That's accurate, but we will always have Florida. I consider that my own version of Purgatory, and I know I'm not alone.
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Dennis Prager Hurt in Fall
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Thanks for sharing. I don't see it that way. In that short segment, I don't "hear", at all, that what he said could be supportive of the potential banning of other religions. As an observant Jew, he is very familiar with the history of Jewish people, and his support of them is strong. The First Amendment was written to guarantee freedom of speech and the press. Other parts were there to make sure we wouldn't have a national religion. Our Founding Fathers based, on then, their recent history, knew that the new nation had to be open to all religions.
I should probably explain that HE may not feel that way, but what he says fits with those who do. The KKK was built on religious purity, and that this country was built by protestants. So what he was saying would fit in with them. I know a lot of religious Jews who would be offended by what he said. The credit for what is America shouldn't be given to any one specific religious group, but as our national motto states: E Pluribus Unum.
I don't know enough about him to say for certain, but I suspect some of his comments are structured the way they are for self-preservation. That could be his commercial viability in the right-wing media sphere, or even a fear that if he is more outspoken about his personal beliefs, he might become a target for some wingnut who gets too easily offended. We know there are at least a few of those folks out there, as the January 6th riot demonstrated.
By the way, there's a spectrum in "observant Judaism". People who identify as observant generally observe the significant holidays and keep kosher in their eating practices, but there's a range of other practices, from "modern orthodox" (who try to function within the modern world), to the Hasidim (who wear the black hats and long coats, and whose philosophy is to stay away from the modern world as much as possible to avoid its temptations. Judaism's version of the Amish.) There's even a spectrum within Hasidism. My guess is Mr. Prager is Modern Orthodox, and possibly even "Conservative", sort of to the left of "Orthodox". That's probably more info that anybody cared to know.
You realize that, as do most of us in this discussion. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who identify as Christian Nationalist (or similar) who could use a refresher course in American History, government and civics. They don't understand or believe what you wrote.
Bringing this back to radio, as far as I know, there has been no official word, or guestimate, on when Dennis Prager will return to his radio show.
Does he still have limited or no use of his limbs? Seems to me it would be very difficult to be on the radio without use of your hands.
Prager doesn't need to operate the equipment, he just speaks. Someone else can put the phone calls on the air as he requests them, as well as operate the board.
A couple months ago he was on a ventilator. Hard to speak with a tube down your throat.
Yes, agreed. No voice, no show.
But the statement was being on the radio was "difficult ... without use of your hands"
I have a friend who couldn't speak without having his hands available to move. I insisted one time he put his hands in his pockets and then make his point. He was literally unable to speak. All he could vocalize was "uhh....uhh....uhh" until he took the hands out of the pockets. (This is a guy with a genius IQ, BTW, so it's not a matter of intellect.) My friend is not alone in needing to use his hands as he talks.
Dennis Prager may very well be in the same boat. A lot of voice actors and radio talkers (and jocks, of course) put their whole bodies into their performances, even if nobody but their engineer can see the physical performance. Without functioning arms and/or hands, Dennis's own "performance" might become handicapped by his inability to move the way he used to before this accident.
I follow a TV weatherman based in CA who does weather from his home studio for a Nebraska station, hes been unable to speak for awhile.. but has used A.I. to do the speaking parts for him.
If some of you will recall, when Dennis Prager had his radio show cut down to two, from three hours long, he got approved for him to start each hour at the very top of the hour. Therefore, that 6 minutes of news, commercial and promotional content was no longer there. As he recovers and recuperates to the point of resuming his show, it may serve him well to let the top of the hour news, etc... run as it does on every other hour, for every other show.
Yes, and I stand by that. I certainly didn't assume Mr. Prager is operating his own equipment. What I meant is that there's more to putting on a daily talk show than just sitting in a chair and talking aimlessly for 3 hours (or apparently 2 in Prager's case).
Whether that is having notes handy for the show rundown ("Ahead at 3:15 eastern, we're joined by Congressman Bob Smith of North Carolina"), or having some stats or data around to back up an argument ("We spent 113 billion dollars on food stamps in 2023. 113 billion!"). Or being able to read a physical book from an interesting thinker.
Dennis Prager has of course been hosting talk radio as long as I've been alive, so maybe he can stroll into a room and just talk extemporaneously. I can't.
The quotes from his family talk about him being paralyzed, so he may not be walking. He may also be in extreme pain. It's hard to be entertaining when you're physically in pain.
Is that a fellow whose last name is a forest animal?
Yup.. he's not far from you!
He is less than a mile from me. I hired him as PD of KRUX in the 60's when I was OM there (while at ASU). It took him another decade to find his calling in weather.
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