Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discuss President Trump’s speech today at the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, and Kamala Harris hitting cable news for the book tour for her 2024 campaign memoir, “107 Days.” Plus, they discuss Jimmy Kimmel returning to the air tonight on ABC. Is that a victory for free speech, or was the whole affair a waste of time? Later, RCP columnist Melinda Henneberger joins the gang to discuss her reaction to Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and her op-ed: “Let’s Respond To Kirk’s Murder By Listening As Well As Speaking” You can listen to the show weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and here on our website. *** The show opened with President Trump’s speech this morning to the United Nations General Assembly, where he delivered the “MAGA” message on issues of war and peace, immigration, and more. “There were really two speeches,” Carl Cannon commented. “The first was the jingoistic speech written for him, and then there was the riffing, where he starts talking about his familiar things — tariffs, how he deserves seven Nobel Peace Prizes. But he had a pointed message that allowing unlimited migration is wrecking Europe’s heritage.” “My impression was that people in that room, as opposed to the last time he spoke there, were not laughing at him – they were laughing with him. And that may be in part because they fear him now in a way that they didn’t, and they understand that they have to deal with him,” Andrew Walworth commented. *** After that, starting at minute 10, the 2024 campaign memoir from Kamala Harris is finally published, and she’s hit MSNBC, “The View,” and more on her book tour. Is she going to be able to position herself to run again or is this her final round? “Democrats are not happy with this book,” Tom Bevan said. “I guess she’s just trying to make some money and stay in the conversation, and it looks like, you know, she wants to run in 2028, or at least she wants to have the option to run in 2028 if she so desires.” “Saying ‘I want to be part of the conversation’ is pretty directly saying, I’m not going away; I’m gonna run again for something. That’s what I took from it,” Cannon said. “In this book and the interviews, she thinks she was loyal to Joe Biden, but that Joe Biden and Jill Biden and the Biden family and the Biden inner circle were not loyal to her.” *** Next, starting at minute 20:30, Jimmy Kimmel is returning to the air tonight on ABC after a five-day suspension. Some say this is a victory for free speech, others say ABC has just caved in to pressure, or was the whole affair a waste of time? “He wasn’t celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death like some of these other wackos have done,” Bevan said. “I hate using the word martyr — because Charlie Kirk actually was martyred — but I don’t think Jimmy Kimmel deserves that. This made him this sort of poster boy for free speech, which he didn’t deserve to be, quite frankly.” *** Finally, at minute 29, RCP columnist Melinda Henneberger joins the gang to discuss her reaction to Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and her op-ed: “Let’s Respond To Kirk’s Murder By Listening As Well As Speaking” “After Kirk’s death, a very smart, kind-hearted person of goodwill, an editor I used to work with at the New York Times, told me that she had never heard of Kirk before his death. And that really bothered her a lot, as it should. And so I thought, wow, man, we really need to get out of our silos,” Henneberger explained. “We’re getting trapped in there by our, you know, by these social media algorithms. And so we have to climb out in real life and not just talk to people who feel differently, but listen to them.” “Even worse than that, with the information silos we live in, people on the left who did know of Charlie Kirk got this distorted view of him because the things that they were reading,” Tom Bevan added. “They knew about him, but they knew about him in a vastly distorted way. And that’s one of the things that helped contribute to his death, I think, ultimately.” “It would be interesting to know, wouldn’t it, how Tyler Robinson knew about him,” Henneberger said. “I’m constantly surprised at the broad-brush assumptions that people make about people in the other tribe that really are not right.” *** Don’t miss a single episode of the RealClearPolitics weeknight radio show – subscribe at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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