Politics Was Making Him Stupider Every Day

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Rory Stewart is a former member of British Parliament, Harvard instructor, soldier, diplomat, cabinet minister, and traverser of Asia via foot. The co-host of The Rest Is Politics Podcast, we discuss his latest book How Not To Be A Politician. Plus, STOP REGULATING WOMENS BODIES, if by regulating you mean considering whether some lightly compensated past porn with her husband should factor into an election bid. Also, Trump met the Press, so what's the problem? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.5	It's Thursday September 21st, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions. It's the Jistai Mike Pesca.
1:10.5	And in her first interview as host of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker did not earn rave reviews.
1:15.5	She allowed President Trump to let me just stop myself there.
1:19.5	A loud President Trump.
1:21.5	Whoo! Short of the entire apparatus of the federal government that one time ever disallowed Donald Trump to do anything.
1:30.5	And it was just that one time and that thing was he's not allowed to stay in the White House and that came sort of close.
1:36.5	Anyway CNN's in house media critics last reporter Oliver Darcy wrote under the headline Meet the Mess.
1:43.5	Welker allowed Trump allowed. There's a loud again.
1:45.5	Welker allowed Trump to make a number of statements wholly untethered to reality on the range of critical issues without tenacious, resolute or meaningful pushbacks.
1:54.5	One of my favorite 90s hair bands tenacious pushback.
1:58.5	Darcy went on to say,
2:00.5	Sisyphus then allowed the Boulder to slide down the hill yet again.
2:04.5	Even after so many, many critics said not to.
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