Rescission: Impossible

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The theme (so far) of Trump’s second administration has been shock and awe. This week, Chris and Eliana explain why you can’t shock yourself in the process. Aside from the White House, they discuss Jim Acosta, The New York Times’ audience, and dress shoe styles. Wretch on! Time Stamps: Front Page - 3:17 Obsessions - 42:43 Reader Mail - 52:01 Favorite Items - 54:45 Show Notes: CNBC: White House says Trump funding freeze remains in effect despite rescinding OMB memo The Atlantic: The Memo That Shocked the White House The New York Times: Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations AP News: Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general at a series of agencies CNN: Trump DOJ appointee in DC lashes out after flurry of ‘personally insulting’ leaks in his first week CBS News: Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Jan. 26, 2025 The Atlantic: America Is Divided. It Makes for Tremendous Content. Status News: Acosta La Vista The Washington Free Beacon: EXCLUSIVE: Read Jim Acosta's Resignation Letter to CNN Axios: Trump's Colombia tariff threat raises fears on coffee prices The Washington Post: Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War The New York Times: Is There Still a Rule Against Wearing Brown Shoes With Blue Pants? The New York Times: The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device - The New York Times The Wall Street Journal: As a Rising Political Star, Gabbard Paid to Mask Her Sect’s Ties to Alleged Scheme @PleaseDontDestroy on Instagram: The New York Times coming up with emails to send you Forbes: This Former Billionaire, And New U.S. Senator, Is Now Broke The New York Times: The Return of the Lumbersexual

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0:00.0	Is there anything you would have done differently?
0:02.0	We've reported a true story.
0:04.0	Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq.
0:10.0	Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.
0:16.0	Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.
0:22.6	Hi, I'm Chris Stierwald.
0:25.6	And I'm Eliana Johnson.
0:26.6	Welcome to the insane wretches where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media.
0:32.6	And Eliana Johnson, one of the things that I complain often about in this podcast is the
0:39.8	geographic bias of the news and how things that happen in New York and Washington, because
0:46.0	most of the news media is in New York and Washington, gets outsized coverage.
0:51.2	But I have to talk about, and I do think it is a larger in scope,
0:58.1	more than five dozen people killed in a plane crash going into Reagan, a flight that I have
1:03.8	taken in my life coming in from Wichita, Kansas. And when I saw the news, which we saw in almost real time, video was available from the
1:16.1	stationary camera on top of the Kennedy Center, just upriver from the airport.
1:20.6	And I thought about the families of those people who were expecting someone coming home
1:26.4	or somebody who was going on a work
1:27.9	trip. And I thought about how I consider my life to be a very low risk life and congratulate
1:36.9	myself, especially given my misspent youth, on living a very low risk life. And I thought, well, maybe that's not true. And I just thought about
1:47.2	my sons and my pony and everybody and how I am, I do have to take care of myself and I do have
1:54.8	to think about those things for them because I would never want to put them through that.
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