Hope for the best.

Extract the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

A-a-furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst of the best the worst Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is

Thursday October 17, 2024. I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always

executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe, Abe, Abe John. Media commentary

columnist Christine Rosen, hi. Hi, John.

And Washington commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

So the news of the last 24 hours

is the 26 minute sit down with Brett Bayer of Vice President

Kamala Harris. The first genuinely tough interview that she has had to sit for in her media

blitz of the last week, week and a half. It would appear that the interview

functioned as a Worschock test in social media,

those tending to be unsympathetic to Harris or not believers in Harris's joy and momentum seemed to think that she was a disaster

and those who are on the Harris train thinking that she was appropriately combative, tough, had to deal with rude and hostile

questioning and knocked it out of the park. So let us in our weird position as being people equally uncomfortable,

I think, with both candidates. how do you guys think she did and what does it matter?

I think a lot depends on the metric by which you judge at this interview. If you judge solely about

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