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David Remnick

lines on the record: 93
first: 2019-07-01
most recent: 2019-07-01
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Legendary folded. And I had nothing to do. So I went and I taught in Japan and then traveled around on two cents a day in Southeast Asia and then came back to the post and got a job.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Trying to get out of college. Well, I think the demands on me, journalistically while in college, weren't that intense. And when I got out of school, I had been an intern once at Newsday and then at the Washington Post, and I thought I was going to land the job at the Washington Post. And the only problem was that the other paper in town, which was a damn good paper called The Washington Star.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the Hyde Park Carol. So, in all this research I did about Obama, I spent hours and hours and hours reading the clips of one David Axelrod and many others in the Hyde Park Herald. It's a really, it was a good paper”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I edited the high school newspaper and wrote it all by myself, like one of those, I once met a guy who ran the last Yiddish paper in New York, and he not only edited it, but almost all the articles were by him under various pseudonyms. As the Yiddish community, the secular Yiddish community died off. And in college, instead of waiting on tables to make the dough I needed to buy books and things like that, I was a stringer for newspapers all over the great state of New York.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I thought, well, then I'll get a job at the Village Voice. That was my money-making scheme, which sadly no longer exists. And so in college, I started.”
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“And Dylan was the hub of this. These spokes of interest that would develop and develop. But at the same time, I knew that it was not in my future to just go to a garret and write Sister Carrie or Invisible Man. I needed to make a living. Yeah, partly your parents knew that they were. Comple”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a theory that For kids, pretension precedes accomplishment. In other words, this is why adolescents to us, you know, teenagers, oh, the kid is so pretentious. Well, that's good. That means there's a pretense toward being a scientist or a poet or a something. That's okay. Interesting. And so I was ridiculous. I would have had all these books on my shelf that I couldn't possibly understand, but that led to eventually reading them.”
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“It's very so my earliest enthusiasm because I'm a child of rock and roll and that my earliest enthusiasm that had any intellectual import beyond yaya was Bob Dylan and I started listening to this and it's just my head blew up. And so everything that he would mention in a song became an interest of mine. So if all of a sudden somebody named TS Eliot and Ezra Pound were mentioned in a song as he is, I'd go out to some mused bookstore and buy these books. And I couldn't, of course, couldn't understand what the hell they were talking about.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Out of the tunnel instead of a left turn, he would have ended up, actually not far from where David Chase grew up is where I grew up. And among mostly Irish Americans and Italians and a few Jews, and very few people of color. Ambition to my parents meant doctor or lawyer. That was it. Not unusual.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So on the other hand, There was nothing but unalloyed love for their two sons. There was none of that darkness there. You know, this was really they wanted the best for us. And, you know, I grew up in a dull... Middle class Jersey town and when you're in a vicious kid in”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, I don't know how sophisticated my thinking about it was at six I was, you know, but I remember that happening right away. It's probably my earliest memory. These people that talk about what they remember when they're two, which certainly doesn't apply to me.”
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“Uh, Well, he was okay. Did that impact on you? It was right there in front of your face. The decline was there. I think illness of parents to kids is in some ways. It's the secret that everybody knows. And it's scary. It affects your thinking about your future. Even young, I had some real knowledge that We all end up having to take care of our parents, or usually in some way or another. That's just a natural course of things. But I knew that I would have to do it pronto. And my father getting ill hastened it”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Parkinson's, and you do not want a Parkinsonian dentist if it weren't so tragic, it would seem like a comedy. And my mother had MS since I was about six and she was asking you.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, even more typically, my father, it was a dentist, very small town dentist who really lost everything when he became sick. My mother.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The typical Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, I think we share this. My grandparents all came from places like Ukraine. So the failure settlements and made their way to Ellis Island on boats at the usual time, which is to say late 19th century, very early 20th, and they wash up in places like Brooklyn and Lori Side and the rest.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When marshalled by Fox News or Donald Trump, you know, San Francisco is supposed to mean Pyongyang. I mean, it's amazing to me that it's employed like this.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And places like South Carolina David, you bring up a good point. So her identity politically is more particularized, even though she was a prosecutor. She does come out of this San Francisco Milia of Nancy Pelosi. Not just about race. It talks about culture. Yeah. And San Francisco, even more than New York.”
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“If I get one word wrong on race with particularly me Barack Hussein Obama sitting in the Oval Office, things can go kafluyuy.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“White police officer Skip was trying to get into his house. The cop thinks he's breaking in. It was a disaster. And Obama. It ended up in this so called beer summit, which was probably a ridiculous resolution of that thing, but there it was. And I started asking him about it. And Obama, who can be informal interview. Stentorian and generalizes the rest. He knows what he's doing. So we do that with the tape recorder going and on the record. Interview ends. He walks down the hall to go do something else. I don't know, solve a war somewhere or whatever. Then he comes all the way back and he says, look, man, you got to understand. If I talk about race and I get one word wrong, it's like me talking about interest rates. The markets will go crazy.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very well. And he knew, I'll tell you, I'll never forget this. At a certain interview with Obama, we were talking about race. I think we were talking about the Henry Lewis Gates. Incident. This”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“King and all these people, no, it wasn't that, it was a sui generis thing where he's making a particularized struggle, a generalized struggle.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And feel comfortable. It was natural, but he also knew how to master this identity, too. Look at when he won the Iowa Caucuses, yes. You look at that speech I still can't get over it. Because what it did was borrow from the cadences of the civil rights movement. They said this time would never come. Right. Well, what does that mean exactly? Right, right. We knew if you were open to it, you felt what he was talking about. But did he quote directly”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So there was that speech, and there was identity But it was an identity that Did not strike in the same way that Jesse Jackson would.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“600 and something pages about the guy. So you're not an idle speculator on the subject. But, you know, once you get pretty so far south of Chicago, the politics of Illinois suddenly become more reminiscent of Kentucky and the South than they do of, you know, the New York metro area or California. What were Obama's distinguishing things from Hillary Clinton? Well, he gave an anti-war speech. He gave an anti war speech when he was a state senator and barely anybody knew him who sponsored that speech. Wealthy Chicago liberals and pretty far left. Carl Davidson, a community of former STS people.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Me's advantage, and it's a weird state because you know, Chicago, and God knows Hyde Park, where he's from insofar he's from there, which”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because in so many ways he was sui generous. And in so many ways, He wasn't attached to that much of a political identity.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“the moment because i think i think it's ephemeral because because of wisconsin pennsylvania michigan working class people but i think what kamala harris is trying to do i'm not saying that she's now the front runner by any stretch because we haven't even discussed elizabeth warren and others but what kamala harris is clearly trying to do is on the one hand announce her progressive positions that she has now, but also gestured toward her bona fides as a prosecutor. Now, if you're on the left, you are really dubious of her career as a prosecutor. And you'll hear more about that.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But once you get outside of that, there's so much else that's problematic that it's going to be a very tough road for him. And age is also just, it's, he would be, if we were elected. The oldest person ever to go into eight.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Joe Biden just has a lot going for him that's just kind of, but it's ephemeral. He has name recognition and above all, and he will keep telling us this from now until the end, he was Barack Obama's vice president.”
