We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He also demanded that former president Donald Trump be banned from ballots as a “traitor” — all in the name of protecting democracy from itself. Last week, Reich wrote a column declaring Elon Musk “out of control” in his refusal to censor citizens and appeared to call for his arrest.
Reich has long been a prominent voice in the anti-free speech movement discussed in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Indeed, he has given a voice to the rage in calling for others to be silenced or arrested.
Elon Musk has long been the primary target of Reich and his allies after dismantling the censorship system at Twitter, now X. Reich called Musk’s purchase of Twitter with a pledge to reduce censorship to be “dangerous nonsense.”
Notably, Reich’s friend, Hillary Clinton, was one of the first to call for a crackdown on Musk after his purchase of Twitter. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans.
Reich has always shown a chilling fluidity in how free speech is protected and argued that public interest should be able to trump the right of any citizens in espousing views that he believes are dangerous.
In denouncing Musk, Reich encouraged a campaign to counter his efforts to resist censorship. He wrote that Musk “may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him.”
Like Hillary Clinton, Reich is calling on foreign governments and censors to silence American citizens including Musk: “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.”
He even appears willing to undermine national security programs to stop unfettered free speech. He called for the U.S. government to cut off contracts with his companies despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space.
None of that matters to Reich who appears to view free speech as a greater threat to our nation: “Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest? Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?”
Reich’s call to regulate speech in the public interest is the Siren’s Call of every authoritarian regime in history. He will presumably tell us what speech is no longer tolerable for public policy reasons. Our “Indispensable Right” will, according to Reich, be safely in the hands of the European censors who can protect us from errant and dangerous thoughts.
As he explained earlier, “the kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” In this way, speech regulations can keep us “moving towards how we recommend content and … how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.”
The “healthy public conversation” with Robert Reich increasingly appears to be his talking and the rest of us listening.
Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, June 18, 2024).
Who is paying and promoting the people that say total BS every day all day long?
Audit the NGOs. obamma’s NGO-palozza is another of his stains on this nation. I hope he gets everything he deserves, he clearly hasn’t yet.
OT relevant to this blog:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opinion/college-president-campus-political.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk4.epOO.BXQa7TMHjibv&smid=url-share
A good approach to student protest. Thoughtful.
David B. Benson, proud fascist Soviet Democrat as the party theologian Robert Reich is, wants normal Americans to read what the propaganda arm of the Soviet Democrats, The New York Times, has to say about the “protests” by their party’s New Hitler Youth Movement.
The New York times that willingly hid Hitler’s ongoing genocide of Jews during WWII for FDR. The New York Times of today who blames Israel for the deaths of Gaza Arabs that the Hamas terrorists they support wrap around themselves.
And the New York Times that spent YEARS assuring Americans that the Soviet Democrats’ “Russia Dossier” was real, verified, intelligence agency evidence that proved Trump was a traitor owned by Putin.
The New York Times is Cheap Fake Journalism – and it’s pimp David B. Benson is a Cheap Fake American.
David, do you remember what we did with Nazi collaborators and fifth columnists here after WWII? Good times, huh?
Actually, Mr Reich, the President of the United States should inform other nations that if they continue to threaten an American for the act of free speech, that there may be direct retribution against their regimes, which may include acts of war. And even though I am beyond military age, I would be willing to be part of an army that had a mission of destroying other regimes that attempt to outlaw free speech used by Americans. If President George W Bush thought it was a good idea “to make the world safe for democracy,” I believe it would be a better mission if we had a President who made it his mission “to make the world safe from censorship,” especially when threatened against United States Citizens.
