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🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:24.2 | Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Monday, April 1st, 2019. |
0:29.5 | Yes, it's April Fool's Day, but we have no pranks for you today here at the very |
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1:02.1 | studio, senior editor Abe Greenwald Hyde, and senior writer Christine Rosen in Washington. |
1:07.8 | Hi, Christine. Hi, John. So I guess as predicted, as everybody who follows politics could have |
1:15.0 | predicted the imminent entry of Joe Biden into the Democratic presidential nominating process has |
1:23.3 | occasioned a Me Too piece by a Nevada politician named Lucy Flores, who claims to have had a horrible, |
1:36.6 | the horrible experience of having Joe Biden kiss the back of her head at a campaign rally. |
1:44.2 | And the horror of this moment of having her head kissed in the back apparently has |
1:53.2 | were not allowed to make fun of these experiences, though really having the back of your head |
2:00.7 | kissed by somebody does not strike me as the most horrific form of abuse anyone could possibly |
2:09.3 | suffer. And there are also indications aside from the relative pettiness of the charge that she |
2:20.7 | is from a different ideological camp on the left from from Biden and thus is delivering an early |
2:26.7 | hit the purpose of which is maybe to make him be think his entry into the race. The reason that I say |
2:35.4 | it is expected is that one of the great tropes of the closing years of the Obama administration |
2:43.2 | on the right were noting how frequently Vice President Joe Biden seemed to get handsy with women |
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