Hillbilly Entropy
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
If you're assuming we will be covering the media's response to the attempted assassination, Biden's re-election bid, and the RNC, you'd be correct. However, if you're considering plastic surgery or $1000 sneakers, we have you completely covered this week. We have much to catch up on, wretches. Join us.
Time Stamps:
3:15 Front Page
57:01 Style Section
1:04:33 Obsessions
1:11:24 Reader Mail
1:12:46 Favorite Items
The Atlantic: Evan Vucci's Trump Image Is a Legendary American Photograph
WaPo: Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for spurring rally shooting
Real Clear Markets: Is It Beyond the Pale To Ask If the Trump Shooter Was Simply Crazy?
Semafor: Top Democratic strategist pushed reporters to consider 'staged' shooting
Mediaite: Oliver Darcy Calls Out CNN For Airing 'Lie-Filled' RNC Speeches With 'Little-To-No' Push Back
The Atlantic: Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win
NYT: Usha Vance and the Iconography of the Trump Women
Puck News: Biden’s Saturday Zoom Call With House Dems Goes Off the Rails
Semafor: Donors’ cash is drying up, Jeffrey Katzenberg warns Biden in private meeting
NYT: Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside
NYT: How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes
NYT: Rescued Hostage Describes Months of Uncertainty and Terror in Gaza
Wall Street: Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter who headed embattled press club
WSJ: Is This $1,100 Shoe the Next Men’s Status Sneaker?
Obsessions:
NYT: How Yale Propelled J.D. Vance’s Career
The Dispatch: ‘Ordinary Americans’ Can Be Wrong, Too
Reader Mail:
WaPo: The short answer on office shorts: No
Favorite Items:
Poynter: Technology has fundamentally changed how reporters cover political conventions — for the better
The Daily Beast: Ex-CIA Analyst Worked for South Korea in Exchange for Louis Vuitton Handbag: Prosecutors
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, I'm Chris Tyrewall. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to Inksane Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right |
| 0:30.6 | with the American News Media. |
| 0:32.6 | Eliana Johnson, it's good to be back with you, but I'm going to warn you. |
| 0:36.6 | It may be crazy today. |
| 0:38.6 | I may, I may be crazy. As the governor of West Virginia said at the Republican National Convention |
| 0:46.1 | with his dog, baby dog, sitting on a chair behind him, I may become totally unhinged |
| 0:53.0 | during this podcast because I am food and sleep deprived. |
| 0:57.0 | So just buckle up. |
| 1:00.0 | Should we order you an emergency meat bag? |
| 1:05.0 | Can I tell you my tale of woe briefly? |
| 1:08.0 | Sure. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'm in New York, which is why the sound quality is garbage, but I'm in New York |
| 1:14.8 | and there's a Capitol Grill location that is half a block away from the hotel where I stay, |
| 1:22.2 | which is by the News Nation studios. And I had it all planned out last night. I got a break. I'm going to dash across the street. |
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