Everything’s fine! Don’t worry! I’m just hiding from Greg and Joan!
Really, nothing wrong here. Just routine medical maintenance that requires me to do the driving. More specifically, to do the driving at 9:00.
I do have a brand new show for you, but of course events these days have always threatened to outpace our ability to produce new shows, and a live episode would no doubt have more new detail, for instance, about the Iranian missile strike on an American air base in Iraq, or the loss of the Ukrainian airliner over Tehran last night.
Although if you’re just waking up and any of that news by itself is a “Holy $#*t!” moment for you, well, then we’ve done our job. And if not, I’m still pretty sure we’ll have you cursing out loud about something else by the end of the show.
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On today’s KITM, David Waldman welcomes Ian Reifowitz, professor of Historical Studies at S.U.N.Y.-Empire State College and author of The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump (Copies are still available — makes a great Valentines Day gift!) Today’s topic: The rash of hate-based anti-Semitic violence being committed across the United States, but principally against Orthodox Jews in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. Some of these perpetrators are wrong in certain ways, some in other certain ways; one thing is certain: Republicans would love to turn Jews and Blacks, the two largest Democratic voting blocs, against each other. Ian calls for communities to come together to stand up against anti-semitism. Turns out, people are starting to do just that. Donald Trump’s war on humanity continues. Trump’s preference for terror might seem “whimsical”, but remember, Donald is first and foremost an idiot, and that will color any decision-making process. Second, Trump sees “imminent threats” in terms of minutes and seconds, so any “course of action” development would bring us right back to Rule #1.
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