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Oct. 13, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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John Fetterman: The Triumph of Transhumanism Over Ableist Discrimination
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The most fascinating example, the most fascinating example of American politics on so many places, Levels is the Pennsylvania Senate race between John Fetterman and Dr. Mehmet Oz.
By far, the most fascinating.
The levels, the areas covered, are for the most part being ignored.
And what I'm going to do is explain to you how I would, what I would say if I represented The campaign of Mr. Fetterman?
And how Dr. Oz...
Notice it's Dr. Oz versus Mehmet Oz.
And I don't know which one is better for him to be known as.
Probably Dr. Oz.
Because today, fame in for me, it doesn't really matter.
But, in any event, I want you to...
Listen carefully, and I want you to suspend what you want, what you like, what you think should be, whom you would vote for, if that makes any sense.
I want you to forget all about that.
It doesn't matter what you think.
How will people think this way?
And I am telling you right now that what is happening is most probably, could, could, could, if handled correctly, because I don't know what the Fetterman people are doing.
But if I was asked which race would I love to consult on, being the political consultant that I am, I'd pick Fetterman.
Absolutely.
There's so much to work with.
And let me tell you how I would do it.
And this is what the GOP is not understanding, and they're not recognizing.
And in this particular piece, I want you, there is a reference, there was one of the best interviews that MSDNC did, or MSNBC, depending upon how you like it, but for this purportedly biased channel, it was Dasha Burns,
NBC's Dasha Burns, interviewed It is one of the best interviews, bar none.
Absolutely.
Hard-hitting, fair, balanced.
I'm not just saying that, it's true.
And as I was watching this, I thought, this is perfect.
Now, what is...
What is the GOP going to do?
How are they going to handle this?
What are the Democratic, excuse me, the Republican media types?
How are they handling it?
What is social media handling it?
And to be sure, guaranteed, mocking derision, laughing, chiding, what is called They're ableist.
They're walking into this so insanely.
And one of the things which you have to, and I always think to myself, if I had to explain this to somebody from another planet, Fox News is the Republican Party.
Let me make sure you understand this.
There is no Republican Party.
There is no GOP.
There is no...
That's it.
They are so merged, so forged, so connected.
It speaks for everything.
Republican, GOP, conservatism, Reaganism, whatever you want to call it.
It is the main repository.
It is the mouthpiece.
Of the Republican Party.
Absolutely.
I can't say this about the Democrats for a variety of reasons.
But whatever breaks on Fox, you own it.
You own it.
This goes without...
I can't say it enough.
I'm going to talk about this.
I'm going to talk about the pitfalls.
About how I would change it.
How, if I represented each side, what I would do, and in particular, how this is going to be viewed as the triumph of transhumanism against ableist, that's right, ableist, ableism, racism, misogyny, this anti-handicapped meanness.
Mocking derision, mocking Biden with his own apparent cognitive and neurological concerns.
Not bringing them up, mind you.
Not addressing them, that's always relevant, but mocking them.
Laughing.
And how...
A transition has occurred in popular culture between conservatives.
We used to call them conservatives and liberals.
We don't really anymore.
I mean, you can, but you're wasting your time.
In the old days, the conservatives were the stodgy, Neanderthal, hyper-moralistic liberals were considered the more intellectual.
Artistic, scientific, open-minded.
Yet, in the old days, the symbology, the semiotics of conservatism was the cross of religion, the flag, God, the family, patriotism, God bless America, you know.
The left was...
Peace signs, abortion, women, you know, that kind of thing.
Well, today, today, the way I would portray this, the way that I would focus this, if I represented Federer, I would say, this is what we're seeing today.
Look.
Look what's happening.
Mocking.
Trolling.
This past week, and we'll talk about this in a moment, the most I think politically suicidal thing you can possibly do is to mock Biden concerned in a telephone call, which again has a degree of creepiness to it.
Intercepted phone calls and privacy and all that.
Worried about his son.
And they played it on various Fox News channels, again, the mouthpiece of the Republican Party, laughing at it.
No!
I'll explain this.
I'll explain this.
