#63 - What's the Matter with Manchin?

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Having left the great state of Florida, the land where freedom goes to get sun-baked into insanity, Lewis reports in from a parking lot in suburban Baltimore. While he enjoyed his time in the sunshine state, the governor there seems to be lost in a florid freedom fog of Covid-denial, and the populace is following suit. Fortunately the audiences at the shows were able to enjoy their theater-going liberty and showed up en masse, vaxxed and masked. Meanwhile, the news this week is filled with the onslaught of Omicron and the meandering machinations of Sen. Manchin and his worries that funds to the citizenry will go to drugs and hunting. In all these stories, the news media does nothing to separate fact from opinion, and as usual relies on conflict narratives to keep the eyeballs fixed on the page and the screen. The good news this week is that the former leader was booed for getting a booster and Lewis got to see his mom. And a gift-giving tip from your host: at-home COVID tests make a great stocking stuffer. The live rants come from the Grand Opera House in Wilmington DE on Feb. 21, 2020. Submit rants to Lewis https://www.lewisblack.com/live Check out Lewis’ Grammy-nominated special, Thanks For Risking Your Life https://tlbrecords.lnk.to/LewisWE Subscribe to Lewis Black’s Rantcast Apple – https://bit.ly/rantcast Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3oNaPFh Google – https://bit.ly/37Zb35u Amazon – https://amzn.to/37bg8Za Follow Lewis Website – http://www.lewisblack.com Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/thelewisblack Twitter – https://twitter.com/thelewisblack Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelewisblack Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/OfficialLewisBlack New episodes arrive every Wednesday via The Laugh Button For advertising opportunities email: advertise@thelaughbutton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the rubber chicken says
0:20.9	I know that Florida is crazy, but it was warm down there and I can't believe we left it
0:30.4	to barrel our ass into the frozen north.
0:33.8	What do I know?
0:35.5	I'm just a rubber chicken.
0:36.9	Well, we have not got time to discuss
0:39.8	travel plans here today because we've got to get on with a rant cast number 63 entitled,
0:46.8	What the Matter with Mansion? Yes, what is the matter with Mansion? The senator from West
0:53.9	Virginia, who seems to be controlling everything in Congress.
0:56.7	And if he's not, it's Mitch McConnell.
0:58.7	And what a combo pact the two of them make.
1:01.2	Yes, sirie, Mansion, or the Manchinian candidate.
1:04.4	And you saw the little play on words there, I think.
1:07.0	For those who you don't know, it's the Manchurian candidate, a movie that was made quite some time back and well worth catching over the Christmas holidays, a real Christmas movie.
1:18.2	It's unbelievable.
1:19.4	Mansion came out over the weekend after going through all of this, and I'm not saying I don't agree with all of Billed Back Better.
1:28.7	I don't even know what's in Build Back Better. I just know, as I've said before, that it's a horrific name of a bill,
1:34.6	build back better. I mean, come on. It's got to be more active than that. But one of the reasons
1:41.0	he was against it was as he felt that the child tax credit that is hugely important to a ton of Americans, a ton, he felt would be used by many to buy drugs.
1:57.7	Well, there you go.
1:58.5	And that the paid leave would be used for hunting trips.
2:04.3	Well, isn't that great, Joe? And I'm glad you're the moral arbiter of our times. And I'm surprised
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