Milley and the Mythmakers
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley becomes a hero for some, a villain for others
Times
- 2:36 - Segment: Front Page
- 2:45 - Biden's hostage crisis in Afghanistan
- 5:43 - Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Fox News' reboot of Cops
- 8:11 - Fox and the Vax
- 11:02 - Max Boot hates the Founding Fathers
- 15:59 - Ellen Pao on Sexism in the Elizabeth Holmes trial
- 19:56 - AOC at the Met Gala
- 22:38 - Segment: Obsessions
- 23:00 - The Bob's Book on Mark Milley and the end of the Trump administration
- 35:18 - The New York Times coverage of "climate disinformation"
- 36:59 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 37:12 - Rest in Peace, Norm MacDonald
- 39:09 - Politico and Jen Rubin
Links
Max Boot in the Washington Post on why the the Founding Fathers suck
The New York Times features Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes trial
Politico's West Wing Playbook on Jennifer Rubin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, I'm Chris Stairwalt. |
| 0:25.5 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:33.5 | Chris, before we get to our front page, I want to give a shout out to Robbie, who is, I believe, a senior, yes, a senior at UNC Chapel Hill, who wrote us the nicest note. |
| 0:46.0 | Where did he write? Where did he write us? |
| 0:47.5 | He wrote us at, guys, do you have a pen and a pad of paper? Get ready. |
| 0:53.1 | Do you have notes open on your iPhone? |
| 0:56.0 | Wretches at nebulouspodcast.com. |
| 0:59.0 | That is wretches at nebulouspodcast.com. |
| 1:02.0 | So Robbie wrote saying he likes the podcast and drawing our attention to a Wall Street |
| 1:06.3 | Journal article on a generation of men giving up on college. My favorite, though, was Robbie, or is it |
| 1:14.2 | Robbie or let's see, I see his signature, Robert. Robbie, okay. All right. He says, though he doesn't |
| 1:19.7 | know me, he can't help hearing his father and everything that I say, which I thought was like the |
| 1:24.8 | best backhanded compliment ever. Robbie, you sound like a future Washington Free Beacon reporter. |
| 1:30.3 | Read what else, Robbie, said about you. |
| 1:32.3 | Please shoot us a note, if you are interested. |
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