i said leftism. and -- i said leftism, and i said the yiddish press was the most procommon just press in america in the 18930s. i'm very careful we my language. i never said they were pro communist. >> caller: that was a different statement. those are two separate statements that you made at different times. you definitely said the jews look at communism as the new religion. >> guest: sir, sir, i'm sorry. i don't know what the routine is here, i let people who differ with me have all the time they want on my show, and this is not my show. but you can't say what is not true and then pass over it. said, when jews abandoned judaism, they stayed unless their -- stayed religious in their desire to improve the world and picked a bunch of otherrisms, marxism, and i said a few communism. that's what said, sir, it's on top. >> host: bob go ahead and finish you're statement. >> caller: there's no question about the fact he was talking about communism and insaid of saying some jews, it was jews. the -- the stat

and that's what sustains leftism.because right -- the right must be so awful i better be on the left because i have good heart. >> host: where do you grow up in. >> caller: brooklyn new york. my father, who is still with us, is 94, and will be on my radio show on his birthday as he has been every day for years. was until very recently a certified public account. i'm one of his clients and he is very, very good and his rate was great. i must say that, too. aside from everything else. my mother, during her heyday, she ran a 300 bed nursing home. and she passed away three years ago. >> were they consecutive? >> guest: that's a very interesting question, were they conservative. i was raised -- brooklyn jew, columbia university, give me a break. you're going to be a democrat. it comes in your birth certificate. the first republican i ever voted for was reagan and i voted for jimmy carter first term. what in values i think ultimately the values i got at home were conservative. but the -- but we were democrats. that was a gi

about trying to be popular and neutering the new public by taking out the contrarian element which is leftism and the democratic party which is a healthy and wonderful thing for both parties and washington. that is the only way the people actually grow. and democrats, they don't really need to self-criticize right now because they just re-elected jimmy carter for the third time. it is a miracle. but if you go on facebook just read what some of your liberal friends are saying. they are very partisan and very apologetic and completely out of touch with reality. >> 19% of republicans said there is nothing they disliked about their party. 37% of democrats said the same thing about their party. is that actually dangerous about the democrats? >> absolutely. there was a thing going on about our friend julian sanchez launched three or four years ago , epistemic closure. and he had a point and there is something to that everyone talking in their media bubbles and at each other have lost the idea of internal criticism. that is happening on the left right now. the right and the republican party which i

goodman if goodman speaks for the majority i must reconcile myself to the minority status typical leftism donna, i remember another time when amy's role was grossly and unfairly compromised march march 8, 2002, international women's day and sponsoring a rally was civil disobedience several of us broke through a police line in front of the white house arrested by park police and amy was videotaping the action but was arrested anyway. i was in a paddy wagon with her as we were taken to jail and she was fuming the entire trip. keep up your brave journalism. >> guest: that was a significant moment. i was actually on my cell phone interviewing these women in front of the warehouse diminish to break through asking what they we're doing. and going on differing community radio stations. for when i moved back as the police were moving in they took me first. >> host: amy goodman made the statement flaring off the gas on the oil wells was being done in nigeria and it was illegal and the u.s. but it is being done in the balkans and in north dakota senate that is very interesting. i do want to know mo