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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Monday, April 1st, 2019.

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magazine in your mailbox. 11 times a year. Noa Rothman is out this week, so with me in

studio, senior editor Abe Greenwald Hyde, and senior writer Christine Rosen in Washington.

Hi, Christine. Hi, John. So I guess as predicted, as everybody who follows politics could have

predicted the imminent entry of Joe Biden into the Democratic presidential nominating process has

occasioned a Me Too piece by a Nevada politician named Lucy Flores, who claims to have had a horrible,

the horrible experience of having Joe Biden kiss the back of her head at a campaign rally.

And the horror of this moment of having her head kissed in the back apparently has

were not allowed to make fun of these experiences, though really having the back of your head

kissed by somebody does not strike me as the most horrific form of abuse anyone could possibly

suffer. And there are also indications aside from the relative pettiness of the charge that she

is from a different ideological camp on the left from from Biden and thus is delivering an early

hit the purpose of which is maybe to make him be think his entry into the race. The reason that I say

it is expected is that one of the great tropes of the closing years of the Obama administration

on the right were noting how frequently Vice President Joe Biden seemed to get handsy with women

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