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50s Innocence vs. Twerking
00:02:12
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| This has been a long time bumper. | |
| We might retire it. | |
| It's been a while. | |
| You know what you should play for everybody at some point today? | |
| Poetry in Motion. | |
| It's a great 50s song about a guy talking about his girlfriend. | |
| She is Poetry in Motion. | |
| I'm telling you the innocence of 50s music. | |
| versus the twerking of today is one way of seeing the deterioration of a culture. | |
| Here it goes. | |
| Here it goes. | |
| Now, let me ask you all a question. | |
| Am I idiosyncratic in finding this exceptionally happy music? | |
| Right? | |
| It's not idiosyncratic. | |
| It's terrific. | |
| Nothing I would change. | |
| She doesn't need improvement. | |
| I love it. | |
| All right. | |
| Just thought I'd share that with you, a little gift. | |
| Classical music and 50s rock and roll, my two favorite genres. | |
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Welcome Home, American?
00:04:57
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| Not my only, there's some jazz like Take Five, which I consider Beethoven-esque in its greatness. | |
| Back to this fascinating piece in The Atlantic by a man named Shadi Hamid. | |
| Some of it thoughtful and some of it just... | |
| The usual lines about the right. | |
| But about America, he has interesting notions. | |
| An American who moves to Germany, becomes fluent in German, etc., etc., etc., etc., is never really considered a German. | |
| It's true about any European country. | |
| But in America, if a German comes here, or for that matter, somebody from Japan, or somebody from Dahomey in West Africa, They're American. | |
| We're unique. | |
| We really believe you're American. | |
| That's the point. | |
| With this ethno-nationalism, blood-and-soil nonsense that this guy writes about, if he knew the truth about the right, he wouldn't be on the left. | |
| But it's okay. | |
| There is some important stuff here. | |
| No one starts calling you German. | |
| Many native-born Americans may live abroad for stretches, but few emigrate permanently. | |
| Immigrants to America tend to become American. | |
| Immigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American. | |
| And he has a very touching little anecdote here. | |
| The last time I came back to the United States after being abroad, the customs officer at Dulles Airport... | |
| In Virginia, that's the Washington, D.C. big airport, glanced at my passport, looked at me and said, Welcome home. | |
| Now, the guy, presumably with the name Shadi Hamid, looks Middle Eastern. | |
| That's my assumption. | |
| For my customs officer, it went without saying that the United States was my home. | |
| That's correct. | |
| It went without saying. | |
| He wasn't white. | |
| I'm not saying the officer. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| Hamid wasn't. | |
| In The Light of What We Know, a novel by the British Bangladeshi author Zia Haider Rahman, the protagonist, an enigmatic and troubled British citizen named Zafar, is envious of the narrator who is American. | |
| Quote, If an immigration officer at Heathrow had ever said, Welcome home to me? | |
| Zafar says, I would have given my life for England, for my country, there and then. | |
| I could kill for an England like that. | |
| That's right. | |
| They don't say that to a person returning with a British passport. | |
| Welcome home. | |
| We do. | |
| He makes another, oh yeah, yes, okay, there's a picture of that, so he does not look like a white man, correct. | |
| But we don't care, because we're the least racist, we're the truly un-racist country in the world. | |
| American is an American is an American. | |
| The left is dividing us by race. | |
| The left is evil. | |
| Liberals can't... | |
| Countenance that fact. | |
| They still have to believe the right is. | |
| Because they don't want to leave their comfort zone. | |
| The left is destroying the last best hope of mankind. | |
| Okay? | |
| That's what they're doing. | |
| That's what they want to do. | |
| They think this country is a cesspool. | |
| They think the West is a cesspool. | |
| They're sick. | |
| They're morally sick. | |
| Welcome home, American. | |
| Not welcome home, Swede. | |
| Think of a black who has a Swedish passport. | |
| Think that at Stockholm airport, they go, welcome home. | |
| In fact, he writes here, notice we have the term un-American. | |
| There's no term un-Swedish. | |
| In fact, do you remember, I quoted this, the Swedish, former Swedish prime minister said, Swedish values? | |
| What are Swedish values? | |
| We're values-based. | |
| Not ethnocentric based. | |
| So that was some excerpts from that piece. | |
| And I proceed to your calls here. | |
| Veer, if that's your name, V-I-R, Beckley, West Virginia. | |
| Hi. | |