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“Rulie Giuliani and the kind of right-wing press Schweitzer and Fox and all the rest. That's one thing, and he's had terrible addiction problems and associated with that is a lot of erratic personal behavior. And, you know, addiction is something that is adjacent to or is in every family in America, in the world. By no means does this story hold up addiction and, you know. Something is terrible. It's disease, but it's something that has to be dealt with and it's very clear that Joe Biden has tried to I don't know, shield, protect, deal with his son in a loving way, but at the same time has given him great latitude. And it's a problem. It's a problem for Joe Biden. It's certainly, at the very least, something that consumes his would for any parent attention.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He could run for president, and with his brother's help. Might win. And Bo Biden, as you know, died of brain cancer, which was the reason, or at least one of the reasons why Joe Biden did not run for president or challenge Hillary Clinton last time. And Boe Biden's now gone and Hunter Biden has just had a much rougher time of it. He's been involved in business dealings that are at the very best problematic for his father. They present a conflict of interest appearance.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“by a really terrific investigative reporter who came to the New Yorker a bit over a year ago named Adam Entus in which he speaks at fantastic length with Hunter Biden. The drama is this. Joe Biden, when he was very young, Ran for Senate in Delaware, and his wife and... And his daughter were killed in a car accident, and the two sons were also very seriously injured. The two sons survived Boe Biden. Hunterbiden. And if you read Joe Biden's books, clearly Boe Biden, not that he didn't love both sons, but Boe Biden was the”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Obama learned how to do that. He had skills, but he also learned Obama. Let's remember she is what Obama was voting for Congress against Bobby Rush. Look at the film of that as I did.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Looking away rather than I'm looking toward. I mean, last night when Kamal Harris was on, I was looking right at her. I wanted to hear what she said. She had an exquisite sense of timing, like when she said the American people don't want a food fight. The air went out of about four different candidates right there. That's right. But that's like an athlete. Obama.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Job the great dramas of human life. You're at the New Yorker offices and we had an editor here. Was probably the most distinguished editor of the 20th century in many ways, William Sean. Yes. On the other hand, he kept staying on and on and on, and it came to the point when he was reaching 80 where There was a succession drama in that he never kind of put people in place who could succeed him in a good way. And it wasn't the best part of his biography, let's put it that way. A president at seventy six, knowing that you are Vulnerable because of your very long history. And you can also, he comes off as a little odd sometimes. There's a certain kind of, I'm looking away rather than a...”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Joe Biden, who, for whatever other qualities he has and history has on the plus side, did not have a good night at all. And not merely because he was attacked, which he's sure had to expect. Also, his Not just in sports that your skills don't improve after a certain age, that his acuity, his ability to at least perform empathy on a debate stage, his ability to be clear and to tell a human story as a policy story in a one-minute bite. That is a hard thing to do. Yes.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Watching one politician growing and succeeding, in particular Kamala Harris. You were watching two politicians Past their sell by date in some ways, Bernie Sanders, I thought was fine, but he's been doing that thing now for quite a while. I didn't know whether”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes politicians learn. Look, look, Barack Obama, you know better than anybody. Barack Obama in some of his early campaigns was anything but warm.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Katie Waldman, who writes for us, wrote about this last night on the website of Kamala Harris, not just as a policy person and as a presence, but as someone who could humanize, and she would constantly do this.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We saw a really ascendant Kamala Harris at her best. She was really good. I mean, were those lines practiced? Were they worked out? Yeah, that's called debate But she went in there to accomplish a few things to distinguish herself as someone who could tell a human story.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, before these events, the cool heads of the press in Washington who pretend to have seen it all always think, well, it's not going to matter much, the stage is so crowded. You only get to get five minutes or seven minutes or whatever it is. We saw a lot in that second debate.”
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“Start by tough. I'm actu That's right. We literally on the other side of the table, this is where we do the New Yorker radio hour so we can manage it. It's right here in the... Know what do we call it a newsroom in a magazine, but it is what it is.”
2019-07-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 338 - David Remnick · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A really great conversation the other day with David Remnik, the brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, editor of New Yorker magazine. host of the New Yorker radio hour about a wide range of things including a story that they broke this morning a poignant powerful profile of Hunter Biden the troubled son of the former vice president and now here's my conversation with David Rennet”
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