This is, please listen.
I put a poll up.
I said, who is going to win in this case?
I didn't ask you, whom do you support?
I just did an entire piece on my private channel, which I go into far greater detail about the more brutal aspects of this.
But it's just a very simple question.
Who's going to win?
Who's going to win the World Series?
Not who's your favorite team.
Who's going to win the World Series?
Do you understand this?
Do you understand?
Do you understand this?
Do I make sense to you?
Okay, fine.
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Now let's talk about this.
I don't particularly care whether you like Fennerman or anything.
I don't live in Pennsylvania.
We do Philly quite a bit.
Philly is a great place.
It's a tough town.
But Pennsylvania is Scranton, it's Philly, it's Pittsburgh, it's huge!
And it has various pockets.
It's part of the whole New York, the history of America.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
In fact, Ben Franklin called New Jersey a keg tapped on both ends.
Now right now, I'm going to throw some ideas out to you.
We've talked about this before, many of us.
And there is something which is very interesting called transhumanism.
And transhumanism is this idea, very simply, that one day, very, very soon, it's both an intellectual and it's a scientific idea, that suggests that we will be able to appreciate, improve upon human life, mentation, cognition, ability, locomotion, you name it, by the addition of...
By the addition of either technology or devices that make us better and smarter.
We have calculators.
We have devices.
We have spellcheck.
I wear glasses.
There are people with hearing aids.
Prosthetic limbs.
Eventually we're going to be using exoskeletons.
On the battlefield.
People who are now, who would be forever cast out, removed from any kind of participatory involvement in this world situation, are now, by virtue of devices, allowed entree, allowed participation.
And John Fetterman, this is what I would say, Is going there trying to defeat him.
Not by what he thinks, not by what he's done, but by how he looks, his clothing, his size, his girth.
And now, because he happens to be one of thousands, millions of people who have suffered from some type of ischemic attack, namely a stroke.
And by virtue of that, he has aphasia, Ability to comprehend words and needs a device.
Nobody told Stephen Hawking to shut up.
He's in the throes of ALS.
He was loved.
People, wherever he went, they took him out of his wheelchair and put him in that zero-gravity machine.
He talked with the use of this device, this robotic speech device, which we loved.
It didn't matter to us.
We embrace it.
Nobody told Stephen Hawking, oh, shut up.
Please.
Nobody dared mock him, but Fetterman, it's a different story.
That's how I would play this.
Listen to me and listen good.
And if you see it, you know where it came from.
If I were John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, the next time I spoke, I would be on stage with people in wheelchairs, Using crutches, devices, blind people, deaf people, hearing impaired, veterans with prosthetic limbs, all on the stage.
And I would say, and listen to me carefully, because remember, this is politics.
This is not logic.
And I want to make a very, very, very...
Clear distinction.
This is politics where you have to go for the heart.
You want to do a couple of things.
You want to go for the heart and you also want to knock your opponent off.
So he has to now recover and deal with this.
I would say these people, including me, we're America and the GOP.
Remember, you can say whatever you want.
And Fox News do not want us to be heard.
You think that's extreme?
You think that's extreme?
Good.
You know what would happen?
The Oz campaign, whatever, because we never even talk about Oz.
Nobody even talks about Oz.
It's about Fetterman.
Never about Oz.
What is he going to do?
What?
I'm sure he's a fine man.
This man, we used to call him an Oprah acolyte.
Okay, what does he want?
I don't know.
I'm just assuming that he, for these crudités commercials and that sort of thing.
What's he going to say?
I don't know.
All we're talking about is Fetterman.
That's it.
Now, I'm going to try this again.
I love the intellectual exercise of this, just like in the case of Alex Jones.
Alex Jones!
How would I represent Alex Jones?
With a billion dollars.
What is he thinking?
After this, to take whatever chance there is of, I don't want to say stopping the bleeding, I don't know if that's even possible, but to maybe, maybe, maybe make Americans think that, wow, this might not be a very good thing here, you know, this ability to speak being trampled upon.
I mean, okay, he's crazy, but...
No.
No.
