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| awards      = 2015 [[Emmy Award]] for Writer: Commentary/Editorial
 
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| spouse      = Lynn Shaw (producer) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.talkers.com/2014/03/31/catching-up-with-lionel|title=Catching Up With Lionel|date=March 2014|publisher=Talkers Magazine|accessdate=2016-11-16}}</ref>
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'''Michael William Lebron''' (born August 26, 1958), popularly known as '''Lionel''', is a trial lawyer; nationally [[Broadcast syndication#Radio syndication|syndicated]] American radio and television personality; media, political, and legal analyst; actor; author; stand-up comedian; bluegrass musician; motivational speaker; lecturer and voice actor.
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'''Michael William Lebron''', popularly known as ''''Lionel'''', is a trial [[lawyer]], nationally syndicated American radio and television personality; media, political, and legal analyst; stand-up [[comedian]]; bluegrass musician; and lecturer.
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In 2018, he became notable for his promotion of the alleged [[Deep State]] insider and informant known as [[QAnon]], and his purported exposure of serious crimes and other misdeeds by the [[Shadow Party|government establishment]].<ref>Justin Wise (Aug 24, 2018) http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/403549-trump-meets-with-promoter-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory-in-oval</ref>
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In June 2019 he [[tweet]]ed support for [[Rudy Giuliani]]'s bid for [[New York Mayor]].<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/LionelMedia/status/1135690897117634560</ref>
  
 
== Career ==
 
== Career ==
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[[File:YouTube - Lionel Nation 'Anthony Weiner Send the Sick Perv to Prison' (2016-09-22 z7rUS5HngMI) @15m00s.png|thumb|right|alt=Lionel with open mouth smile, exclaim pointing up, vlogging from home in front of his Emmy and book on a bookshelf and a frame caricature of Lionel at a talk radio station - a screen grab @15m00s from his YouTube video z7rUS5HngMI - [[Lionel Nation]] 'Anthony Weiner Send the Sick Perv to Prison' (2016-09-22)|Lionel in 2016, vlogging from home in front of his Emmy and book.]]
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Born in [[Tampa, Florida]], he attended [[Jesuit High School (Tampa)|Jesuit High School]] where he was voted Class Wit. After graduating ''magna cum laude'' from the [[University of South Florida]] in 1980, where he was a member of [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity, Lionel worked as a District Aide for Florida United States [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Richard Stone (politician)|Richard "Dick" Stone]] and in his unsuccessful campaign for reelection. Lionel graduated from the [[Stetson University College of Law]], and as trial lawyer worked as both prosecutor for the Hillsborough County Florida State Attorney's Office (13th Judicial Circuit), and a criminal defense trial lawyer thereafter. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, New Jersey and New York as well before the [http://www.supremecourt.gov U.S. Supreme Court].{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
 
Born in [[Tampa, Florida]], he attended [[Jesuit High School (Tampa)|Jesuit High School]] where he was voted Class Wit. After graduating ''magna cum laude'' from the [[University of South Florida]] in 1980, where he was a member of [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity, Lionel worked as a District Aide for Florida United States [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Richard Stone (politician)|Richard "Dick" Stone]] and in his unsuccessful campaign for reelection. Lionel graduated from the [[Stetson University College of Law]], and as trial lawyer worked as both prosecutor for the Hillsborough County Florida State Attorney's Office (13th Judicial Circuit), and a criminal defense trial lawyer thereafter. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, New Jersey and New York as well before the [http://www.supremecourt.gov U.S. Supreme Court].{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
He began his radio career hosting a show at [[WFLA (AM)|WFLA]] 970 AM in his hometown of [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]] from 1988 to 1993. {{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} ''The Lionel Show'' debuted in Tampa, Florida, on weekends on [[WFLA (AM)|970 WFLA]] in October 1988. For years, Lionel had been a frequent caller to local shows, eventually becoming a "chronic", which is industry vernacular for frequent callers. He was noted for using various aliases and personas to get on the air. His most enduring [[Nickname|moniker]], "Lionel", alludes to Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi, the character played by [[Al Pacino]] in the movie ''[[Scarecrow (1973 film)|Scarecrow]]''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
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=== Radio ===
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He began his radio career hosting a show at WFLA 970 AM in his hometown of Tampa, from 1988 to 1993. {{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} ''The Lionel Show'' debuted in Tampa, Florida, on weekends on 970 WFLA in October 1988. For years, Lionel had been a frequent caller to local shows, eventually becoming a "chronic", which is industry vernacular for frequent callers. He was noted for using various aliases and personas to get on the air. His most enduring [[Nickname|moniker]], "Lionel", alludes to Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi, the character played by [[Al Pacino]] in the movie ''[[Scarecrow (1973 film)|Scarecrow]]''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
 
When [[WPLP]] (WFLA's rival station across Tampa Bay) offered Lionel a talk show, he declined, due to WPLP's rather meager offer—and his trepidations about how a radio show would affect his law career. In October 1988, WFLA management gave him an irresistible offer to move behind the microphone as a Sunday afternoon radio host. In January 1989, his show moved to middays (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.), Monday through Friday. Seven months later, he took the afternoon drive slot, where his lively mix of current events and dry humor proved to be a ratings success. In 1993, he was hired away by [[WABC (AM)|WABC]] 770 AM, a major talk radio station in New York City when a former [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] network president, Jim Arcara, heard Lionel's show while vacationing in Florida and lured him to the Big Apple. Lionel manned the morning drive slot on New York's heritage WABC 770 AM in early 1994. He set ratings records for WABC as its morning-drive host during the mid-1990s{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}}.  For a time, Lionel did both morning drive and afternoon drive for a period immediately following talk radio legend [[Bob Grant (radio host)|Bob Grant]]'s departure from WABC.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
 
When [[WPLP]] (WFLA's rival station across Tampa Bay) offered Lionel a talk show, he declined, due to WPLP's rather meager offer—and his trepidations about how a radio show would affect his law career. In October 1988, WFLA management gave him an irresistible offer to move behind the microphone as a Sunday afternoon radio host. In January 1989, his show moved to middays (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.), Monday through Friday. Seven months later, he took the afternoon drive slot, where his lively mix of current events and dry humor proved to be a ratings success. In 1993, he was hired away by [[WABC (AM)|WABC]] 770 AM, a major talk radio station in New York City when a former [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] network president, Jim Arcara, heard Lionel's show while vacationing in Florida and lured him to the Big Apple. Lionel manned the morning drive slot on New York's heritage WABC 770 AM in early 1994. He set ratings records for WABC as its morning-drive host during the mid-1990s{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}}.  For a time, Lionel did both morning drive and afternoon drive for a period immediately following talk radio legend [[Bob Grant (radio host)|Bob Grant]]'s departure from WABC.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
  
