Katie's mom/novelist/journalist Nora Eisenberg on Gulf War Syndrome & serial killers

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Related bonus: Nora reading from her short story https://www.patreon.com/posts/11196692 & Dennis Mora on going to jail for refusing to serve in Vietnam https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-dennis-on-23917536 Journalist, novelist and mother of Katie Halper Nora Eisenberg talks to us about George Herbert Walker Bush's legacy, the "Good" (but actually really bad) Gulf War, Gulf War Syndrome, manufacturing consent, and how the U.S. Military creates and the executes terrorists & serial killers.

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0:00.0	By the way one of the best pictures I don't know if you've seen this game do you have you seen the picture of George Bush sleigh riding with Arnold Schwarzenegger
0:07.6	No, that sounds like an amazing flashback to nineteen
0:11.4	88 yeah, it's really good. It's an amazing photo. They both have like red faces. I remember the Willie Horton ads. Do you remember as a kid seeing them?
0:20.0	Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers.
0:23.0	Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison.
0:29.0	One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery stabbing him 19 times.
0:34.4	Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison.
0:38.9	Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend.
0:44.3	Weekend prison passes, Dukakis on crime.
0:47.9	I don't remember the Willie Horton ads, but I really remember being into Dukakis and really
0:52.0	liking him.
0:54.2	Yeah, I mean, my parents liked him.
0:56.4	So it's kind of like when you're like little
0:58.8	and people like the Yankees and your family
1:00.7	and then you wear a Yankees hat.
1:02.3	Right. It really didn't wear a Yankees hat. Right.
1:02.8	It really didn't matter to me though.
1:04.6	Yeah.
1:05.8	I mean, really a class president mattered more
1:08.8	than a national president or whoever the crossing guard was, whatever that future pig, that guy who was trying to make
1:16.0	me not jaywalk to get home.
1:18.0	They shaped your life a lot more.
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