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Surprise In Israel
00:05:46
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| I wouldn't go into any... | |
| This is a real leader, folks. | |
| That's what you want. | |
| Gutless, panic-struck guy named Joe Biden. | |
| I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. | |
| That is correct. | |
| You certainly wouldn't. | |
| I thought it was a joke when he said it. | |
| I remember I was headed to the airport right after that, right after he said it. | |
| The weakness of the West today is mind-boggling to me. | |
| Just mind-boggling. | |
| You know, I gotta tell you, I'm quite surprised at Israel. | |
| Not allowing anybody into the country for two weeks, or you come in, you go quarantine for two weeks. | |
| I must admit, I did not expect this from Netanyahu. | |
| And I would love to know what Israelis think about it. | |
| But it shows you the power of the media. | |
| The media control the world. | |
| Politicians are puppets. | |
| They are clay in the hands of the media. | |
| The media shape people's perceptions of life. | |
| They tell you there's a blizzard outside. | |
| You remember when I was in New York? | |
| I wonder how many of you remember that. | |
| Two years ago, I was to give a speech in New York City. | |
| On the way, flying from LA to New York, on the plane, because I was on the internet, I got an email, your speech is cancelled, sorry. | |
| I'm flying to New York to a cancelled speech, because there was a snowstorm. | |
| I arrive in New York City, and yes, there's snow, that's correct, there's snow on the ground. | |
| I grew up in New York City. | |
| There was snow on the ground every winter. | |
| Nothing happened. | |
| People put chains on their tires or bought snow tires or took the subway, and it didn't mean a thing. | |
| I was about to say a damn thing. | |
| I won't say it. | |
| It didn't mean a thing. | |
| Today, so they canceled the speech. | |
| I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. | |
| They canceled the speech. | |
| They didn't say... | |
| They should have said nothing if people did not want to drive to my speech. | |
| It's a free country. | |
| Well, it's less free than it was when I was a kid, but it's still relatively free. | |
| You can either drive or take an Uber or take a bus or take a subway and walk to the speech, whatever you want to do. | |
| They did not allow this option to people. | |
| My speech was canceled. | |
| I was stuck in New York for three days for no reason. | |
| How many of you have ever been in a city for no reason? | |
| It's a very rare thing in most people's lives. | |
| Think about it. | |
| Most of you have never been somewhere for no reason. | |
| I've had that twice. | |
| Both ironically happened in New York. | |
| Two canceled speeches in New York, and I was there for no reason. | |
| Oh, no, no, no, wasn't. | |
| The first time. | |
| I remember the first time. | |
| The first time. | |
| My, the woman who played the role that the living martyr now plays in my life, a wonderful, wonderful woman, who is now in the U.S. Navy, and she, anyway, she worked for me for years, and I went to New York because she told me I had a speech in New York. | |
| While I was walking on a street in Manhattan, I remember it vividly, I got a text, no, no, it's pre-texting, I got a beep. | |
| Got a beep from her. | |
| And Carrier Pigeon, that was the earlier person before her. | |
| And the message was, I'll never forget it. | |
| Are you ready? | |
| It's next week. | |
| That was the message. | |
| And I thought, it can't mean what I think it means. | |
| Exactly. | |
| But it did mean what I thought it meant. | |
| I was in New York. | |
| The wrong week. | |
| So I've had two New York experiences of being there for no reason. | |
| Anyway, people panic. | |
| And the media, of course, lead people by the nose. | |
| Oh, blizzard! | |
| Oh, snowstorm! | |
| I wrote about this in my book of essays, Think a Second Time. | |
| About that people trust the media more than their own eyes. | |
| You gonna believe me or your lying eyes? | |
| Remember that famous scene where the guy's caught in bed with another woman? | |
| Right? | |
| Oh, nothing happened. | |
| You're going to believe me or your lying eyes? | |
| Okay. | |
| I'm getting a message here now. | |
| No young people will know what you're talking about when I say beeped. | |
| All right, young people. | |
| Prior to texting, you would wear a little thing on your belt, or I guess keep in your purse if you didn't have a belt, and a message would come in. | |
| You'd get a beep. | |
| It's called a beeper, because it gave you beeps. | |
| And then you'd press a button, and some message would come up, call so-and-so, or some little message. | |
| Pager. | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Pager. | |
|
But If I Turn Out Right
00:00:28
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| Correct. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right, now that you all know, we're back. | |
| I find the reaction to the virus more depressing than the virus. | |
| But if I turn out right, nobody will pay a price. | |
| That's the amazing thing. | |
| Not the media, not the politicians. | |