He didn't give anybody a chance to breathe.
He immediately came back with, and I'm going to keep going, in this Elmer Gantry screaming.
I don't know what to say.
Something could have been done for that.
Something could have been done to maybe minimize stanch or staunch the bleeding.
But that's a different story.
I'm interested in how would I react to this.
What would I say?
How would you defend this?
I love the challenge of how would you defend this?
But see, let's go back to what I said before.
We live in a world right now where media control everything.
Some media do.
Some do.
I don't know how to tell you this.
Sometimes media control.
And as you may know, this is...
I don't know if you saw this one.
Wow, look at this.
Just look at Chris Cuomo.
We'll leave that for other people to decide.
We'll talk to you about that one.
That's another story too.
But let me go back to what I said.
We live in a world right now where you better either get with the program or not.
And your idea of what's right and wrong...
Now, let's take something, for example.
The way we deal with mental illness.
I mentioned this the other day.
Mental illness is something, it is a label, that we give people on a regular basis where we really know nothing about.
And we do things sometimes, and you may do it at your peril.
Now, if you want to go on...
Regular media platforms, social media platforms.
Fine, go ahead.
Politics is a different story.
And the first thing that I would do, and that people are doing, is that if you represent Fetterman, again, would I vote for him?
I think I would write my name in if I were in my personal opinion.
I write my name in.
When I have no, I write my name in.
I would always vote.
But I would say, no.
I'll take this.
I'll write in me.
I'll vote for me.
I'll make a decision, but I don't want any of these.
But voting is a different story.
Because voting is not about fact.
Voting is from the heart.
I love voting.
We're going to early vote.
I love to get my information in the mail.
I love my constitution with all my stickers I put on.
I voted.
I love voting.
I love the It's not about fact.
It's about the heart.
Why do you think I study?
Why do you think I'm so fascinated with things like tattoos and behaviors and memes and traits and what happens to the family and dating and cars?
I love to learn.
About how people think en masse.
And when it comes to voting, whether it's Ronald Reagan, whether it's Donald Trump, look at Pennsylvania.
Look at Pennsylvania.
Very, very important.
Pennsylvania was always Democrat.
Forever.
Pennsylvania.
This is something which people have a hard time even grasping or understanding.
Look at where this thing goes.
In fact, it was a different time then because people would, you know...
Very frankly, I think up until from 93, they voted Democratic in their president races up until 2016 with Trump.
See, nobody wants to talk about Trump because Trump was transformational.
And I can't talk to anybody about Trump without people saying, oh God, or I love him.
I don't want to talk about that.
I want to talk about it in terms of just being data-wise.
Anyway.
But there's a different world now.
We live in a different world and I'm telling you that one day we're going to have a candidate who's going to win who is a, we used to call them deaf mutes.
I know that sounds rather, but people who cannot hear at all and who need either a translator.
Somebody who cannot hear, you're going to see that.
They're going to be elected, and they can't hear at all.
They might be able to lip-read, but they will need some type of an assistant or some type of a translator or something, and they will herald the day because it's about anti-ableist, transhumanistic, but also it's about equity.
And you can laugh at that all you want.
Now on Fox News, for example, they'll argue against it.
They'll have on an expert that says, well, that doesn't make any sense.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
What does your opinion mean?
Nothing.
This is the way it is right now.
Do you think you were ever going to see in your lifetime a person elected to an office?
And we've seen this.
Sometimes people will wear a head...
A scarf or something, a hijab and a baya of their religion or their nationality?
Fine.
Sometimes they will swear on a Koran verse?
Fine.
Sometimes they might not swear on anything?
Fine.
Do you think you will ever see somebody come into an election who cannot speak English?
Yes.
Yes.
Cannot speak English.
And that might eliminate Debates, it may throw.
But by virtue of that fact, and I would want to be, I would love to volunteer to be, maybe it's the Bernays in me, I'd love to say, this is how rich our country is.
We are a polyglot.
We are a babble society.
B-A-B-E-L is in Tower of.
We are a rich, multifaceted, Multicultural group of people.
Let me tell you what else happened.