I particularly was amused by Robert Reich’s comment, “… how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory”. The “most participatory” phrase caught my eye. In true Orwellian double speak, he apparently means restricted participation. The restrictions are presumably to be governed by the cognoscenti such as Robert Reich himself. He seems so certain of himself and the rightness of his ideas. Which brings to mind a quote from Bertrand Russell, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
The beauty of free speech is that we can listen to and evaluate people like Robert Reich (as well as Prof Turley’s rejoinder). I would rather have Robert Reich be out in the open and express his views than have them suppressed. I just wish that he would reciprocate. We should be grateful that Prof Turley, Elon Musk, and others have the will power, intellectual heft, and energy to joust with the anti first amendment types. This does not seem to be a battle that will be completely ended.
“Reich”, how appropriate…
Schriftleitergesetz, (Editor’s Law) on October 4, 1933
“I have the natural intention to be and to remain the warm-hearted protector of the German press.” These are the words Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels used when he introduced the so-called Schriftleitergesetz.
“From that moment on, journalists had to register in a professional roster to be able to exercise their profession – only people with an “Aryan certificate” (proof of Aryan descent) were accepted.”
“Schriftleiter had a status similar to that of civil servants. If they behaved in the right way, it was almost impossible to dismiss journalists who toed the party line.”
Editor’s Law, Section 14.
“Editors are especially bound to keep out of the newspapers anything which: (…) tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the German defense ability, culture, or economy, or offends the religious sentiments of others.«
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/nazi-germanys-schriftleitergesetz-the-end-of-freedom-of-the-press/
“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.
Always fun to read the good professor’s latest zingers. Last week, Turley insisted it was a wakeup call for Democrats when Bobby Kennedy Jr. endorsed the only President since the Civil War to refuse to attend the Inauguration of his victorious successor. Trump is also the only President in US history whose Vice President won’t endorse his reelection bid–and the only President in US history to have 14 of his former Cabinet Secretaries, advisors & White House staff call him unfit for office & 5 of his White House advisors call him a threat to democracy.
Turley’s reaction? He wonders if JFK was alive, whether he might look favorably at Bobby Jr. endorsing a Republican President who relentlessly attacks members of his own party for daring to use their freedon of speech rights to voice any opposition to him.
Today Turley sets his sights on Robert Reich while ignoring Trump’s recent boasts that a Republican President has every right to overturn election results which were certified after multiple recounts.
Always look forward to Jonathan Turley’s wacky wakeup calls.
ATS – all of this would be pretty compelling if it were True.
FDR’s VP Garner actually ran against him in the Democrat primary in 1940, allegedly Roosevelt and Garner never spoke after that.
In 1944 FDR Dumped Wallace – his 3rd Term VP and ran with Truman.
I doubt that this is the only historical example of conflict between a VP and a president. It is just the one that comes IMMEDIATELY to mind from your stupid and obviously wrong statement.
Having dismantled the FIRST of your idiotic claims regarding History – do I need to address the long list of lies in the rest ?
John Say, you might want to recheck the history books. Garner endorsed FDR after the 1940 primary. Wallace endorsed FDR in 1944.
Pence refused to endorse Trump in 2024 & said “I believe anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”
Feel free to cite one single historical example of a Democratic VP making a statement like that, oh great & mighty John Say.
Jefferson was Adams’ VP and ran against him and won in 1800.
Daniel, there’s no record of Jefferson ever issuing a statement like this about Adams: “I believe anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”
Fvck you, ya spastic.
Mike Pence has never uttered another single word that you believed or agreed with.
can find no source that says Garner endorsed FDR after the 1940 election. To the contrary. Please cite your source.
“can find no source that says Garner endorsed FDR after the 1940 election. To the contrary.”
What contrarian source are you citing that Garner didn’t endorse FDR after FDR beat him on the first ballot at the 1940 DNC convention? Nikki Haley endorsed Trump after saying the idea of Trump becoming the GOP’s 2024 nominee “is like suicide for the country” & “he’s not qualified to be president of the United States,”
Regardless, it’s rather notable how seemingly dismissive you are of Pence saying “anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”
Pence, Romney, Kasich, Christie all felt free to bring down Trump only after losing to him (Pence got no, nada, zero, traction with his remark or his campaign. So, there’s that.
