Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we detail the rise of detached "who's winning and who's losing" political analyses that reduces high stakes life and death issues to fodder for ESPN-style navel-gazing. With guest Jack Mirkinson.
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| 0:54.5 | What Liberals can learn from Ron DeSantis? |
| 0:57.9 | Opines New York Times columnist Pamela Paul. |
| 1:00.8 | I've had my disagreements with Netanyahu, |
| 1:03.4 | but he's handled this remarkably well, |
| 1:06.4 | declares CNN's Fareed Zaccaria. |
| 1:09.1 | President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his |
| 1:13.0 | first six months in historic ways. |
| 1:16.5 | Are you Axios founders, Jim Vandahai, and Mike Allen? |
| 1:19.9 | There's a reoccurring mode of punditry in elite media, extolling the so-called tactics, |
| 1:24.1 | accomplishment, and victories of far-right figures in global politics, whether |
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