10⧸29⧸18 - 'Rendezvous with Destiny'?
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1 hour and 53 minutes
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151.0835
Summary
The story of a man who made it through the Battle of Stalingrad, despite being surrounded by machine guns and machine gunned down by his fellow soldiers. Glenn Beck tells the story of an unlikely hero who managed to survive one of the worst battles of all time.
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I want to start with a story of a guy named Gregory.
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He always considered himself a musician first, a soldier second.
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He was always the brunt of the jokes in his combat unit,
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and he had done the unthinkable while at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the worst battles of all time,
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but the eternal and tragic story of his entire people.
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Gregory was a Jew, and survival was his birthright.
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This war, some were calling it the second great war to end all wars,
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It was just one more calamity that he and his people would have to survive.
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They were now on the heartland of the Third Reich.
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The sea of German tanks were all scattered before them.
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while a barrage of tank and mortar fire came screaming through the air.
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Although terrifying as the sound of the incoming artillery fire was,
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it also resembled something extraordinary to him.
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Gregory shifted his thinking from soldier to musician,
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and the incoming rounds were transformed within his mind
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to notes and stanzas on a sheet of carefully conducted music.
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and more importantly, it became predictable for him.
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It was his musical mind that allowed both he and his unit
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to tell where the German rounds were going to strike.
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He participated in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
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The people behind the barbed wire were just like him.
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While they would survive, their persecution was still not over.
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now lived in a state of fear and denial under Stalin.
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And Stalin required all Jews to register as a Jew on their state paper.
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an employer or a housing official would take one look at his papers
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and turn him down because of the three letters on his papers,
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In fact, Hitler, after the Night of Broken Glass or Kristallnacht,
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he said that all male Jews needed to now use the first name Israel
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and all women needed to use the first name Rachel.
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Now, Gregory, after liberating Jews from that nightmare,
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found himself in another nightmare in the Soviet Union.
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For them, this is the story of the Jewish people.
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It's the oldest refugee assistance organization
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It's the oldest refugee assistance organization
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these liberals have never criticized Ben Shapiro
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is America a good place or a bad place we have to
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say half the country says it's a bad place half the
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it we're good or bad right it's a binary choice
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the pathway to hell is paved in good intentions
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this right our our basic essential values in line
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change climate change comes off of that value in
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science is not settled the climate is constantly
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changing it always has that's why we we had the ice age
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changes now can we do things that can affect the
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climate I don't know some people say we can some
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people say we can't the evidence is spotty at best and you
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can't trust the evidence that is there because we have too
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much evidence of collusion and coercion in the scientific
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but that's not even what we're arguing about we're arguing about what to do
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about it see they keep making about you know whether it's happening or not I'm
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willing to give you the benefit of the doubt I'm willing to say okay it's
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happening all right it's happening what do you want to do about it
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well the solutions are insane the solutions don't work now that is a
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political discussion that is a political discussion you know where our
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values come in on that particular discussion when someone says the
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science is settled shut up that's the violation of our values
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when people sit down at the table and say look I care about the environment I
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really do I disagree with the science and here are the people on my side
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that are showing you that this is coercion this is collusion and that your
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your system that you're you're you're you're touting is nothing more than a
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political system and it doesn't work that's a political discussion those are
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the things we should have what brings us together at the end are the values we
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both care about the earth who doesn't care about the earth sincerely who doesn't
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care about the earth and I'm tired of being lectured by people who will go and
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protest and leave a sea of garbage behind them for others to keep and clean
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up I'm sick of it don't tell me you care about the environment and then after a
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protest everything is nothing but litter you either care about it or you don't
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words don't mean anything anymore only actions do don't tell me what you believe
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show me what you believe by doing the tough thing and you know what the tough
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thing is right now the tough thing is not saying something that's pleasing to your
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crowd the tough thing is to say the things your crowd doesn't want to hear but are
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right and no one is saying them that takes courage that takes conviction that takes
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honesty that takes compassion that takes empathy those are values so what are our
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values how do we find them are they even worth finding
