Episode 41: Hillary Makes History, and Archery Makes a Comeback

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andy Borowitz explains how the D.N.C. is like a Phil Collins music video from the eighties, and Patricia Marx practices archery at home.

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0:00.0	If you believe in keeping America great, then support Hillary.
0:05.0	We cannot elect a man who belittles our closest allies
0:10.0	while embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin.
0:13.0	Hillary is ready. She's ready to fight.
0:16.0	She is ready to lead.
0:18.0	God bless all of you.
0:19.0	On to victory.
0:20.0	I accept your nomination for President of the United States.
0:27.8	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remner.
0:30.7	We must say no to bad trade deals, and that includes the TPP.
0:39.3	Well, it was a dramatic week in Philadelphia. There's no doubt about that. There were some
0:44.0	speeches for the ages, but full unity, at least in the hall, was elusive.
0:50.3	One of the party's ideological divides is over the trans-Pacific partnership.
0:55.2	And I'm sure you all saw the signs reading no TPP.
1:01.6	The agreement is one of the largest regional trade accords in history.
1:05.4	It involves 12 countries on the Pacific Rim.
1:08.6	President Obama is unambiguously for it, believing that it will
1:12.5	give the United States at least some leverage against the economic powerhouse of China.
1:17.7	Bernie Sanders campaigned against ratifying the TPP. It was a central plank of his campaign,
1:23.5	saying that it would lower wages and lose jobs in the United States, a familiar critique of trade deals ever since NAFTA and even before.
1:31.6	Hillary Clinton was for it as Secretary of State,
1:34.0	but now she's against it, if rather tepidly.
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