ATS – we constantly get this distorted, warped, and other outright lies, or deliberate misrepresentations of what is SAID from you.
Yet, you do not seem to ever address what is DONE.
By Dumping Biden Democrats have made Trump the incumbent in this race.
While Harris is playing games trying to figure out how to embrace her position as VP in the Biden administration without owning its failures,
the FACT is that what little she has actually DONE in life is inconsequential.
Most of us do not care what Trump has allegedly SAID. Yopu have lied far too much about that, and frankly Trump goes out of his way to provoke you into stupid responses.
Nor do we especially cre what Those in the Trump administration say about him – especially as the vast majority of the accomplishments of the Trump administration came directly from the oval office – not various cabinet members. It is not the state department that negotiate the abraham accords, it was Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Many of the successes of the Trump administration were DESPITE his cabinet members. Not because of them.
Bush II promised that there would be no more US nation buiilding it his campaign against Gore.
Obama promised to close Guantanamo and get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump actually brought peace to the mideast and radically diminished the US military role in the mideast.
Biden restored the mess of prior presidents – republicans and democrats.
So Why should we care what the people who got int he way SAID ? When we know what Trump DID.
John Say, the American public clearly know what Trump did which is why 81.2 million Americans voted for Biden in the 2020 election.
Hardly suprising to see Trump attacking Fox News for releasing a poll showing Harris ahead in key battleground states. The Hill polling averages have Harris up by 4% RCP polling averages have Harris ahead by 2.3% in a race including 3rd party candidates.
Hate to break the news, but your views clearly aren’t shared by the majority of the American voting public, John Say.
You’re an idiot if you don’t rhjnk democrats are being oversampled in those polls.
This is not news. Get a grip.
John Say, the American public clearly know what Trump did which is why 81.2 million Americans voted for Biden in the 2020 election.
Now, if you weren’t a cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat, you might have said:
“John Say, the American publicly clearly did NOT KNOW what Biden did because the story of the Biden Bribery Laptop was prevented from being published. While 51 former Intelligence Agency experts willingly lied to the American people that the Biden Bribery Laptop was just “Russian election disinformation”.
I don’t hate to break the news that Soviet Democrats come here to both channel their own evil and crimes on to others, while lying by insinuation and omission while doing so.
You cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrats are very poor Cheap Fake Americans.
John Say: “It is not the state department that negotiate the abraham accords…Trump actually brought peace to the mideast and radically diminished the US military role in the mideast.”
The Abraham Accords did nothing to prevent the dystopian nightmare in Gaza. Trump illegally gave permission to illegally annex the Golan Heights. Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Israel as payment to the Adelson familly for bankrolling his election campaign. Trump did nothing to incentivize the Israelis to abort their apartheid state operations against the Palestinians.
Trump kept American troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Trump purposely did a beat down on the Syrians preventing them from using their own oil revenue to help rebuild the country that the U.S. had a key part in destroying. Trump also threatened to destroy Iran based on his order alone. Trump like Obama, told the Ukrainians to ignore the Minsk 2 Accord they had signed with Russia in 2015 to end the conflict in the Donbas.
OBTW, related to free speech, Trump wants to throw people in jail for a year for burning the American flag. A practice that the Supreme Court has already ruled is protected expression under the First Amendment.
Re; Anonymous says: John Say: “It is not the state department that negotiate the abraham accords…”
Comment was actually submitted by me, Radical Pragmatist.
Poor Lawn Boy
Trump this
Trump that
Trump this and that
Trump this that and the other thing
Vote for Harris, ya spastic idiot
No on cares.
Trump did nothing to incentivize the Israelis to abort their apartheid state operations against the Palestinians.
Well, there it is: the mask is off… another Soviet Democrat Anti-Semitic genocidal Arab Hajji terrorist supporter. Probably one of the ideological mentors of the Biden/Harris New Hitler Youth Movement.
