Walter Kirn

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1,232 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 24 Nov

Walter Kirn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Erika Kirk on Continuing Charlie's Mission, Marriage Advice, and Power of Prayer, Plus Walter Kirn on UFOs and TDS | Ep. 1200 · 24 Nov 2025 podcast

Dude, get out of my fucking face.

I'm not in your face.

Get out of my face.

Well, my real name is Walter the Fish Kern.

And Joe Pesci's my hero.

And that Joe Pesci can stand up next to Robert De Niro and be even tougher than him is inspiration to little guys like me.

So this guy started in about five minutes before he turned on the camera because that's the guerrilla viral video technique.

Get them all wound up and then catch them at their worst moment.

But it might have been my best moment.

And then more than that, I wrote I was the national editor for the New Republic magazine.

You know, I don't think they've gone one cover for 15 years without making fun of Trump or so on.

I was at Spy magazine in the 80s, a magazine in New York City, which was almost devoted entirely to making fun of Donald Trump back when he was a playboy real estate developer.

So I was a gold plated liberal.

The problem was

I couldn't keep lying about certain things.

Well, Obamacare costing me a couple thousand dollars a month didn't help.

You know, pocketbook issues for a middle-class freelance writer who's trying to raise a family are very important.

But I think what really happened was this Russiagate business.

When I and all these other journalists were expected to sign off on the notion that Donald Trump was an agent of the Russian president.

And the only thing that was preventing me from spreading that news was evidence.

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