Sept. 29, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Pachenik again. | |
| This week I want to talk a little bit about the two professions that I don't often talk about. | |
| Number one, I had been an executive producer of TV shows and I did two four-hour miniseries. | |
| And as a result, I vote for the Emmys on TV and then I vote for the Academy Award through the Producers Guild. | |
| But More importantly, I want to talk about the Emmys, because I really couldn't watch any of their shows. | |
| I didn't think any of them out of the 350 different shows were any good. | |
| They were prosaic, they were old, they were derivative. | |
| But the one television show I understood that was absolutely brilliant was the one I could not refuse, and that was the Donald Trump show. | |
| So welcome to The Apprentice. | |
| Welcome to Donald Trump. | |
| Every one of you who thinks there's something wrong with Donald Trump, particularly the left, better think of this notion. | |
| That Donald Trump is working us the way he would work a TV show. | |
| He is the executive producer, understanding very well that America needs show business. | |
| Number two, he's the writer who knows how to put cliffhangers in. | |
| What do I mean? | |
| He put in Brett Kavanaugh. | |
| He was warned by McConnell not to put him in because he had a lot of background to it. | |
| But Donald didn't care because that was a cliffhanger. | |
| What an incredible cliffhanger this week has been when everybody's been glued to CNN, by the way. | |
| CNN is run by Jeff Zucker and Jeff Zucker has doubled the number of people who are watching it. | |
| And guess who was the producer of The Apprentice besides Donald Trump? | |
| It was Jeff Zucker. | |
| So Jeff Zucker is also getting to be quite well known because of CNN. And guess what? | |
| Rachel Maddow has now 3 million people watching because now she can attack Donald Trump. | |
| Is this by accident? | |
| No. | |
| Donald understands that the essence of vitality and the essence of America is show business. | |
| That means that we need a cliffhanger. | |
| We need conflict. | |
| We need good guys. | |
| We need bad guys. | |
| We need to have humor. | |
| He went to the UN and made a joke. | |
| Nobody laughed. | |
| Well, let me tell you what's going to happen. | |
| We're going to watch as Germany and Angela Merkel are going to pay a very heavy price for mocking him on the stage. | |
| When you thought that Brett Kavanaugh couldn't go any further, what happened? | |
| Lindsay Graham comes up and says one of the amazing speeches of all time that will go down in the history of both politics and television when he said this is an abomination. | |
| And who congratulated him? | |
| It wasn't only Donald Trump, the executive producer, but his co-executive producer, the lovely Melania Trump. | |
| Because both understood that no matter what is happening... | |
| They're going to make this a show business because people are going to be glued to the TV, both on the Fox News channel, which was created by Roger Ailes, whom I had worked with in the Bush administration, and we're going back to CNN and MSNBC. So when you think something is out of order, it doesn't make sense, you better look for who are the main characters, what's the adversarial nature of the game, who are the bad guys, What's the resolution? | |
| How long will it take before we find a resolution? | |
| Are we going to have a happy ending or a sad ending? | |
| Now, many of you may think I'm mopping the end result of Roe vs. | |
| Wade on abortion, and the answer is no. | |
| Something will come out of that. | |
| Will it be the law of the land? | |
| I don't know, but the law of the land has never really been very impressive to many of us, because it's not the law itself that counts, it's the implementation of the law. | |
| With a system that's corrupt among judges from the local level, like we have in Bradford County, to the other counties that we have in Florida, to the judicial system in Miami-Dade, to the superior court system, what we have is corruption. | |
| And in turn, Donald Trump understands how to use that, because he's going to make a cliffhanger out of it. | |
| Now, think for a minute, who's the lead character in a show? | |
| It's Donald. | |
| Who's the major audience? | |
| It's you and I, including myself. | |
| So when I was looking up for the Emmys, I should have really written into the box that Donald Trump and the administration was the finest TV show I'd ever seen. | |
| Guess what, folks? | |
| He's going to get re-elected because the TV show isn't over. | |
| And as Donald said, let's make America great. | |
| And his second statement was, I'm firing you. |
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