King & Plame Lose, Politics of the Lockdown, WHO Knew China's Lies

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg as they reflect on Iowa Rep. Steve King losing his GOP primary and Valerie Plame going up in political flames in her congressional bid in New Mexico. With politicians cracking down on everyday social distance violators but encouraging the demonstrators to take to the streets in close quarters, just how much of our stay-at-home orders was politics and how much was about public health? And they welcome the World Health Organization close to reality as reports suggest it knew about China's lies and stalling tactics in the critical early days of the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
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0:38.3	check out and you'll save 15% off for a limited time so Jim we actually go to politics here for our good bar teeny today.
0:46.7	One on the Republican side, one on the Democratic side.
0:50.9	Steve King had kind of been a political dead man walking here for a while.
0:55.5	He's represented his district in Iowa.
0:58.0	Right now it's the fourth district.
0:59.2	I think they had a district that they lost after the 2010 census but he's been there a long time he won't be there come
1:06.1	January though he lost his primary to a fellow Republican named Randy Feenstra fairly race, but it was early 2019 where in an interview Steve King
1:17.9	said something to the effect of white supremacy, white nationalists, Western civilization, one of these words even mean anymore, and
1:25.3	certainly gave the impression that he thought that discussion of white supremacy and white nationalism
1:31.6	was overw wrought.
1:33.7	He said that that read worse than what he meant
1:36.4	and it was taken out of context, people misunderstood it.
1:38.7	Nonetheless, he was stripped of all his committee assignments
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