Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok has resurfaced in the media as some kind of authority, thanks to the raid on Trump's home. The only thing this guy is an authority about is how to corrupt law enforcement for political purposes.
Still, his deranged tweets and threats -- he shares the Democrats' hatred of Kash Patel, a minority who refused to conform -- reveal something really important: though they often have access to more and better information than we do, FBI agents are just as susceptible to media bias and fake news as the rest of us. Their opinions, and the filters through which they interpret the data they see, are affected by their news sources, whether CNN or the Washington Post.
So the irony is that some complete yahoo in the middle of the country with no special access but an ounce of common sense may know more about what is actually happening than an expert deep inside the bowels of the Beltway.
They will be mocked by an establishment that hates them and fervently believes in speeding along their inevitable disappearance. But the ordinary people of America, who mistrust the media, have a wisdom Washington can't touch.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
