Biden’s Long, Slow Pivot toward Normalcy (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mickey: Biden is too scared of his base ... Bob: Biden privileged loyalty over competence in his staffing ... Are January 6 rioters getting off too easy? ... How can an election get overturned? Bob and Mickey count the ways ... Bob’s January 6 epiphany ... Where’s the love for Sherrod Brown and Cory Booker? ... Can Omicron save us from Delta? ... Is it time to “pivot to normalcy” yet? ... Parrot Room preview: Robert Malone on Joe Rogan, the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict in jeopardy, does everyone want to date AOC, Ben Smith’s new publication, Leonard Bernstein on the Beatles, Nick Kristof may not even reach the Kaus threshold in Oregon, Beverly Hills criminals, what’s wrong with “gaslighting,” Betty White, Peter Bogdanovich, Novak Djokovic runs afoul of Aussie vaccination policy, Greg Gutfeld gets reprimanded, and is the great David Remnick takedown upon us? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.3	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.8	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	How you doing?
0:12.8	I'm doing terribly because I'm not calling up what I was supposed to be calling up.
0:19.2	Yeah, you look kind of distracted, and I don't want to say unprepared, but you look kind of
0:23.5	distracted by something you would hope to have ready by the beginning of this little podcast.
0:28.1	Yes.
0:29.4	But so how should I spend time? I can juggle.
0:31.6	This is, this is what I have.
0:35.4	The great David Gergan, you're showing us a picture of him. I'm showing you an attractive picture of David Gergan, the great David Gergan. You're showing us a picture of him.
0:37.9	I'm showing you an attractive picture of David Gergan because, Bob, this is the point
0:43.5	at any presidential administration where you have to call in David Gergen to fix things.
0:49.5	Now, for our younger viewers, for our younger viewers, he was the omnipresent, nominally initially
0:58.3	Republican, but almost transpartisan sage who frequented the McNeil-Layer News Hour and who was once
1:06.0	referred to in a column by Michael Kinsley, although I think Mike was quoting somebody as quote,
1:11.1	do you remember this quote?
1:12.4	Goggle-eyed melon head.
1:14.1	A goggle-eyed melonhead.
1:17.1	Thank you.
1:17.5	I think he was quoting Jack Schaefer.
1:20.3	Well, then it's twice as important a quote.
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