Michael Walsh

Yeah.

Yeah.

I appreciate it.

I appreciate it.

Well, it started when I was writing a column for National Review magazine about 10 years ago, and I created a character called David Kahane, the name of which I borrowed from the movie The Player, who's the screenwriter who gets murdered by the producer. And so I wrote the character as a crazy Hollywood leftist. And for years, no one knew who actually wrote that column.

Well, it started when I was writing a column for National Review magazine about 10 years ago, and I created a character called David Kahane, the name of which I borrowed from the movie The Player, who's the screenwriter who gets murdered by the producer. And so I wrote the character as a crazy Hollywood leftist. And for years, no one knew who actually wrote that column.

And people were speculating and saying to NRO that you've gone lefty. And who is this person? And I finally came out of the closet as myself. But I decided that since I've been writing Kahane, I was his amanuensis. And that became the origin of my Twitter handle. Got it. And so here we are. I know it's hard to remember.

And people were speculating and saying to NRO that you've gone lefty. And who is this person? And I finally came out of the closet as myself. But I decided that since I've been writing Kahane, I was his amanuensis. And that became the origin of my Twitter handle. Got it. And so here we are. I know it's hard to remember.

I was just in Pasadena on Friday, as a matter of fact. Drew, I just came back from California. I spoke about Rage to Conquer over at the Lux Hotel at an event sponsored by David Horowitz Freedom and the American Freedom Alliance by Karen Sigmund. So we had a good crowd and it was nice to be back in L.A. I hadn't been back for a few years.

I was just in Pasadena on Friday, as a matter of fact. Drew, I just came back from California. I spoke about Rage to Conquer over at the Lux Hotel at an event sponsored by David Horowitz Freedom and the American Freedom Alliance by Karen Sigmund. So we had a good crowd and it was nice to be back in L.A. I hadn't been back for a few years.

Well, let me just give you a little bit of background on myself. I started in newspapers in 1972. That was the summer of Watergate, and I was a young police reporter, cop reporter at the Rochester New York Democrat and Chronicle right out of college. And so we learned our journalism craft to report honestly what we saw.

Well, let me just give you a little bit of background on myself. I started in newspapers in 1972. That was the summer of Watergate, and I was a young police reporter, cop reporter at the Rochester New York Democrat and Chronicle right out of college. And so we learned our journalism craft to report honestly what we saw.

to call it as we saw it and without injecting any opinion in the process, insofar as that is possible. But there was such a thing as objectivity. I would disagree with you slightly. I will tell you that because I've known many of these guys who are at the top of the profession and still in the news right now for 50 years, half a century, they knew exactly what was wrong with Biden.

to call it as we saw it and without injecting any opinion in the process, insofar as that is possible. But there was such a thing as objectivity. I would disagree with you slightly. I will tell you that because I've known many of these guys who are at the top of the profession and still in the news right now for 50 years, half a century, they knew exactly what was wrong with Biden.

They lied on purpose. They weren't delusional. They knew it was a problem. If you talk to them privately, as I did many, many times over the last five decades, they will tell you privately, You're right. Privately, Trump is not Hitler. Privately, Ronald Reagan wasn't a cowboy. Privately, we're not going to start World War III. But they were and are committed, committed to this cause.

They lied on purpose. They weren't delusional. They knew it was a problem. If you talk to them privately, as I did many, many times over the last five decades, they will tell you privately, You're right. Privately, Trump is not Hitler. Privately, Ronald Reagan wasn't a cowboy. Privately, we're not going to start World War III. But they were and are committed, committed to this cause.

And I had further experiences during the cause being what would define the cause for me. It's the leftist cause that that conservatism is Marxism.

And I had further experiences during the cause being what would define the cause for me. It's the leftist cause that that conservatism is Marxism.

Yeah, it's progressivism, I suppose we would call it now. But they tended to be politically liberal from the beginning. I worked at Time magazine, as you pointed out, Drew, for 16 years. And I never had a political conversation with any of my colleagues at Time. It just did not come up. But there's been a split. There's been a break.

Yeah, it's progressivism, I suppose we would call it now. But they tended to be politically liberal from the beginning. I worked at Time magazine, as you pointed out, Drew, for 16 years. And I never had a political conversation with any of my colleagues at Time. It just did not come up. But there's been a split. There's been a break.