Le Show For The Week Of May 26, 2024
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it's probably in the |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice |
| 0:07.0 | Ladies and gentlemen it's probably in the memory hole by now, but it did happen this past week. |
| 0:17.0 | There's just so much else that happened. |
| 0:21.0 | You might have lost track of this. The Trump campaign put out or released an ad that featured replicas, simulations of newspaper headlines that would |
| 0:40.3 | appear supposedly after Trump's re-election. |
| 0:48.4 | And big headlines, but then there was some also some smaller type on the pages, you know, as you would have on a newspaper front page. |
| 0:59.0 | And one of the phrases that appeared in that text was, quote, unified Reich, unquote, and the rest of it. |
| 1:17.0 | Unified Reich as in you know the third Reich the fourth Reich |
| 1:22.0 | however many Reichs you would like or Leich. |
| 1:27.6 | And of course it stirred up a momentary fuss. Fusses don't last that long these days because there's so many of them. |
| 1:39.8 | The first explanation from the Trump campaign was those you know a |
| 1:44.8 | staffer who just didn't see that text and just put it up. Now I read the thing first when it came out. I saw that text right |
| 1:58.9 | away. So maybe I should apply for a job as a Trump staffer. |
| 2:07.0 | They could use me. |
| 2:09.0 | But then as the week went on and other stories intervened, that one disappeared. the remained unnamed and whatever disposition the campaign took with regard to that |
| 2:27.9 | staffer remains unknown. There was literally no follow up except for |
| 2:36.7 | CNN, which revealed at the end of the week that the whole thing started with a template from a Turkish digital designer who just |
| 2:49.3 | threw in the language you know as demo this. Here's what it would look like if we did this. |
| 2:56.7 | And what it seems to prove, at this point in time, is that the more you screw up the easier it is for people to forget every instance of it. |
| 3:10.0 | That's a strategy. |
| 3:12.0 | Hello, welcome to the show. Oh, le, le,ay, O'E, O'E. |
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