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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday, February 3rd, 2022.

I'm John Poghorks the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor eight greenwald hi Abe hi John

senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John associate editor Noah Rothman high Noah hi John and joining us for the first time commentary contributor editor at large a tablet co host of the unorthodox

podcast and all around genius

liel libe of it's hi liel been waiting a long time to say this shalom John

shalom to you too now I should point out before we begin that we could have had liel on anytime this week because his first piece for commentary our cover story

a couple of months ago was called no Jews aren't white and obviously that that has been a matter of some discussion over the course of the last week in the woopy goldberg dust up

liel quick thoughts if you haven't yet expressed them on this very question of the white on white crime that was the whole

I'm just disappointed that you know that rebates in goldberg is no longer on the view because ignorant inflamed stupid thoughts are what I go to the view for

what would I do now it's of well you know just go to just go to twitter and read the public health authorities

um by the way I hope everybody saw that uh uh Los Angeles is Los Angeles mayor guildgar said he explaining uh his photograph with uh magic johnson following along the photograph of the magic johnson taken uh by uh governor Gavin maskless photo taken by governor Gavin Newsom at the same NFC championship game uh said that he

he he took his picture with magic johnson but he held his breath I did not know he held his breath with the mask off he held his breath now if I said to you that a white man would say that he took a picture with a black man but he held his breath while he was doing so and any other time in human history what what would your take away be from that anecdote and

positive black man yes I know and anyway um so as as the wheels as the wheels come off the entire public health establishment and we're now seeing pieces and political about how Biden you know is planning to turn the page on on Omicron and uh

maybe he'll do that in uh in his um stay the union address whenever that will be um but I just think that um I just think that we're now

we're now moving into the sort of the comedy phase of the you know of this uh two-year horror um and uh and and all efforts to maintain this rearguard action to uphold the status quo uh with all of these behaviors are going to get increasingly

prepot ludicrous and preposterous I don't know you can get much more ludicrous than the I didn't inhale magic johnson around magic johnson um you know uh thing the Gilgar said he did but you know I mean life is long and things happen in fact breaking news I hear Biden just to point that Jeff sucker as the new head of the CD

you know he goes he's failed in every job he ever had except for being uh being the executive producer of today so Jeff Zucker's firing uh comes with um the sudden discovery by the mainstream media that he was a lousy head of CNN like he came in in 2013 and 2022 the audience is 15% smaller than it was in 2013 and Fox's audience is 35% bigger and not only is Fox's audience bigger but MSNBC's audience is like particularly

is like 40% bigger and CNN's has shrunk and he's just been sitting there with that fantastic lineup Don drooling lemon at nine o'clock you know Chris Chris preposterous Cuomo at nine o'clock uh you know just uh whatever is going on there and he um you know just kind of know what he was like a barnacle he ruined and he ruined NBC's fall schedule he ruined uh you know uh it's a

lot of things like the failing upward is an amazing thing so it would make perfect sense for him to take over the CDC and the FDA which of course also has no head I believe and um maybe chief of staff to to to Biden because you know why not

um we can talk about some of this uh Leo I want we I wanted you want in particular because we haven't really delved into this yet and uh you seem like the perfect person to have a conversation with about the amnesty and with the release by amnesty international of its four year deep dive into the Israeli Palestinian relationship and it's uh it's a complete uh blanket definition of Israel now as an apartheid

tied state the apartheid policies of the state dating back to its very existence and even before that and well of course and even even even before it was a state it was an apartheid state I really don't know how that's possible because by the way I'm not joking literally the report of

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