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bad country or a good country see that's that's the question we have to ask now is the western way
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of life we're saving is it good is it nothing but a bunch of cis cisgender males white males white
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europeans that have oppressed people is that is that all is that all it is can i ask you stew when do
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you think world war ii officially started when did it really start start so not our involvement in it
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yeah not our involvement oh god i mean at the date i'm not gonna get right yeah i know just give me an
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event uh that's a tough one uh would you say germany invades poland or you know breaks the treaty with
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you know yeah i mean a chamberlain or i mean berlin treaty so you're talking events that lead
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into other events i mean you could go for a million different places in that i'll give you i'll give
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you one how about when japan invaded china happened in 37 if you live on that side of the earth yeah
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you think world war ii started then japan invaded china manchuria and they said the only problem with
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manchuria is all the manchurians that sounds familiar uh and so they invaded and they started
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a mass slaughter mass slaughter all of the you know the bad bombings of civilians that happened
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years before we were doing it or the germans were doing it it had it started in 37 in china with the
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japanese well where was the white man now you know where the white man was you know how history reflects
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this now america didn't say anything at the time america didn't step up to the plate and stop the
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slaughter in china so wait a minute hold it just a second so are we supposed to get involved in
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everything or are we not supposed to be involved in everything when we get involved you blame us for
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getting involved in saying we're trying to jam our stuff down everybody's throat when we don't show up
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you blame us for not showing up either way according to you we violated quote our values
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what are our values well our values used to be we are enemy of no one friend all now that gets a
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little dicey gets really dicey didn't get dicey apparently when the japanese invaded china
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yeah that's because they only care about europe no actually no we couldn't fight on all of the fronts
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we had to choose we didn't even want to go save europe america didn't even want to go into that war
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well how could you oh my gosh how could you it's europe wait a minute wait a minute we're supposed
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to go save the white patriarchy where we're wait a minute we're to blame for all of that because we
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didn't go in and save the white hierarchy i thought you just said that was bad should be destroyed
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is america bad or good let's have that discussion glenn back mercury
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a couple things i want to i want to address before we we get off the air today there's so
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much to talk about um we got to talk about twitter and what they're doing now because it brings it
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brings the point that i was just making home about what are our values and what are the problems that
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we're trying to solve they're different people are now saying that you know the problem is is that
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americans don't agree on basic values and principles anymore well i agree with that but nobody even is
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talking about those when's the last time you heard anyone really talking about values or principles
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in the mainstream media tell me last time you heard that talked about on fox or on cnn or msnbc tell me
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defending basic principles what are those principles well american principles we used to find self-evident
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that all men are created equal so you want to talk about the uh the the shooting in um in uh pittsburgh
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great that guy has violated american principles all men are created equal and endowed by their creator
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with certain unalienable rights well one of those rights is religious their right to to pursue god
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now how about the principle violated uh by the bomber
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all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights among these
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well i don't like what those democrats are saying
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and you're not going to learn this through osmosis
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i'm going to be talking about some of these principles on our tour
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but i also i'm going to talk about the principles
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uh we have some special things uh planned actually for each night
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that they're thinking about getting rid of the like button
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your church should be talking about politics all the time
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well it's a shocking moment i mean i i we view it
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life as a jewish american which has been is not
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connecticut where the jewish population is about
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two percent and then al gore gives me the chance
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to run for vice president first jewish american on a
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national ticket uh... it really didn't know i faced no
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going back to the end of the two thousand election we
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actually got five hundred thousand more votes in the
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other ticket which was a reflection in numbers that
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people weren't voting uh... based on religion so when
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something like this happens it's shocking and it changes that
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reality but i believe the reality is that the american people are very
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fair-minded not bigoted and you saw it in the wholesome reaction of the
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neighbors who were not jewish in squirrel hill pittsburgh and in the elected
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and and of course this does not please cnn this is not what they wanted out of
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joe lieberman they didn't bring him on to say that he had a good experience as an
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american it didn't bring him on to say positive things they brought him on to
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to clarify exactly what portion of this is donald trump's fault tell us so we
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don't have to say it say he's responsible so we can have plausible
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deniability that's that this is exactly what we believe we don't want to come
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out and say it five thousand times we'll just hint to it you say it okay is
