Hot Mic Summer
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Watch this episode on YouTube. When Chet Hanks declared 2024 as the second 'White Boy Summer,' he should have known it would be hijacked by the political media. We’re breaking down this travesty along with the upcoming CNN Presidential Debate, 'cheap fakes,' and the latest uproar at The Washington Post. Wretch on!
Time Stamps:
3:25 Front Page
28:50 Style Section
38:22 Obsessions
47:04 Reader mail
49:58 Favorites
Show Notes:
CNN: Biden and Trump campaigns agreed to mic muting, podiums among rules for upcoming CNN debate
NYTimes: Kennedy Fails to Qualify for CNN Debate
NYT: Will Lewis Is Said to Have Used Stolen Records as Editor in U.K.
WaPo: Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting
The Guardian: Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandal
WaPo: Bezos reassures Post editors in first outreach since Buzbee exit
WSJ: Say Hello to the ‘Good Boy’ Shirt—You Probably Already Own It
NYT: A Sock War Is Afoot Between Millennials and Gen Z
Obsessions:
WSJ: The Hostages Next Door: Inside a Notable Gaza Family’s Dark Secret
NYTimes: What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?
The Dispatch: A Pox Upon Portland
Favorite Items:
WSJ: Do You Have What It Takes to Be a ‘Personality Hire’?
Pessimists Archive: When the Surgeon General Warned About Pac-Man
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. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, I am Chris Dyerwall. And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:35.0 | Eliana Johnson. Happy West Virginia Day to you. |
| 0:38.6 | What does that mean? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, I'm glad you asked because on this day, we're recording this on June 20th. |
| 0:44.4 | On June 20th, 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state of the Union, born of the Civil War, |
| 0:51.7 | 55 Western counties rent from the side of the old dominion of Virginia. |
| 0:58.4 | West Virginia seceded from the seceded Virginia in 1861. |
| 1:04.0 | And there are several things that Abraham Lincoln did that were unconstitutional or constitutionally dubious. |
| 1:10.8 | And West Virginia's creation was my |
| 1:13.4 | favorite one of those that he did because they used a little trickery to get it through. |
| 1:18.7 | They claimed that the government of West Virginia was actually the government of all of Virginia |
| 1:23.5 | and approved the petition for the state to be divided. And I love the Civil War. |
| 1:29.3 | By happenstance, we have now two Civil War holidays back to back. |
| 1:34.6 | We have Juneteenth, and we have West Virginia Day. |
| 1:37.9 | And I'm into it. |
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