Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show.

I'm Jack Fowler, the host. Star namesake is Victor Davis Hanson and he is the Martin and

Ealy Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne

of Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Victor is, he's at Stanford right now,

we're recording on Friday the 17th.

I'm here in lovely Milford, Connecticut.

Victor, this week, like every week of the past X number of weeks has been an explosion of

crazed stories, troubling stories, articles, trends, wars, and we've got so we've got a lot to talk about a lot to get your take on and among those things is the this tick-talk craze crazing Osama bin Laden and we have some

pieces you've written for,

Twitter, some people on the right who are,

or not on the left who are taking some strange stands

from my perspective,

maybe yours on what's going on in the Middle East.

And if we can get around

till we have some political polling info that shows Nicky Haley

ascendant and some takes on Ben Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu.

So Victor, let's get started with this tick-top craze and we'll get your thoughts on this right after these important

messages. We're back with the Victor Davis-Hanson show. I'd like to, if you don't mind, begin this with a take from your friend, mine, Megan Kelly, terrific

podcast, you've been on it, you're on it regularly, and she she would posted something on Twitter yesterday and

she's just nuts I don't mean that in any psychological way angry, quite angry and legitimately angry about

this explosion on Tik-Tock of these young punks, brats, elites, kissing up to Osama bin Laden,

...