Charles Adler, the newest member of our columnist team but a friend of this web site for some time now, was in fine form today on his national radio show Adler On Line.
I actually missed it (so hat tips to the folks who emailed me with the heads up) but was able to go to the ‘NW98 audio vault and grab it, then recorded some of it for your edification.
After his good interview with socialist NDP leader Jack Layton in which he made Layton squirm, he started taking calls. He was already, well, “unnerved”, I suspect, from Layton’s interview, but the caller got him going…. for about two minutes.
Then he took another call which was mercifully congratulatory and full of praise toward Chuck, but it only got him going again for an even better four minutes or more.
Near the end (at about the 6 minute mark) he takes a call from a citizen named Wesley who, not surprisingly, really puts it all together.
Priceless. Great radio. Mandatory listening. About eight minutes in total.
Click here to listen to Adler go slightly ballistic on the Jack Layton socialists of Canada after interviewing Jack Layton on his show. Go Chuck!
Here’s a transcript for those who can’t listen because you’re at work, but he was, as I said, ON FIRE! and I did it as best I could. You’ll also miss a couple of phone-in callers that are worth hearing.
…And of course what ticks me off is not Jack Layton, it’s all the people who suck up to Jack Layton and all the Jack Laytons and continue to call that the clarion call of the conscience in Canada—the social conscience of Parliament. All that stuff has done is gum up the works. All that stuff has done is take away freedom from individuals to do what they want with their money and if its to buy better healthcare for their wives, their sons or daughters so be it.
Imagine if they were talking this way about the school system. Imagine if someone said to you, “You know what, you can afford to spend your money and you can afford to send you kid to a better school—a private school, a parochial school, a religious school but you know you really shouldn’t do that. Because when you do that you’re not being supportive enough of the public system” and you’re saying excuse me, I pay all those freakin taxes into the public system —what business is it of yours? I’m paying the same taxes as anyone else is paying…
Don’t be telling me what to do with my personal business, my medical business, and my family.
Jack Layton, my family is none of your business. And don’t be telling me that your conscience is superior to mine, because I’m willing to say yeah, I would do anything it takes for my mother, my father, my brother, Lizard Wallace or anyone else I work with, and it’s none of your business. In a free country it shouldn’t be.
And frankly when I hear you telling me that it is your business, that it’s the government’s business, that DOES remind me of the country that many of us escaped from and if we didn’t escape in our own lifetimes, then our ancestors came from there. This country would not have been settled with great people looking for freedom if they weren’t from countries that oppressed them. And there is nothing more oppressive—nothing more oppressive—than the government telling when you can get help, and where to get help, and, I’m going to use a polite term, “raining on you”, but I’m not thinking of “raining”, I’m thinking of something else that comes from somewhere else in your bowels, “raining on you”—for trying to help your own wife. …
The Adler On Line show is on at various times but you can listen online between 4 and 6 (eastern) weekdays —click on our Listen Live list (also a short version in right margin).
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