Fact Check: Hypocrisy is Good

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Is fact-checking the key to a healthy democracy? Probably not. This week, we’re coming to you early with David Drucker of The Dispatch filling in for Eliana. We cover the latest controversies from the Presidential debate, RFK Jr.’s endorsement, and Vice President Harris’s cold shoulder to the press. Wretch on! If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected]. Sign Up for the Newsletter: https://wretches.substack.com Time Stamps: 03:19 Front Page 1:06:00 Obsessions 1:13:43 Reader Mail 1:17:46 Favorite Items Show Notes: Politico: Playbook: Scoop: The secret debate about the Trump-Harris debate Yahoo: Trump threatens to pull out of Harris debate, hot mics an issue Poynter: The wild and wacky media reaction to RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump The New York Times: H.R. McMaster Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Is Very Good at Making Deals Mediaite: Morning Joe 'Stunned' By HR McMaster's 'Tightrope' Framing Of Trump – Despite 'Frightening' Scenes In New Book The New York Times: The Morning: 21 Questions for Harris AP News: Walz's exit from Minnesota National Guard left openings for critics to pounce on his military record Axios: Harris flip-flops on building the border wall Press Watch: 'Fact-checking' does a (hopefully fatal) face plant Washington Post: Opinion | Kamala Harris’s price gouging proposal is a terrible idea The Verge: Gannett is shuttering site accused of publishing AI product reviews The Wall Street Journal: Gen Z-ers Are Computer Whizzes. Just Don’t Ask Them to Type. NBC News: The Democratic convention's surprise guest: Covid Obsessions: Semafor: New model army The Dispatch: The Imaginary Undecided Voter News Junkies Favorite Items: The Dispatch: Josh Shapiro Plots a Course for His Political Future LA Times: 'It's like you're starting from scratch': Hollywood's below-the-line artists pivot to other gigs

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0:00.0	Is there anything you would have done differently?
0:02.0	We've reported a true story.
0:04.0	Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq.
0:10.0	Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.
0:16.0	Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Hello, I am Chris
0:26.0	Steyerwalt. And I am not Eliana Johnson. True, true. Welcome to Instain Wretches, where we
0:31.8	break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media and gentle listeners, as you could tell.
0:38.9	That was not Eliana Johnson.
0:40.8	And it is my great pleasure on this early episode, early in the week episode, a treat for you on this week before Labor Day, to offer you another treat.
0:51.5	And that is David M. Drucker.
0:53.7	He is my longtime friend.
0:56.2	He is my colleague at El Dispacho, and he is, if he will allow me to heap praise upon him,
1:04.9	one of the last best, real campaign horse race reporters in a world where everybody writes everything as horse race.
1:15.3	Very few people are actually doing horse race coverage that go out on the campaign trail
1:20.1	that work sources that really cover the race as it's happening.
1:23.8	David Drucker is one of those and I admire the heck out of him for it.
1:27.4	Even if, even if he was not a
1:30.3	wonderful husband, father, chef, and Pocket Square, Aficionado. Welcome, David Drucker.
1:35.5	Thanks so much, Chris. It's great to be here. And I know that you are, you've never guessed it
1:40.1	before. You've never been on wretches before, have you? No, I've not. Now, I've listened, I think,
1:45.3	to every episode, including the interview episodes, but first time swinging the vine through
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