Bad Takes, Some Say
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The comma is doing the heavy lifting this week on Ink Stained Wretches. It’s facile heavy episode with the Washington Post digging into systemic racism from Nikki Haley’s past, CNN digging up dirt on Commander Biden and how climate change is making young adults . . . anxious. Wretch on!
Time Stamps:
02:56 Front Page
50:43 Obsessions
58:07 Reader Mail
1:07:20 Favorite Items
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The Atlantic: Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land
WaPo: Haley’s nearly all-White high school lacked lessons of racism, some say
Fox News: Trump reveals VP shortlist includes DeSantis, Scott, Ramaswamy, Noem, Donalds, Gabbard
CNN: Bidens’ dog, Commander, bit Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents, records show
Mediaite: Matt Taibbi Posts Unhinged Messages from Elon Musk
WSJ: The Moral Blindness of Putin’s Apologists on the Right
National Review: We Need to Talk about Tucker
New York Times: How the internet is making everything nondenominational
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger: “Our industry needs to think bigger”
Bloomberg: How Therapists Treat Anxiety, Stress Over Climate Change
NYT: Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa
Obsessions:
The Cut: How I Fell for an Amazon Scam Call and Handed Over $50,000
The Cut: Should I Leave My Husband? The Lure of Divorce
Favorite Items:
CJR: Worcester Sucks & I Love It: Why communities need columnists (by a columnist)
NYT: At Harvard, Some Wonder What It Will Take to Stop the Spiral
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Well, hello. I am Chris |
| 0:27.5 | Dyerwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson. Facts. Welcome to Elinstein de Rechos, where we break down what's |
| 0:34.6 | going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:39.7 | Eliana Johnson, did I overhear that you have recently hosted a child's birthday party? |
| 0:44.3 | Oh, it was actually a while back, but we were just catching up. |
| 0:47.4 | What was the nature of the child? |
| 0:49.2 | It was a... |
| 0:50.3 | How lavishly did you entertain? |
| 0:52.4 | How old is your daughter? |
| 0:53.5 | She turned two. So how lavishly did you entertain the toddlers? We really went all out because first birthday was a disaster. Oh. And so it just stunk. It didn't. So we did a little petting zoo for everyone. I was going to suggest the petting zoo. |
| 1:11.9 | I love the mobile petting zoo. |
| 1:14.6 | What did they have? |
| 1:15.2 | What was their best animal? |
| 1:16.6 | I thought the piglet would be the best, but I actually think that the more manageable, |
| 1:22.6 | slow-moving animals like maybe the turtle and the lizard were. |
| 1:26.6 | Did you spring for the pony? |
| 1:28.5 | Oh, no, no, no. |
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