Paul F. Tompkins
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211 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Paul F. Tompkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. I mean, the the I the number one indication that someone is racist is when they say they're the least racist. Has that ever been said by a non-racist person? It's always got to be, not only am I not racist, I am the least racist person you're ever going to meet. Maybe don't go that far. Because it's so...
Do we know what the sources of the type of controversies? Yes, we're about to get into that. Yeah, okay.
Well, sorry.
Yeah. So now, just so I understand, Rush is this satire that he was doing. Yeah. The idea was here is what left wing people think right wing people are like. And the point he is trying to make is they see us as they see the left wing sees the right wing as, uh, extreme and, uh, hateful and, um, you know, racist and, and close minded. Like, is that, is that the point he was trying to make?
But through the, through the lens of here's how the left sees them.
Yeah. It sounds like it's a protective phrase of like, I was not satirizing these guys directly. I was not satirizing right wing people. I was satirizing how left wing people see right wing. Yes, that is how I have interpreted what I've read. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That does sound like a base covering kind of thing.
Yes. So he's an apolitical guy who's like, this is... This is what this is what politics sounds like to me, I guess.
Yeah, absolutely.
It is absolutely undeniable. And especially if you spent time on Twitter and if you've ever been like I have on occasion, deliberately stupid on Twitter and gotten sincere replies to something that is so obviously a joke. So obviously a joke. It absolutely is fun. There's no way around that. There's no way around that.
Seeing people take you at your word when you say something that's so patently absurd.
And that is the key difference of, you know, you seeing something that catches fire in a, forgive the phrasing, but catches fire in a charged situation and how easily people can glom onto something when everything's so churned up. And then realizing like, oh, words have power. I have to be careful rather than words have power. Here we go. Here we go! Let's use it to sell gold.
You have to know, before I start the story, you have to know.
It's so... It's so the fully formed version of him that I first experienced. And he's really going for it. He's really... He's so aggressive in it and saying, I'm going to come... Clearly, the intention is, I'm going to come on your show and I'm going to take it over and I'm going to be the alpha here. I'm going to dominate you with this. The presentation of the LA Times is because...
why that guy got fired from the la times yeah i mean like no i think he'd been in los angeles and they savaged him in a review right right right okay yeah so it's it's um you know it's that frankly it's like it's all the shit that i hate yeah yeah it is it is it's it's so it's it's aggressive it's mean it's um You know, it's he's also correcting him on one of his, you know, eight catchphrases.
You know, you have to get it right. I say it like this every time. This is the way it goes. You know, it's just it's a drag. It's a drag.
Yeah. It's like when you when you like that, that that understand the the importance of branding over having an actual thing to say, like, honestly, yeah. The what you what the content is secondary to the presentation of here's who I am. I'm going to tell you through repetition. This is my whole thing.
It's like they're, you know, comics that to me, it always makes me think of comedians that majored in marketing in college. Yeah. And then it's like, OK, but are they actually that funny or did they just are they able to really sell themselves so well that the content is secondary to the image?
Look, we're all guilty a little bit.
And before that, already, that doesn't sound good.
He just doesn't see it as a big story. Even just plainly stated... That is terrible.
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