Pushing Back On Pushing Out Cuomo

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Melissa DeRosa was the closest aide and top advisor to former NY State Governor, Andrew Cuomo. In her new memoir titled What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis, she examines the trauma of the pandemic and offers perspective and new information about the scandals that befell her former boss. Plus, is calculating the death toll in Israel compared to 9/11 clarifying or misleading? And the latest wealth figures offer good news—both overall, and in terms of the the black-white wealth gap. 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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0:00.0	It's Monday,
0:05.0	23, 23 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.0	It's the Jist, I Mike Pesca.
0:10.2	And you know I'm a Numbers guy.
0:11.8	I'm also a Word guy. What I'm saying is keep the installation art away.
0:15.8	Tactile experience is not for me, but what I'm really saying is there is this trend in journalism and
0:20.9	storytelling to steer clear of statistics and tell the story through
0:24.8	anecdote, through humans. I personally like a statistic. I often think a statistic is much more
0:31.5	revealing than one single story that supposedly
0:34.1	fleshes out the broader trend. But recently there has been a statistic widely
0:39.3	disseminated that stands the info through anecdote trend on its head.
0:44.0	And it flummoxes me because as a numbers guy, I think the numbers are not the best way of telling this particular story
0:52.0	or at least this use of the number. So here's
0:54.4	Jake Tapper this weekend conveying one version of this numerical fact about
1:00.5	the number of victims Hamas claimed.
1:03.0	A lot of people are drawing parallels to 9-11 although proportionally this was worse.
1:08.0	This is about would be the same as killing 40,000 people in Israel as opposed to 3,000 has happened here in 9-11.
1:16.0	Adjusting tragedy for population size has gotten so widespread it was even joked about on Saturday
1:22.4	night lives weekend update.
1:24.3	Also while he was in Israel Biden said the Hamas attack was like quote 15 9-11s.
1:30.8	Okay you can't go somewhere to calm people down and then start rating things in numbers of 9-11s.
1:37.0	That is not a calm scale. It would be like if your doctor gave you Ambien and said,
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