Best of Mea Culpa Michael Smerconish

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This is a special encore episode of Mea Culpa with Michael Smerconish.

Michael Smerconish, the host of the TV program on CNN fittingly called Smerconish. He is also the host of The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM. He’s been nationally syndicated in more than 100 markets and he has authored seven books: two New York Times best sellers, and his novel TALK! was optioned for television by Warner Brothers. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Smerconish was about to embark on a new tour called "Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking," a one-man show commemorating his 30th anniversary in talk radio. A taped version of that presentation was aired worldwide as a one-hour CNN special in 2020. Smerconish is an attorney who once served in the George W. Bush administration when he was just 29 years old.

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0:17.0	This is my miracle bell.
0:20.0	Hey folks, Mayacolpa is currently on vacation.
0:26.0	So please enjoy this encore presentation of the best of Mayacolpa featuring my friend Michael Smirconish.
0:33.0	Okay so Mike, of all of you years in radio and television reporting on politics,
0:40.0	have you ever seen a midterm election shape up the way that this one did?
0:45.0	And if you were able to isolate one factor that kept the Democrats from a complete shellacking,
0:51.0	you know, as they like to say, what would it be?
0:54.0	It would be the hand of your former boss.
0:57.0	I'm not unique.
0:58.0	I'm not alone in saying that his candidate selection was horrible.
1:05.0	And there's no better example than where I sit, you know, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
1:10.0	because by his anointing of Doug Masteryano and Memadaz,
1:15.0	he bypassed two much more electable in a general candidates.
1:21.0	I'm referring to Lou Barletta, who was a candidate for governor, and Dave McCormick,
1:25.0	who was a candidate for the US Senate.
1:28.0	Interesting, because as I watch the news, all I keep hearing is that Trump was going to announce either on the 14th or the 15th of the month.
1:40.0	And as you know, because I've been on your show and we've spoken quite a bit, and when you watch me on CNN or MSNBC,
1:47.0	I've been saying all along that Trump is not going to announce.
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