Words Matter: Reflecting on Rob Reiner and his Legacy

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were tragically murdered. Their son, who has history of struggles with addition and mental health, is currently the lead suspect. Across the country, mental health issues have and continue be poorly treated and often stigmatized, when we desperately need compassionate policy reform. On this week’s episode of Words Matter, Norm Ornstein and David Rothkopf discuss Rob Reiner’s artistic and social justice legacy, the inadequacies of our nation’s mental health policies, and how we can address political reform. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.2	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
0:34.9	Hello and welcome to DSR's Words Matter.
0:39.0	Your chance to hear from Norm Ornstein, the Oracle of Washington, D.C.
0:43.8	How are you doing, Norm?
0:45.6	Not well, David.
0:47.3	This has been a very rough week, a very dark time.
0:52.0	All of the murders from Brown to an MIT professor to more boats blown up, but particularly
1:05.3	for me, for Robin, Michelle Reiner.
1:14.0	This has just been a very traumatic time.
1:20.0	Yeah, and I don't think you want to pass over the slaughter at Bondi Beach either.
1:21.6	Yeah, I sure do not.
1:29.1	No, it was a very, very rough weekend, but I did want to talk to you a little bit about Rob Reiner because for several reasons.
1:31.1	One, I assume you know, I met him a few times in the context of Democratic things.
1:36.4	But there's a very, very small sliver of the Washington community, the Democratic community in Washington, who has both not lost their
1:48.7	sense of humor and who have actually some real connections to the world of comedy in Hollywood.
1:55.5	And that sliver on the Venn diagram is just you.
1:58.7	So I just wanted to know, I just, I wanted to know,
2:02.5	you know, how, you know,
2:03.8	your whole sort of series of thoughts on it.
2:08.3	I was actually pretty close to both Rob and Michelle.
2:13.3	They were gracious enough to host a book party
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