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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Will Be In Attendance for Sid's Induction Into the NYSBA Hall of Fame at The Rainbow Room · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get Rich Lowry on, which has been
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  Speaker 1: one of my best friends in this business, the editor
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  Speaker 1: of the great National Review.
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  Speaker 2: He's on with us every week. So, Rich, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: You will be the very last guest I had before
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  Speaker 1: I made the Hall of Fame. How about that? The
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  Speaker 1: last guest before Sid goes into the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Lowry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I didn't want to be on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: as usual. I maneuvered to get this treasured spot right
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  Speaker 3: before this exalted event. I'll be there with bells on.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be sitting at the mayor's table. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: shows up at events where he's not welcome, so I
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  Speaker 3: expect him to be there.
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  Speaker 2: You are so right, right? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: If you went to the 9-11 memorial service, he should
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  Speaker 1: definitely be there.
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  Speaker 2: Today, right? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I've said many a time, this is what God
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  Speaker 3: meant you to do. You're fantastic at it. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to keep doing it. Don't go into politics. Whatever you do,
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  Speaker 3: you're more influential this way, and we all love you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, too, although Bruce Blakeman did say again
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  Speaker 1: last night, if I win, when I win, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to run for mayor.
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  Speaker 2: But Danielle won't allow it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But thank you for all that. And you've been great
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  Speaker 1: to me, too, and you're a terrific guest every week.
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  Speaker 1: And you know everything, whether it's baseball or politics. And
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of fun over the years with
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  Speaker 1: Biden versus Trump. And, you know, we've been doing this, too,
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  Speaker 1: for months now. We'll do it again today. Now that
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  Speaker 1: it's 12 days out, I think you're going to change
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Now you're going to say to me the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are going to retain the House, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, they're losing the House, but I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: 50-50 shot. The Senate, holding the Senate, I think it
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  Speaker 3: looks better, all right? If the Fox News polls correct
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  Speaker 3: that two weeks out, Texas is tied 49-49, Paxton, Tallarico,
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  Speaker 3: Paxton's winning that race, and that would be huge. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that would more or less put a stake in the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats' hopes of taking the Senate. So, As I said
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  Speaker 3: for a while now, holding down losses in the House
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  Speaker 3: and retaining the Senate would be a victory for the GOP.
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  Speaker 2: These are crazy races, Rich.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the Texas rate, that lunatic Tallarico
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  Speaker 1: against Paxton. You got this very dangerous El Sayed, who's
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  Speaker 1: another Mamdani, up against Rodgers in Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: You got some real psychos running out there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not only do you lose some of these races,
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  Speaker 1: but some of these races you.
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  Speaker 2: Lose part of America, of our tradition, of our history.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very scary election coming up.
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  Speaker 3: No, and you're absolutely right. The one in Michigan is
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  Speaker 3: the one to watch. I mean, I think he's arguably
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  Speaker 3: the most radical Senate candidate we've ever had in our history.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a lot of left-wingers in the Senate, Ted Kennedy,
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  Speaker 3: Paul Wellstone, Bernie Sanders now, of course, but El-Sayed represents
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  Speaker 3: this kind of third-worldest ideology that hates the West at
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  Speaker 3: its foundations. I don't think that's really where Bernie is.
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  Speaker 3: He'll mouth a lot of the same slogans and the
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  Speaker 3: same stuff of these guys, but that's not the way
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  Speaker 3: he thinks. But this guy, he's He's in league with
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  Speaker 3: the ideology that supports the rioters in France, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and the pro-Hommas protests on campus and all the rest
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  Speaker 3: of it. And that he's getting away with this Muslim
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  Speaker 3: Brotherhood connections of his family just saying it's Islamophobia is shocking.
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  Speaker 2: He is getting away with it.
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  Speaker 1: His sister-in-law, funny you mentioned Paul Wellstone, that poor guy,
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  Speaker 1: he died in a, in a helicopter crash.
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  Speaker 2: He was running against my cousin, Norm Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: So Minnesota had to put Walter Mondale in, just so
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  Speaker 1: Norm had an opponent, and Norm whacked him. So Wellstone,
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  Speaker 1: his whole family was killed in that helicopter crash.
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  Speaker 2: It was terrible. Norm felt terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Awful.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible. You mentioned Paris.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the National Football League? Because
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  Speaker 1: you're a sports guy, too. This is where the two
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  Speaker 1: worlds meet. The Steelers are going to play the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: First game ever in Paris. They spent the last two
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  Speaker 1: weeks playing in London. They're still playing that game, even
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  Speaker 1: though the protesters have already threatened big protests on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't paid any attention to this. We're playing football
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  Speaker 3: in Paris now?
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  Speaker 2: First game ever this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers taking on the Saints, who beat.
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  Speaker 2: My Giants last week. And they're still planning on playing
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's one of these things where just
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  Speaker 3: life goes on and you hope that the protests are
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  Speaker 3: limited somewhere else. But that is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: So this Paris stuff, and again, it's been calm the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of nights because the French police started beating.
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  Speaker 2: People up, which is great. And they had a curfew.
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  Speaker 1: But they say they're coming back even stronger on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday. And you've got to love Ro Khanna. that
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  Speaker 1: low life in California, some of these media groups that
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  Speaker 1: are still talking about the students. Yes, it started with that.
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  Speaker 1: That was weeks ago. Now you got anarchists and lunatics
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  Speaker 1: and pro-Hamas. They're working on Palestinian plagues in Paris. What
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  Speaker 1: does it do with students?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so first of all, if you're a student upset
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  Speaker 3: with the state of your school, like burning it down
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  Speaker 3: is not the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Or walking out with a $ 2, 000 Dior bag, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's not the answer either.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, some of this is typical just anarchism.
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  Speaker 3: People love destruction. They love stealing stuff. But there's a
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  Speaker 3: real ideological component to it as well. You have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of immigrants and children of immigrants that don't like France.
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  Speaker 3: And you have the left wing in France that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: like France. So they've joined together kind of in a
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  Speaker 3: red-green circle. alliance. Now, this is not an unusual event
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  Speaker 3: in France. This happens fairly often. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: it's not threatening. It doesn't mean it's not horrible. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's not destructive of civil society. And it's
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  Speaker 3: really a warning that if they elect Marine Le Pen,
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  Speaker 3: the nationalist right-winger, in reaction to this next spring, they're
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  Speaker 3: going to make the country ungovernable. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a warning to the rest of Western Europe as well.
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  Speaker 3: Don't elect these sort of candidates. So that's an intolerable
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  Speaker 3: threat for a free society to be operating under. So
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  Speaker 3: these protests need to be crushed. You need to stop
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  Speaker 3: them from happening, right? Because once the dynamic gets going
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  Speaker 3: where they think they can do it with impunity, it
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  Speaker 3: gets much, much worse. And that's what we've seen so far.
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  Speaker 2: Great points, Rich. I can't wait to see you later
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  Speaker 2: on this morning. Thank you for all you.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations again.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy. I love you, Rich. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The great editor of the National Review, who will be
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  Speaker 1: in attendance later on today, Rich Lowry.
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