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The Babylon Bee

Catholic Challenging The Ruling Class | A Bee Interview With Sohrab Ahmari

The Babylon Bee

Seth Dillon

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.42.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sohrab Ahmari is the founder and editor of COMPACT magazine, which bills itself as your home for journalism that challenges the ruling class. Kyle and Adam talk to Sohrab about working at the New York Post when they broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and were censored by Big Tech. They also discuss whether class analysis is just some wacky idea from that kook Karl Marx and when will Sohrab put a body positive swimsuit model on the cover of his magazine.

In the full length show available to Babylon Bee subscribers, Sohrab talks about David French’s statement about drag queen story hour being a blessing of liberty, getting interrogated for owning a copy of Star Wars in Tehran, and more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Rabamari, that is our guest.

0:04.3

That is the name of the person that we're interviewing today.

0:08.3

So he was with the New York Post.

0:10.4

He was with Wall Street Journal.

0:12.0

He writes a bunch of hot takes.

0:13.4

And now he has a new publication called Compact.

0:17.3

It's a populist view on class and economy.

0:20.9

It's kind of hard.

0:21.9

I guess it's hard for me to describe as not a smart person, but it talks about political...

0:25.1

He will describe it for us, and it sounds like a very compelling magazine that you guys should check out.

0:29.2

We talked about everything from Catholicism and Protestantism to class, and as conservatives,

0:34.7

do we need to worry about class, or is that all Karl Marx?

0:37.5

And we even touched on his famous debate with David French over Frenchism and drag queen story hours.

0:43.3

This episode has drag queens. This episode has saints that you pray to. This episode has fat people on the covers of magazines.

0:51.1

It's got everything.

0:53.5

Sorab Amari.. Sorab Amari.

1:05.2

Well, Sorab, how'd you find yourself in this crazy world of commenting on news and, uh, and being a thinker

1:11.5

and it must be hard for you, you know, you're a guy who tries to think deeply about things and,

1:16.4

uh, everything is so stupid. There was a question in there somewhere. Go ahead. Talk.

1:21.9

Well, um, no, it's, it's not very hard at all. Um, I, I'm, I'm very lucky that I get paid to write takes. And like, to be a take worker, we're not paying you for this. Just so you know. There's no money being exchanged. Yeah, no, I know. I had already written up a kind of an honorarium invoice, just that FYI, but I itself. Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's really, it's really, really nice.

1:47.1

To do it the way I can do it now, especially kind of running my own publication as, in a way,

1:54.0

you are independently. I worked for a decade at various, various plants within the broad Rupert Murdoch foundry.

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