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People, Personas, and Politics 10 – Not So Shining Beacon Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner March 29, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do America’s enemies take advantage of this? Rick Rosner: Yea! I mean, ISIS and Al-Qaeda both became—particularly ISIS, it arose due to the chaos we caused in the Middle East. When we conquered Iraq, we fired the Iraqi army. Those guys went off and formed the so-called fundamentalist insurgent movements including ISIS. And then I’ve heard—who knows—that Trumps’ travel ban has been called the “Blessed Travel Ban” because it riles people up and makes then want to join. SDJ: What about Vladimir Putin and his crew, and China’s recent claims about human rights being too tilted to Western norms, do you think the weakening of American prestige on the international stage provides – at least those two countries or those two cases – further strength in the repression of their own populations? RR: Yea! Because when we are seen as clowny and impotent, then any ideals we try to promote are compromise, we’ve had, in the last 3 – of the last 3 – presidents, two of them had popular vote minorities and all sorts of chicanery associated with their being elected. And the first, George W. Bush, did a lot of damage, that we’re still struggling with. SDJ: Obama did too. Previous president Obama damage as well with the continuance of many programs including the drone program, which was considered a terrorist campaign by many. RR: Well, the drone program has both horribles and goods. If you’re killing from afar, you’re going to be making mistakes. You’re also going to make mistakes with boots on the ground. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |