Father of thirteen-year-old cancer survivor responds to Rachel Maddow: How to live above the partisan noise of our day
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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Political comments made by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow following President Trump’s speech to Congress made headlines this week. Both focused on DJ Daniel, a thirteen-year-old brain cancer survivor who has always dreamed of being a police officer. The Founders relied on a commitment to objective truth and consensual biblical morality to unify the disparate factions of the nation. Now that our “post-truth,” post-Christian culture has abandoned both, it is hard to see a path forward for our secularized society. The good news is that there is a way to live above partisan noise and conflict available to any who will choose it.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March the 10th, 2025. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the Denison Forum Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins' narrator, narrating today's daily article written by scholar, co-founder, and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:18.1 | Some news is tragic no matter your politics, such as Friday's announcement that Gene Hackman died from heart disease and Alzheimer's a week after his wife died of a respiratory illness linked to rodents. |
| 0:31.3 | But some news make headlines precisely because of politics, such as the comments of MSNBC's Nicole Wallace and Rachel |
| 0:39.3 | Maddow following President Trump's speech to Congress last week. |
| 0:43.4 | Both focused on DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor who has always dreamed |
| 0:49.6 | of being a police officer. During the speech, the president said to him, I'm asking our new Secret Service |
| 0:55.8 | Director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service. After the |
| 1:02.3 | speech, Wallace said, I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but added that she |
| 1:08.0 | hopes he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters. |
| 1:13.7 | Matto called Daniel's inclusion in Mr. Trump's speech, quote, disgusting, |
| 1:19.0 | accusing the president of making a spectacle of the boy's illness while claiming that Doge cuts have, quote, |
| 1:25.6 | cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer. |
| 1:29.6 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called their responses sad and frankly pathetic. |
| 1:35.7 | And DJ's father said Maddo needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say. |
| 1:41.4 | He added, this lady didn't even serve time in the military. I was on the |
| 1:46.2 | USS Kitty Hawk. She does not need to put her bad energy on us, end quote. The first time I |
| 1:52.6 | traveled in Europe, I was surprised to discover the monolithic nature of the various cultures I |
| 1:57.5 | experienced. Most of these countries have a history dating back millennia. |
| 2:01.6 | Over the centuries, many have self-selected into particular demographics, languages, and societies. |
| 2:08.6 | When people came from these various countries to the new world, however, they created a nation of colonies that became states, many with widely different cultures. The founder's solution |
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