Should the Vaccines Be Investigated?
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
With Ron DeSantis pretty firmly taking the lead in 2024 matchups against Donald Trump, there also comes news of DeSantis seeking to convene a grand jury to investigate possible false claims about the efficacy of the COVID vaccines. Is this just pandering to anti-vax lunatics, or is something more interesting going on here? Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | music. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm John Pudhorts, the editor of commentary magazine with me is always executive editor |
| 0:33.7 | A. Greenwald Hyade. |
| 0:34.7 | Hyjah. |
| 0:35.7 | Media commentary columnist, an American enterprise institute fellow Christine Rosen |
| 0:40.4 | Hykristin. |
| 0:41.4 | Hyjah. |
| 0:42.4 | An associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans, no Rothman Hynoa. |
| 0:46.3 | Hyjah. |
| 0:47.3 | We now have two polls this week one from USA Today, one from the Wall Street Journal showing |
| 0:53.2 | Ron DeSantis firmly in the lead over Donald Trump among punitive Republicans or Republican |
| 1:04.0 | primary voters or Republicans in general by many points. |
| 1:10.7 | I can't remember what the USA Today number is and we also have I think 60 or 63 or 66% |
| 1:16.7 | of Republicans saying they they they want someone other than Trump to be president. |
| 1:23.3 | I have the lead article in the January issue of commentary available now at commentary.org, |
| 1:32.0 | which is called Geopocalypse Now question mark. |
| 1:36.2 | And in the piece I try to lay out the reasons that I do and that increasing amounts of data |
| 1:45.3 | are supporting the contention that Trump is the reason that the wave, the Republican |
| 1:51.7 | wave did not happen. |
| 1:55.3 | And I say in the piece that while the wave didn't happen, you have three centric circles |
| 2:05.6 | of Republicans. |
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