David Paterson | Former Governor of New York | 12-17-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

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4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Former Governor of New York David Paterson joins John Catsimatidis & James Flippin as they substitute for Sid Rosenberg, to touch upon political discourse, highlighting how the terms 'left' and 'right' have evolved over decades. Paterson points out that today’s right often holds views similar to those traditionally held by moderate leftists. He discusses extremism on both ends of the political spectrum, the role of government, and local versus state control over issues like zoning. Paterson also addresses rising concerns over anti-Semitism from both the political left and right, emphasizing the irrationality of blaming a particular group for societal issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	In essence, right now what we're doing is we're recapping the party that we had last night at the station.
0:36.1	I am actually sipping a virgin Bloody Mary right now because the mix was left over from last night,
0:41.8	added a couple olives, added a slice of lemon, and you know, I'm off to the races.
0:46.9	I'm not going to make a joke.
0:49.7	Do we have Governor Patterson?
0:51.3	Governor Patterson is joining us my routine cohort on his show, the left versus the right.
0:58.4	I typically am holding it down on the right end of the spectrum for that particular show.
1:01.8	When I do that show with the governor, I do a disclosure that we're both moderate Democrats.
1:07.9	What are we doing on this show?
1:08.9	Yeah, well, you know, but in that case, it's like slightly left of center versus slightly left of center, I think. That's kind of how we
1:15.4	put it. But Governor Patterson, always great to have you on sit and friends in the morning. How are
1:19.5	doing this morning? Well, good morning. What I would say is it's really hard to pit the left
1:25.5	versus the right these days when the positions that people who are moving toward the right are taking are the ones that people that you might have said were moderately on the left were taking, like John F. Kennedy.
1:39.5	You know, nobody ever thought of him as being on the right, but he did a lot of things that people
1:44.4	on the right would really appreciate. So it's really just a good opportunity to have a discussion.
1:52.5	Does the words right and left changed over the last 10, 20, 30 years?
1:57.5	That's what I'm saying, John, because 20 or 30 years ago, the people on the left were probably
2:06.2	very similar to where they are now, but the people on the right were not as fervent in their
2:12.1	points of view, and also we're not having the same kinds of problems, you know, where we have
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