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Host of @WaitWait on @NPR . Author of "The Incomplete Book of Running" and "The Book of Vice" For speaking engagements:
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I no longer post here, other than the occasional RTs of interesting/useful things and notices of upcoming appearances and the like. For my more current musings and japes, find me at Bluesky, at the address in my handle.
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As said, I ran through the Highland Park parade route 45 minutes before the shooting. There were police (with guns and body armor, as is now standard) everywhere, handling traffic, helping the setup.
Good guys with guns every six feet.
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Took me fifteen seconds:
Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing.
This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.
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Sex is pretty good, but have you ever watched Alex Jones having to testify under oath?
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A while ago, on CNN:
Analyst: You remember that after Newt Gingrich resigned, Republicans managed to find a consensus candidate to be Speaker.
@jaketapper
: Yes, a child molester.
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"That was the White House Press Secretary lying to you." -- CNN, just now.
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I'm not a lawyer, but based on her rant in a virtual courtroom just now, I'm not sure Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habbab is either.
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So I'm enjoying, I guess, the call out of all the hypocritical Congresspeople who didn't pay back their massive PPP loans... but why in the world are members of Congress applying for, and getting, six figure government loans?
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After significant negative reaction on social media, the Perseverance Rover announced it had only gone to Mars to escort its daughters and will be returning on the next rocket.
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Okay, if
@PeteButtigieg
is ending his campaign, time to say some things I refrained from saying because, you know, Neutrality and all that.
1) I know both Pete and
@Chas10Buttigieg
and consider myself lucky to do so. Two wonderful people who make an even more wonderful couple.
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I would actually love to go back to where my ancestors came from, but they're not there anymore. They disappeared in an attempt to Make Eastern Europe Great Again.
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I am extremely sad to tell you all that my dear friend and colleague for 16 years, Carl Kasell has passed away at the age of 84, from complications of Alzheimer's. He was, and remains, the heart and soul of our show.
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This, from Jimmy Kimmel, is very perceptive. People talk all the time about what effect Tucker has on his audience, but the true question is the effect the audience has on him.
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If you go, Senator, you'll find that Hitler was installed in power by conservative politicians who thought they could use his popular appeal for their own ends. If a few Jews were made uncomfortable, a pity, but a small price to pay to make Germany great again.
I recommend she take a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC.
Might help her better understand the differences between the Holocaust and the caravan in Tijuana.
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I'm afraid it's true. Our panelist and my dear friend PJ O'Rourke has passed away. More later.
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“I’m not stereotyping, I’m counting.”
@NPRinskeep
to a GOP Congressman who objected to the idea that most House GOPers voted to overthrow the election.
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“I supported the President until this week because his policies were so successful,” they said broadcasting from their homes they can’t leave because of a pandemic that’s killing 4000 people a day 10 months after it began.
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A friend just named her rescue dog Sir Arthur Canine Doyle and I think this work of genius must be known to the world.
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Jeffrey Epstein abused girls for years. So did Harvey Weinstein. Lots of people knew. What changed?
Women reporters. Like
@jkbjournalist
at the Miami Herald and
@jodikantor
and
@mega2e
of the
@nytimes
. Not to mention
@emilysteel
of the Times who brought down Bill O'Reilly.
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Just once... once!... this terrible year, I would like to wake up and look at my phone and be glad I did.
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7) But in the meantime: congrats to my friend for being a pioneer, for making history, being a leader, for inspiring so many, and for never, ever, stooping to the level of his worst critics.
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Like, I would guess, a lot of white people of my age (55) , right now I'm wondering how I could have grown up with an excellent education and still have known so very little of the actual history of Black people in this country. So, a thread on one instance of education.
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So this morning I was out for a run and a woman pulled up and asked for directions to a nearby hospital and her English wasn't great and my Spanish is terrible, so I just said, "Follow me!" and I RAN there and she drove behind me and I got her there and now my life has meaning.
