That’s a famous segment from Paul Harvey’s radio show, unearthed by Citizens Free Press. It’s fascinating in retrospect and worthy of reflection no matter what your political orientation may be. I place it in the same category as “A Clockwork Orange” and “Network,” commentaries that seemed dystopian and extreme when they first appeared, but that when viewed now are disquietly familiar. The date makes Harvey’s commentary particularly interesting, for 1964 was the cusp of the Sixties, right before its tornado winds blew traditional values and American respect for its institutions into tiny pieces, never again to be assembled quite as securely again.

Harvey was a proud conservative, of course: many of his beliefs today are considered Cro-Magnon. He was not responsible for the video, which engages in several cheap shots; the gay couple from “Modern Family,” for example, don’t deserve their appearance here: it was a loving same sex marriage between two kind men who were loving parents (and the least strange characters in the show). Nevertheless, Harvey was prescient in many ways, unfortunately for all of us.

1. How do PolitFact’s partisan hacks look at themselves in the mirror? The most biased and dishonest of all the factchecking organizations—and that’s quite a distinction—was at it again this week as it joined the effort to pretend Kamala Harris isn’t what she is.

The ludicrously progressive-biased service took aim at Donald Trump’s statement on August 1 that Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.” It found the statement to be “mostly false,” which is Politifact-ese for “true, but we don’t want to admit it.” Its argument is comically dishonest. Kamala Harris, running for President in 2019, said, “I support a mandatory gun buyback program” for assault weapons. That’s pretty clear, don’t you think? Trump characterized this as support for gun confiscation, and because Harris never used that word, Politifact says that the implication is false (after all, Donald Trump lies almost as much as PolitiFact). But if a gun buyback program is mandatory, than the government must enforce it. Enforcing a buyback program requires forceful confiscating of guns.

“The phrase ‘gun confiscation’ is broad and could lead voters to think that Harris wants to confiscate all guns from law-abiding owners. That’s not what she has said.” Uh, if a politician wants to confiscate one type of guns, then it is reasonable that the same politician will want to confiscate other guns when the first confiscation has no effect on gun deaths, which is overwhelmingly likely.

“Further, those rights are constitutionally protected by the Second Amendment. In the U.S. gun buybacks are programs organized by local police departments that voluntarily allow people to turn over their guns in exchange for something, such as a gift card.” Uh, but Harris specifically said “mandatory,” not voluntary. Harris’s policy preference was unconstitutional, like a lot of her policy preferences. So PolitiFact pretends she didn’t say what she said or mean what she meant.

“While running in the presidential primary in 2019, the then-California senator said she supported a “mandatory gun buyback program” for assault weapons. It did not apply to all guns, and she no longer holds that position.” Uh, who said she “no longer holds that position”? How does anyone know what position Harris holds?Has she ever said, “I hereby disown my previous position that there should be a mandatory buyback of semi-automatic weapons; that was foolish and wrong”? No.

2. Two down, a lot more to go. Rep. Cori Bush, arguably the dumbest and least qualified for Congress of the generally repulsive members of The Squad, joined her main competition for that distinction, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, as a lame duck after getting beaten soundly in the Democratic primary this week. Bush handled her defeat with the class, intelligence and grace that has marked her nearly two years polluting the Halls of Congress. She blamed her defeat on racism and Jews (and not that voters eventually decide that they don’t want to be represented by a bigoted, ignorant moron) and screamed at her election night rally,

“AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down. Pulling me away from my position as congresswoman, all you did was take some of the strings off. Let’s be clear, let’s be clear, let’s be clear…let’s talk about what it really is. As much as I love my job, all they did was radicalize me, so now they need to be afraid. They about to see this other Cori, this other side. And let me put all of these corporations on notice: I’m coming after you too. But I’m not coming by myself. I’m coming with all the people that’s in here. I don’t fear you. I don’t fear anything … so if this happened it was meant to happen.”

“The Squad, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s hear it for these icons of progressive values!”

3. Bush was sufficiently vile that the White House felt it had to express disapproval. “This kind of rhetoric is inflammatory and divisive and incredibly unhelpful … It is important to be mindful in what we say and how we say it,” White House paid liar Karine Jean-Pierre babbled. I do not think the White House is in any position to condemn inflammatory and divisive rhetoric…

…do you?

4. I don’t know how the nation can ever get past racial division if the culture continues to give incentives for blacks and their allies to blame every adverse life result on racism. (And Kamala Harris is certainly not going to help fix that problem…).

Case in point: Brendan Depa was a Matanzas High School (Florida) student when he was recorded in a video as he brutally beat a teacher’s aide in 2023. The 19-year old pleaded no contest to a charge of aggravated battery on a school employee and faces up to 30 years in prison. The evidence showed that he chased the aide, screaming obscenities, “down a hallway, pushed her so violently from behind that she flew through the air and was knocked unconscious when she landed in the hallway floor.” He then “proceeded to kick her, then jump on top of her, striking her in the head and body more than 15 times.”

Clearly, sending him to prison is proof of systemic racism, or so his mother says. “They are punishing that he is black, they are punishing that he is large and they are punishing his disability,” she told the news media. “I think he needs help. Absolutely. I think he needs help. And I think he needs treatment but I don’t think he needs to be put away in a prison where he’s going to be taken advantage of or harmed,” Leanne Depa said.

This was not her son’s first violent outburst. I think he needs to be kept away from people, and race has nothing to do with it.

5. Related to this story and Black Lives Matter supporter Cori Bush is yesterday’s anniversary of Mike Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Bush, like many others (including Kamala Harris) maintains that he was just an innocent young teen murdered by a racist cop. John Sexton yesterday published an excellent and infuriating review of the whole “Hand up! Don’t shoot!” hoax, which is well worth reviewing. The degree to which the news media enthusiastically spread what was shown conclusively to be lie by Obama’s Justice Department, and you know that must have killed them, was never sufficiently acknowledged or addressed.