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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

Whittling Down the Truth: Politics and Humor with Bill Whittle

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hans' guest is Bill Whittle, political writer and commentator, cohost of the Right Angle, and producer of multiple documentaries on important topics like the Russian Revolution and the Apollo program. Bill talks about the revolution that seems to be going on right now in Washington.

 Instead of the usual classic movie review, a recommendation on a new museum in Washington worth visiting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.8

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

0:08.4

This is Hans von Spakovsky, and you are watching and listening to Case in Point.

0:13.2

Our episode today is whittling down the truth, politics and humor with Bill Whittle.

0:18.0

Sorry, Bill, I couldn't.

0:18.9

No, it's okay.

0:19.5

I couldn't resist.

0:21.1

I had a job as an editor in Hollywood for 15 years, and somebody said that's just a perfect

0:25.2

name to have for an editor. It is. I've been in Hollywood. I've been in Washington, D.C.

0:32.5

now for over two decades through four administrations, and I have never seen a more hectic, busy five months

0:40.6

in any administration in those 20 years. From politics to culture to the law, we are seeing

0:46.6

fights and battles, not just in the halls of Congress, but in courtrooms all over America,

0:54.1

in Hollywood, the streets of Los Angeles, and the concert halls,

0:59.2

including in the premier concert venue of the Kennedy Center.

1:04.2

Here to talk about today is political commentator Bill Whittle, co-host of Right Angle.

1:11.1

Bill, I have to say, I was astonished when I was reading your biography.

1:15.5

You seem to have been everywhere and done everything, everything from writing and producing in Hollywood to being a political commentator.

1:24.7

I mean, you've been published.

1:26.5

I think you started it. It may have

1:28.7

been PJ Media. I started at PJ Media, too, but you can, folks can see and hear you on Fox News and

1:36.9

elsewhere. But you're also a licensed pilot. And I think at one point you had an ambition to be a

1:42.6

test pilot for the Air Force. Yeah, I was going to, my plan from the age, I saw the Thunderbirds when I was five in Bermuda. My dad was a hotel manager in Bermuda and the Thunderbirds came to what was in Kinley Air Force Base. And I just thought, oh, it'd be a fun day. And when they flew over the first time I just dropped my ice cream cone right there.

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