Race, Sex, Money, and the Oscars Assault
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of The Firing York Show, the No Chat Podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is that attack, that |
| 0:16.8 | assault on stage at the Oscars. |
| 0:19.9 | But one actual specific element of it, which is the opinion in the United States public |
| 0:26.8 | in general. |
| 0:27.8 | Especially as it involves the factors of race and sex and money and age and education |
| 0:33.8 | and how people viewed this attack on stage. |
| 0:38.2 | I mean, what are you supposed to think about it? |
| 0:40.3 | Will Smith, the actor, assaulted the comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars? |
| 0:45.4 | It seems kind of cut and dried. |
| 0:48.0 | Smith physically attacked Rock, apparently over joke, Rock told about Smith's wife, but |
| 0:53.4 | you don't get to physically attack somebody over making a joke. |
| 0:57.8 | Smith was in the wrong as he later acknowledged, although he didn't acknowledge it until |
| 1:03.4 | after he'd been into a lot of parties and done a lot of celebrating and dancing because |
| 1:08.1 | he won the Oscar 30 minutes after he attacked the host. |
| 1:12.2 | So anyway, it would seem to be kind of cut and dried that Smith was in the wrong and |
| 1:19.0 | Rock was not, but a new poll. |
| 1:21.5 | This is why I'm doing this podcast. |
| 1:23.5 | A new poll shows that a majority of Americans do not see it that way. |
| 1:27.7 | His man named David Shore, who is an influential pollster in the Democratic world. |
| 1:33.7 | At age 20, he was a key figure in the 2012 Barack Obama reelection campaign. |
| 1:40.4 | Now he is with the left-wing think tank center for American progress, also in a private company |
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