Posted on 08/15/2018 2:09:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former “Celebrity Apprentice” star Penn Jillette had the perfect opportunity to smear President Donald Trump in a recent Vulture interview titled, “In Conversation: Penn Jillette Talking magic, truth, and Trump’s alleged Apprentice Tapes.”
As the name implies, the interview was, by and large, a probe for damaging information about Donald Trump, namely Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s claim that there is a tape of him using the N-word on “Celebrity Apprentice.”
As Glenn noted on Wednesday’s episode of “The Glenn Beck Radio Program,” Jillette is no fan of Trump. And yet, after saying he was “in the room” and had overheard Trump saying “damaging things,” Jillette refused to elaborate on exactly what he’d heard. He called himself “an unreliable narrator,” adding, “I guarantee you that I will get details wrong.”
Here’s an excerpt from the interview, which you can read in full here.
If Donald Trump had not become president, I would tell you all the stories. But the stakes are now high and I am an unreliable narrator. What I do, as much as anything, is I’m a storyteller. And storytellers are liars. So I can emotionally tell you things that happened racially, sexually, and that showed stupidity and lack of compassion when I was in the room with Donald Trump and I guarantee you that I will get details wrong. I would not feel comfortable talking about what I felt I saw in that room.
“I will tell you things, but I will very conscientiously not give you quotations because I believe that would be morally wrong,” he added. “I’m not trying to protect myself. This really is a moral thing.
“I think this is heroic,” Glenn said. “Here’s a guy — when the rest of the world is taking things out of context or ignoring (ah, Chris Cuomo,) ignoring things about people who should not be ignored (Antifa,) but because they are the enemy of your enemy, you make them your friend — here’s a guy who says ‘I don’t want any part of this.’ Yes, I saw things, but I interpret things emotionally and I can tell you what I felt but I can’t tell you what he said because I don’t know if I’ll remember it right.'”
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But if you’re black, it could matter.
If Donald Trump had not become president, I would tell you all the stories. But the stakes are now high and I am an unreliable narrator. What I do, as much as anything, is I’m a storyteller. And storytellers are liars. So I can emotionally tell you things that happened racially, sexually, and that showed stupidity and lack of compassion when I was in the room with Donald Trump and I guarantee you that I will get details wrong. I would not feel comfortable talking about what I felt I saw in that room.
Sounds like this person is saying, "I'm a liar so I shouldn't be believed, but I think I saw/heard bad things from Trump and that should be believed because I'm taking the high road by not talking about it."
I used that analogy purposely.
As I am sure you know, it is a card game reference
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Beck, the illegals advocate NeverTrumper drama queen? What a surprise.
BTW, I'm done watching this ****, which I'd been doing on YouTube:
“I think Penn Gillette is noble here. People say things when they believe they are amongst friends. WE ALL DO. And remember, this was before he had political aspiration. It is amoral to take something someone said years ago in a certain context and relay it in the context of today. I commend him.”
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Could be. I remember Tommy Smothers tearing into him for going on Beck’s show - back before Glenn went off the rails.
Gillette was hurt that one of his entertainment heroes (Smothers) couldn’t understand two people with different opinions actually talking with each other. He was truly shocked that Smothers was such a total ass about it.
---------------------- A few years ago, Jillette recorded a short video about someone who came to talk to him after one of his magic shows. He said the guy was about his age and had participated in one of the acts as an audience member.
The man complimented Jillette on the show, then said, “I brought this for you.” The man held up a small book. It was a New Testament with the Psalms, something that could fit in a person’s pocket.
“I wrote in the front of it,” the man said, “and I wanted you to have this.” The man explained he was a businessman and not crazy.
Jillette, moved by the man’s gesture, recalled: “He was kind, and nice, and sane, and looked me in the eyes, and talked to me, and then gave me this Bible.”
“I’ve always said,” Jillette explained, “I don’t respect people who don’t proselytize. I don’t respect that at all. If you believe there is a heaven and hell, and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life or whatever, and you think it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward.
“How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate someone to believe everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?”
Jillette then offered this example to illustrate his point: “If I believed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe it, that that truck was bearing down on you, there’s a certain point that I tackle you, and this is more important than that.”
“This guy was a really good guy. He was polite, honest, and sane, and he cared enough about me to proselytize and give me a Bible.”
Now, Jillette is still an atheist, and he wanted to make that clear: “I know there’s no God, and one polite person living his life right doesn’t change that.
“But I’ll tell you, he was a very, very, very good man. And that’s really important. And with that kind of goodness, it’s okay to have that deep of a disagreement.
“I still think religion does a lot of bad stuff, but, man, that was a good man who gave me that book. That’s all I wanted to say.”
Sounds about right. I’d say he’s a circumspect person in his words and overall conduct. Though his own thoughts and opinions on current events may not all be to my liking, I’d be surprised if he jumped on every passing celebrity political freak show.
It seems like it took approximately 3 visits with threats before Beck completely folded, then imploded and did far worse to himself than the globalist mobsters ever could have.
In other words, another ZERO!
My daughter’s taxes are $8,000, on a house just under $300,000. She lives in a little town outside of Fort Worth, that’s a very popular place to live, but that just floored me.
Penn can make this all disappear,
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