Now you and I have had so much fun laughing about Greta Thunberg.
We're not running for office.
We're not running for office.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
We're not running for office.
It may be great for us.
We can laugh at it.
But when Fox News laughs at it, the GOP laughs at it.
Let me say this again.
What is critical and what's already been done, and they absolutely love this comparison or this connection, but very frankly, the GOP has Fox News.
Fox News is the biggest, there is nothing today, there is not any organization, and I'm not saying this is good or bad, but this is a fact.
There is nothing that has become as representative of the Republican Party as Fox News.
Do you agree?
Not Breitbart, not this, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
And if I represented a party, I'm going to say, I'm going to make this as easy as possible.
Number one, I take every clip that I find to be, whatever it is, not problematic.
But that will cause the Oz campaign.
Again, Oz stands for what exactly?
I don't know.
But I would take everything that would make him normally advance, make him stop and defend it.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
Greta Thunberg.
We talked about her.
I'm not running for office.
She has Asperger's.
She's on the spectrum.
She's very devout.
People love her.
What are they doing with Fox News?
Mock her.
Oh, you're mocking kids now.
And the dumbest thing I saw, and I'm going to say this again, the dumbest thing I saw was when they actually were having people.
And I would tell Trump and the family, stay away from this.
Stay away from this.
When he's on the phone, a concerned father, almost crying with his son, telling him, I love you.
That humanized Biden more than anything you will ever read.
And I couldn't believe they were playing that.
Somebody somewhere said, this is good.
No.
You don't know what's going on.
This is humanizing Biden.
You don't understand how this thing works.
No, but I don't care what you think.
I don't care what you think.
What I think is not...
How I would promote something.
I live in a whole food diet world.
Plant-based.
Not whole food.
Plant-based.
Well, plant-based, whole food.
I don't know if I'd want to go into a restaurant business with that.
I don't know.
I don't know if I'd even want to say that.
But I agree with it.
It doesn't matter.
Because of the connotation of what it believes.
I understand this.
Now, we've talked about Fetterman.
What does Oz do?
Very simple.
And by the way, please watch this.
Watch this MSNBC interview.
Or this NBC interview.
Watch it.
It's excellent.
They let him have it.
And I think he acquits himself most well.
So what is?
Oz do.
Well, first of all, he's got to realize, you're a doctor?
Now, I don't know about you, but doctor, I'm saying, doctor is about compassion.
A doctor, a doctor is about helping first do no harm.
What are you talking about here?
You think this is funny?
Do you think this is funny?
Well, what are you going to do?
Now, what he needs to do, I don't know if he's capable of doing it, is you have to have, you have to be so conversant with facts, where you want every Pennsylvania state, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, what was that again, Dr. Ross?
What was that?
I'll get you fed him in a moment.
What was that, you said?
Do you realize that our highway system is going to crack within five years?
I'm just making something up.
I have no reason to believe this, but...
Right now, there are 23% of all of our bridges will...
Will collapse within 20 years.
What?
That gets people's attention.
We'll get to the Federman in a moment.
He has to have one after another.
And let me tell you something right now.
And listen to me and listen carefully.
I'm going to give you the best advice there is.
The best advice.
I am from the South, people.
Don't think of Florida as the South.
It is as South as you can get.
By the way, look what's happening to the Florida housing market.
Look, keep watching how things are changing.
I'm telling you.
Look where the crime is going up.
Look.
Everybody's looking at New York and L.A. Keep looking.
Keep looking.
But let me stop right now.
In the South, where I know more people who talk like this than you could ever imagine, we have an expression.
Bless his heart.
Bless his heart is the worst thing anybody can ever tell you.
You say, you know, I'll tell you what, that John Fetterman, well, he, you know, he may, I don't know, he's got some good ideas, I guess, but bless his heart.
It is the worst.
It's like in Spanish, like in West Tampa, they say, pobre, pobrecito, mi skin.
Oh, poor thing.
Oh, he tries.
He means well.
I love that he means well.
You know something's bad when they say, John, he'll give you the shirt off his back.
What does that mean?
what?