In the late 1990s, toward the end of his tenure at WABC, Lionel also hosted the [[TruTV|CourtTV]] law show ''[[Snap Judgment (legal comedy show)|Snap Judgment]].''  He also provided daily updates on WCBS 880 AM during the [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton|Clinton impeachment]] process. In 2000, he began his national radio show, ''The Lionel Show,'' originally syndicated by [[Premiere Networks|Premiere Radio Networks]] through 2001. His show was then syndicated by independent Rex Broadcasting until 2003, when it was picked up locally and nationally syndicated by the WOR Radio Network in New York City. It was broadcast six days a week (9 p.m. to midnight [[Eastern Time Zone|ET]] weekdays, and 5 to 8 p.m. ET Saturdays). In 2000 and 2001, in addition to his radio work, Lionel was a morning host on an [[Internet]]-based talk radio site, ''eYada.com'' until 2001.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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In the late 1990s, toward the end of his tenure at WABC, Lionel also hosted the [[CourtTV]] law show ''Snap Judgment.''  He also provided daily updates on WCBS 880 AM during the [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton|Clinton impeachment]] process. In 2000, he began his national radio show, ''The Lionel Show,'' originally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks through 2001. His show was then syndicated by independent Rex Broadcasting until 2003, when it was picked up locally and nationally syndicated by the WOR Radio Network in New York City. In 2000 and 2001, in addition to his radio work, Lionel was a morning host on an [[Internet]]-based talk radio site, ''eYada.com'' until 2001.
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''[[Talkers Magazine]]'' included Lionel In their list of [http://www.talkers.com/frontier-fifty/ Talkers Frontier Fifty] and the "[http://www.talkers.com/heaviest-hundred/ HEAVIEST HUNDRED: The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America]" at number 23, and estimated the show's audience at 1.75 million unique listeners per week.<ref>[http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34 "The Top Talk Radio Audiences"]</ref> The magazine described him as "a uniquely witty and intellectual personality" and "defying categorization".<ref>http://talkers.com/online/?p=267</ref>
  
''[[Talkers Magazine]]'' included Lionel In their list of [http://www.talkers.com/frontier-fifty/ Talkers Frontier Fifty] and the "[http://www.talkers.com/heaviest-hundred/ HEAVIEST HUNDRED: The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America]" at number 23, and estimated the show's audience at 1.75 million unique listeners per week.<ref>[http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34 "The Top Talk Radio Audiences"]</ref> The magazine described him as "a uniquely witty and intellectual personality" and "defying categorization".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://talkers.com/online/?p=267|title=2009 Talker's 250, Featuring the Heavy Hundred|date=February 2009|publisher=Talkers Magazine|accessdate=2009-03-21}}</ref>
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He released a comedy album titled ''[[You Don't Look Like You Sound]]'' in 1996, and fronts a bluegrass band called Lock 'n' Load.
  
He released a comedy album titled ''[[You Don't Look Like You Sound]]'' in 1996, and fronts a [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] band called [[Lock 'n' Load (bluegrass band)|Lock 'n' Load]].
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[[File:Lionel - Everyone's Crazy Except You And Me... And I'm Not So Sure About You.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Lionel's book cover 'Everyone's Crazy Except You And Me... And I'm Not So Sure About You'|Lionel's 2010 book cover ''Everyone's Crazy Except You And Me... And I'm Not So Sure About You'']]
  
 
Lionel wrote a book, "''[http://www.amazon.com/Everyones-Crazy-Except-Sure-About/dp/1401303668 Everyone's Crazy Except You and Me...And I'm Not So Sure About You: America's Favorite Contrarian Cuts Loose]''".  It was published by Hyperion and was released on August 5, 2008.  On March 22, 2010, Lionel began a nightly commentary<ref name=wpix>[http://wpix.com/lionel Lionel bio at the WPIX website]</ref> on New York's [[WPIX]] Channel 11 and was a regular contributor to the morning and late night newscasts, as well as the station's legal analyst.  He then launched [http://LionelMedia.com LionelMedia.com] on June 23, 2010, containing podcasts, audio, video, essays as well as his YouTube channel "''[https://www.youtube.com/LionelY2K Lionel Nation]''."  In August 2012, Lionel began hosting the morning show on [http://www.iq1069.com The New IQ 106.9] in Philadelphia.  In 2015, Lionel began regularly appearing on [http://www.rt.com/ RT] and [https://www.rt.com/usa/ RT America] as a legal and media analyst.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
 
Lionel wrote a book, "''[http://www.amazon.com/Everyones-Crazy-Except-Sure-About/dp/1401303668 Everyone's Crazy Except You and Me...And I'm Not So Sure About You: America's Favorite Contrarian Cuts Loose]''".  It was published by Hyperion and was released on August 5, 2008.  On March 22, 2010, Lionel began a nightly commentary<ref name=wpix>[http://wpix.com/lionel Lionel bio at the WPIX website]</ref> on New York's [[WPIX]] Channel 11 and was a regular contributor to the morning and late night newscasts, as well as the station's legal analyst.  He then launched [http://LionelMedia.com LionelMedia.com] on June 23, 2010, containing podcasts, audio, video, essays as well as his YouTube channel "''[https://www.youtube.com/LionelY2K Lionel Nation]''."  In August 2012, Lionel began hosting the morning show on [http://www.iq1069.com The New IQ 106.9] in Philadelphia.  In 2015, Lionel began regularly appearing on [http://www.rt.com/ RT] and [https://www.rt.com/usa/ RT America] as a legal and media analyst.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
In 2015 Lionel won a commentary/editorial writing [[New York Emmy Awards|New York Emmy Award]].<ref name="nyemmys.org">[http://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/ec4abc40/58th_NY_Emmy_Awards_Winners_Press_Release.pdf PDF&nbsp;— New York Chapter Of The National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Announces Results Of The 58th Annual New York Emmy Awards, May 2, 2015&nbsp;— listed 3rd from bottom, Writer: Commentary/Editorial&nbsp;— Lionel, September 25, 2013. (WPIX-TV).]</ref>
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In 2015 Lionel won a commentary/editorial writing New York Emmy Award.<ref name="nyemmys.org">[http://www.nyemmys.org/media/files/files/ec4abc40/58th_NY_Emmy_Awards_Winners_Press_Release.pdf PDF&nbsp;— New York Chapter Of The National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Announces Results Of The 58th Annual New York Emmy Awards, May 2, 2015&nbsp;— listed 3rd from bottom, Writer: Commentary/Editorial&nbsp;— Lionel, September 25, 2013. (WPIX-TV).]</ref>
  
