Here Come the Democrats

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's podcast previews the Democratic convention, with a focus on media slavishness, whether the Democrats are now high on their own supply, and why history suggests they should not be so confident that Kamala Harris will hit it out of the park when she speaks on Thursday. Also: Some questions we'd like to see answered. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:07.0	the worst.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the
0:25.1	the Commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday August 19th
0:28.7	2024 I'm John Podborg it's the editor of Commentary,
0:32.6	magazine, excited to say that we have in our hands
0:35.6	the advanced copies of our September issue,
0:38.9	a very exciting, interesting issue that I can't talk that much about because I have the lead article and that would be too vain but it is up online
0:48.3	A lot of good stuff in it. We'll talk about it over the course of the week and by we I mean executive editor
0:55.0	Ed Greenwald, hi Abe,
0:56.7	hi John.
0:57.6	Media commentary columnist Christine, hi Christine,
1:00.7	hi, John.
1:01.4	And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute or Washington
1:05.2	commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti.
1:07.1	Hi Matt.
1:08.1	Hi, John.
1:09.1	So with the Democratic Convention beginning tonight in Milwaukee and a whole spate of polls showing that
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commentary Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Commentary Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.