Welcome to Asymmetric, liberal brothers and sisters. Doesn't it sound like Arianna has never heard anybody disagree with her? Her statement that she's not really giving a point of view so much as stating facts and everybody who disagrees with them is a nut is hilarious considering that she's factually wrong on everything. The category is "Debunking the Left" as Arianna is an auto-debunker (bunker?
Prager and Goldstein at the screening. I only had my cell phone camera so I used this one from the web site.
I attended a Liberty Film Festival screening last Thursday at the Golden Theater in Hollywood and, like last years' event, had a wonderful time. Dennis Prager co-hosted the evening along with the beautiful Govindini Murty, her lucky husband, Jason Apuzzo, and filmmaker Brooke Goldstein. Murty's enhanced her hosting skills by providing my wife and me with soda and cheese. Dennis impressed the audience with his sense of humor (he occasionally googles "prager asshole" to keep himself modest and kidded about how he won't eat ham, "but shrimp, that's something else.") and graciousness towards the audience- even to the ones who were, unfortunately, sometimes quite rude to Ms. Goldstein (it always pains me to report less-than-polite behavior from people I largely agree with).
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Who:
Talk radio host, passionate moderate, Koran-swearing-in provocateur.
Why:
Many people see being asked about their preferences as an opportunity to impress. Thus, when one is asked about their favorite movie, most people would rather answer with an Amarcord or Seven Samurai than with Bill and Ted's Great Adventure, even though their platinum edition of B and T is never farther than a meter from their DVD player.
Likewise, some people would be slightly embarrassed to name a talk radio host as their favorite "thinker." It would be much better to drop the names of Heidegger or Wittgenstein, no?
Yet, it was talk radio host Dennis Prager who almost single-handedly lifted my political conscience from the deep pit of errors in which it wallowed throughout college (I voted for Dukakis) and a short time afterwards (Perot). I had listened to talk radio a little during that time, but none of them made an impression upon me. Prager, however, was different. He seemed to be at least three
Dennis Prager (born August 2, 1948) is a conservative syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, and public speaker in the United States.Prager is a native of Brooklyn, New York. His parents were also born and raised in Brooklyn. His father, Max Prager, married Hilda Friedfeld on September 14, 1940. They had two sons: Kenneth, born January 3, 1943, and Dennis, born August 2, 1948.Raised an Orthodox Jew, Prager attended Yeshiva Rambam from kindergarten through 8th grade and Yeshivah of Flatbush for high school, where he met his future co-author Joseph Telushkin in the 10th grade. Prager graduated from Brooklyn College in 1970, majoring in Anthropology and History.In 1969, Prager spent his junior year abroad at the University of Leeds in England. Having studied Russian, Prager was sponsored to be sent to the Soviet Union to bring in Jewish religious objects and meet with Russian Jewish dissidents. Upon his return, Prager began his career as a public speaker, lecturing several times a we
Dennis Prager spoke not too long ago about Islam at Chabad of Yorba Linda. Here’s the video of the speech. It’s about 45 minutes long. This was the speech that CAIR was all up in arms about.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5086395766834468199
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