2015 NRI Ideas Summit: Charles Krauthammer
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🗓️ 2 May 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | We are ready for the next portion of our program, which is a conversation with Charles |
| 0:38.5 | Krauthammer. When I'm with Charles, I mentioned how it used to be that when I wanted to try to impress people, I would introduce |
| 0:56.8 | myself out to say, hey I'm Rich Lowry, I'm the editor of National Review. |
| 1:02.2 | Now what I do is say, hey and Rich Lowry, 20 years ago I very briefly worked as a research assistant for Charles Crowdham. |
| 1:10.0 | And then suddenly I can see the new esteem in which I'm held. |
| 1:17.3 | And it's a little hard to remember, |
| 1:19.4 | but I actually worked for Charles before he was a TV star. But Charles is a most unusual TV star. |
| 1:27.0 | He is the most dower TV star on television. In fact, a couple of years years ago executives at Fox are very concerned that the |
| 1:36.5 | political panel was just too serious and too dark and too sour on Brett Bear's show. so they decided to lighten it up. |
| 1:44.2 | They needed someone who's much brighter, more cheerful presence, |
| 1:48.3 | so they added George F Will to balance Charles. I was asked last year actually to participate in a |
| 1:57.4 | roast of Charles that Commentary magazine had and it was the inspired idea of John Padore that it must have been really funny |
| 2:08.9 | for me to be a frightened green behind the ears, 21 year old working for this formidable giant of journalism |
| 2:18.2 | and conservative thought. |
| 2:19.8 | And I assure you, yeah, it was hilarious but I really objected to the whole idea of the |
| 2:26.6 | roast which I really thought was like gathering a bunch of lesser scribes to get |
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