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♪ >> A MOMENT OF SILENCE FROM THE
PITTSBURGH STEELERS, WHOSE CITY
MOURNS THE DARKEST DAY IN ITS
HISTORY, AN ANTI-SEMITIC
MASSACRE THAT HITTING LITERALLY
IN THE MR. ROGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE HAVE A MOVING PIECE FROM THE
TIMES, WE ARE LIVING IN AN AGE
WITH ANTI-SEMITIC ANTI-SEMITISM
IS ON THE RISE HERE AT HOME AND
THINK ABOUT LAST YEAR’S CHANCE
THAT JUS WILL NOT REPLACE US IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE OR THE
PRESIDENT’S ATTACKS ON
GLOBALISTS AND INTERNATIONAL
BANKERS AND THE CORRUPT MEDIA,
AND WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH
JEWS IN THE MINDS OF
ANTI-SEMITES.
ANTI-SEMITES. IT IS NOT SURPRISING THIS HAS
TRANSLATED INTO ACTS OF
VIOLENCE.
VIOLENCE. NOW PITTSBURGH JOINS THE GROWING
LIST OF COMMUNITIES AROUND THE
WORLD THAT HAVE BEEN TROERZERROR
BY ANTI-SEMITIC FANATICS, FROM
KANSAS CITY, TO DUBAI, TO JUICE
JERUSALEM, IT IS DIFFICULT.
AND WE HAVE BARRY FROM
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. I TWEETED AT YOU LAST NIGHT, I
READ YOUR PIECE AFTER NOT
TURNING ON THE DEALT VISION ALL
DAY BECAUSE I WAS WITH MY
6-YEAR-OLD SON.
6-YEAR-OLD SON. AND THE TEARS FLOWED.
TAKE US THROUGH WHAT YOU WROTE
AND TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT THIS
HAS BEEN LIKE FOR YOU AND YOUR
HOME.
HOME. >> I WOULD HAVE TO SAY IT IS
VERY STRANGE BEING HERE AS A
JOURNALIST.
JOURNALIST. I’M STANDING ON A LAWN HALF A
BLOCK WHERE I GREW UP, AND THE
SYNAGOGUE IS AROUND THE CORNER,
THE TREE OF LIFE, IT IS
DISORIENTING, BUT ON THE OTHER
HAND, YOU REALLY HAVE TO HAVE NO
IMAGINATION TO, YOU KNOW, NOT BE
ABLE TO GRASS THAN THIS CAN
HAPPEN TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
-- TO GRASP THAT THIS CAN HAPPEN
TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
AND SERM THE JEWS OF ALL PEOPLE
ARE AWARE OF THE ANTI-SEMITISM
THAT IS RISING HERE AT HOME, THE
ANTI-SEMITISM THAT HAS BEEN A
PART OF OUR HISTORY FOREVER.
SO IT IS SHOCKING THAT IT CAME
TO OUR COMMUNITY.
AND IT IS BEWILDERING.
BUT NOT THAT SURPRISING, IF YOU
HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. I ONCE REMEMBER --
>> I’M SORRY.
>> KEEP GOING, WHY IS NOT
SURPRISING?
SURPRISING? >> BECAUSE ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOT
JUST A NORMAL PREJUDICE.
IT IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY.
IT ARGUES THAT THERE IS A SECRET
HAND CONTROLLING THE WORLD.
AND THAT SECRET HAND IS THE JEW.
SO DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T NEED TO
BE AN ANTI-SEMITE FOR SMEERSCONS
THEORISTS TO RALLY.
THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
GLOBALISTS.
GLOBALISTS. HE HAS BEEN SAYING IT FOR TWO
YEARS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
PEOPLE LIKE RICHARD SPENCER AND
DAVID DUKE HEAR JEW JEW JEW AND
DRAWN TO HIS BANNER.
OBVIOUSLY HE DIDN’T PULL THE
TRIG NER THERE ON SATURDAY
MORNING.
MORNING. BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO SEE
THIS IN CONTEXT.
AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT
WE DO, WITHOUT LAYING THE BLAME
ENTIRELY AT HIS FEET.
HE IS INCULCATING AN ATMOSPHERE
OF CONSPIRACY THINKING THAT IS
ABSOLUTE POISON, ESPECIALLY FOR
THE JEWS.
THE JEWS. >> LET ME PLAY SOME OF THAT.
JUST WHAT YOU MENTIONED.
>> WE WILL NO LONGER SURRENDER
THIS COUNTRY, OR ITS PEOPLE TO
THE FALSE SONG OF GLOBALISM.
>> WE REJECT THE IDEOLOGY OF
GLOBALISM AND WE EMBRACE THE
DOCTRINE OF PATRIOTISM.
>> THEY CALL GLOBISTS, THEY
LIKE, THEY LIKE THE GLOBE, I
LIKE THE GLOBE, TOO.
