Joe Biden's Disgraceful Speech

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today's podcast takes a long, hard, close, serious, and polemical look at Joe Biden's self-justifying address to the American people on the Afghan catastrophe. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.3	Today is Wednesday, September 1st, 2021.
0:29.5	I'm John Potts, the Editor of Commentary Magazine.
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0:52.2	Walt Hyag.
0:53.2	Hi John.
0:54.2	Senior runner, Christine Rosen.
0:55.2	Hi John.
0:56.2	Hi.
0:57.2	Hi John.
0:58.2	So Joe Biden made his speech about the end of the war in Afghanistan or the punitive
1:09.7	end of the war in Afghanistan at the ignominious time of around 330 on a Tuesday afternoon.
1:18.2	That's how you commemorate the conclusion of 20 years of conflict is to say you're going
1:27.5	to speak at 130, eventually speak at 330 and kind of daughter your way out at about 347,
1:38.6	haven't given an uncommonly defensive, quarrelous, self-justifying, self-dramatizing and quite
1:47.0	in many ways conceptually horrifying speech.
1:52.5	So why don't we tease apart these strains?
1:57.2	He began his speech by talking about how magnificent the extraction of Americans and people that
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