Lionel has appeared on Court TV, PBS, Tribune Media, C-SPAN, CBS, ABC, NY1, BBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, Newsmax TV, HuffPost Live, RT America, RT International, Arise America, Food Network, CrossTalk, The Alex Jones Show, Stone Cold Truth, Air America, Coast to Coast AM, SiriusXM, Cumulus, iHeartMedia, France's Canal+, Radio New Zealand, Rossiya 24, Radio Belgrade, NTV and 92nd Street Y.
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[[File:YouTube Lionel Nation 'Lionel on Radio New Zealand Diagnosing Hillary Clinton' (2016-10-05 QhHJXVSNHzM) @5m50s.png|thumb|right|alt=Lionel with open mouth smile in front of green screen with open welcoming large hands close to camera - a screen grab @5m50s from his YouTube video QhHJXVSNHzM - [[Lionel Nation]] 'Lionel on Radio New Zealand Diagnosing Hillary Clinton' (2016-10-05)|Lionel in 2016]]
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Lionel has appeared on Court TV, PBS, Tribune Media, [[C-SPAN]], [[CBS]], ABC, NY1, [[BBC]], Bloomberg TV, [[MSNBC]], [[Fox News]], CNN, CNBC, Newsmax TV, HuffPost Live, RT America, RT International, Arise America, Food Network, CrossTalk, The Alex Jones Show, Stone Cold Truth, Air America, Coast to Coast AM, SiriusXM, Cumulus, iHeartMedia, France's Canal+, Radio New Zealand, Rossiya 24, Radio Belgrade, Radio Sputnick, NTV and 92nd Street Y.
  
 
Lionel also appears in the 2016 fourth season of the Netflix television series ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]''.
 
Lionel also appears in the 2016 fourth season of the Netflix television series ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]''.
  
 
== Philosophy ==
 
== Philosophy ==
Originally espousing a largely [[libertarianism|libertarian]] political philosophy, Lionel describes himself as a political atheist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lionel On Trial for Anarchist Thought Crimes |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hgQwb6je0 |website=YouTube |publisher=James Corbett and Lionel on [[The Corbett Report]] and Lionel Nation |date=2015-05-14 |accessdate=2016-08-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=We're Anarchists! |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0ua6rY-lA |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2015-05-10 |accessdate=2016-08-17}}</ref> He personally eschews such labels and repeatedly criticizes those who hold opinions simply out of allegiance to a word like “conservative” or “liberal”.  He repeatedly professes the notion that the left–right paradigm is but an illusion.
 
  
He opposes the death penalty on the grounds that the justice system is far too unreliable to be entrusted with that power,{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}} and favors decriminalization of drug use and possession as well as prostitution, gambling and victimless offenses.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}} He long supported gay and “intragender” marriage and strongly opposed the Iraq War since around 2004.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}} He asks callers to take the Lionel Challenge: Try explicating or describing a political philosophy or point without using a label.  Some, he contends, find it impossible.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
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Originally espousing a largely [[libertarianism|libertarian]] political philosophy, Lionel describes himself as a political atheist.<ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hgQwb6je0</ref><ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0ua6rY-lA </ref> He personally eschews such labels and repeatedly criticizes those who hold opinions simply out of allegiance to a word like “conservative” or “liberal”.  He repeatedly professes the notion that the left–right paradigm is but an illusion.
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He opposes the death penalty on the grounds that the justice system is far too unreliable to be entrusted with that power, and favors decriminalization of drug use and possession as well as prostitution, gambling and victimless offenses.  He long supported gay and “intragender” marriage and strongly opposed the Iraq War since around 2004.  He asks callers to take the Lionel Challenge: Try explicating or describing a political philosophy or point without using a label.  Some, he contends, find it impossible.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
Lionel appears as a political commentator and news decoder, legal analyst, renaissance lawyer and (out)spoken word artist around the country. He performs with his trio named “Lock 'n' Load.” Lionel is a [[Voice acting|voice actor]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Voices of Lionel |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQ3r5Yu_DU |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2014-09-06 |accessdate=2016-08-18}} from 0m00s to 2m55s</ref> sought-after emcee and speaker and provides lecture series around the country.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
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Lionel appears as a political commentator and news decoder, legal analyst, renaissance lawyer and (out)spoken word artist around the country. He performs with his trio named “Lock 'n' Load.” Lionel is a [[Voice acting|voice actor]]<ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQ3r5Yu_DU </ref> sought-after emcee and speaker and provides lecture series around the country.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
 
[[Newsweek]] described Lionel as “[a]n intellectual known for his irreverent political and social humor.”{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
 
[[Newsweek]] described Lionel as “[a]n intellectual known for his irreverent political and social humor.”{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
  
 
Famed record producer [[Jerry Wexler]] describes Lionel thus: “He wears the mantle of [[Lenny Bruce]], with Lenny's own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The Arcane, The Numinous. And yet Lionel brings to the table his own savory: A love of the mother tongue and a gonzo vocabulary that puts his logo on all his works, whether talk-show hosting, standup-comic spritzing, or hanging out&nbsp;— with himself a minor art form.”{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
 
Famed record producer [[Jerry Wexler]] describes Lionel thus: “He wears the mantle of [[Lenny Bruce]], with Lenny's own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The Arcane, The Numinous. And yet Lionel brings to the table his own savory: A love of the mother tongue and a gonzo vocabulary that puts his logo on all his works, whether talk-show hosting, standup-comic spritzing, or hanging out&nbsp;— with himself a minor art form.”{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
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== The Lebron Firm ==
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In 2015 [http://www.lebronfirm.com The Lebron Firm] was launched with headquarters in New York. Described as a "renaissance law firm" dedicated to the representation of plaintiffs in civil actions, including auto accident, medical and professional negligence, products liability and civil rights violations including police misconduct and wrongful conviction.
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In August 2018, Lebron met with President [[Donald Trump]] at the White House. Lebron stated that the two did not talk about the claimed leaks and insider information by [[QAnon]] that Lebron helps promote, but that "we all know he knows about it."<ref>The Daily Beast (Aug 24, 2018) https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-in-oval-office-meets-promoter-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory-that-says-democrats-run-pedophile-cult</ref>
  