I LIKE THE GLOBE, TOO.
BUT WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. WE HAVE TO, GLOBALISTS, A
GLOBIST IS A PERSON THAT WANTS
THE GLOBE TO DO WELL, FRANKLY,
NOT CARING ABOUT OUR COUNTRY SO
MUCH.
MUCH. AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE CAN’T HAVE THAT.
YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE A WORD.
IT SORT OF BECAME OLD-FASHIONED.
IT IS CALLED A NATIONALIST.
AND I SAY, REALLY?
WE’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE THAT
WORD.
WORD. YOU KNOW WHAT I AM?
I’M A NATIONALIST, OKAY?
I’M A NATIONALIST.
>> SAM STEIN AND BARI, I WANT
BOTH OF YOU ON THIS.
BARI, GO AHEAD FIRST.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU
DESCRIBED.
DESCRIBED. >> THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
I HAVE TO SAY ONE THING, JUST
ABOUT BEING IN SQUIRREL HILL,
AND BEING IN PITTSBURGH AT THIS
MOMENT, WHICH IS, I HEAR THAT,
AND THAT COULD NOT BE FARTHER
FROM THE REALITY HERE AND THE
REALITY OF THE COMMUNITY WHERE I
GREW UP.
GREW UP. THIS IS ANTI-TRUMP COUNTRY.
IN ITS HEART.
PEOPLE HERE ARE DECENT.
THEY ARE KIND.
THEY ARE OPEN-HEARTED.
I MEAN I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS
ABOUT SQUIRREL HILL.
AND ANYONE WHO LIVES HERE CAN
TELL YOU THAT.
THE ONLY POSITIVE THING TO COME
OUT OF THIS IS THAT WE NOW GET
TO SHOW, AND MODEL, WHAT A REAL
COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE TO THE
WORLD.
WORLD. AND OUR LEADER, DONALD TRUMP,
MIGHT NOT BE DOING THAT, BUT THE
PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY REALLY
ARE, AND IT IS JU -- JEWS AND
NONJEWS AND THE COMMUNITY HERE
IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT DONALD
TRUMP RAN HIS PRESIDENCY ON.
>> SAM STEIN, YOU WRITE, FOR
THOSE WHO ARE SUBJECTED TO
BIGOTRY WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR
COMMUNITIES TARGETED OR SECLUDED
OR PORTRAYED AS THREAT, IT IS
NOT A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM.
IT IS LAYER FYING.
A MOMENT WHERE THE CULTURAL WAR
HAS BECOME PAINFULLY EXPOSED FOR
THE MORE FORTUNATE TO SAY.
FOR MYSELF AND OTHERS INCLUDED,
IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO
PROCESS.
PROCESS. >> YES, WELL MY HEART GOES OUT
TO BARI, I’M SO SORRY THIS HAS
HAPPENED TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
FOR ME, IT IS A SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENT STORY.
DIFFERENT STORY. .
. THE PIECE I WROTE, IT BEGAN,
WITH A TRIP I TOOK TO AUSCHWITZ,
WHEN I WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH
SCHOOL.
SCHOOL. AND I REMEMBER THIS MOMENT WHERE
I STOOD OVER THE ASH PITS OF THE
CONCENTRATION CAMPS, WHERE
PEOPLE, THE DEAD HAD BEEN
THROWN, AFTER GOING INTO THE
FURNACE.
FURNACE. AND I COULDN’T BRING MYSELF TO
CRY.
CRY. AND IT WAS A REALLY WEIRD
EMOTIONAL SITUATION FOR ME,
WHERE I’M TRYING TO CRY, BECAUSE
I KNOW THAT I SHOULD BE CRYING,
AND I FEELT LIKE A FRAUD IN
THAT -- I FELT LIKE A FRAUD IN
THAT MOMENT.
THAT MOMENT. AND THEN WHEN I REFLECTED ON IT,
A WEEK LATER OR SO, I RECOGNIZED
HOW FORTUNATE I REALLY WAS,
BECAUSE I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED
ANTI-SEMITISM, AND WHEN I WENT
BACK TO AMERICA FROM POLAND, I
WOULD NOT EXPERIENCE
ANTI-SEMITISM, CERTAINLY NOT
ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT PEOPLE
IN POLAND HAD EXPERIENCED.
I HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THIS
PLACE WHERE I WAS SURROUNDED BY
FELLOW JEWS, WHERE NO ONE LOOKED
AT ME AS OTHER.
AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE
WEEKEND, BUT REALLY, WHAT
STARTED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, IS
THAT I HAVE COME TO RECOGNIZE
JUST HOW NAIVE I WAS.
THAT THIS WAS ALWAYS THERE.
IT JUST NEVER HAD BEEN SURFACED.
