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The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Ep. 86: How Henry Kissinger Played the Press

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6624 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Eli examines Kissinger's cunning when it came to working the refs of Washington, the press corps. Then he interviews the Re-Education's presidential historian, Tevi Troy about Kissinger and his recent trip to Israel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the re-education.

0:02.4

Today's monologue is a look at the expiration of Henry Kissinger after a century.

0:07.8

My guest is Tevi Troy, back for a third time to discuss Kissinger's legacy,

0:12.6

as well as his latest trip to Israel and the state of the rot at America's most expensive universities.

0:23.6

Thank you. America's most expensive universities. Kissinger stayed in the game just to juice his stats, okay?

0:28.6

When you look at the season splits, Cheney's numbers were better.

0:32.6

Not to mention Kissinger came in after Vietnam started.

0:36.6

I mean, he was chasing wars the way Durant chases rings, you know?

0:40.7

Anyone can join a super team, but Cheney built his wars from the ground up. I mean, he carried George

0:47.8

W. Bush on his back. Also, how can Kissinger be the war crimes goat when he won the Nobel Peace Prize, you

0:54.6

f*** an idiot?

0:55.6

That's what makes him the goat, you fucking moron.

0:59.7

Do you know how good a war criminal you have to be to win a peace prize for wars?

1:06.1

You escalator?

1:08.6

The dude's got the numbers and the hardware.

1:10.7

Count the rings, bitch. Okay, okay, okay. So that was the Daily Shrish escalator. The dude's got the numbers and the hardware.

1:12.1

Count the rings, bitch.

1:19.6

So that was the Daily Show segment on whether Henry Kissinger or Dick Cheney was the Michael Jordan of war criminals, the goat.

1:22.4

This idea that a towering statesman of the 20th century, a man of history, is in reality a super villain,

1:29.0

is what the performative left in 2023 considers sophisticated.

1:32.9

It's a new conventional wisdom of sorts, stunting, once interesting institutions,

1:37.1

like Comedy Central's Daily Show, not to mention millennial and Gen Z online opinion in general,

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