 
== The Lionel argot and assorted miscellany ==
 
== The Lionel argot and assorted miscellany ==
* '''Theme song''': For years Lionel adopted "''[[Nina Morena]]''" by the [[Gipsy Kings]] as his theme song. [[Mondegreen|The song's opening line, which sounds like "Lionel" repeatedly]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Gypsy Kings&nbsp;— Nina Morena|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5Ppa2Js3w|website=YouTube|publisher=Daman Chadha|accessdate=2016-08-21}}</ref> caused him to "fall out of his chair" the first time he heard it.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}  The closing theme song was for years "''[[Soul Makossa]]''" by [[Manu Dibango]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Manu Dibango&nbsp;— Soul Makossa|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jYjUiulMQ|website=YouTube|publisher=M-YAMI|accessdate=2016-08-21}}</ref>
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[[File:Lionel Cleaned Fill v3 - Thumb 400x400.png|thumb|right|upright|A caricature of [[Lionel (radio personality)|Lionel]] by a fan, none other than [[User:JasonCarswell]].]]
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* '''Theme song''': For years Lionel adopted "''[[Nina Morena]]''" by the [[Gipsy Kings]] as his theme song. [[Mondegreen|The song's opening line, which sounds like "Lionel" repeatedly]],<ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5Ppa2Js3w|website=YouTube</ref> caused him to "fall out of his chair" the first time he heard it.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}  The closing theme song was for years "''[[Soul Makossa]]''" by [[Manu Dibango]].<ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jYjUiulMQ</ref>
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* '''Barstool Diplomacy''': The type of diplomacy advocated by those who endorse the use of overwhelming military force, not excepting nuclear weapons, as the first move. A ham-handed and bellicose approach to any world event where critical analysis and strategy prove problematic.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
 
