Greg Lukianoff
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We did a documentary about Ira Glasser called Mighty Ira, which was my video team and my protege, Nico Perino, and Chris Malby and Aaron Reese put it together.
And it just follows the life and times of Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU.
Oh, yeah.
Who's Ira?
Amazing.
Ira, he wasn't a lawyer.
He started working at the NYCLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union, back in, I think, the 60s.
I think Robert Kennedy recommended that he go in that direction.
And he became the president of the ACLU right at the time that they were suffering from defending the Nazis at Skokie.
And Nico and Aaron and Chris put together this โ and they'd never done a documentary before.
And it came out so, so well.
And it tells the story of the Nazis in Skokie.
It tells the story of the case around it.
It tells the story of the ACLU at the time and what a great leader Ira Glasser was.
And one of the things that's so great is like when you get to see the Nazis at Skokie, they come off like the โ
idiots that you would expect them to.
There's a moment when the rally is not going very well and the leader gets flustered.
It almost seems like he's going to shout out, kind of like, you're making this Nazi rally into a mockery.
It showed how actually allowing the Nazis to speak at Skokie kind of took the wind out of their sails.
The whole movement, it all kind of dissolved after that because they looked like