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Comfortable again in his bespoke satin robe, Dr Oz stands in the back of his NJ mansion, watching all his Eagles gear burning in the fire pit.
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A woman named "Kirstjen Nielsen" just said under oath that she doesn't know if Norway is mostly white.
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I wanted to share with you all a letter PJ O'Rourke wrote to me on the death of my mother last year. (The original was hand-written ink on paper; this is a transcription.) This is the PJ we knew, and the one all his friends are mourning tonight.
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You know that was a space flight designed by a man because it was loud, disappointingly brief, and he thinks everybody else is as satisfied as he is.
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I'm listening to the House Rules Committee meeting and every time Rep Jim Jordan quotes Ruth Bader Ginsberg I punch a hole in my wall so now I have a new open floor plan in my house.
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This might be a nice time to remind you all that Donald Trump once crashed a Pediatric AIDS charity dinner, took a real donor's seat at the podium, received lots of applause and praise, and left without giving a dime. Really.
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In response to narrowly spread demand, here are my Rules of Twitter. Note that each was learned by violating it repeatedly over the years, so don't bother going back in my feed to find contradictions... trust me, I know.
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3) All the people On Here and elsewhere who insulted him, mocked him, for not being Democratic enough, for not being gay enough, for not being progressive enough, for being insincere and manufactured... you were all, every one of you, dead wrong the whole time.
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I’m just a guy who once hosted a PBS doc on the Constitution, so what do I know, but it seems to me that depriving half the population of bodily autonomy because an elderly woman died in September rather than the following January isn’t how all this was supposed to work.
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Just canceled my summer vacation because we’ve got an unvaccinated baby and we’re terrified of all the unvaccinated babies out there.
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Sad to report our family lost our matriarch, my mother, Reeva Scholnick Sagal, this morning just a few days shy of her 80th birthday. She leaves innumerable friends, three sons, three daughters in law, nine grandchildren and her husband of sixty-two years, my father.
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NPR news just sent out an internal guidance memo on how to talk about the election and while I can’t share it, I can say I remain very proud to have made my career with this organization.
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Imagine if they were sending their best.
The fifth time in six years a Mexican director has won Best Director.
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Thinking of my NPR colleagues who went to bed as foreign correspondents and woke up as war correspondents.
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So, some news:
Meet Theodore Reeve Sagal, named for his great uncle Theodore Scholnick and his grandmother Reeva Scholnick Sagal, both of whom died before they could make his acquaintance.
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As someone who has spent weeks flat on his back after trivial defeats, I am astonished at
@RepRaskin
’s fortitude not two weeks after the death of his son
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Today, Matt Schlapp, a man who -- as far as I know -- has never done anything for children other than work to force women to bear them, attacked
@KFILE
, a man who has raised millions to help cure the kind of pediatric cancers that took his baby daughter.
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This has an amazing detail: an agent became so enamored of the President’s agenda he quit the Service and became a policy advisor, helping to tear-gas the protestors at Lafayette Square.
Now he’s going back to the Service to train other agents.
Secret Service is altering the presidential detail to bring on agents who previously worked with Biden amid concern that some agents were politically aligned with Trump,
@CarolLeonnig
reports
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Some political site attempted a fact check, as news footage does not show a cop every six feet. I invite them to Google definitions of “hyperbole” and “GFY.”
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"If a family gets to keep $1K in taxes, they can buy a new car!" -- Gary Cohn, who apparently last bought a car in 1905.
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To me, the most amazing thing
@Fahrenthold
, or maybe anybody, discovered about our next President:
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I've said this before, but it astounds me that the President had for four years a chance to go anywhere and do anything, to invite anyone in the world to speak to or perform for him, and all he did was take advantage of free rides to the places he would have gone anyway.
President Trump and sons
@DonaldJTrumpJr
@EricTrump
flew Marine One from Camp David in Maryland to the family owned and Trump branded golf property in Virginia today.