* '''Barstool Diplomacy''': The type of diplomacy advocated by those who endorse the use of overwhelming military force, not excepting nuclear weapons, as the first move. A ham-handed and bellicose approach to any world event where critical analysis and strategy prove problematic.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
* '''The monkey's dead, the show's over&nbsp;... Sue ya!''': Lionel's end-of-show catch phrase, used since the early 1990s.  "Sue ya" is a reference to his former profession.  "The monkey's dead, the show's over" was originally spoken by a defeated political candidate in Tampa when asked for an election-night comment about his failed campaign (this phrase is an inversion of a quotation from the [[Tennessee Williams]] play [[Orpheus Descending]].) Lionel saw the quote in the next day's newspaper and has used it since.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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* '''Comment as you see fit!''': Lionel's signature valedictory following his television, YouTube,<ref>{{cite web |title=Lionel Nation YouTube Channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/LionelY2K |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref> and audio commentaries and analyses.
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* '''The monkey's dead, the show's over&nbsp;... Sue ya!''': Lionel's end-of-show catch phrase, used since the early 1990s.  "Sue ya" is a reference to his former profession.  "The monkey's dead, the show's over" was originally spoken by a defeated political candidate in Tampa when asked for an election-night comment about his failed campaign (this phrase is an inversion of a quotation from the [[Tennessee Williams]] play [[Orpheus Descending]].) Lionel saw the quote in the next day's newspaper and has used it since.
* '''The myth of the left–right paradigm.''' Inspired by the works of Professor [[Carroll Quigley]],<ref>http://www.carrollquigley.net</ref> it speaks to the myth that real choice exists between and among political parties.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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* '''Lionel's Law''' is a rule he coined that says, "The law always lags behind technology."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cops Don't Need No Stinkin' Warrant for Cellphone Location Data |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZaHwzZo6Dc |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-06-01 |accessdate=2016-08-11}} from 1m25s to 1m32s</ref> Lionel is alarmed by society distracted by immediate novelty without future consideration of rapidly developing and unregulated technologies (iPhones, drones, robots, bio-signatures, artificial intelligence) with profound potential for [[Orwellian]] [[deep state]] [[Computer and network surveillance|cyber-surveillance]] abuse.
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* '''Comment as you see fit!''': Lionel's signature valedictory following his television, YouTube,<ref group=YT>https://www.youtube.com/user/LionelY2K</ref> and audio commentaries and analyses.
* '''Attributed quotes''' frequently used by Lionel include:
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** "Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep till noon."<ref>{{cite web |title=Our American Voter Ignorant, Clueless, Confused and Misinformed |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdL734jEAmU |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-09-04 |accessdate=2016-09-09}} from 0m00s to 0m10s</ref>&nbsp;— misattributed to [[Mark Twain]],<ref name="Wikiquote — Mark Twain">{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Mark Twain}}</ref> originally from [[James Howell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Howell | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— James Howell}}</ref> as "He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Howell|first1=James|title=Epistolae Ho-Elianae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22|website=Google Books|publisher=1655 Edition|accessdate=20 September 2016}}</ref>
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* '''Lionel became a vegan.'''<ref group=YT>See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTzuvbNz_s0  from 12m15s to 12m25s
** "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true."<ref>See for example:
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* How Hillary Clinton, David Brock, Dianne Feinstein and the DNC Destroyed What’s Left of Their Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40e0arZgsY from 22m05s to 22m10s
* {{cite web |title=Trump's Blueprint for Destroying a Hillary Presidency |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn9SkvshGQ |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-03-20 |accessdate=2016-08-26}} from 0m14s to 0m24s
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* {{cite web |title=Hillary's Reckless Red Scare Blather Endangers America |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wihGTDVjzaQ |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation on RT |date=2016-09-06 |accessdate=2016-09-09}} from 5m36s to 5m45s
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* '''The myth of the left–right paradigm.''' Inspired by the works of Professor [[Carroll Quigley]],<ref>http://www.carrollquigley.net</ref> it speaks to the myth that real choice exists between and among political parties.<ref group=YT>See for example:
* {{cite web |title=United States of America v. Hillary Rodham Clinton |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUG3CM7ld0 |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-09-05 |accessdate=2016-09-09}} from 30m02s to 30m09s
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* Heuristics for the Critical Thinker - News Media Hermeneutics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt1XrEHLvx8
* {{cite web |title=Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-01 |accessdate=2016-12-03}} from 25m37s to 25m47s
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* How to Fight Against Truth Tyranny and Media Disinformation - Be a Liberty Ninja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyccHjFvgI from 28m36s to 28m44s
* {{cite web |title=Government and Sockpuppet Rodeo Clown Media Whores Lie, Distract, Distort and Redirect Attention |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDMamEPSfs |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-06 |accessdate=2016-12-06}} from 10m53s to 11m13s
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* Why Americans Believe Federalized Lies — Russian Hacks, Alt-Left Fake News, Obama’s Parthian Shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_4QzMD9gnE from 20m23s to 21m42s
* {{cite web |title=Free Speech Under Attack Deep State Promotes Fake News and False Flag Putin Election Hacking Myths |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaYqc3YplM |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-11 |accessdate=2016-12-11}} from 23m17s to 23m23s
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* The Treasonous, Un-American Myopic and Intellectual Incoherence of Obama, Hillary and the Alt-Left  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8_n5FMPTo from 0m16s to 1m12s
</ref>&nbsp;— [[Leo Tolstoy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Leo Tolstoy}}</ref> (unsourced attribution as of 2016-08-18)
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*** "History is a myth that people agree to believe."<ref>See for example:
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* {{cite web |title=Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-01 |accessdate=2016-12-03}} from 25m47s to 25m57s
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* '''Lionel's Law''' is a rule he coined that says, "The law always lags behind technology."<ref group=YT>See for example:
* {{cite web |title=Government and Sockpuppet Rodeo Clown Media Whores Lie, Distract, Distort and Redirect Attention |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDMamEPSfs |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-06 |accessdate=2016-12-06}} from 10m53s to 11ms13
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* The Cops Don't Need No Stinkin' Warrant for Cellphone Location Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZaHwzZo6Dc from 1m25s to 1m32s
</ref>&nbsp;— [[Napoleon|Napoléon Bonaparte, aka Napoleon I of France]] (originally, "What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Napoleon I of France}}</ref>)
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* Death Penalty Brutality - Prison Industrial Complex State-Sponsored Terror - Transhumanism Abuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MoBPtVtOM from 18m24s to 18m34s
*** "History is written by the winners."<ref>{{cite web |title=Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-01 |accessdate=2016-12-03}} from 25m57s to 26m06</ref>&nbsp;— misattributed to Churchill or Bismarck, originally from [[George Orwell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#.22As_I_Please.22_(1943-1947) | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— George Orwell}}</ref>
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</ref> Lionel is alarmed by society distracted by immediate novelty without future consideration of rapidly developing and unregulated technologies (iPhones, drones, robots, bio-signatures, artificial intelligence) with profound potential for [[Orwellian]] [[deep state]] [[Computer and network surveillance|cyber-surveillance]] abuse.
**** "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history."&nbsp;— [[Winston Churchill]]
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****: This quote may be the basis for a statement often attributed to Churchill : ''History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Post-war_years_(1945-1955) | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Winston Churchill}}</ref>
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* '''Lionel's Rules'''
**** "Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions."&nbsp;— [[Otto von Bismarck]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Otto von Bismarck}}</ref>
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** "We have the attention span of a nat."<ref group=YT>See for example:
**** "History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their viewpoint; or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."&nbsp;— [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nehru|first1=Jawaharlal|title=The Discovery of India|date=1946|location=first paragraph of chapter 7|edition=(reprint edition)|accessdate=7 December 2016|ref=The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations}}</ref>
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* United States of Ignoramuses Fake News, Fake History, Fake Science |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymPVpWej58  from 0m45s to 1m05s
** "If voting made a difference it would be illegal."&nbsp;— unknown (often misattributed to [[Emma Goldman]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Disputed | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Emma Goldman}}</ref> [[Mark Twain]],<ref name="Wikiquote — Mark Twain"/> and [[Philip Berrigan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Philip Berrigan}}</ref>)
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*Everything Else's Failed MSM Now Suggest That Putin Was 'Personally Involved' in Alleged DNC Hacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-On_9U3POg from 9m40s to 9m50s
** "I'm not a conspiracy theorist&nbsp;— I'm a conspiracy analyst."<ref name="youtube">{{cite web |title=Lionel and Alex Jones Globalism's Worst Nightmare |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJOwleeCDCM |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation on [[Alex Jones (radio host)|InfoWars]] |date=2014-08-12 |accessdate=2016-08-26}} from 8m44s to 9m22s</ref>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#2000s | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Gore Vidal}}</ref>
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* Madonna Crashes Women's March With Vile Obscene Incoherent Irrelevant Rantings and Lousy Singing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSjgt1z8YTY from 1m45s to 2m22s
*** "There will come a day where it is an article of faith to be an American to say that there are no conspiracy theories."<ref name="youtube"/>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]] (originally, "Post-9/11, the American media were filled with pre-emptory denunciations of unpatriotic 'conspiracy theorists', who not only are always with us but are usually easy for the media to discredit since it is an article of faith that there are no conspiracies in American life."<ref name="within">{{cite web |title=The Enemy Within |url=https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html |website=ratical.org |publisher=''The Observer'' (London) |date=2002-10-27 |accessdate=2016-08-31}}</ref>)
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</ref>  With the perpetual onslaught of current events combined with the distractions of social media and the bombardments of manipulations from advertisers to politicians we are unable to retain anything for long.
