Not a Good Couple of Days for Democrats

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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We note that the airwaves yesterday were filled with desperate efforts to distract from the Venezuela story by focusing instead on Greenland or the Epstein files. What's happening here? Could it be that this is the way the media are trying to protect their friends in politics? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hope for the best.
0:38.3	Expect the worst.
0:40.3	Some drink your pain.
0:42.3	Some die of thirst.
0:44.3	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:48.3	Hope for the best.
0:50.3	Expect the worst.
0:52.3	Hope for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcasts.
0:57.6	Today's Tuesday, January 6th, 2026.
1:01.8	I am a horse John Podhoritz, editor of Commentary Magazine, with me as always.
1:08.1	Executive Editor Egg Greenwald back from jury duty.
1:10.6	Hi, Abe. Hi, John.
1:13.1	Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. I'm so well trained. I waited.
1:19.4	I am not on my game today. I'm just warning everybody. I am not on my game. And I am in a hotel
1:26.6	room in Pennsylvania, which is kind of depressing.
1:30.8	So I'm going to try to cheer up from my depressing hotel room because I am going to get to talk to Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson.
1:39.0	Hi, Eliana. Hi, Leanna. And of course, back with us after a month in Israel and no longer presenting immense
1:48.4	internet connectivity problems, senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:53.1	Hi, Seth.
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