John McCain vs. the idea of John McCain

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Vox politics editor Laura McGann joins Dara and Matt to talk about John McCain's legacy and Donald Trump's response to his death, then Dara and Matt tackle a white paper that looks at the connection between financial decisions and partisanship. References and further reading: Matt's piece about John McCain's death Laura's piece on John McCain's ties to Sarah Palin Ryan Lizza's piece on the 2013 immigration plan, mentioned by Dara White paper: Partisanship and Risky Financial Decisions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I stay down until 1 a.m last night.
0:01.8	What on earth met why?
0:03.8	We're made from colleges in town.
0:07.0	Oh, so we were like a couple of dads trying to act like young people and I feel like garbage.
0:14.1	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds and the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:31.0	I'm Matthew Eglaceus with Darryl and today playing the role of Ezra Klein.
0:36.1	He have Laura McGann, politics and policy editor at Box.com.
0:39.9	I'm actually playing the role of Laura McGann.
0:43.2	No, yeah.
0:44.2	Okay.
0:45.2	And we are making her Weeds debut after years and years of fearless leadership of our
0:50.6	politics and policy team.
0:52.0	Yes.
0:53.0	Later, Darryl and I are going to talk about some Bing searches, the most important research
0:57.6	on Bing searches, possibly ever done.
1:00.5	But we wanted to talk about the late John McCain who passed away this weekend and I felt
1:08.0	sort of personally cycling waves of annoyance at first a press corps that seemed to me to
1:16.0	be bending over backwards to overly praise a guy.
1:20.9	But then the remarkable display that cashed out yesterday when we saw Donald Trump like
1:28.2	drag kicking and screaming into just like the most normal stuff.
1:34.8	I don't know how much attention any normal people paid to this, but normally when a sitting
1:39.4	senator dies, a proclamation goes out ordering that flags be flown at half staff until the
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