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” Ethan Persoff talks with Paul Krassner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny Bruce, The Second City, and The Realist. From its first issue in the Spring of 1958, Paul Krassner’s iconoclastic “journ
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →Paul and ask afew leading questions. —MG [: the late Fifties, three things radically changed the course ETHAN PERSOFF: Paul, what’s your opinion of Trump? PAUL KRASSNER: Where to begin? Personally, for me, it goes back to when George Bush won the presidency in 2000. That was due to the electoral colle
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →n delivered with a mordant, knowing skepticism, is as current as John Oliver and as omnipresent as the entire internet. But you don’t hear much about The Realist these days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 200
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →ved to San Fran- cisco [in 1971]. By that time there were others doing referrals -- Protestant min- isters. So, I left my practice behind me. EP: The Realist was one of the first, if not the first, news sources to talk about Enovid [the first birth control pill]. PK: In the first few issues! And the pill
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023641 →he mood to perform. And there was a certain sense of continuity on his deathbed. The night before he died, he said to a close friend, James Drougas, "Trump will be assassinated soon." "Professor" Corey also had a humanitarian streak. In 1996, in my magazine, The Realist, I published a photo of him, from
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033225 →said to a close friend, James Drougas, "Trump will be assassinated soon." "Professor" Corey also had a humanitarian streak. In 1996, in my magazine, The Realist, I published a photo of him, from a video by his son Richard, presenting Fidel Castro a bag of California-grown pistachio nuts (Castro said, "Califor
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033225 →in mid-word: "Conspiracy to interfere with the 4th Amendment const" ...constitutes what, I wondered. Lenny was a subscriber to my satirical magazine, The Realist, and in 1959 we met for the first time at the funky Hotel America in Times Square. He was amazed that I got away with publishing those profane words
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030187 →t), climate-change hoaxer, twitter addict, homophobic, apprentice politician, fucking fascist, and of course Vladimir Putin' s "useful idiot," namely Donald Trump, who was elected as an insanely narcissistic dictator based on the electoral college (a rigged system), whereas his opponent, Hillary Clinton, won th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030197 →e Vladimir Putin' s "useful idiot," namely Donald Trump, who was elected as an insanely narcissistic dict
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030197 →y pin was still attached on his jacket. JULES SIEGEL Two years before Lenny's death, with his permission I published his obituary in my own magazine, The Realist. Before the issue went to press, he called his mother and a few others to let them know it would only be a hoax. The point was that he couldn't get w
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031974 →arrings from her pierced lobes in advance. So, now in 2019, fighting over free speech has been happening heavily at Berkeley campus again. Meanwhile, Trump grabbed a pussy on the Statue of Liberty. Cavalier, anyone? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031979
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031979 →Entities connected to both Donald Trump and The Realist

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Bob Dylan
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Lenny Bruce
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