a dense cluster of familiar phrases designed to convey the impression that were found for thinking is taking place. like that old don mclean song, drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. it doesn t mean anything, but it kind of moves you anyway. tucker: then we started thinking about it, and wes realized, maybe that is not fair. american pie s lyrics may mean something. i to find out, we go to the man who wrote them. probably the most famous songwriter in this country, don mclean joins us tonight. mr. mclean, thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having me. i watch your show often. tucker: thank you, i appreciate that. this is a question every person who has ever driven on an american interstate has asked him or herself.so where is the levee, and what does this mean? what do the lyrics mean? well, can i just take a moment and explain, there are many poems and songs in folk music, certainly, that are not particularly, exactly prosaic. that s why they are
mark: here he is. here is tucker. he just sat down with don mclean to talk about the meaning of don s great song, american pie. here is what happened. the day the music died i started singing bye, bye miss american pie drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry tucker: it s been almostt 50 year since american pie was the number 1 song in america, but it is still ubiquitous. it s everywhere. sometimes the lyrics even get referred to on cable news shows. that is the democratic party s position. and if you re not sold yet, if you sense there might be a few links missing from that logic chain, nancy pelosi hasng something.
young people are crazy for bernie. he looks like justin bieber to them. so, you may have a point there. thank you for that, professor. the home alone movies have become christmas classics, and famously, in home alone 2, a certain future united states president makes a brief appearance. excuse me, where is the lobby? down the hall and to the left. thanks. mark: he ran that hotel pretty well, actually, in those days. canadians who tuned into the cbc to watch home alone 2 this year saw a slightly different i version of that movie. in the cbc s cut, donald trump was edited out. according to the cbc, the scene was cut to make more time for commercials. of course, those motives don t exclude each other. if woke capitalism means anything these days, it s that there is no conflict between maximizing profits and maximizing left-wing activism.
mark: over the summer, democrats acted outraged when president trump called baltimore a dirty, dangerous disgrace. but the president s words were totallyge accurate. now, baltimore is on the brink of having its deadliest year ever. the city is just a few homicides away from eclipsing its recent high of 342 murders a year. and since baltimore s population is declining, this year is likely to have the highest homicide rate in the city s history.y. to fight the violence, the city is considering a desperate measure, deploying special surveillance planes to spy on residents. rafael mangual is the deputy director of legal policy at the manhattan institute, and he joins us now.
admitted to employing prisoners in oklahoma to make phone calls on bloomberg s behalf. robby soave is a senior editor at reason and author of theto book panic attack. he joins us now. the bloomberg campaign has severed connections with the oklahoma penal system. what actually is the objection to what mayor bloomberg accidentally found himself doing, using prisoners to make campaign calls? o yeah, i think every one, right, left, and center, is going to agree that it doesn t look good.ne it may be perfectly legal, but i don t think it looks ethical. to be using people who are locked up, to be making calls on behalf of your campaign. i mean, what kind of statement is that about your campaign, if the people you are getting excited about it, literally they have no choice but to even leave the building? so i don t think that sends an