America the Wonderful

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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It’s the Fourth of July weekend and we spend the podcast defending America from the nonsense of NPR, the liberal notion that America is a bad actor on the world stage, and the idea that COVID is some form of rough justice for America’s sins. Have a glorious weekend as you give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday, July 2nd, 2021.
0:29.0	I'm John Pothor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always associate editor
0:35.1	Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:36.9	Hi John.
0:37.9	Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.
0:40.1	Hi John.
0:41.1	An executive editor, Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.
0:44.5	Hi John.
0:45.5	As the 4th of July approaches on Sunday, I happen to be listening this morning to all things,
0:51.2	a morning edition, excuse me, NPR's flagship morning news show and they began their program
0:57.8	with the following.
0:59.8	Ordinarily on the 4th of July or shows leading up to the 4th of July, we have our NPR correspondence
1:04.6	read the Declaration of Independence, but as we are in a reckoning with our historical past
1:12.3	and the problems there too, it is incumbent on us to be honest about what this document
1:21.0	is like.
1:22.0	It's full of hypocrisy for example, when they were drafting it, they took out a
1:27.7	passage about scotch rebels because some of the members of the Congress were of scotch
1:37.1	descent and they didn't like the language, but of course they talked about all men being
1:42.9	equal, but women were of course not equal and slaves were not equal and indigenous peoples
1:49.8	were not equal.
1:51.3	It was full of hypocrisies and also gave birth to our aspirations and so we are going to
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