Right, well, I just find you, look, you, when you voted for Biden, you got con. Okay, so let's not, like, mince words. Khan's anti-corporate. I mean, she's an agency person. Every opportunity to just come back to Khan. No, I've missed opportunities, and I regret that. Really? Yeah, because I wasn't rigorous. Would you like me to bring her together with you? She's a very nice, very nice lady. I'm happy to mean anyone.

I've always been a forgiving fellow, too, just for the record.

Lovely. wasn't rigorous. Would you like me to bring her together with you? She's a very nice, very nice lady. I'm happy to mean anyone. I've always been a forgiving fellow too, just for the record.

Lovely lady. I'm I'm

I'm

I'm very glad to have back on Bad Faith podcast today, David Dayan.

He is the executive editor of the American prospect.

And in my humble opinion, one of the most important voices with the institutional and political knowledge to really help us understand what's going on in the current political moment, one of the most important journalists on the left today. So welcome back. It's such a pleasure to have you again.

Quite an introduction. Thank you very much. Well, look, I really mean it. I've been thinking about this a lot. As you know, the crisis in journalism

continues to take its victims and, you know, with the struggles at the Intercept and so many people

ending up in substack spaces, which are great and fine, and I don't have any critique of them at all.

But I worry about the kind of diminishing

power of newsrooms to do long-term investigative journalism. And I worry in particular about

what it means for the left, because as an independent content creator myself, I know how much

I rely on the reporting that comes out of people like yourself and David Serota and

Ryan Grimm and institutions like the American Prospect and the Intercept and now the lover.

And I don't know.

I just really want to always flag how essential you guys are, even if there's listeners

who might be consuming majority report or Kyle Kulinski

or whatever it is, whatever the independent left media creators are, all of the news is still

coming from the news, you know? And it's not, you know, the New York Times. And we obviously

cover what's being printed in the Times often critically, but the kinds of stories we want to be

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