*** "[[Conspiracy theory]] has become a code word for the unspeakable truth."<ref name="youtube"/>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]] (originally,"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth."<ref name="within"/>)
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** "Never believe anything until it's officially denied."&nbsp;— [[Claud Cockburn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claud_Cockburn | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Claud Cockburn}}</ref> via [[John Pilger]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Pilger | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— John Pilger}}</ref>
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* '''Lionel On Cinema Law'''
** "When the facts change, I change my opinion."&nbsp;— [[John Maynard Keynes]] (originally, "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— John Maynard Keynes}}</ref>)
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** As a lawyer, Lionel says that ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', comedy and drama aside, technically features some of the most realistic court scenes in movie history because it clearly explains parts of the process.<ref group=YT>discussed on The Opie Show on YouTube, in one of these episodes: (2017-01-11) (2016-11-11) (2015-01-27) (2014-12-05) (2014-12-04)</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}
** "When you remove all that is impossible, the remains, even though they're improbable, tends to be the truth."<ref>{{cite web |title=Lionel on RT's 'Breaking the Set' with Abby Martin |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6L5dPPUDE |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation on [[RT (TV network)|RT]] |date=2014-09-26 |accessdate=2016-08-17}} from 7m07s to 7m21s</ref>&nbsp;— [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Arthur Conan Doyle}}</ref> [[Sherlock Holmes]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Sherlock Holmes}}</ref> featured several variations
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** "You only take flak when you're over the target."<ref>See for example:
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== Attributed quotes ==
* {{cite web |title=Trump Media Lies, White Supremacist Bullsh^t and Sharpton Paid Off to Back Off |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXcnofHBqM |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2 December 2016 |accessdate=2 December 2016}} from 20m41s to 21m21s
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* {{cite web |title=Free Speech Under Attack Deep State Promotes Fake News and False Flag Putin Election Hacking Myths |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaYqc3YplM |website=YouTube |publisher=Lionel Nation |date=2016-12-11 |accessdate=2016-12-11}} from 23m17s to 23m23s
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Lionel frequently uses famous and infamous quotes to illustrate, summarize, and hammer the point including:
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* "Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep till noon."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Our American Voter Ignorant, Clueless, Confused and Misinformed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdL734jEAmU from 0m00s to 0m10s
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</ref>&nbsp;— misattributed to [[Mark Twain]],<ref group=WQ name="Wikiquote — Mark Twain">{https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain</ref> originally from [[James Howell]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Howell </ref> as "He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon."<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22</ref>
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* "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Trump's Blueprint for Destroying a Hillary Presidency |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn9SkvshGQ |website=YouTube from 0m14s to 0m24s
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* Hillary's Reckless Red Scare Blather Endangers America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wihGTDVjzaQ from 5m36s to 5m45s
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* United States of America v. Hillary Rodham Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUG3CM7ld0 from 30m02s to 30m09s
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* Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE from 25m37s to 25m47s
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* Government and Sockpuppet Rodeo Clown Media Whores Lie, Distract, Distort and Redirect Attention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDMamEPSfs from 10m53s to 11m13s
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* Free Speech Under Attack Deep State Promotes Fake News and False Flag Putin Election Hacking Myths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaYqc3YplM from 23m17s to 23m23s
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*Hillary Folds, Obama Scolds - Trump Triumphs - Fake News Flourishes - Media Mendacity & Meltdown |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKU0mlakYA from 8m32s to 8m49s
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* Hillary Puts the Fun in Funereal - Obamas' Lost Hope - DT's Trauma Transition - Electors Threatened |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shzqpIVaGe8 from 28m43s to 28m50s
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*Lionel’s Xmas Message Is Interrupted by His Wife’s Purse Snatched and the Perp Pinched by NYPD |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32QGhaksTY8 from 7m15s to 7m20s
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* BREAKING Obama Bans Free Speech In The Dead of Night - Anti-Propaganda Agency Slipped In NDAA |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KfIssrdwc from 0m23s to 0m33s
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* How to Fight Against Truth Tyranny and Media Disinformation - Be a Liberty Ninja |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyccHjFvgI  from 29m39s to 29m43s
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*Lionel Destroys the ‘Russians Hacked the US’ Narrative and ‘Surreal Echo Chamber’ of No Evidence |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO7gLth-sGw from 20m18s to 20m23s
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* The Treasonous, Un-American Myopic and Intellectual Incoherence of Obama, Hillary and the Alt-Left |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8_n5FMPTo from 17m16s to 17m24s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Leo Tolstoy]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy </ref> (unsourced attribution as of 2016-08-18)
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** "History is a myth that people agree to believe."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE  from 25m47s to 25m57s
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* {Government and Sockpuppet Rodeo Clown Media Whores Lie, Distract, Distort and Redirect Attention |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDMamEPSfs from 10m53s to 11ms13
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* Lionel’s Xmas Message Is Interrupted by His Wife’s Purse Snatched and the Perp Pinched by NYPD |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32QGhaksTY8 from 7m20s to 7m25s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Napoleon|Napoléon Bonaparte, aka Napoleon I of France]] (originally, "What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon."<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France </ref>)
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** "History is written by the winners."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Pathetic Hillary Despots Try in Vain to Derail the Trump Revolution |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0CMxLbeHE |website=YouTube from 25m57s to 26m06
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* Lionel’s Xmas Message Is Interrupted by His Wife’s Purse Snatched and the Perp Pinched by NYPD |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32QGhaksTY8  from 7m20s to 7m25s
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</ref>&nbsp;— misattributed to Churchill or Bismarck, originally from [[George Orwell]]<ref group=WQ>{https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#.22As_I_Please.22_(1943-1947)</ref>
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*** "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history."&nbsp;— [[Winston Churchill]]
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***: This quote may be the basis for a statement often attributed to Churchill : ''History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it.''<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Post-war_years_(1945-1955)</ref>
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*** "Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions."&nbsp;— [[Otto von Bismarck]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck </ref>
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*** "History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their viewpoint; or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."&nbsp;— [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<ref>Nehru, Jawaharlal (1946). The Discovery of India ((reprint edition) ed.). first paragraph of chapter 7</ref>
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* "If voting made a difference it would be illegal."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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*  
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</ref>&nbsp;— unknown (often misattributed to [[Emma Goldman]],<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Disputed </ref> [[Mark Twain]],<ref group=WQ name="Wikiquote — Mark Twain"/> and [[Philip Berrigan]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan</ref>)
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* "I'm not a conspiracy theorist&nbsp;— I'm a conspiracy analyst."<ref group=YT name="youtube">See for example:
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* Lionel and Alex Jones Globalism's Worst Nightmare |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJOwleeCDCM from 8m44s to 9m22s
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* My Interview With James Corbett of The Corbett Report |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjQvVk9im-I  from 16m40s to 16m50s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#2000s </ref>
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** "There will come a day where it is an article of faith to be an American to say that there are no conspiracy theories."<ref group=YT name="youtube"/>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]] (originally, "Post-9/11, the American media were filled with pre-emptory denunciations of unpatriotic 'conspiracy theorists', who not only are always with us but are usually easy for the media to discredit since it is an article of faith that there are no conspiracies in American life."<ref name="within">https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html </ref>)
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** "[[Conspiracy theory]] has become a code word for the unspeakable truth."<ref group=YT name="youtube"/>&nbsp;— [[Gore Vidal]] (originally,"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth."<ref name="within"/>)
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* "Never believe anything until it's officially denied."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* How to Fight Against Truth Tyranny and Media Disinformation - Be a Liberty Ninja |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyccHjFvgI from 29m34s to 29m39s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Claud Cockburn]]<ref group=WQ>=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claud_Cockburn </ref> via [[John Pilger]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Pilger</ref>
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* "When the facts change, I change my opinion."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Hillary Puts the Fun in Funereal - Obamas' Lost Hope - DT's Trauma Transition - Electors Threatened |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shzqpIVaGe8  from 29m57s to 30m02s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[John Maynard Keynes]] (originally, "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes</ref>)
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* "When you remove all that is impossible, the remains, even though they're improbable, tends to be the truth."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Lionel on RT's 'Breaking the Set' with Abby Martin |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6L5dPPUDE from 7m07s to 7m21s
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle </ref> [[Sherlock Holmes]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes</ref> featured several variations
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* "You only take flak when you're over the target."<ref group=YT>See for example:
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* Trump Media Lies, White Supremacist Bullsh^t and Sharpton Paid Off to Back Off |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXcnofHBqM from 20m41s to 21m21s
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* Free Speech Under Attack Deep State Promotes Fake News and False Flag Putin Election Hacking Myths |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaYqc3YplM from 23m17s to 23m23s
 