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Among other things, she's speaking to the Judge as if he's an opponent on a cable news panel, which strikes me as not wise? Also, the bailiff keeps having to tell her to stop talking over the judge.
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Now she's arguing that the prosecution is invalid because its relying on the evidence of Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer.
Judge: "Um, was he convicted for lying about Mr Trump's finances?"
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It's very interesting to watch someone making Twitter-style arguments in a court of law. In the same way it's interesting to see brush fires by the highway.
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Lawyer for AG James quotes former AG Morgenthau, who was accused of prosecuting Roy Cohn out of personal vendetta:
"A person is not immune from prosecution because the AG doesn't like him."
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In 1868, Black freedmen made up a majority in the SC legislature’s lower house. Teaching what happened to them and why is now illegal in many states.
We currently have a record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels.
Over 40 Black Republicans are running in GOP primaries for both local and federal office.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Watching my wife carry a healthy baby to term and then through a typically painful natural birth reminded me that the idea of anyone, ever, carrying a baby for 9 months and then at the last minute saying, "Eh, you know what, I've changed my mind, kill it" is insane.
Tuberville: A society that allows abortion up to and past the moment of birth after the baby has been born is not progressive, it’s barbaric
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In honor of the late great Stan Lee, born Stanley Lieber, you should all read "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay" by Michael Chabon, a novel about how American Jews invented superheroes, and why.
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4) If you still hate him, then you'd better loathe me, because I'm not a fraction of the man he is. In fact, watching my friend get flamed every day On Here made me finally see how toxic Twitter, and maybe all discourse, is these days.
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She keeps trying to make the argument that the prosecution is invalid because Mr Trump is in a "special class" of person whose rights are protected, and the judge keeps saying, Wha?
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Over on C-SPAN, Ruby Bridges -- THAT Ruby Bridges -- is testifying about the attempts to ban books by and about her.
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6) Pete is going to do great things, not for himself, but for others. Like me, he was given a lot, and chose -- in a way I never did -- to try to give back. So I have no doubt that he will continue to do so, and I look forward to seeing it unfold.
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I think the time has come to unplug America, wait ten seconds, plug it back in.
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Just sitting around watching the "Morning Shows" and here's a crazy idea: instead of paying Trump supporters to argue with increasingly outraged pundits, scrap all of it and just talk to reporters about facts.
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It's been a long day and me and mine are just fine, far more so than many here in Highland Park. But before I sign off, just to note: 8 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, and their deaths mean no less than the six shot down in my suburb. We have to stop this.
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Nobody tell him.
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2) While never sure if Pete would make the best nominee for President -- I am not sure of anything -- I had no doubt he would make an excellent President, and someday, he still might.
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As has been noted, I speak for all Jews, and no, you can’t have our space laser.
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Called a friend rather than texted and found out he still has Carl Kasell’s voice on his VM. Got all verklempt.
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"I've decided I should be on the pardon list, if that's in the works.
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Your fun fact for the day: they got this shot by hanging Alan Rickman (RIP) 20 feet or so over an air bag, and telling him they’d release him on the count of three. They released him on 1.
#hohoho
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So yesterday my phone rang and it was a very pleasant stranger who offered a critique of my radio show.
I asked him how he got my number, he said: “I can get any number.”
So if you’re wondering whether you should do this yourself: don’t.
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24 years ago today, a brand new "comedy news quiz" premiered on about a dozen NPR stations nationwide. Savvy observers predicted a short run.
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This must be what is was like to be a ball player when Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson died. The greatest quiz show host ever, never to be equaled. RIP, Alex Trebek.
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I once researched Fieri so we could make fun of him. Turns out: great guy. Built businesses, takes care of his employees and communities, philanthropist. He just has funny hair. We made fun of something else.
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You know how dogs will spend ten minutes “digging a nest” in their doggie bed, because they evolved to do it over a very long time and they haven’t figured out that things have radically changed?
That’s why the networks are broadcasting the President’s speech tomorrow.