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essentially the way they lead into this next question and again he is not
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giving them what what they want to hear listen do you believe that there are
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those who perceive those to be anti-semitic dog whistles when you see the one
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of the closing ads of his campaign george soros uh janet yellen lloyd
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blank fine from goldman sachs with dark ominous pictures and talking about the
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money in the international question though guys is that something that that
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sends a message yeah all the first thing i want to say is that in my opinion
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this brutal murder in pittsburgh really had to was committed by a hateful loner
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who was probably more stimulated by uh anti-semitism in uh social media than by
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anything else going around him he was against uh president trump and it's real
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uh real i i was glad to see that this website is taking itself down uh for a
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while and and all the uh social media people have to ask whether they're
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becoming vehicles for this kind of hatred but more generally i think all of us uh
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have to beginning with the president democratic and republican leaders in
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congress people in the media conventional media and the more uh
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unconventional social media have to ask ourselves to what extent are we
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contributing to the division in our society charlie dent and i have worked
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together in a group called no labels trying to overcome the way the parties have
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become like warring tribes but this goes beyond that he just said tribe he did want that so
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what would i say when the president makes a a constructive statement about unity uh let's
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praise him for it and urge him to build on it and and think about ways in which uh he can act
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so that no one can ever say uh he somehow was responsible for for violence or or hatred
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again that's a the joe lieberman 47 minute response uh but i mean you get the summary there
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i mean first of all this guy was not pro-trump not i mean he was viscerally anti-trump in a way of
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he you know what i don't like about donald trump is he's too nice to jews that is essentially what
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the guy was saying on his social network over and over and over and over again uh so he was not a
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pro-trump guy that shot up this uh this synagogue uh and you know like it's important to make that
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distinction and how do you bring people together the exact opposite of what cnn's trying to do in
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that clip he called i mean without saying he does it in the nicest joe lieberman possible way right
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but what he's saying is what you're doing right now by trying to make this into a situation where
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trump is blamed what we should do is wrong what we should do instead is when he says something
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that we think helps the environment we should praise it sure certainly generally speaking we have
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an issue with our discourse i think i think almost everybody would agree with that
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um but when it comes to this shooting it's not related right so here's what the media should
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have done this weekend the media should have said okay so what role does rhetoric on social media
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and from the president and from the press and everything else what role does media play in in in the life
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of a guy who as we saw this non-white male um tried to commit with uh you know with the pipe bombs the guy was nuts
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the guy was absolutely nuts he was a loner he had finally found a cause that he could you know rally
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behind he you know was nuts he was nuts okay so that one what role does politics play does the media play do
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politicians play in winding people up that's a viable answer question on that particular topic
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and not just about trump but the whole thing what what role does the media play what about twitter what about
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facebook what's winding some of these people up what happens in the future okay valid the shooting in
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pittsburgh here's how they should have covered this this guy was a anti-semite who this clearly had
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nothing to do with politics the guy hated donald trump this is just a loner just like the guy in the van
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he had no friends he had no friends he was a sick twisted guy
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what is the hole in america why are we seeing this now because it it's not donald trump and it's not
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barack obama it's not the left it's not the right there's something fundamentally missing here
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what is it why are we changing why are our kids killing themselves at a record rate there's a bigger
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issue here than politics but nobody in the media wants to address it because nobody in the media
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just a quick side note i was trying to buy something for the museum on friday there was this auction and
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i thought nobody knew about it uh the first artificial intelligence artwork went up for sale
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at christy's okay they said that they expected to go for ten thousand dollars and uh so i'm watching
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this and i'm thinking this is a good investment for the future because someday the first one is going
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to be worth a lot of money blah blah blah uh yeah i think it went for 250 000 wow done by an algorithm
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done by an algorithm is it better than the crappy art that's in a lot of these museums uh yeah really
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yeah yeah and it's signed at the bottom in algorithm in in a mathematical mathematical formula
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it's it's pretty amazing it's studied all of the old masters and then did an original painting
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itself it's actually really pretty good it's really pretty good that's amazing so did you get it and
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where are you gonna put it yeah no no i didn't no i didn't know i didn't know no no you wouldn't go
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up to 250 for a computer painting no i have ms paint i'll make something for you on it yeah you'll
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like i kind of like the one with the banksy do you see the banksy that went it went up and then
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started to shred as soon as the get as the hammer fell it started to shred that is a solid prank i
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gotta say that is amazing i mean the foresight on that he did that years ago years ago