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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Jussie Smollett and the Democratic Crime Crisis

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast takes up the larger meaning of Jussie Smollett's attempt to use the criminal-justice system as his catspaw and how it reveals a crisis in the liberal understanding of crime in general. Then we discuss the inflation crisis and what it means, and offer a few choice words about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton. Give a listen.

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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. Today is Friday, December 10th, 2021.

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I'm John Puthhorz, the editor of Commentary, asking you please to consider commentary

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producing our website. If we don't cover the deficit, we got to cut back and cutting back means

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cutting back on all those things and we don't want to do that. If you are a subscriber,

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go to commentary.org slash donate. Fully tax deductible donation to our institution will allow us

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to thrive and prosper and by us, I mean my my partners in crime here, executive editor,

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A Greenwald Hyabe. Hi John, associate editor Noah Rossman, Hi Noah. Hi John.

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And senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi Christine. Hi John. We are putting the finishing touches on our

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January issue, which will be online or mostly online on Monday. Superstar of the issue is Christine

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Rosen, who not only has a column on the disinformation problem as defined by liberals and her media

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column, but also our cover story called the new misogyny, which we will talk more about next week,

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and which is a sort of landmark piece in my view about the nature of how our discussions of

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gender fluidity and the like are actually aimed directly at the heart of what it means to be a woman.

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So please keep your eye on that on many other subjects. I actually have a piece in that issue on

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Stephen Sanheim and his role in American culture. Eli Lake has a piece on those who are bitterly

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clinging to rush a gate despite the exposure of the falsity and con job that is the steel dossier

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and many many many other fascinating pieces. So that will be the January commentary available on

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