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BEST OF THE GIST: Mike Visits The Free Press

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mike Pesca and Nancy Rommelmann sit down with Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon from The Free Press to react live to Kamala Harris' keynote speech at the DNC. They also get into the party's division over Israel. Head over to TheFP.com/LIVE to watch the conversation in full. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi it's Saturday it's this Saturday show and it's me Mike Pesca host of the

0:07.5

gist sometimes on the Saturday show we do one from the vault and one from the

0:11.0

week but this week we're going to play an interview

0:13.2

I did right after, seconds after Kamala Harris spoke an interview where I was a

0:18.0

guest on the Free Press Live stream. It was hosted by Michael Moynihan and Bhatia Unger Sargon. And before I play that

0:28.2

reflection, I did more reflecting on my owner. I just listen to what other people were saying and I do like

0:34.0

Pod Save America because I do think those guys are great at rhetoric, combs people from the

0:39.3

Obama White House and of course they loved it and they tried to top each other with describing how

0:45.0

great it was. Kamala crushes it was the name of their episode which is

0:49.6

number two on iTunes you go a little bit down for the podcast rankings on the

0:54.3

podcast player and then you have Bench Piero is the number six most listened to

0:57.8

podcast yeah Kamala's actual strategy is bullshit that is the name of his episode title and Megan Kelly's is

1:04.8

Kamala Harris's empty vessel campaign and Dan Bongino says the lowest IQ

1:09.7

convention I've ever seen. Dan Bongino says that Dan Bongino

1:14.8

ladies and gentlemen MS NBC I heard their coverage rapturous totally rapturous

1:20.1

for Kamala Harris I do like when there's a little bit difference of opinion, but still it does affect my opinion and listen to Ezra Klein and I read Nate Silver and didn't surprise me that Ezra really really loved it.

1:34.1

But I thought Nate who views these things as what are the tactics that will work more than

1:39.4

what's the rhetoric that will soar was much much more positive about the speech than I was.

1:45.0

I thought it was a speech in the range of somewhere between B modest and B plus right?

1:50.0

But Nate made the point that it was extremely smart strategically.

1:55.0

And I think that's true.

1:56.8

I just was a little, my soul was looking for something a little more than the strategic.

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