Andy Borowitz and Jelani Cobb Talk to David Remnick about the D.N.C.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Andy Borowitz, a writer of satire, thinks that the D.N.C. represents the audacity of cheesiness, and Jelani Cobb discusses the Obama Presidency’s effect on the Democratic Party.
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| 1:11.9 | I'm Dorothy Wickendon on today's Politics and More podcast, two perspectives on the Democratic National Convention. |
| 1:19.0 | First, Andy Borowitz, the creator of the Borowitz report, discusses the pageantry. |
| 1:24.2 | Then David Remneck talks with New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb about what the convention tells us about how the Democratic Party has changed during the Obama presidency. |
| 1:34.4 | As all the lunacy of the back-to-back convention weeks finally ratcheted down, I called up a man uniquely qualified to deal with these events. |
| 1:43.0 | My friend, my colleague, Andy Borowitz. |
| 1:46.4 | He writes the Borowitz report for the New Yorker. |
| 1:49.4 | So, Andy, kind of a transition from one week to the next. We've gone from Blade Runner Convention |
| 1:54.4 | to what? Well, it's the Hillary Convention. And the biggest challenge of nominating Hillary Clinton is that you |
| 2:03.3 | have as the star of the show Hillary Clinton and she take a direct quote from her she says |
| 2:09.2 | I'm not a natural politician which sort of makes you question her choice of career in a way because |
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