborundum initiative referendum, he gave it up,
Speaker 1: but she would remember it. Where's the what's its name?
Speaker 1: She would ask? Don't tell me you forgot the what's
Speaker 1: its name? The newsboy went by, shouting something about the
Speaker 1: Waterbury trial. Perhaps this will refresh your memory. The district
Speaker 1: attorney suddenly thrust a heavy automatic at the quiet figure
Speaker 1: on the witness stand. Have you ever seen this before?
Speaker 1: Walter Mitty took the gun and examined expertly. This is
Speaker 1: my Webley Vicar's fifty point eight, oh, he said calmly.
Speaker 1: An excited buzz ran around the courtroom. The judge wrapped
Speaker 1: for order. You are a crack shot with any sort
Speaker 1: of firearms, I believe, said the district attorney, insinuatingly. Objection,
Speaker 1: shouted Mitty's attorney. We have shown that the defendant could
Speaker 1: not have fired the shot. We have shown that he
Speaker 1: wore his right arm in a sling on the night
Speaker 1: of the fourteenth of July. Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly,
Speaker 1: and the bickering attorneys were stilled with any known make
Speaker 1: of gun, He said evenly, I could have killed Gregory
Speaker 1: Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand. Pandemonium
Speaker 1: broke out in the courtroom. A woman's scream rose above
Speaker 1: the bedlom, and suddenly a lovely, dark haired girl was
Speaker 1: in Walter Mitty's arms. The district attorney struck at her savagely,
Speaker 1: without rising from his chair. Mitty let the man have
Speaker 1: it on the point of the chin, you miserable curl er.
Speaker 1: Puppy biscuit, said Walter Mitty. He stopped walking, and the
Speaker 1: buildings of Waterbury rose up out of the misty courtroom
Speaker 1: and surrounded him again. A woman who was passing laughed.
Speaker 1: He said, puppy biscuit. She said to her companion. That
Speaker 1: man said puppy biscuit to himself. Walter Mitty hurried on.
Speaker 1: He went into an a and p not the first
Speaker 1: one he came to, but a smaller one farther up
Speaker 1: the street. I want some biscuit for small young dogs,
Speaker 1: he said to the clerk. Any special brand, Sir, the
Speaker 1: greatest pistol shot in the world. Thought a moment. It says,
Speaker 1: puppies bark for it on the box, said Walter Mitty.
Speaker 1: His wife would be through at the hairdressers in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Mitty saw in looking at his watch. Unless they had
Speaker 1: trouble drying it, sometimes they had trouble drying it. She
Speaker 1: didn't like to get to the hotel first, she would
Speaker 1: want him to be there for her as usual. He
Speaker 1: found a big leather chair in the lobby facing a window,
Speaker 1: and he put the overshoes and the puppy biscuit on
Speaker 1: the floor Beside it. He picked up an old copy
Speaker 1: of Liberty and sank down into the chair. Can Germany
Speaker 1: conquer the world through the air? Walter Mitty looked at
Speaker 1: the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. The
Speaker 1: Cannonaden has got the wind up in young Rawley, Sir,
Speaker 1: said the sergeant. Captain. Mitty looked at him through touzled hair.
Speaker 1: Get him to bed, he said, wearily. With the others,
Speaker 1: I'll fly alone, but you can't, sir, said the sergeant.
Speaker 1: Anxiously takes two men to handle that bomber, and the
Speaker 1: archies a pounding l out of the air. Von Rickman's
Speaker 1: circus is between here and Solier. Somebody's got to get
Speaker 1: that ammunition dump, said Mitty. I'm going over spot of brandy.
Speaker 1: He poured a drink for the sergeant and won for himself.
Speaker 1: Wore thundered and wine around the dugout and battered at
Speaker 1: the door. There was a rending of wood and splinters
Speaker 1: flew through the room of a near thing, said Captain
Speaker 1: Mitty carelessly. The box barrage is closing in, said the sergeant.
Speaker 1: We only live once, sergeant, said Mitty, with his faint
Speaker 1: fleeting smile. Or do we He poured another brandy and
Speaker 1: tossed it off. I've never seen a man could hold
Speaker 1: his brandy. Lock you, sir, said the sergeant, begging you pardon, sir.
Speaker 1: Captain Mitty stood up and scrapped on his huge Webbley
Speaker 1: Vicars automatic. It's forty kilometers through el, sir, said the sergeant.
Speaker 1: Mitty finished one last brandy after all, he said, softly.
Speaker 1: What isn't The pounding of the cannon increased. There was
Speaker 1: the rat tat tatting of the machine guns, and from
Speaker 1: somewhere came the menacing pucket a pucket to pucket a
Speaker 1: pocket of the new flame thrilleries. Walter Mitty walked to
Speaker 1: the door of the dugout, humming out Prey de ma blon,
Speaker 1: and he turned and waved to the sergeant Cheerio. He said.
Speaker 1: Something struck his shoulder. I've been looking all over this
Speaker 1: hotel for you, said missus Mitty. Why do you have
Speaker 1: to hide in this old chair. How did you expect
Speaker 1: me to find you things close in? Said Walter Mitty,
Speaker 1: vaguely what missus Mitty said? Did you get the wats
Speaker 1: it's name the poppy biscuit? What's in that box? Overshoes?
Speaker 1: Said Mitty? Couldn't you put them on on the star?
Speaker 1: I was thinking? Said Walter Mitty. Does it ever occur
Speaker 1: to you that I am sometimes thinking? She looked at him.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home,
Speaker 1: she said. They went out through the revolving doors that
Speaker 1: made a faintly derisive whistling sound when you push them.
Speaker 1: It was two blocks to the parking lot at the
Speaker 1: drug store on the corner. She said, wait here for me.
Speaker 1: I forgot something. I won't be a minute. She was
Speaker 1: more than a minute. Walter Mitty lighted a cigarette. It
Speaker 1: began to rain, rained with sleet in it. He stood
Speaker 1: up against the wall of the drug store smoking. He
Speaker 1: put his shoulders back and his heels together. To hell
Speaker 1: with the handkerchief, said Walter Middy scornfully. He took one
Speaker 1: last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then,
Speaker 1: with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he
Speaker 1: faced the Firing Squad, erect and motionless, proud and disdainful.
Speaker 1: Walter Mitty, the Undefeated, Inscrutable to the last. The Secret
Speaker 1: Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. I've done all
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening
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