Here Comes Your Ninetieth Nervous Breakdown
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Democrats struggle to reconcile the data, which doesn’t suggest a massive Republican wave is inbound, and the general sense of the political landscape. And it’s driving them crazy. Also, how a New York judge’s ruling against a vaccine mandate for municipal workers scuttles the Democratic Party’s confused Covid narrative and the amazing life of the late Lucianne Goldberg.
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| 0:00.0 | music. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | Today is Thursday, October 27th, 2022. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm John Baudhoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me. |
| 0:33.8 | As always, a rapidly improving executive editor, a Greenwald Hyade. |
| 0:38.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:39.4 | Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute, fellow Christine |
| 0:44.0 | Rosenhykrstein, and associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans. |
| 0:49.2 | No arosmen, high Noah. |
| 0:50.5 | Hi, John. |
| 0:51.5 | Just a note to begin my dear friend, Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent, provocateur, |
| 1:00.3 | inceptor of the political crisis of Bill Clinton's life, because she told Linda trip that Linda |
| 1:07.4 | trip should tape her phone calls with Monica Lewinsky, so that there was an independent record |
| 1:13.9 | showing that high jinx and Tom Foulery had been going on between Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. |
| 1:21.4 | So she was the inceptor of Lewinsky Gate and Clinton's impeachment and the troubles of |
| 1:27.9 | 1998. |
| 1:30.2 | One of my dearest friends for 40 years passed away yesterday at the age of 87. |
| 1:35.6 | I have a tribute to her up at commentary.org. |
| 1:38.9 | If you want to take a look, she was one of the foremost characters of the second half of |
| 1:46.0 | the 20th century. |
| 1:47.0 | She had a type that we shall not see again, just an enchanting, colorful, jazzy person. |
| 2:02.0 | I think I tried to evoke her in this post. |
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