Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, May 17, 2023. I'm John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

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Hi, John, media commentary columnist Christine Rose and high Christine.

Hi, John.

And our Washington commentary columnist and Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew Katen.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

I'm a tale of two senators, democratic senators in various states of infirmity.

Diane Feinstein, the about to be 90 or already 90 year old long term senator from California, who had disappeared for six weeks back to California,

that thus unable to vote for serve on committees in the Senate, because you can't do that by proxy or by distance already rumored to have lost her mental faculties and to be non-confessmentist due to age.

We're turned to the Capitol, claiming she had recovered from a bout of shingles in a wheelchair.

And reporters caught up to her yesterday and had a little convo with her and either in the hallway or something like that, where she said, no, I've been here. I've been voting. I've been here. I don't know what you're talking about.

So public exposure of the fact that Diane Feinstein basically openly revealed her sonility, though she has a year and a half to go as a senator before the election in 19, in 19, or in 2024.

I don't know where I went with 1984 there.

That's one and so but Jim Nulves lay a couple of other people were there for this and reported on it quite openly, right?

Anybody want to go into what happened with the Washington Post and John Federman, the senator from Pennsylvania, who of course had a stroke last year and then was hospitalized with a case of depression, so severe that he was at Walter Reed for seven weeks, I believe.

So Jeff Stein in the Washington Post tweeted out with quotation marks what he claimed Federman had said during a hearing yesterday, but if you go to the video, which was available of Fox News posted at other places posted it and you transcribed what the video said it was almost in coherent.

There was one person tried to transcribe it and he was saying, is it staggering, is it a staggering a res responsibility that I mean, you know, it's it's not entirely gibberish. You can try to you can get a sense of what he's trying to say.

But what the Washington Post reporter posted on social media was his perfect transcription of what Federman meant in quotation marks, which I think he then later pulled some of that down under under criticism from people who had seen that that wasn't the case.

So there was this obviously strenuous effort to translate for readers what an untranslatable, you know, kind of gobbledy gook that had come from Federman.

So that that's a it's quite a contrast to the knives out approach to diet and finestein right now.

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