fictitious one in washington, d.c., loosely based on rupert murdoch and she goes down the path of being a really good journalist that works for an o that tries to goose coverage, and in some cases it gets ethically shady and false and there are ramifications in the book for lucy having to do with it, and we see with ray epps or the election lying story having to do with dominion, there are serious consequences for the real life rupert murdoch. so as they say, history doesn t repeat itself, but it rhymes and there s a lot of rahyming in th book. i lived through the new york blackout and the son of sam of. do you remember son of sam? they hid it from me in philadelphia as a kid. i didn t know about it. my sisters were scared of it, because he was of course targeting women, but absolutely. and the new york post was murdoch owned and newsstands sales going through the roof as
donald trump, so-called ultra maga. if the republicans get together, try to move to the center, they can win. neil: all right. we will watch closely. guys, thank you very very much. thank you. neil: and that s through history. they say that history doesn t repeat itself, but sometimes politically it sure does rhyme. we ll see if it rhymes this go round. that will do it here, fox news continues. have a safe weekend, everyone. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. one role of a lifetime. one sore throat. but she had enough. she took mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who s boss. mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours.
should not shock people. we have seen this movie before. history doesn t repeat itself, but it sure often does rhyme. we re in a sort of 1930s moment. hate, specifically anti-semitism and white nationalism, they re on the right on the right, aided in some cases by politicians. in her podcast, ultra, my friend and colleague rachel maddow tells a story of a time not too long ago in our country s history when a nazi agent named george sylvester byron attempted to infiltrate congress. with the help of his pal, senator earnest lundin, george sylvester had roped in dozens of sitting members of congress to help him launder and disseminate nazi propaganda using the ressources of the united states congress. we have a number of the biggest figures in american politics in this period, men who were trucy household names, the biggest names in republican congressional politics, they all full under the spell of this
and the american first and the isolationists refused to acknowledge it. i have had holocaust survivors and their children tell me that they feel like we re in a sort of 1930s moment in this country where there s an openness to fascism that they haven t seen since that era. and what do you make of americans resistance to understanding the difficult parts of our history such that we won t repeat them? you know, it s so that s such a wonderful question, and it goes to the heart of all of my work. you know, history doesn t repeat itself, but as mark twain is supposed to have said, it rhymes. so all of the films i do seemingly safely in the distant past aren t safe. you know, there s an america first committee. what does trump have? there s lindbergh, who is an out and out anti-semite. he s finally kind of banished, if you will. he says something in des moines