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Daniel Lutzer

Ideas Editor at Oxford University Press and former journalist who appeared as a guest on Radiolab's "Oliver Sipple" episode.

Jun 5, 2026

Radiolab

Radiolab

Oliver Sipple

Jun 5 · 1h 3m

20:03
So two days after the assassination attempt, Kane's column comes out.
20:07
And the way that he wrote it up, this is the, the precise paragraph.
20:10
"One of the heroes of the day, Oliver Billy Sipple, the ex-Marine who grabbed Sarah Jane Moore's arm just as her gun was fired, and thereby may have saved the president's life, was the center of midnight attention at the Red Lantern, a Golden Gate Avenue bar he favors.
20:24
Reverend Ray Broshears, head of Helping Hand Center, and gay politico Harvey Milk, who claim to be among Sipple's close friends, described themselves as proud.
20:33
Maybe this will help break the stereotype."

31 MINS LATER

51:24
Again, Daniel Lutzer.
51:26
And it's like, the thing that, like, makes journalism law so complicated, and the things that make an invasion of privacy discussion so difficult is that, like, what makes something not an invasion of privacy is not that it's okay, it's that it's politically, you know, relevant.
51:43
So, like, the sto- the fact that the story, the fact that the, the private details of his life are politically relevant means that it's not an invasion of privacy.

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