Planes, Popes & PR (with Rahm Emanuel)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Hacks welcome their old friend Rahm Emanuel —- former Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and now CNN political commentator. They taxi down the runway on jet diplomacy, manufacturing strategy, and the challenge of crafting economic messages that actually land. Plus, a deep dive into the old bait-and-switch (and occasional political backstab), Biden’s comms blitz, and the surprisingly spiritual side of the Windy City.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair. It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:14.0	They're giving us a free jet.
0:22.6	I could say, no, no, no, don't give us.
0:24.6	I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is.
0:28.6	Or I can say, thank you very much.
0:31.6	You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Snee.
0:34.6	Did you ever hear him?
0:35.6	He won 82 tournaments.
0:36.6	He was a great golfer.
0:38.3	And he had a motto, when they give you a put, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole.
0:45.3	A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. Then they put it and they miss it. and their partner gets angry at him. You know what?
0:54.9	Remember that.
0:59.6	Sam Sneed, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say,
1:00.7	thank you very much.
1:01.4	Okay.
1:04.5	There you go, a little wisdom from Sam Snee.
1:08.6	His biographer, by the way, said today that Sam Sneed never said that.
1:12.6	But, you know, I don't know. I'm not, are you guys golfers?
1:21.8	No. No. No. Yeah. So we're three putzers, not putters here. That actually, that, that setup was a swing and a miss, but keep going. Yeah, it's not, it won't go down in the anthology of Mark Twainism.
1:28.2	All right.
1:28.8	Okay.
1:29.6	Come on, guys.
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