Episode #412: Old McDaniel Told A Lie
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
NPR’s David Folkenflik sorts out the brouhaha NBC News found itself in when it hired Ronna McDaniel as a paid commentator — a hire that lasted all of four days. An all-staff mutiny followed her new employment, given her role as a Trump enabler in his effort to overturn the 2020 election. David also weighs the advantages, if any, in hiring partisan voices in news organizations — a practice that goes back decades.
And we rerun an interview we had with Joe Lieberman back in August of 2017, where the Connecticut senator and 2000 VP candidate talks about his career, Al Gore’s decision to name him to the ticket, how he saw the Bill Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, and his almost appearance as John McCain’s running mate in 2008. Lieberman died last month at 82.
PLUS: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his running mate, and the different ways Donald Trump has assessed his candidacy. And the establishment choice for the U.S. Senate pulls out of the New Jersey Democratic primary.
Music in this episode:
Jersey Girl by Bruce Springsteen
Isn’t Life Strange by The Moody Blues
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| 0:00.0 | RFK pick gives him a shot in the arm. |
| 0:02.9 | It's no longer Barbie and Kim in New Jersey. |
| 0:06.1 | And we remember a groundbreaking running mate on the political junkie. |
| 0:11.0 | You like Ike. |
| 0:12.0 | I like like, I everybody likes I for president. |
| 0:15.1 | Add light to you and lead to me. |
| 0:17.4 | I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:19.2 | Come on and vote for Kennedy. Vote for Kennedy, and we'll come on top. |
| 0:26.2 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:35.7 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 412 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Ruden. |
| 0:43.3 | For the longest time, discussion about third-party presidential candidates centered more on which |
| 0:49.3 | major party candidate they would take votes from. They never seem like there's a shot of them winning, |
| 0:55.2 | just who gets hurt and who gets helped. Ralph Nader got just 1.6% of the vote in Florida in 2000, |
| 1:03.0 | but it was enough, some will argue, to cost Al Gore the election. Jill Stein picked up |
| 1:09.0 | enough votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016 to theoretically deny Hillary Clinton the win, though many will argue Clinton could have done a better job on her own candidacy. |
| 1:21.8 | Note, by the way, that both Gore and Clinton won the popular vote. |
| 1:26.1 | And to this day, people are still debating who was |
| 1:28.8 | hurt more, George Bush or Bill Clinton, by the 19 million votes Ross Perrault received in 1992. |
| 1:36.9 | The independent candidate people are focusing on this year is Robert Kennedy Jr., son of the late |
| 1:43.4 | senator. |
| 1:50.4 | He is a noted environmentalist, with admirers on the left, but also a fierce critic of vaccines and follower of bizarre conspiracy theories, which helps him attract support from |
| 1:56.1 | Trumpers and Fox News. |
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