Ben Wittes Digs Out

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben Wittes has a term for the nonsense justifications he observes coming from the Trump administration. He calls it ENSH: errant national security horseshit. On Thursday's show, Wittes shovels up some of the larger ENSH dumps of the past two weeks. Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare. In the Spiel, naming a long overdue Lobstar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.9	It's Thursday, May 25th, 2017 from Slate.
0:11.5	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:13.5	In a few short hours, we will find out the answer.
0:16.5	To a political question, we did not know needed answering.
0:20.3	To what extent?
0:21.8	Does body slamming a reporter hurt one's chances
0:24.2	to be elected to Congress from Montana?
0:26.5	Mitigating circumstance one.
0:27.9	It is from Montana.
0:29.9	Mitigating circumstance two.
0:31.4	About two thirds of the vote is in the ballots already cast
0:35.2	an early voting before they found out that Greg G.
0:39.0	and Forte, when all top turn buckle on poor Ben Jacobs,
0:43.2	hurting the journalists elbow and breaking his glasses.
0:47.3	Mitigating circumstance three.
0:49.3	The dude wore glasses.
0:50.5	Nerd.
0:52.0	Maybe not to go back to mitigating circumstance two.
0:54.7	Maybe actually it was a brilliant example of the GOP
0:59.1	long game.
1:00.0	Hear me out.
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