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Ink Stained Wretches

A Nugget of Truth

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 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.  Watch this episode on YouTube If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram @InkStainedWretches 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  Mediaite: Bret Baier Earns Bipartisan Praise for Grilling Trump on Classified Docs: 'An Extraordinary Interview'  Chicago Tribune: Victor Shi: Cameras must be allowed during Donald Trump’s trial  Mediaite: Jake Tapper Says CNN Won't Cover 'Potentially Dangerous' Trump Speech — One Month After Network Held Town Hall for Him  The Wrap: Gavin Newsom Tells Sean Hannity He Was Blasted by Left for ‘Incredible Relationship’ With Trump During COVID (Video)  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:  Inquirer: Two Rhode Island officials visited Philly. They were so rude their state launched two separate investigations.  Sports Illustrated: Stephen F. Austin Bowling Coach Quits After Affair With Player Is Revealed

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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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