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RUSH: I want to get to these sound bites from Mandy Patinkin. That\u2019s how you pronounce his name, it\u2019s not Patinkin, it\u2019s spelled Patinkin, but it\u2019s pronounced Patinkin, and he\u2019s a good performer, he\u2019s been an actor in a number of things. I first became aware of him at some point in the nineties. I didn\u2019t know he was an actor. I thought he was a singer, a clothes designer, or maybe I\u2019m confusing him with somebody. I might be confusing him with… I haven\u2019t the slightest idea. Anyway, he plays Saul Berenson on Homeland. <\/p>\n

Do you watch Homeland, Dawn? Do you like Saul Berenson? I can\u2019t watch this show anymore after this. These guys open their mouths and they just blow everything they\u2019re trying to do in they\u2019re jobs. Just listen to this. He was on Charlie Rose last night. He was interviewing Mandy Patinkin about American foreign policy. The guy is an actor! He pretends to be a CIA agent, pretends to be. He\u2019s in a show that is written by a couple of writers and producers. One of them is Howard Gordon from the old “24” days and his partner, Alex Gansa. So Charlie Rose, wanting to get to the bottom, you understand here, of American foreign policy, let\u2019s go talk to an actor who plays a CIA agent on TV. Charlie Rose says, “What has Saul Berenson, your character on Homeland, taught you?” All right, folks, buckle up, because here we go.<\/p>\n

PATINKIN: He has taught me to be more hopeful and more optimistic. He has taught me to go to Greece and hold these families in my arms.<\/line><\/p>\n

ROSE: Saul Berenson taught you?<\/p>\n

PATINKIN: Saul Berenson taught me. Saul Berenson believes that this kind of inhumanity toward man will one day stop. And you can say to me, “Well, Mandy, that\u2019s naive, it\u2019s never stopped since the beginning of time.” So I\u2019m supposed to stop hoping for it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Saul Berenson doesn\u2019t exist. Saul Berenson is make believe. Saul Berenson is a character created out of somebody\u2019s imagination. And here is a Hollywood actor admitting that a figment of someone\u2019s imagination is teaching him things about going to Greece and I guess he\u2019s talking about the refugees here, \u2019cause, see, this is what you do if you\u2019re in the Drive-By Media. You go find an actor who plays a CIA agent on a television show and you ask them about American foreign policy when it comes to refugees and immigration, \u2019cause the guy knows it, he\u2019s a CIA agent. Well, he\u2019s an actor who plays a CIA agent. <\/p>\n

I know this is not a new phenomenon. You had Jessica Lange and Jane Fonda once get called before a Senate committee on agricultural problems because they played farm wives in a movie about the Dust Bowl. DiCaprio, this guy\u2019s testifying before Congress on global warming because he\u2019s been in a couple of movies, Titanic, and he sort of slavishly idolizes Algore. Something weird going on there, too, but I don\u2019t want to go any farther than that. Wait, no, no, there\u2019s two more here. So Charlie Rose says, “What has Saul Berenson taught you on Homeland?” And Berenson actually continues with the lesson.<\/p>\n

PATINKIN: Saul Berenson was captured by a terrorist. Saul Berenson was going to be traded for four or five known terrorists. Saul Berenson rather wanted to take his own life, kill me before you let someone else go out there and hurt someone. I woke up just as we finished shooting and I wrote this like one and a half page feeling that Saul had. It was very dark, very angry, very revengeful. The polar opposite of what I\u2019ve been saying. I wanted to just annihilate all these people that are doing harm, but also including, you know, a number of other people like the Dick Cheneys and the Donald Rumsfelds, you know, and a number of other people, too, not just known terrorists, but people who don\u2019t do good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he learned from portraying Saul Berenson on Homeland that Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld are just like the terrorists. He learned this playing a character entirely made up out of somebody\u2019s figment of their imagination, words entirely manufactured. There is no basis in reality. Saul Berenson does not have a Social Security number. Saul Berenson does not exist. But in Mandy Patinkin\u2019s head he does, and in Mandy Patinkin\u2019s head there are all kinds of life lessons he\u2019s learning pretending to be this guy, and that\u2019s why people think actors, you know, sometimes they\u2019re not all there. <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s an expert, he\u2019s an expert on terrorism. (imitating Patinkin) “Yeah, yeah, the character, I wanted to kill myself, the character, I wanted to kill myself to prevent other people from dying, and that taught me what a bunch of mean guys Cheney and Rumsfeld were.” And here\u2019s the next one about Ted Cruz. This is Saul Berenson, slash, Mandy Patinkin from Homeland analyzing Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n