Remember when Reagan did that famous line with Mondale?
He says, you know, I have said I'm not going to make age an issue.
He said, I'm not going to bring up the fact or exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
Well, that's what he said.
And what Oz has to do is the most the most Telling thing for him to do and say, I'm not going to go there.
I think that Mr. Fetterman and his family are brave and I wish him nothing but the best.
That's it.
Boom.
Oh my God.
Oh.
Reluctant praise.
Not even reluctant, but this.
Bless his heart.
He's trying.
No, no, no.
Please.
He's a good man.
He means well.
Oh.
They're asking about cognition.
And no, you don't have to.
What are you doing?
You don't have to.
First, I'm a Pennsylvanian.
Tell me what you're going to vote for.
Why should I vote for you?
I know the story of this.
I know this.
It's like the Republicans have this thing about Hunter Biden.
Would you lay off Hunter Biden?
What do you think?
Do you think people don't know about this?
Do you think America doesn't know about this?
Let me give you another example.
You've read the stories.
We're getting to the bottom of Black Lives Matter.
Did the president of Black Lives Matter, did she use this money to buy this house?
You know where the Black Lives Matter issue is going?
Nowhere.
That's a Fox News story.
That's inside baseball.
Good for you.
It's not going anywhere.
Stay away from it.
And another thing, I'm telling you right now, And oh, the Republicans hate when I say this, but it's true.
If I work with Fetterman or if I work with Oz, don't bring up abortion.
I want to go on stage and I want to tell people the United States government should have absolutely nothing to do With a woman's body.
I say that, I will get applause, like you can't believe, from the more, let's say, progressive, liberal, democratic, and certainly others will not, but more people think that than you can imagine.
Abortion is a red, it's not a red hair, it's a third rail subject.
It is something that you Do not understand.
And the GOP does not understand that.
Does not.
This country, this country, this country, remember this, in the middle, the behavior of this country, not the fundamentals, not what it should be, but what this country actually is.
Is very, very, very middle.
And when it comes to this notion of abortion is an issue they don't even want to talk about.
But if they do, if you want to lose an election, you say you're all for banning.
You want to ban it.
Roe vs.
Wade overturned, excuse me, Dobbs overturned Roe and Casey.
Actually, Casey overturned Roe.
Which means it is not a federal, it is not a constitutional right.
That's all it's said.
States can do what they want.
That's the reality of that.
And if you think, out of everything that is going to make you win, if you think that's an issue, if you think people, not some people, not a bunch of people, but a significant faction, are going to be running to the polls to outlaw abortion, You're out of your mind.
There's simply, you're not going to win.
It might be morally right.
I'm not arguing that part.
I'm talking about purely politics.
Knowing what it is.
This bothers people because they are not able, and I understand it, to differentiate what they believe from what the country believes or what is popular.
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Now my friends, I realize that what I say is most disconcerting to people and that's the way it is.
Life is not black and white.
Reality is not one or the other.
Things aren't Manichaean.
Left and right.
Good and evil.
Apodictic.
No.
There are gradations.
There are waves.
But I'm telling you this.
And I want you, if you can, if there's one thing I can tell you, is to sit back.
Remove yourself as a participant.
Remove yourself from that which you enjoy and ask yourself, what am I seeing here?
What am I seeing people doing?
I have, I could give you a dissertation on more behaviors that Americans engage in.
Malls, professional wrestling of the 60s and 70s.
I'm an expert in that.
The criminal justice system, television, where we're going now, what words matter?
I don't care whether I agree.
What I agree with makes no difference.
I don't care about that.
This is why I don't fit in.
I don't play well with others because I don't want to mirror what people think.
It's not it.
There was a time when people thought in this country that cigarettes were good for you.
That cigarettes were good for you.
That cigarettes actually helped.
That they made you calm and they were beneficial.
No!
There are others who said, no, that's not true.
Nobody wanted to hear that.
Nobody wants to hear my view on diet.
I understand.
I get it.
My opinion, believe me, My actual opinion about things?
Most people don't want to hear it.
Because there's two things.
