A Nugget of Truth
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We’re going big for Grimace’s birthday today on Ink Stained Wretches. We’re sipping on some purple shakes while breaking down the Hunter Biden coverage, Brett Baeir’s interview with Trump, Robert Kennedy and much more.
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Time Stamps:
3:37 Front Page
1:08:12 Obsessions
1:13:10 Reader Mail
1:14:47 Favorite Items
Show Notes:
National Review: The Intentionally Provocative Hunter Biden Plea Deal
The Dispatch: Night of the Hunter
Chicago Tribune: Victor Shi: Cameras must be allowed during Donald Trump’s trial
Commentary Magazine: The End of Cable News? - Christine Rosen
WaPo: The life and power of Casey DeSantis
WaPo: Gov. Ron DeSantis used secretive panel to flip state Supreme Court
News Nation: Joe Rogan challenges vaccine expert to debate anti-vaxxer
National Review: The Real Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Daily Beast: The Lost Titanic Sub Didn't Even Have a Basic Safety Beacon
New Republic: OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates | The New Republic
WaPo: Fred Ryan to leave Washington Post after nine years as publisher
WaPo: Tesla 'Autopilot' crashes and fatalities surge, despite Musk's claims
WaPo: Inside a conservative confab for young women, where feminism is a lie
TIME: Tequila Is Eclipsing Vodka as U.S.'s Most Popular Spirit
Michigan Daily: The whiteness of green spaces: The cyclical nature of exclusion in environmental professions
Mens Health: Are You Gynosexual? Here's What It Means, According to Experts
NYT: Lionel Messi, Saudi Arabia and the Deal That Paid Off for Both Sides
NYT: Why Do Team Owners Raise the Championship Trophy First?
Mediaite: Andy Reid Raves About Food At Chiefs' White House Visit
WSJ: Prince Harry and Meghan, Spotify End Podcasting Deal
Variety: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Labeled 'F—ing Grifters' by Spotify Exec Bill Simmons After Deal Ends
NYT: A Flight Attendant’s 12 Etiquette Rules for Summer Travel
Obsessions:
Public on Substack: First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources
WSJ: U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak
National Review: When the Scandal of the Century Has No Consequences
The Atlantic: Lara Logan’s Break With Reality
The Dispatch: When Public Opinion Is Irrelevant
NYT: Tracking Major Supreme Court Cases in 2023: Affirmative Action, Elections and More
Favorite Items:
Sports Illustrated: Stephen F. Austin Bowling Coach Quits After Affair With Player Is Revealed
Transcript
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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. Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwald. |
| 0:27.2 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. And welcome to ink-stained riches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:37.4 | Eliana Johnson, let me tell you something about producer. |
| 0:41.2 | Maybe now we'll have to call him executive producer, senior producer, Colin Chocola, |
| 0:46.3 | is that he and I are from the same trashy kind of culinary energy. |
| 0:55.0 | And if you're watching at home, you can see that Colin is helping us celebrate Grimmis's birthday. |
| 1:02.0 | We are not, very obviously, not being compensated by McDonald's, but we have had something of a running gag on this show about McDonald's. Some of you |
| 1:12.4 | may remember the McRib episode where Eliana ate her first ever McRib. And I had included a piece |
| 1:20.5 | for today's about a serious journalistic breakdown of what Grimmis is. And I was surprised that as McDonald celebrates Grimmis' fake birthday, that Grimmis did have a |
| 1:31.7 | backstory that he was originally a villain. |
| 1:33.9 | Did you know that? |
| 1:34.9 | No. |
| 1:35.5 | He was originally a villain. |
| 1:36.7 | I guess part of Mayor McCheeses or the hamburger. |
| 1:39.3 | I was going to say. |
| 1:40.3 | The hamburglers gang. |
| 1:42.0 | And that Grimmis is a taste bud. |
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