It's Mr. New York, Mark Simone, on 710 W.O.R.

Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post.

All his columns are up on the New York Post website.

Michael Goodwin. How you doing?

Good morning, Mike. Thank you.

Hey, a great column yesterday about Kamala, that softball interview on ABC.

But, you know, you combined that last night, the coverage of the assassination attempt,

Lester Holt, trying to tie it to January 6th.

How crazy are these fake news anchors going to get?

Well, it's interesting, Mark.

They never seem to take a step back and say, you know, let's examine our role in all of this.

They seem to be quite confident and smugly so that Donald Trump is evil and therefore

there are no limits.

And I think that kind of mentality is what is sparking these assassination attempts, frankly.

I think that once you've painted somebody as a danger to democracy, a threat to America, an authoritarian, he's going to be a bloodbath, he's going to, everything, every word they've taken and twisted, you know, he's going to day one, he's going to be an authoritarian.

All of this just, I think, for certain people, they snap.

And I think that's directly what's causing these assassination attempts.

They've put a target on his back.

I mean, if I were to describe you in those ways,

what would be the defense of somebody who, you know, tried to do something

about it? It would be, well, Michael Goodwin and other people said he was evil and a threat.

I mean, that would, that's the, that will be the defense. I was acting to defend the country against this force of evil. And not just are they wrong and using dangerous rhetoric. It's the whole idea that, that Donald Trump is somehow a foreign force in our culture. Why is he so

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