Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed all-star panelist and The Epoch Times’ Editor-at-Large Roger Simon in-studio to weigh in on Joe Biden’s visible decline in mental faculties and its effects on the United States.
Leahy: We are joined in-studio by my very good friend, all-star panelist, the former CEO of PJTV, Pajamas Media. You were my boss there for a period of time and an excellent boss you were.
Simon: Thank you. But I’ve lost memory of what happened. (Laughter)
Leahy: Also Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
Simon: I lost memory of that, too. Wait a minute. This is trouble.
Leahy: Who is this guy? Who is this guy? Well, he sounds pretty smart, but now you’ll remember this: You are the senior contributing editor at The Epoch Times, and I’m told, perhaps the most well read, most prolific, shall we say, most followed, most heavily downloaded opinion writer at The Epoch Times.
Simon: On my good days.
Leahy: Roger Simon, great to have you in here. Roger, we have a terrific program today. At 7:15, a very intelligent attorney we’ve had on before, a constitutional scholar, also an expert on public securities law, Akiva Cohen will be talking about the Musk acquisition of Twitter. He’s got a few little twists and turns on that. And so we’ll talk about that.
Simon: Maybe he won’t like the piece I wrote at The Epoch Times the other day recommending that Musk also buy Facebook.
Leahy: Well, we’ll see.
Simon: Very costly, though.
Leahy: Yeah, exactly. But I want to talk in this segment – typically, we’ll do a little bit of local news, et cetera, but this is a big-picture question for you. You look at where we are right now with the legal but not legitimate incompetent grifter-in-chief, Joe Biden, who has done everything wrong, everything to make America weak, to make the world more dangerous through his weakness.
We’ve got this terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine. We’re two months and five days into it. It looks like the Russian war machine is grinding slowly into Eastern Ukraine and decimating Mariupol, the city there that’s virtually gone. Murdering or killing thousands of civilians in Ukraine. A very terrible situation.
Simon: I hope they don’t get to Odessa. My family came from Odessa. They’re not there anymore.
Leahy: The problem I see with this is we have a guy who’s the dictator in charge, I suppose, Vladimir Putin, who seems to be unhinged and absolutely focused on expanding Russia’s geographic footprint, going as far as he can get away with.
It’s comparable, to me, to the aggressive acquisitions of other countries that Hitler conducted in ’38, ’39, and ’40 that prompted World War II. The difference is at that time, Adolf Hitler did not have nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin does.
Simon: The other difference is there was somebody home in the United States of America. Now we have a situation where quite literally at the top of our country, nobody’s home.
Leahy: Nobody is home.
Simon: Knock, knock. The images of Biden shaking hands with the air that people saw, and also the Easter Bunny that turned out to be hidden under the costume, somebody telling him “don’t say that.” That’s insane. That’s out of some dystopic movie or novel that you’ve meant as a comedy, but it’s a tragedy.
Leahy: It’s a tragedy in process. So if you look in 1940, when Hitler was engaging in this aggressive action to acquire the territory land of neighboring countries … 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 59 years old. Now he would die five years later – he had some heart problems that ended in his death and had some health issues. But Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 59 was sharp. He was on his game.
Simon: In defense of people who are older. I know tons of people his age.
Leahy: Who haven’t lost it.
Simon: I don’t know anybody who’s as gaga as that. I have to be frank, he’s exceptionally bad for his age. Sophocles wrote Oedipus at Colonus at 90. It’s one of the great classic plays of all time. So it’s not just age, it’s him.
Leahy: He’s weak. He’s not on his game and the world is in a very dangerous situation now because of his weakness.
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