A Farewell That Harms
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today, we bid bon voyage to the Biden administration by reflecting on President Biden’s farewell address, Jill Biden’s exit interview with The Washington Post, and KJP’s final appearance in the White House Press Room. We’re also diving into media coverage of the L.A. wildfires, drama at The Washington Post, and an Obama lawyer’s $20 million mansion fiasco. Wretch on!
TIME STAMPS
2:03 - Front Page
54:54 - Obsessions
1:06:01 - Reader Mail
1:08:26 - Favorites
Salon: "It threatens our entire democracy”: Biden takes aim at tech oligarchs like Musk in farewell address
The Wall Street Journal: Biden’s Claim He Would Have Beaten Trump Opens Rift With Harris
The Washington Post: Jill Biden still hopes for a good ending
The Hill: Biden on if Trump will get credit over him for ceasefire deal: ‘Is that a joke?’
National Review: 60 Minutes Humiliates Itself on Israel
The New York Times: A Euphoric Tech Industry Is Ready to Celebrate Trump and Itself
The New York Times: Joni Ernst Says She Will Vote to Confirm Pete Hegseth
The New York Times: ‘Will Pay Any Amount’: Private Firefighters Are in Demand in L.A.
The New York Times: Before Taking Office, L.A.’s Mayor Said She Would Not Go Abroad
The New York TImes: Black Women Defend Mayor Karen Bass Amid Criticism of Wildfire Response
The Daily Beast: Star Washington Post Columnist Torches Bezos on Her Way Out the Door
Variety: Rashida Jones to Exit MSNBC; Rebecca Kutler Named Interim President
NPR: Will Lewis' first year at 'Washington Post': Cancellations, red ink and an exodus
The New York Times: How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
Gallup: U.S. Political Parties Historically Polarized Ideologically
The Wall Street Journal: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns
The Wall Street Journal: The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
The Washington Free Beacon: American Tragedy: Obama Terror Lawyer Clashed With Aspen Bureaucrats Over $20 Million Home Expansion
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.9 | Hi, I am Chris Nyarwal. And I'm Eliana Johnson. These are the truth. |
| 0:29.3 | True facts. Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:36.4 | Eliana Johnson, you don't live in the People's District, in the Chocolate City of |
| 0:41.5 | District of Columbia. |
| 0:43.7 | But let me tell you, as we record this on the Thursday before inauguration day, the city |
| 0:49.1 | of my residence has gone mad. |
| 0:51.6 | The traffic is crazy. |
| 0:53.4 | The security shutdowns are crazy. The people are acting crazy. |
| 0:57.7 | The normally insane Maryland drivers are quadruple insane. It's just a real, it's a situation here. |
| 1:06.7 | It's all I can tell you. Stay, stay out. Stay in the friendly confines of Northern Virginia. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm so happy not to live there. |
| 1:14.5 | And on Monday, and I am a, for I am a lazy man. And on Monday, and it's supposed to be very cold. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm going to have to walk like the mile and a quarter. I know. I know. Basically, I'm the history's greatest victim. I'm going to have to walk like the mile and a quarter. I know. |
| 1:27.7 | I know. |
| 1:30.6 | Basically, I'm the history's greatest victim. |
| 1:44.3 | I'm going to have to walk the mile and a quarter into the News Nation Bureau for election day coverage because the security perimeter is substantial and substantially between my house and 400 North Capitol Street. |
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