Madness and the Midterms
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The horrific attack on Paul Pelosi, and the abhorrent response to it from those who think it might convey political advantage and want to maximize or neutralize it. Also, what to make of polling discrepancies with eight days left before the midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. It is Halloween. Monday, October 31st, |
| 0:29.9 | 2022. I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive |
| 0:35.1 | editor, a Greenwald Hyade, a John media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute |
| 0:40.8 | fellow Christine Rosenhy Christine. Hi John. And associate editor and author of the rise |
| 0:45.5 | of the New Puritans, Noel Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi John. There's so much to talk about. I don't |
| 0:51.3 | know where it starts. So we can start with the horrible attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband |
| 1:00.2 | of Nancy Pelosi in their house in San Francisco in the middle of the night, I guess. |
| 1:07.1 | Friday night Saturday morning, attacked with a hammer by a schizophrenic of some sort, |
| 1:16.2 | who's deranged posts and opinions and theories have been excavated pretty thoroughly already |
| 1:27.6 | over the last 48 hours. And then I get the good, the over the overriding question is, is this |
| 1:33.8 | was this attack the result of the atmosphere of increased of negative polarization leading to |
| 1:41.6 | leading to this idea that it's okay or it's the meat and proper to physically attack |
| 1:49.3 | politicians for their opinions and views. And she wasn't there. So he attacked Paul Pelosi instead |
| 1:56.8 | or was something else going on. And we find ourselves in a weird position where leaks were coming out |
| 2:04.7 | from the San Francisco police department that the San Francisco district attorney seems to be at |
| 2:10.1 | pains to discount or discredit about other people or another person being present at the time |
| 2:19.5 | that this attack took place on on Paul Pelosi, who is 82 years old. And leading everybody to speculate |
| 2:29.8 | that something more complicated was going on than this narrative of the political attack on Nancy |
| 2:36.9 | Pelosi that turned into an attack on Paul Pelosi. So I don't even know if we can even |
| 2:44.0 | say now that that's real because we have an on the record statement by the San Francisco district |
| 2:51.0 | attorney saying it's not real. There was no other person there. And we only know that there we |
| 2:57.4 | only thought that there was another person there because somebody told Tom Winter of NBC news that |
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