Nothing says “Apartheid” like Israel forcibly removing from Gaza all Israelis, whether Jew or Muslim Arab or Coptic Christian turning it over to the Arab hajjis living there – including all the commercial facilities and operations that the owners could not take with them.
It’s as weird as Tampon Tim Walz’s stolen valor to claim you can have “apartheid” in Arab Gaza when there are no Jews living in Gaza, just Muslim Arabs. When the only people left alive in Gaza since Israel forced all Israelis to leave nearly 20 years ago are Arab Muslims, you can’t have “apartheid” with only one race and one religion. You MIGHT have one class of Muslim Arabs that are openly Muslim Arab Hamas terrorists and another class of Muslim Arabs who are merely supporters of genocidal Arab hajji Hamas terrorists… but that isn’t more than one race as required for apartheid to exist.
Nothing says Soviet Democrat genocidal New Hitler Youth Movement than calling it “apartheid” when there are no Israelis involved in running Arab Gaza, nor Israelis involved in governing Egypt and the border between Egypt and Arab Gaza.
Also weird that the Soviet Democrats’ New Hitler Youth Movement never has a reason for why the fictitious country and people that the Egyptian terrorist Yassar Arafat named “Palestine” and “Palistinians” are not mentioned in the Quran of the genocidal nazi terrorists that they happily are allies with.
On my laptop “desktop” home page are Microsoft “widgets” which, like a tic-tac-toe board, have squares of news headlines and photos. Has anyone noticed that, pertaining to the candidates’ responses to equivocal policies or statements, the actual headlines are, “Trump Trying to…,’ “Trump Attempts to…”, “Trump Tries to Play Cleanup on…” and “Trump Struggles to…..”
But the headline for Harris was “My Values Have Not Changed.”
Anonymous – I was about to cite the example of John Nance Garner, but I saw that John Say had already done so. https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/essays/garner-1933-vicepresident
I’m pretty sure Aaron Burr did not endorse Jefferson for a second term, not that such an endorsement would have been welcome.
Anonymous: “Today Turley sets his sights on Robert Reich while ignoring Trump’s recent boasts…”
Funny, I thought that this Professor Turley essay was about the anti-free speech, authoritarian sensibilities now championed by Robert Reich and his fellow travelers on the Progressive Left.
What Trump does or doesn’t do is irrelevant related to that.
Robert the Third Reich.
The Fourth Reich.
What if we treat Reich’s speech as a guilty admission that the pen is mightier than the sword? He has to use speech to threaten the sword. His approach to the preferred outcome from censoring ideas has about as much chance of success as an F18 intercepting a Tic Tac.
It’s more than apparent that Reich got all of his ideas from the Third Reich. People like Reich believe that with the passage of time all will be forgotten about the no right of free speech platform that has been and is being used by the great controllers of history. Perhaps due to the great dumbing down of education in America he is correct in his assumption. Consequently, the prominent question should be, are you a product of the great dumbing down propaganda machine? Reich knows that under close scrutiny his quest for great power will be exposed. So it’s very simple. The next step must be to shut down your right to question his edicts spewed from his mountain on high. Just jail the most influential citizen who stands in opposition. There you have it, problem solved.
Which appears to be happening in the UK now, but their problems are not being solved.
That’s right—-> history repeats. Humans don’t understand their actions reactions are limited.
What lies and hate are being said on X? Anything that goes against the DNC narrative? Anything that Mr. Reich does not like? Are we just allow him to tell us who is lying and who is not? Who should be allowed to speak or post on X? What governments should silence who? Seems people like Mr. Reich would be perfectly happy jailing anyone who dares to say out loud anything they do not wish or will not tolerate to hear.
That is how we get regimes like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao.
Seems Mr. Reich would be happy with a regime like that as long as it is his regime.
Comrade Reich and the other useful idiots would be perfectly at home in the People’s Republic of China, socialist Brazil, Russia, and other like-minded states, sadly including the UK and EU. These calls for censorship show their inability to hold a rational idea or engage in meaningful discourse.