</ref> (alternatively "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target." or "You know you're over the target when you're catching flak.") &nbsp;— (unsourced attribution as of 2016-12-07)
 
</ref> (alternatively "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target." or "You know you're over the target when you're catching flak.") &nbsp;— (unsourced attribution as of 2016-12-07)
** "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."&nbsp;— [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan | title=Wikiquote&nbsp;— Daniel Patrick Moynihan}}</ref>
 
  
== The Lebron Firm ==
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* "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."<ref group=YT>See for example:
In 2015 [http://www.lebronfirm.com The Lebron Firm] was launched with headquarters in New York. Described as a "renaissance law firm" dedicated to the representation of plaintiffs in civil actions, including auto accident, medical and professional negligence, products liability and civil rights violations including police misconduct and wrongful conviction.
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*
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</ref>&nbsp;— [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]<ref group=WQ>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan</ref>
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* [https://www.youtube.com/LionelY2K Lionel Nation YouTube Page]
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* Lionel on [https://www.YouTube.com/LionelY2K YouTube]
 
* [http://www.c-span.org/video/?281180-1/qa-lionel C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Lionel, September 21, 2008]
 
* [http://www.c-span.org/video/?281180-1/qa-lionel C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Lionel, September 21, 2008]
 
* [http://www.talkers.com/online/?p=267 Talkers Magazine&nbsp;— The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America]
 
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(lawyer, comedian, radio host, actor, musician)
Lionel.jpg
BornMichael William Lebron
1958-08-26
Tampa, Florida, United States
ResidenceManhattan,  New York,  United States
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of South Florida, Stetson University College of Law
OccupationTrial lawyer
Legal analyst
Media analyst
EmployerThe Lebron Firm
Known forAmerican radio & television personality
Awards2015 Emmy Award for Writer: Commentary/Editorial

Michael William Lebron, popularly known as 'Lionel', is a trial lawyer, nationally syndicated American radio and television personality; media, political, and legal analyst; stand-up comedian; bluegrass musician; and lecturer.

In 2018, he became notable for his promotion of the alleged Deep State insider and informant known as QAnon, and his purported exposure of serious crimes and other misdeeds by the government establishment.[1]

In June 2019 he tweeted support for Rudy Giuliani's bid for New York Mayor.[2]

Career

Lionel with open mouth smile, exclaim pointing up, vlogging from home in front of his Emmy and book on a bookshelf and a frame caricature of Lionel at a talk radio station - a screen grab @15m00s from his YouTube video z7rUS5HngMI - Lionel Nation 'Anthony Weiner Send the Sick Perv to Prison' (2016-09-22)
Lionel in 2016, vlogging from home in front of his Emmy and book.

Born in Tampa, Florida, he attended Jesuit High School where he was voted Class Wit. After graduating magna cum laude from the University of South Florida in 1980, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Lionel worked as a District Aide for Florida United States Senator Richard "Dick" Stone and in his unsuccessful campaign for reelection. Lionel graduated from the Stetson University College of Law, and as trial lawyer worked as both prosecutor for the Hillsborough County Florida State Attorney's Office (13th Judicial Circuit), and a criminal defense trial lawyer thereafter. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, New Jersey and New York as well before the U.S. Supreme Court.[citation needed]

Radio

He began his radio career hosting a show at WFLA 970 AM in his hometown of Tampa, from 1988 to 1993.[citation needed] The Lionel Show debuted in Tampa, Florida, on weekends on 970 WFLA in October 1988. For years, Lionel had been a frequent caller to local shows, eventually becoming a "chronic", which is industry vernacular for frequent callers. He was noted for using various aliases and personas to get on the air. His most enduring moniker, "Lionel", alludes to Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi, the character played by Al Pacino in the movie Scarecrow.[citation needed]

When WPLP (WFLA's rival station across Tampa Bay) offered Lionel a talk show, he declined, due to WPLP's rather meager offer—and his trepidations about how a radio show would affect his law career. In October 1988, WFLA management gave him an irresistible offer to move behind the microphone as a Sunday afternoon radio host. In January 1989, his show moved to middays (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.), Monday through Friday. Seven months later, he took the afternoon drive slot, where his lively mix of current events and dry humor proved to be a ratings success. In 1993, he was hired away by WABC 770 AM, a major talk radio station in New York City when a former ABC network president, Jim Arcara, heard Lionel's show while vacationing in Florida and lured him to the Big Apple. Lionel manned the morning drive slot on New York's heritage WABC 770 AM in early 1994. He set ratings records for WABC as its morning-drive host during the mid-1990s[citation needed]. For a time, Lionel did both morning drive and afternoon drive for a period immediately following talk radio legend Bob Grant's departure from WABC.[citation needed]

Television

In the late 1990s, toward the end of his tenure at WABC, Lionel also hosted the CourtTV law show Snap Judgment. He also provided daily updates on WCBS 880 AM during the Clinton impeachment process. In 2000, he began his national radio show, The Lionel Show, originally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks through 2001. His show was then syndicated by independent Rex Broadcasting until 2003, when it was picked up locally and nationally syndicated by the WOR Radio Network in New York City. In 2000 and 2001, in addition to his radio work, Lionel was a morning host on an Internet-based talk radio site, eYada.com until 2001.

Talkers Magazine included Lionel In their list of Talkers Frontier Fifty and the "HEAVIEST HUNDRED: The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" at number 23, and estimated the show's audience at 1.75 million unique listeners per week.[3] The magazine described him as "a uniquely witty and intellectual personality" and "defying categorization".[4]

He released a comedy album titled You Don't Look Like You Sound in 1996, and fronts a bluegrass band called Lock 'n' Load.

Lionel's book cover 'Everyone's Crazy Except You And Me... And I'm Not So Sure About You'
Lionel's 2010 book cover Everyone's Crazy Except You And Me... And I'm Not So Sure About You

Lionel wrote a book, "Everyone's Crazy Except You and Me...And I'm Not So Sure About You: America's Favorite Contrarian Cuts Loose". It was published by Hyperion and was released on August 5, 2008. On March 22, 2010, Lionel began a nightly commentary[5] on New York's WPIX Channel 11 and was a regular contributor to the morning and late night newscasts, as well as the station's legal analyst. He then launched LionelMedia.com on June 23, 2010, containing podcasts, audio, video, essays as well as his YouTube channel "Lionel Nation." In August 2012, Lionel began hosting the morning show on The New IQ 106.9 in Philadelphia. In 2015, Lionel began regularly appearing on RT and RT America as a legal and media analyst.[citation needed]

In 2015 Lionel won a commentary/editorial writing New York Emmy Award.[6]

Lionel with open mouth smile in front of green screen with open welcoming large hands close to camera - a screen grab @5m50s from his YouTube video QhHJXVSNHzM - Lionel Nation 'Lionel on Radio New Zealand Diagnosing Hillary Clinton' (2016-10-05)
Lionel in 2016

Lionel has appeared on Court TV, PBS, Tribune Media, C-SPAN, CBS, ABC, NY1, BBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, Newsmax TV, HuffPost Live, RT America, RT International, Arise America, Food Network, CrossTalk, The Alex Jones Show, Stone Cold Truth, Air America, Coast to Coast AM, SiriusXM, Cumulus, iHeartMedia, France's Canal+, Radio New Zealand, Rossiya 24, Radio Belgrade, Radio Sputnick, NTV and 92nd Street Y.

