Podcastahontas

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

So Elizabeth Warren has a teeny bit of Native American blood in her. Why is this a big deal, or a deal at all? We try to break that down on today’s podcast, after which we take up the war between white supremacists and Antifa on the streets of the Upper East Side and the very, very confusing polls. Give a listen. Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast. Today is Monday, October 15, 2018. I am
0:29.9	John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary with me as always. Senior editor Abe Grun. I did it again.
0:36.9	Why am I saying Grunwald? Greenwald. Abe Greenwald. Hi, John. Hi, Abe. This is my new mailbox in your
0:48.1	magazine, 11 times a year, like in the Solicism. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John.
0:55.0	And back from a week sojourn away in Israel, Sora Bumari. Senior writer, hi Sora. Hi, John.
1:01.7	Commentary this 70 odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political
1:05.8	property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us
1:10.6	at commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads. Ask to subscribe,
1:14.3	1995 for a digital subscription, 2995 for an all access subscription, including our beautiful
1:20.3	monthly magazine in your mailbox, 11 times a year. So the semi-comic, big political story today
1:28.8	is Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apparently readying the revelation that she has had her
1:37.5	DNA tested and we have and has revealed the DNA study done by a MacArthur genius grant winner at
1:47.3	Stanford University because of course the MacArthur genius grant is really necessary to all genetic
1:54.4	DNA studies. Reveals that she is in some form either between one 30 second and one
2:05.1	one thousand and twenty fourth Native American, meaning that she is either Native American in sub at
2:13.1	some level from six generations back to ten generations back. This of course intended to be an
2:22.4	answer to the constant invocation of her name and the assertion by Donald Trump that she should
2:31.4	be called Pocahontas, a version by the way that Trump a bastardization by Trump of the joke that
2:39.9	was being told by about Warren on the right from 2012 onward that she should be called Pocahontas
2:46.7	because there was no evidence of this Native American ancestry that she had claimed on forms at
2:55.7	the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard. He just dispensed with the foe, the pun and just went
3:01.8	with Pocahontas. I don't know why it's insulting to be called Pocahontas who was actually kind of a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commentary Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Commentary Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.