Another Bad Olympic Moment

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The bizarre celebration of North Korea’s regime—through its representative, Kim Jong Yo, and its cheerleading squad—leads the COMMENTARY podcast crew to wonder at the degradation of the U.S. media and the continuing foolishness of the very idea of the “Olympic spirit.” We also consider the White House domestic-abuse mess and the dangers of conflict between Israel and Iran. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast.
0:27.3	Today is Monday, February 12th, Lincoln's birthday.
0:32.0	I am John Pajor.
0:33.0	It's the editor of Commentary, the 73-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political
0:37.2	property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
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0:51.6	our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year.
0:55.7	Please me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald.
0:58.2	Hi Abe.
0:59.2	Hi John.
1:00.2	Associate editor Noah Rothman.
1:01.9	Hi Noah.
1:02.9	Hi John.
1:03.9	And senior writer Sora Bemari.
1:04.9	Hi Sora Ab.
1:05.9	Hi John.
1:06.9	Uh, gentleman, the Olympics are, are, are, are upon us.
1:11.8	And uh, as always happens with every Olympics, there is some off the Olympic story that
1:17.2	obsesses everybody and gives us the opportunity for hot takes and idiot opinions and stupid
1:25.5	controversies.
1:26.5	But I'm not sure this one is all that stupid because what we have, of course, is the arrival
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