AND WE CAN GET INTO A DEBATE
OVER WHY IT IS SURFACING NOW.
I HAPPEN TO THINK THAT THE
CURRENT ADMINISTRATION PLAYS A
ROLE.
ROLE. BUT IT IS VERY DISCOMFORTING TO
SEE IT PRESENTED TO YOU, JUST
THIS CLEARLY, TO WATCH 11 PEOPLE
DIE, AND ESPECIALLY DURING THE
PERFORMANCE OF A BRIS.
A BRIS, FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT
AFFILIATED, IS THE CEREMONY OF
CIRCUMCISION THAT ACCOMPANIES A
SON WHEN HE IS EIGHT DAYS OLD.
IN THIS CASE, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
A BABY NAMING, IN WHICH CASE IT
WAS A DAUGHTER.
BUT FOR ME, MY KID’S BRIS WAS, I
WAS OVERCOME WITH TEARS IN THAT
MOMENT.
MOMENT. IT WAS SO PROFOUND.
IT WAS SO DIFFICULT, THE JOYS
AND THE FEARS OF FATHERHOOD JUST
CONFRONTING YOU, BUT ALSO THE
SENSE OF TRADITION, THAT I AM
DOING SOMETHING THAT DATES BACK
TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
AND FOR SOMEONE TO DISRUPT THAT
MOMENT, IN THE MOST HEINOUS AND
HORRIBLE WAY IMAGINE ABLE, AND
TO TAKE PEOPLE’S LIVES AND
INCLUDING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE
WHO HAD LIVED THROUGH THE
HOLOCAUST IS AN INCREDIBLY
DIFFICULT THING TO PROCESS AND
IT MAKES YOU WONDER WHERE THE
JEWS FIT INTO THE AMERICAN
SOCIAL FABRIC.
SOCIAL FABRIC. >> THAT IS A VERY MOVING
COMMENT, FROM BOTH BARI AND SAM,
AND LOOKING AT TWITTER TO SEE,
AND JUST NOW, JUST NOW, A FOX
NEWS GUEST SAYS THE MIGRANT, THE
REFUGEES, MAY HAVE LEPROSY, AND
WARNS, QUOTE, THEY ARE GOING TO
INFECT OUR PEOPLE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. I MEAN THAT IS THAT KIND OF
DEHUMANIZING, COMBINED WITH THE
PRESIDENT, WHO IS AS RECKLESS
AND DEMAGOGIC AS HE IS, IT
CREATES A CLIMATE WHERE IT IS
THE CLASSIC CLIMATE, WHERE IT IS
NOT JUST DEMAGOGUERY, IT REALLY
LEADS TO VIOLENCE.
>> YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING
ABOUT KEVIN McCARTHY, YOU KNOW,
AND HIS TWEET, LAST WEEK, WHICH
IN SOME WAYS, WHEN YOU THINK
ABOUT THE WAY IN WHICH THE TRUMP
VIRUS HAS INFECTED THE BODY OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND THE
THOROUGHNESS OF IT, YOU GOT
KEVIN McCARTHY, THINK WHAT YOU
WILL, I DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING,
THAT HE PUT UP A TWEET LAST
WEEK, THAT CALLS OUT GEORGE
SOROS, MIKE BLOOMBERG AND TOM
STEYER, THREE PROMINENT AND VERY
JEWISH SOUNDING NAMES WHO ARE
ALSO JEWS, RICH, BUYING THE
ELECTION, YOU KNOW.
KEVIN McCARTHY HAD TO PULL THAT
TWEET DOWN.
TWEET DOWN. WHEN HE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE
BOMB, HE HAD THE DIGNITY TO TAKE
IT DOWN, ALTHOUGH IT DOESN’T
REALLY EXCUSE IT.
>> YOU CALL THAT DIGNITY?
>> WHICH IS BETTER THAN LEAVING
IT UP, AND 19S96, I COVERED PAT
BUCHANAN, HE WOULD RALLY AGAINST
GLOBALISTS AND WE TALK ABOUT THE
WORLD BANKING SYSTEM THAT WAS
CONTROLLED BY BANKERS NAMED
GOLDMAN AND SACHS AND RUBEN AND
GREENSPAN AND IT WAS THE MOST, I
THOUGHT AT THE TIME, THE MOST
NAKED OUTFRONT ANTI-SEMITIC
THING I COULD POSSIBLY HERE IN A
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN MY
LIFETIME, AND YOU ARE HEARING IT
ALL AGAIN, THE SAME THING,
COMING BACK AROUND AND AROUND.
AND I FEEL FOR BARI AND FOR SAM
BOTH, AS THEIR EXPERIENCES SHOW.
BUT IT HAS BEEN THERE ALL ALONG.
IT IS JUST, IT IS A QUESTION OF
WHY IS IT RAISED TO THE SURFACE?