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Alastair Campbell

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The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

Just explain to the audience because they don't know about this.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

This was at a briefing, and he was basically โ€“

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

read out this thing from the Bible to a room full of military.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

Somebody has done a brilliant splicey of Samuel Jackson, who I think is playing a murderer.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

And he's sort of doing this incredibly sort of, you know, fire and brimstone reading of what sounds like the Bible.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

But it's not the Bible.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

But P. Hickson, somebody's put this in front of him and said, this will fit at the moment.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

But then he also said that this was the prayer that he says was used by the search and rescue team that saved the downed airman in Iran a few weeks ago.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

And this was the same thing when he said, this is the guy who was downed on Friday and rose on Sunday.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

So to go back to my point about the Holocaust Museum, point eight, this is a deliberate thing of constantly wrapping up what they're doing

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

in religious rhetoric.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

And if you are somebody like Pope Leo, who clearly, clearly can't stand what these people are doing to America and to the world, then you can see why he would get very, very offended.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

I'm very grateful to one of our listeners called Stephen Rogers, who's down in Bristol.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

And after the episode with Dominic, he wrote to me and said that the poster you're quoting from the Washington Holocaust Museum was actually from an essay by a guy called Lawrence W. Britt called Fascism Anyone.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

He said, even more interesting, Lawrence W. Britt wrote a novel in 1997 entitled

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

which was called June 2004.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

And he said, I think you'd find it very, very interesting.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

The trouble is it's out of print.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

If you've struggled to find one, I'll send you mine.

The Rest Is Politics
525. JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time)

It's out of print.