Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach and pain, some die of thirst, the way of

knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst, oh for the best.

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, March 17th, 2023. I am John

Puthworts, the editor of commentary magazine, which me as always executive editor, a green

wild hi Abe. Hi John. Media commentary columnist Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi John. And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute

or Washington commentary columnist Matthew Contnetti. Hi Matt. Hi John. So first it was

a bat now. Apparently it's a raccoon dog. Yes. Catherine Wu of the Atlantic fresh from

spending three years trying to drive everyone insane with her COVID and health paranoia

and some of the most hilariously over the top articles ever published about how she was

going and she was writing pieces about how she was going insane, which I think was pretty

much indicated by the level and perspicacity of her prose has a big exclusive out that

the New York Times has jumped on and actually released to the world as breaking news as

though it's their story, but it's in fact Catherine Wu's story about a new study that

has not been published and that is not been vetted about how genetic material taken from

swabs of people at the Wuhan market beginning in January 2020 show some animal DNA in them

raccoon dogs. First time I've ever heard of a raccoon dog so you'll please forgive me

because that sounds disgusting. I really don't like dogs are cute but I don't the notion

of the raccoon dog together is not very attractive. Well if you just look at the image it's

not a dog. It's a raccoon way. Apparently at the Wuhan wet market you can buy a raccoon

dog and eat it I guess is what we're being told and then maybe they sold a raccoon dog

at the Wuhan wet market and somebody ate it and got COVID and now COVID contains material

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