James Taylor Sings Songs of Inflation
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today's podcast wonders at Joe Biden's decision to celebrate the "Inflation Reduction Act," complete with James Taylor warbling a 50-year-old ditty about drug abuse and suicide, on the day a terrible inflation number is released. The question: Will the media succeed in turning attention away from that and toward Republican extremism and abortion rights? Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday September 14th, 2022. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor |
| 0:34.3 | A. Greenwald Hyay. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi John. |
| 0:36.8 | Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen, |
| 0:41.8 | Hykristine. |
| 0:42.7 | Hi John. |
| 0:43.4 | An associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans Noah Rothman, |
| 0:47.4 | Hynoa. |
| 0:48.0 | Hi John. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay, here is what you will be hearing about today from the mainstream media. |
| 0:54.0 | You'll be hearing about Lindsey Graham introducing a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationally, |
| 1:02.2 | except in cases of incest or the life of the mother. |
| 1:07.3 | And you will be hearing about the primary victories of several very Trumpy candidates, |
| 1:15.8 | particularly in New Hampshire, the Sanitorial candidate, |
| 1:18.8 | Bull Duck and the congressional candidate Caroline Levit, who herself was running against another |
| 1:26.4 | very Trumpy candidate, but she was either Trumpier or younger or blonder or prettier or more extreme. |
| 1:33.2 | I don't even know. |
| 1:33.8 | Okay, so here's what you're going to be hearing about. |
| 1:36.0 | Oh, what a gift. |
| 1:36.8 | What a gift to the Democrats Lindsey Graham was trying to talk about abortion and helping the |
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