Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Seen it. He has uncanny ability to connect with their hopes and their desires. And like reagan, he reminds americans that what makes us special is our people. Its our freedom. Its not our government. And as for the socalled smart educated people who are now criticizing trump, i have a few questions. Was it smart to enact policies that ended up enriching the repressive regime in china at the expense of american workers, American Companies and American Security . And was it smart to leave our borders open like swiss cheese allowing illegals to stream into the United States, taking american jobs, Sad Ling Taxpayers with the cost of educating them, housing them, providing them with healthcare . Was it smart to get into some wars that ended up draining our country of trillions of dollars, took the lives of so many of our finest Men And Women . Was it smart to explode our foreign population not through a smart merit based Immigration System but through the ludicrous policy
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. To roll the dice and gamble. I think the question of a pardon is huge. And intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. The mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. In these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. Reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that Michael Cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. He has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the Southern District of new york. That is not the Mueller Investigation. We need to figure out what role the Mueller Investigation is going to have in this agreement. In the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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