Biden Blow-Back
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
No small talk this week, we’re diving straight into the front page and it’s packed. We’re looking at all things Biden, Clarence Thomas, the fall of The New York Times Sports section and the state of men. Wretch on!
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Time Stamps:
1:27 Front Page
56:37 Obsessions
1:01:30 Reader Mail
1:05:40 Favorite Item of the Week
Show Notes:
The Hill: Secret Service ends probe of White House cocaine discovery with no suspect
NYT: Opinion | It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President
The New Republic: What Do Bidenomics and the President’s Grandchild Have to Do with Each Other? Everything.
NYT: DeSantis Confronts a Murdoch Empire No Longer Quite So Supportive
RealClearPolitics: California Gov. Newsom: FOX News "Contributes To The Mental Health Crisis" But I Can't Stop Watching It | Video
Newsweek: How's Twitter Working Out for Tucker Carlson?
NYT: The Case That Could Be Fox’s Next Dominion
Politico: The testosterone primary of 2024 is ‘getting out of hand’
WaPo: Opinion | How today’s Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful
NYT: The Elite Circle Clarence Thomas Entered That Led to the Supreme Court
The Guardian: Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo
National Review: Rand’s Latin American Campaign Stop
NYT: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors Scrambling
Mediaite: CNN Apologizes After Getting Slammed for Misgendering Dylan Mulvaney In Bud Light Segment
NBCNews: Kidney stones are rising among children and teens, especially girls, research shows
NYT: Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’
WaPo: A dip in the ocean this summer? No thanks.
NYT: The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department
Poynter: We should’ve seen it coming: The New York Times dismantles its sports department
Awfulannouncing:Northwestern’s student newspaper lauded for breaking football program hazing story
Bethenny Frankel on Instagram: I love SPECIAL pieces. Do you like?
Variety:'Dark Side of the 2000s' Premiere Date, Trailer From Vice TV
Huffpost: I Started A Nudist Magazine. I Didn't Expect How Badly I'd Be Treated Because Of It.
Obsessions:
NYPost: Jake Tapper defends CNN over Trump town hall: 'We can't ignore him'
AEI: Could News Bloom in News Deserts?
Favorite Item:
WaPo: Opinion | Christine Emba: Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
WSJ: How to Make Money by Losing $300,000 a Year on Slot Machines
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. |
| 0:25.0 | Hi. I'm Chris Nyarwold. And I'm Aliana Johnson. |
| 0:29.2 | Heck yeah, you are. Welcome to ink-stained wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:37.7 | Eliana Johnson, you came in hungry, not just for broadcasting excellence, but also for a |
| 0:42.8 | nice piece of fruit. |
| 0:44.3 | And consequently, well, I was not hungry for a piece of fruit, but that was all that was |
| 0:49.1 | scrounged up. |
| 0:50.4 | All that AEI could afford you at this moment was a nice piece of fruit. |
| 0:56.8 | And, and by the way, fruit is like fish. |
| 1:04.7 | I always feel obliged to say a nice piece of fish or a nice piece of fruit because you feel like you need to dress it up a little bit because it's not what people wanted. |
| 1:10.6 | But anyway, and the podcast studio smells delightfully of citrus oil. |
| 1:14.4 | It smells like the best Uber I've ever written in. I was very skeptical, but it turned out to be a nice piece of fruit. |
| 1:17.3 | Nice piece of fruit. |
| 1:18.2 | Way to go. |
| 1:18.6 | I was very skeptical. |
| 1:19.8 | Well, you know what else is nice? |
| 1:21.6 | That we have breaking news to start the front page. |
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