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3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

'Haunted' by Hearing Other Views, UNC Faculty's Revolt, Pentagon Tortures Language Over Gaza

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Government, News, News Commentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's an all-crazy day as Jim and Greg discuss the unhinged political intolerance of a former mainstream media reporter, professors withholding grades over the consequences for anti-Israel protests, & tortured language and logic at the Pentagon over our policy in Gaza.
 
First, they sigh as former NBC News and CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski goes on a Twitter rant about how she is "haunted" by a dinner she had with people she refers to as "closeted MAGAts." Why? Because some were Ivy League grads who didn't want to send their kids there and others disagreed with the left's climate change narrative. 
 
Next, they rip the faculty members at the University of North Carolina who are threatening not to turn in end-of-semester grades for any of their students unless the school reverses the suspensions of 15 students for breaking the law during the anti-Israel demonstrations. The UNC provost recommends sanctions against any instructor who does not turn in grades on time. Which side will blink?
 
Finally, they unload on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden administration for torturing language and logic, as Austin claims the 1,000 U.S. military personnel who will be constructing a pier on the Gaza coast will not be considered "boots on the ground." 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

0:04.5

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:09.4

Three Martini's coming up.

0:11.6

Very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

0:17.0

All crazy Martini's today and boy do we have some doosies.

0:21.0

So, Jim, let's get right to it this one actually posted I think

0:25.8

over the weekend but it's gotten a lot more traction in the past couple of days we

0:29.7

almost did it yesterday you may remember Michelle Kaczynski.

0:33.5

Michelle Kaczynski spent about 14 years in what we generally call the mainstream media.

0:39.2

From about 2005 to 2014, she was with NBC, and she is perhaps, unfortunately for her, best remembered for her,

0:47.2

for her canoe segment after flooding in New Jersey when she was paddling around in a canoe

0:52.1

because of the high floodwaters and these guys who had watched the whole setup for the live shot went sloshing through and it I don't even think it covered the tops of their boots and so

1:00.5

She was ridiculed for exaggerating the situation.

1:03.8

She later claimed they had to move it because of the lighting and the cables and all this stuff,

1:07.8

but in other places the water was deeper.

1:09.5

Nonetheless, she later went on to CNN for five years, so for about 14 years, 2005 to 2019.

1:16.3

She was a pretty prominent reporter.

1:19.1

I don't know what she's doing now.

1:20.3

She says she's doing other stuff in the media telling stories that she would watch is how

1:25.0

she puts it in her Twitter.

1:28.0

Greg what a subtle way of admitting that she would not watch her past work.

1:32.0

That's not a good endorsement. of Friends of Friends of Friends, all American.

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