Le Show, June 14, 2015 by Harry Shearer | Free Audiobook

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Le Show, June 14, 2015 Author: Harry Shearer Narrator: Harry Shearer Format: Original Recording Length: 58 mins Language: English Release date: 06-14-15 Publisher: Century of Progress Productions Genres: Comedy, Satire Summary: About Harry Shearer: He co-wrote and starred in the seminal rock mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap; he's the voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Kent Brockman, and nearly a dozen other characters on the long-running FOX-TV hit, The Simpsons; and he was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Le Show, has been on the air since 1983. Contact: [e-mail]

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It has been done before. In both Afghanistan and a Rock,
similar campaigns were carried out. They were called ink Blot strategies. Okay,
glad we had those meetings to come up with a
new name because it's working so well. But the name
is better, you see this time. So now the Sunday

(00:20):
morning YAK shows, of course here in the United States,
were filled with talk about Hillary Clinton's rally yesterday Roosevelt
Island in New York City. Franklin Roosevelt had the proclaimed
the four Freedoms. Hillary Clinton proclaimed the four Fights. Let

(00:43):
me quote from a speech quote. My focus is on
working families, people trying to make house payments and car payments,
working overtime to say for college, and do right by
their kids. So often powerful forces and powerful interests stand
in your way, and the odds seem stacked against you,
even as you do right for you and your family.

(01:05):
Big tobacco, big oil, the big polluters, the pharmaceutical companies,
the HMOs. Sometimes you have to be willing to stand
up and say no so families can have a better life.
And that's the difference in this election. Therefore, the powerful
we're for the people. There's a candidate pledging to fight
for the middle class. So also in that speech, No,

(01:29):
that wasn't yesterday, that was Al Gore two thousand, fighting
for the middle class. The meme of fighting for the
middle class clearly did not originate with Hillary Clinton. It's
been around in Democratic campaign circles for quite a while,

(01:52):
promoted by, among others, a longtime Democratic political consultant operative
a strategist named Robert Trump, whose candidates always proclaim they
were fighting, fighting for you, fighting for the thing fine,
And it occurred to me that perhaps the point of

(02:14):
the exercise. It's widely believed to be designed to appeal
to the Democratic, liberal or progressive base that is concerned
about incoming inequality, and certainly Hillary Clinton and her campaign
people feel the the desirability of appealing to those people,

(02:40):
especially since there are candidates in the Democratic primary running
to her left. But it occurs to me there's another
purpose for the continual use of this fighting meme, and
it has nothing to do with the issues. It has
to do with the fact that Republicans are always accusing
Democrats of being week on something, week on communism, week
on terrorism, week on the week on that, And the

(03:01):
idea is no We're not weak. We're fighters. We're fighters.
So it may I know this is radical to say,
it may have nothing to do with the issues. Hillary
Clinton did make one really memorable to me memorable statement
in her appearance yesterday at Roosevelt Island, and I think

(03:27):
it goes something like this.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'll propose specific policies to reward businesses who invest in
long term value rather than the quick book, because that
leads to higher growth for the economy, higher wages for workers,
and yes, bigger profits.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Everybody will have a better time.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Now, if you read as I did the printed text
of her speech, I know I had time to kill
that last line wasn't in it.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
That apparently was an ad lib while she was trying
to find her place in her in her text. But
it just sounded to me like like hootin' any time.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Everybody will have a better time. Everybody will have a
better time. Everybody will have a better time. Everybody will
have a better time.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Come on, everybody, all right, nobody, Hello, Welcome to the show. Wednesday,