Episode 200 - The Jeffrey Goldberg Variations (3/9/18)

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In our 200th episode we interview regular normal one-haver Kurt Eichenwald* about his ongoing lawsuits against everyone who makes fun of him online and his normal interest in hentai. Then we go through Atlantic Magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg's week of triumph: first grilling the new crown prince of Saudi Arabia on how Hitler is the worst thing you can be, his hilarious shit-canning of abortion survivor Kevin D. Williamson, and finally his childhood of being bullied by the Irish. *James Adomian Happy 200th episode! Pre-order our book at http://chapotraphouse.com to celebrate

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0:00.0	so uh joining us now we have a very special call in guest uh he is a senior writer for newsweek
0:10.7	msnbc contributor contributing editor to vanity fair and new york times best selling author you
0:16.0	already know who it is the king of always having a normal one online Kurt ikenwald
0:23.1	how's it going okay okay well first i want to correct you there this is already started okay this
0:30.1	is already started you already started in uh with these right-wing members uh about my am and what
0:38.0	i do um first of all i am a senior contributor to vanity fair i am a senior writer in newsweek
0:47.6	and i am a contributing contributor at msnbc and a new york times best selling author so you
0:53.9	can correct you can correct that record right there and then we can proceed he's tricked times
0:59.6	and award okay okay uh so Kurt um you're having another another really good week online like i said
1:06.8	staying normal staying regular all the time online uh could you just just fill us in a little bit
1:11.8	what's going on with uh these emails you're sending ben Shapiro about the parkland teens okay
1:17.5	i want to make clear the record first of all i didn't send any emails emails were sent by me
1:24.7	in order to correct a vicious right-wing smear campaign from the parkland high school victim
1:30.6	acting in concert with other right-wing actors and i want to make something very very clear to you
1:38.0	this was a routine day-run twitter site that i got in this is one of my routine if you put the
1:44.3	routine traffic stop this is a routine day-long 48 hour twitter fight nothing happened
1:54.2	was that uh ben Shapiro and um some of these parkland students underage students from parkland
2:02.8	decided to team up and accuse me of being a fan of tentacle porn i assure you i've only ever
2:10.8	researched tentacle porn in order to expose tentacle porn you were exposing it to your family uh in
2:17.2	this case right Kurt i have an analogy you're trying to trick me i know what's happening that will
2:22.4	that's pretty clever yeah you're trying to trick me into saying i exposed myself to my family
2:28.4	with tentacle porn that's far from the truth everything was consensual and everything we i have
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