On Meet The Press yesterday Kristen Welker lied to Sen Tom Cotton by saying that HArris was at the dignified transfer of the Abbey Gate victims. Cotton was stating that Harris had never met with the families and Welker decided to just step in and lie in an attempt to defend Harris. This is Candy Crowley all over again. These leftist “news” people always, and I mean ALWAYS err on the side of a Democrat.
Welker should be fired today!
HullBobby,
I saw that. They issued a correction on X I think. Not on live air. All the Sunday morning news shows were trying to conflate the Trump “altercation” while ignoring the families who were actually their, their accounts of what actually happened. Who are we going to believe? NPR? Or the Gold Star families?
Who no one should believe is Harris.
Upstate, I wish everyone was as informed as you.
This story has proved a massive own goal for democrats and the media.
With every new detail that comes out this gets WORSE for democrats.
Harris and the MSM MADE this into a political event – by attacking Trump on it,
Worse still they have drawn media attention to Gold Star families who are really really angry – not about Trump comming to Arlington, but about the complete disrespect that Biden and Harris have shown their dead children. There have been more than a dozen videos by Gold Star Families supporting Trump on this – many Angrilly attacking Harris. I think I have seen one Gold star parent do an antiTrump video fixated on his criticism of John McCain 8 yers ago and parratting the left wing nut hoaxes about Bella Woods. Another would not do a video but merely asked that any pictures of his sons grave site were respectful – which they were.
Every new fact that comes out on this is worse for Harris.
This was NOT political – until Harris made it political by Attacking Trump. There was no video on TikTok until Harris and the MSM made and issue of this.
There are still almost no details about the “conflict” with an ANC employee – numerous people who were there are saying it did not happen.
Regardless, what exactly does an ANC employee think will happen if they try to confront a Secret Service protectee ?
ANC has stated the matter is resolved.
Then the Army had to step in – or more accurately put their foot in.
Wreath laying video at Arlington is a STAPLE of politicians. Whatever the alleged federal law – which is inarguably unconstitutional, there is nothing Trump did that was different from thousands of hours of politicians at Arlington.
The MSM has interveived Vance and Cotton and Gabbard on this – trying this idiot nonsense of trying to get them to condemn Trump for “politicizing” Arliington – when again this went Public because of Harris.
Regardless, Vance, Harris and Cotton all relentlessly used the question to go after Harris for giving the gold star parents of these 13 Afghan soldiers that died in the botched afghan withdraw the cold shoulder.
One of the themes of many of my posts is
DO LEFTISTS THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK ?
Why would Robert Reich think it is a good idea as Democrats are busy trying to lock up their political oponents to demand locking up Musk ?
In what world it that a good idea ?
Constantly democrats seem to think they can say things and no one will do more than the most shallow review.
“My values have not changed” – in what world did the media and Harris think that would NOT result in direct examination of her past remarks.
For most of my life Democrats have been far better at messaging than Republicans.
in the past decade that has completely collapsed.
Democrats are constantly saying and doing poorly thought out stupid things.
I mean honestly what Democratic operative told Harris it was a good idea from her to Go after Trump for going to Arlington to honor Gold Star families of soldiers killed in the botched withdraw from Afghanistan ?
The RIGHT thing to do is PRAY that does not turn into a campaign add, and try had to change the subject.
The wrong thing to do is kick the hornets nest and have a dozen Gold Star parents of dead soldiers pissing all over you for ignoring them for 3 years venting their spleen on the MSM.
I forgot that it is also a REALLY bad idea for Harris democrats and the left to take Trump on, on some of his strongest ground.
First, Walz has Enough problems with his military service. They do not need to call more attention tot he FACT that he did NOT go to afghanistan and others who did DIED.
Next this was over the deaths of 13 soldiers as a result of the botched withdraw – again the right thing for Harris to do is run as far from Afghanistan as possible.
And who thought it was a really good idea for her to say she was the last person the leave the situation room and the last voice that Biden heard before making decisions.