If you ask me what I would do if I could make a decision of this, I will tell you.
More often than not, I will tell you that what the country is doing is another story.
And how they handle things is another story.
What this means is another story.
And I also want you to understand What is the purpose of certain things?
Television.
Television news.
Cable news.
Fox, CNN, whatever.
What is their job?
Number one.
If I walked into Fox News, I'm going to say, I'm thinking one thing and one thing only.
Ratings.
I do not care whether what we say comports, jibes, Is consistent with Ronald Reagan, CPAC, anything.
Evangelical, doesn't matter.
Will Tulsi Gabbard help our ratings?
Yes.
Put her on.
Who cares what I think about Tulsi Gabbard?
Will Kanye West help?
Oh yes.
Yes.
Because we put him on and then they talk about him, about how dare we put him on.
Great.
Put him on.
Numbers.
I want metrics.
I want eyes.
I don't care.
I mean, within reason.
I'm not going to put on dogfights because people are going to...
No.
Just give me some credit here.
But that's the way that works.
That's the way that works.
I did something yesterday which is important.
I did a video, I hope you're watching, about why we are in love, why we love serial killers.
I've got them on my private channel.
There's a weirdest, wild about Jeffrey, about Jeffrey Dahmer.
Why is that?
I never impart any particular opinion as to, is that good?
Is that healthy?
Should we do this?
Should we do this?
No.
The other day I went to a funeral, to a memorial, and I'm looking around, I'm just analyzing this, I'm just looking at this.
And I'm fascinated, as a participant, as a human, watching the ceremonial aspect of how we deal with death.
Seriously.
Everything is interesting to me.
But what I'm seeing right now is what nobody wants to talk about.
For example, you will never hear anyone go on any show.
Oh, and I've got to say something.
As a lawyer by profession, I'm always thinking, how would I win this?
I don't care what the side is.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, there's...
You represent a client's position.
You have a good case.
You have a good client.
How does it work?
How would Alex Jones...
What was his problem?
Is there anything that can be done with that?
Is there anything that can be fixed?
Sometimes you can't.
Sometimes the facts are one thing.
And by the way, remember one thing.
Ellis Rubin was a lawyer in Miami years ago.
He was one of the classics.
And he came up with a Ronnie Zamora.
Television intoxication defense.
Remember the days of the Twinkie defense?
And he, by the way, his boyhood friend was Rod Serling.
He came up with something called electronic advocacy.
And you've got to realize the fact that people lose and win their cases outside of the courtroom.
What's the best way to act outside of the courtroom when people are looking at you?
And many, many people have a view.
It changes the perception of everything.
How is it?
That you can change the way people think.
How do you present something?
The worst case possible.
There's a I've read great cross-examinations in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Who was it?
Max Scheuer?
They said, there's no way you're going to win this.
These women who were...
You know the story.
Downtown, around Union Square, there was this sweatshop.
And what was the...
Triangle Shirt Waist.
Let me get the waist, the ear for you.
It was 1911.
1911.
And it was beyond Max Stoyer.
They have this summation, famous trials.
Max D. Stoyer for the defense.
How can you defend this?
The story was horrible.
These young women.
Many of them immigrants.
Many of them couldn't speak.
Working ungodly hours.
Sewing.
Oh, it was horrible.
And they locked the fire escape doors because they didn't want them going out and smoking or lollygagging.
I don't know what the particular phrase was.
So there was a fire.
And they couldn't get out.
And they all died.
It was horrible.
And there was one girl, one survivor, who was in this closet.
So the story goes, I'm paraphrasing.
And she could hear her friends.
She recognized their voices through their screams, and she's testifying.
It's horrible.
And she heard all this pounding on the door, but she realizes if she opens the door, there's no way out.
Everybody dies.
You're not getting out.
It's a closet.
So she had to stay in there and hear.
And she described in detail how...
The pounding eventually leveled off and then eventually you heard nothing.
They were all dead.
Oh my God!
Max Stoyer for cross-examination.
My advice would have been, don't cross-examine.
What are you, kidding me?
Dear God!
Get her off this den!
No!