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Imagine how incredibly obnoxious you have to be to invent *two* entire industries that people have dreamed of for a century -- cool electric cars, private space flight -- and people still think you're a tool.
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Just noticed this this AM: Pres Trump said last night, "When I took the Oath of Office, I swore to protect our country."
No, he didn't. He swore to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." It's an essential distinction.
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Confidential to Anderson Cooper: instead of having to make faces and say "Come on!" while Rick Santorum says ridiculous false things, why not just interview somebody else?
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This AM, a BBC newsreader asked a South Africa correspondent if Prince Phillip was more beloved there than Nelson Mandela and she politely said, “No, I believe not” and he realized what he had just done and said “Of course not” and that’s why I don’t do live radio.
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Remember when it would have seemed odd for a President to call a Senator by a racist nickname?
I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren (of all people!) Amendment, which will lead to the renaming (plus other bad things!) of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other Military Bases from which we won Two World Wars, is in the Bill!
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Is there a greater pleasure in this vale of tears than correctly guessing the right size of the Tupperware needed for the evening’s leftovers?
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A confused and tormented child asked for help every way to he could — he wrote HELP! on a piece of paper! — and instead of help he was given a gun. I can’t get over this.
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In his segments on Mr Carlson last night,
@chrislhayes
highlighted something that very few other career obits for him have: that he would routinely target individuals for vicious and often life-threatening harassment.
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I... I'm beginning to think... that.... maybe... Facebook really doesn't care about me and my memories.
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Sez the man who cursed at and insulted
@NPRKelly
for daring to ask him questions he didn't want to answer.
Pompeo on China: "They're incapable of being transparent, of accepting criticism, of allowing reporters to ask them questions that they find uncomfortable."
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On the bright side, every person who had a ticket to Hamilton has a minimum of two friends who can perform the entire score for them in private.
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Over on C-SPAN 2, GA Elections Official Gabriel Sterling is ripping through the conspiracy theories about the election like a hot knife through butter.
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Watching Wolf Blitzer interview KellyAnne Conway in my hotel room and wondering if the hotel will simply add the cost of the smashed TV to my bill.
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5) (To paraphrase an old joke On Here... you know who else mocks, belittles, insults and slanders his political opponents?)
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I know literally nobody for whom Joe Biden was their
#1
choice when the 2020 race began, and in fact others might have been (or someday be) better Presidents, but he might be the perfect person to be President *now.*
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1) An elegy/tribute thread to this hellsite.
Even with all the trolls and Nazis and replyguys and liars, this has been a place where anybody with something to say could reach anyone willing to hear it.
Or, needing to hear it, as I just found out via DM.
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My wife, our 2 yr old son & I go out to eat.
During dinner, wife says quietly, “The couple behind you recognized you. They keep glancing over and whispering.”
Later, couple gets up to leave. They stop and say, “You have the most delightful little boy!”
Upstaged again.
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If you’re secretly wondering why a news org would spend so much air time memorializing somebody who retired years ago and passed away after a rich, full and long life... well, you can begin to understand what Carl meant to everyone at
@NPR
.
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Tomorrow night, as they shake hands at the start of the debate, Biden should lean in and whisper into Trump's ear, "We have the tape," then smile and walk away.
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Just called my 83 year old parents in Florida to see if they had stocked up on everything they needed and they’re going out to a movie.
My mom always reads this, so Mom: GO HOME.
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One final NYE message: In 2010, I was the host of a popular show on NPR, working with people I love and admire... and as 2020 begins, I still am. This is all thanks to you, all of you, who choose to listen. I am intensely and sincerely grateful to every one of you.
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All of our ancestors came from shithole countries. If it wasn't a shithole, you'd be reading this there.
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He's too modest to tell you this, so I will: the NY State lawsuit against the Trump Foundation wouldn't have happened without the Pulitzer Prize winning journalism of
@Fahrenthold
, which I devoured in real time in 2016.
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