That would be great if the Biden administration had an excellent record on military decisions.
If you want to distances yourself from Biden’s abysmal military choices – you do not want to be saying you were the last voice heard before decisions were made.
Vance served in the Marines. While his service was not especially attention worthy – he did go to afghanistan, and he has not lied about his service.
But Cotton and and Gabbard have incredibly serious military cred.
And finally all of this comes after the Trump assassination attempt and his Iconic Fist up “Fight Fight Fight”.
That completely obliterates his prior problems avoiding the Draft.
Democrats keep picking fights that they are going to lose.
hullbobby (and Upstate): You are sooo right. I also saw Welker cut off Lindsey Graham but let Gov. Jarid Polis talk on and on defending Harris.
Welker, like Geo Stephanopoulos, relies on the rude tactic of interrupting and talking over her GUESTS when something is being said that goes against the her/network’s agenda, -then ending the topic thread by adding her/his own statement, without a chance of rebuttal from the guest.
Another favorite interruption line is,”There’s no proof of that.” —Yet, Welker and Terry Moran, just yesterday again, stated verbatim, “Trump repeated his lies about [election interference] (Terry Moran later referred to “Trump’s false claim that…”
What they should more correctly say is, “Trump’s statements on [election interference] remain unproven.
That would be fair. But it is all part of that driving agenda to create the everlasting perception that Trump is dirt.
(I thought Tom Cotton did a fairly good job of continuing on his point even when she interrupted him.)
Republicn spokes persons are learning how to deal with the MSM. I have seen serveral interviews of VANCE where he has very effectively thwarted efforts of talking heads to cut him off or talk over him.
We saw the same with Cotton on Meet the Press.
Rep. Donaldson has mastered getting his message out.
And Gabbard is pretty good at this too.
John Say: Yup.
Lin, I just wish one time the Republican would stop the interviewer and say something along the lines of “why do you have this negative approach to me while you have smiles for Democrats, does that seem fair to you”.
Mr. Reich continues to be true to his ideals: An evil and malevolent communist tyrant.
I can just imagine the anti American and anti free speech his lectures spew to his students. Being polite, Reich is just a hack and clown. He shouldn’t be given any platform outside of Berkeley.
Reich appears to appeal to a future midwived by technology as a better place, another expression of the Marxist theory that the “arc of history” always bends in the direction of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The future is an unknown, not an argument. Perhaps it would appear more attractive is we knew less about the past.
“We have to realize that the far-left is by far the biggest threat to democracy today. I mean, isn’t it funny how the media constantly claimed that right-wing Bolsonaro risked bringing Brazil into a dictatorship? Meanwhile, now under the Socialist government, Brazil has literally banned people from accessing information on the internet, with threats of a whopping $8900 fine if they use a VPN to do so! Who are the real dictators here, the right. Or the Socialists?
Once the Communists gain power, they don’t want to give that away ever again. They want total control. There will be no more freedom.
That’s why it is so important for all of us to stand up and say we want freedom, we demand free speech. We will not allow the far-left control what we can think.”
https://www.petersweden.org/p/free-speech-is-under-attack?
Globalists are the enemy – FREE SPEECH IS OUR RIGHT in the United States of America
Oh so that’s what all that squeaking was all about!
Reich reminds us that most of history’s dictators have been short.
Classic case of “little man” syndrome.
Albert Einstein was 5’7” tall. There have been short and tall dictators in history which only goes to prove that you have derangement symptom concerning shorter people. Correlation is causation in the mentally weak. Obama is tall and he has everything in common with Reich. How long have you carried this prejudice with you. I happened to have known a lot of bad men named Mike. Does that mean that all men named Mike are bad people? Perhaps a rethink of your thought processes would be in order, otherwise you are doomed to live in fear of short people for the rest of your life. Grow up.
Lincoln was 6′ 4″.
Indeed. Lacking intellect, Mr. Reich is driven by his own socialist avarice and ambition.
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”