Lionel also appears in the 2016 fourth season of the Netflix television series House of Cards.

Philosophy

Originally espousing a largely libertarian political philosophy, Lionel describes himself as a political atheist.[YT 1][YT 2] He personally eschews such labels and repeatedly criticizes those who hold opinions simply out of allegiance to a word like “conservative” or “liberal”. He repeatedly professes the notion that the left–right paradigm is but an illusion.

He opposes the death penalty on the grounds that the justice system is far too unreliable to be entrusted with that power, and favors decriminalization of drug use and possession as well as prostitution, gambling and victimless offenses. He long supported gay and “intragender” marriage and strongly opposed the Iraq War since around 2004. He asks callers to take the Lionel Challenge: Try explicating or describing a political philosophy or point without using a label. Some, he contends, find it impossible.[citation needed]

Lionel appears as a political commentator and news decoder, legal analyst, renaissance lawyer and (out)spoken word artist around the country. He performs with his trio named “Lock 'n' Load.” Lionel is a voice actor[YT 3] sought-after emcee and speaker and provides lecture series around the country.[citation needed]

Newsweek described Lionel as “[a]n intellectual known for his irreverent political and social humor.”[citation needed]

Famed record producer Jerry Wexler describes Lionel thus: “He wears the mantle of Lenny Bruce, with Lenny's own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The Arcane, The Numinous. And yet Lionel brings to the table his own savory: A love of the mother tongue and a gonzo vocabulary that puts his logo on all his works, whether talk-show hosting, standup-comic spritzing, or hanging out — with himself a minor art form.”[citation needed]

The Lebron Firm

In 2015 The Lebron Firm was launched with headquarters in New York. Described as a "renaissance law firm" dedicated to the representation of plaintiffs in civil actions, including auto accident, medical and professional negligence, products liability and civil rights violations including police misconduct and wrongful conviction.

Presidential meeting

In August 2018, Lebron met with President Donald Trump at the White House. Lebron stated that the two did not talk about the claimed leaks and insider information by QAnon that Lebron helps promote, but that "we all know he knows about it."[7]

The Lionel argot and assorted miscellany

A caricature of Lionel by a fan, none other than User:JasonCarswell.
  • Barstool Diplomacy: The type of diplomacy advocated by those who endorse the use of overwhelming military force, not excepting nuclear weapons, as the first move. A ham-handed and bellicose approach to any world event where critical analysis and strategy prove problematic.[citation needed]
  • The monkey's dead, the show's over ... Sue ya!: Lionel's end-of-show catch phrase, used since the early 1990s. "Sue ya" is a reference to his former profession. "The monkey's dead, the show's over" was originally spoken by a defeated political candidate in Tampa when asked for an election-night comment about his failed campaign (this phrase is an inversion of a quotation from the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending.) Lionel saw the quote in the next day's newspaper and has used it since.
  • Comment as you see fit!: Lionel's signature valedictory following his television, YouTube,[YT 6] and audio commentaries and analyses.
  • Lionel became a vegan.[YT 7]
  • The myth of the left–right paradigm. Inspired by the works of Professor Carroll Quigley,[8] it speaks to the myth that real choice exists between and among political parties.[YT 8]
  • Lionel's Law is a rule he coined that says, "The law always lags behind technology."[YT 9] Lionel is alarmed by society distracted by immediate novelty without future consideration of rapidly developing and unregulated technologies (iPhones, drones, robots, bio-signatures, artificial intelligence) with profound potential for Orwellian deep state cyber-surveillance abuse.
  • Lionel's Rules
    • "We have the attention span of a nat."[YT 10] With the perpetual onslaught of current events combined with the distractions of social media and the bombardments of manipulations from advertisers to politicians we are unable to retain anything for long.
  • Lionel On Cinema Law
    • As a lawyer, Lionel says that My Cousin Vinny, comedy and drama aside, technically features some of the most realistic court scenes in movie history because it clearly explains parts of the process.[YT 11][citation needed]

Attributed quotes

Lionel frequently uses famous and infamous quotes to illustrate, summarize, and hammer the point including:

  • "Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep till noon."[YT 12] — misattributed to Mark Twain,[WQ 1] originally from James Howell[WQ 2] as "He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon."[9]
  • "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true."[YT 13] — Leo Tolstoy[WQ 3] (unsourced attribution as of 2016-08-18)
    • "History is a myth that people agree to believe."[YT 14] — Napoléon Bonaparte, aka Napoleon I of France (originally, "What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon."[WQ 4])
    • "History is written by the winners."[YT 15] — misattributed to Churchill or Bismarck, originally from George Orwell[WQ 5]
      • "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history." — Winston Churchill
        This quote may be the basis for a statement often attributed to Churchill : History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it.[WQ 6]
      • "Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions." — Otto von Bismarck[WQ 7]
      • "History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their viewpoint; or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field." — Jawaharlal Nehru[10]
  • "I'm not a conspiracy theorist — I'm a conspiracy analyst."[YT 17] — Gore Vidal[WQ 10]
    • "There will come a day where it is an article of faith to be an American to say that there are no conspiracy theories."[YT 17] — Gore Vidal (originally, "Post-9/11, the American media were filled with pre-emptory denunciations of unpatriotic 'conspiracy theorists', who not only are always with us but are usually easy for the media to discredit since it is an article of faith that there are no conspiracies in American life."[11])
    • "Conspiracy theory has become a code word for the unspeakable truth."[YT 17] — Gore Vidal (originally,"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth."[11])
  • "When the facts change, I change my opinion."[YT 19] — John Maynard Keynes (originally, "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"[12])
  • "You only take flak when you're over the target."[YT 21] (alternatively "If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target." or "You know you're over the target when you're catching flak.")  — (unsourced attribution as of 2016-12-07)

References

WQ Wikiquote references

YT YouTube references

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hgQwb6je0
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0ua6rY-lA
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQ3r5Yu_DU
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5Ppa2Js3w%7Cwebsite=YouTube
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2jYjUiulMQ
  6. https://www.youtube.com/user/LionelY2K
  7. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTzuvbNz_s0 from 12m15s to 12m25s
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  11. discussed on The Opie Show on YouTube, in one of these episodes: (2017-01-11) (2016-11-11) (2015-01-27) (2014-12-05) (2014-12-04)
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