He said, tell me again.
From the top.
And she did.
And at some point he said, ah!
You change the word.
You said this, you said was not there to was not really there.
And he created the illusion, and it wasn't a complete victory, but he created the illusion that this was rehearsed.
Now that's a risky thing.
It doesn't matter what happened.
What did the jury think?
He gave them a, oh, I never thought about that.
Philip Corboy, years ago, there was this great case.
Remember when they were bumping people on flights?
Remember this one?
Remember this?
They don't do this anymore.
Philip Corboy, greatest aviation, I met him one time, greatest aviation trial lawyer, I think it's Chicago, Chicago era.
There was a judge who had a horse, I think it was in Florida, Ocala maybe, who was about to give birth to a foal or whatever it was, Supreme Court Judge, Illinois.
Anyway, he shows up at the airport and says, sorry, we've bumped you.
You've bumped me?
What does that mean, you've bumped me?
So he tells Corboy, we're going to sue.
So Corboy, little Corboy, tells the jury, here's what I want in damages.
Here's the P&L chief, I think it was Eastern or who knows what it was.
He says, this is what they made last year.
I want the equivalent of $1.
$1 in proportion of what they made.
I don't know what that translates into.
The jury said, no.
We gave you $2.
Jim Neal.
Great Toyota case.
No, the Pinto case.
Had a...
I'm paraphrasing.
Please don't hold me to this, but the story is he had a burned driver's license.
And he said, this is the only thing left.
This is what they gave him that remained of this man's father.
Just...
I mean...
Anyway, it goes on and on.
The point...
Melvin Belli, last one.
There was a case of an amputee.
Amputation is kind of an industrial accident.
He had a prosthetic leg wrapped in butcher paper and threw it at a witness.
Well, that was not preferred.
But there are moments when you capture the essence of something.
And it has nothing really to do with the facts, but the feeling and where we're going and what this means and politics.
I'm lucky to have lived during a time of Ronald Reagan.
Do you remember Lenny Skutnik?
You know when I got into a discussion with this?
What was his name on NBC, honey?
The guy who was...
Remember at the wedding?
What's his name?
Brian...
No.
What was his name?
No.
The anchor...
Yeah.
Brian Williams.
Lenny Skutnik.
It was 1982.
Do you remember this story?
Lenny Skutnik.
I think it was Flight 90, maybe?
It was Air Florida.
I think it hit the Potomac Bridge.
It was snowing.
And there was a woman named Hurtado or something.
She was this nut.
Don't hold me to this.
She was a nurse.
She was flailing, frozen, in shock, just moving around.
She's going to drown.
Everybody stood around and said, okay.
Lenny Skutnik said, I can't.
She took his jacket off, dove into this.
Icy, jellied Potomac saved her life!
And Reagan started the tradition of having Lenny Skutnik sit next to Nancy for the State of the Union.
Oh my God!
And Reagan was the best.
Best actor.
He said, well, before I begin, and Reagan had to answer some tough stuff.
Before I begin...
I want to remember and recognize a real hero, Lenny Skutnik, who upon seeing this dove into the jellied frozen waters to save this, and that is America.
Yeah!
And then he goes, thank you, good night!
Thank you, Cleveland!
And then he left.
I don't even think he answered the question.
That is called capturing the moment, the feeling, the emotion.
Not the facts, not the...
But giving people a yes.
What was your favorite movie?
My favorite movie is Godfather 1. Godfather 1 had the greatest impact on me, and there's some others, Fatso Network 3, and Godfather 2, not 3, mind you.
Fatso Network.
That's about it.
A few more I'll think about.
And if you ask me, well, why do you like The Godfather?
What was it?
I don't know.
Was there a particular scene?
Well, no, there's some scenes.
What was it?
Well, I don't know.
What was it?
It was a feeling I got.
A collective feeling.
That's what politics is.
That's what elections are about.
And whether it's Trump, or whether it's Biden, or whether it's Reagan, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's about conveying to people...
A feeling.
And making them want to vote for this guy.
Absolutely.
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See you tomorrow.
Don't ever change.
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