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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, February 10th, 2023.

I'm John Puth, where it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a brainwalled hi-aib. Hi John. Media commentary columnist and American enterprise

institutes in your fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi John. The associate editor and author

of the rise of the New Puritans Noah Rothman, high Noah. Hi John. Noah, you're on Jonah Goldberg's

Remnant podcast this week or to end did a great job. People should go listen, go go and

go and listen to Noah's expressions of more of untrammeled opinion without me interrupting.

Yeah, they're running. He begins by saying you you heard no on the podcast, you know,

occasionally when I stopped talking. So, Jonah is your most loving troll, John.

Yes, but there's there's very true Christine also has been on that. I haven't you been on that

friend? Okay, well, I'm sure that'll have not. So, we got a lot of little little bits of things

to talk about. Interesting that yesterday the Pentagon or some, you know, Biden, I guess, declassified

a bunch of information to make the case that the Chinese balloon is a very serious intelligence

and national security threat. Not quite sure why they felt the need to do that. I mean,

maybe they did it because they gave a backfill to the Washington Post two days earlier that

had literally every detail that they then declassified. So, they figured everybody else should have

it as well since someone basically just, you know, did a dump on it 48 hours earlier.

But again, does this mean that they are concerned about the continuing political fallout and want

to get ahead of it or that they're getting some pushback abroad and they want to reassure allies

that we didn't go off half-cocked? I don't really know anybody have any theories about why they would

do such a thing? Maybe to try to sort of correct for the perception that they had left Americans

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