Signal and Being "Upright In Heart"
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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4.9 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to politics by faith. Thank you for being here. The Signal App story of the last few days. It's all pretty silly. It was a mistake, a bizarre one, putting the wrong guy in a group chat with all the highest national security people and whoever put that |
| 0:22.6 | list together put in the wrong name put the wrong contact in it and of all the people apparently |
| 0:29.0 | they meant to put the u.s trade representative i think his name is josh greer but instead they put |
| 0:35.5 | in of all people geoffrey gold, the editor-in-chief of the |
| 0:41.6 | Atlantic, the person in the country who hates Trump more than maybe anyone? |
| 0:47.4 | They put that guy in the chat? |
| 0:49.2 | Same initials. |
| 0:50.9 | J.G. |
| 0:52.4 | Oh, you kidding me? |
| 0:54.6 | Just bizarre. |
| 0:57.2 | So he saw the chat and, you know, exposed it. |
| 1:02.5 | Now, of course, he should have excused himself. |
| 1:07.8 | Like, uh, I'm not supposed to be in here. |
| 1:10.9 | These are all the highest national security people in the country. |
| 1:14.4 | If the information is all classified, I'm not eligible. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm not legally allowed to see any of the stuff, guys. |
| 1:21.2 | I got to go. |
| 1:22.6 | But of course he didn't do that because he's a hack. |
| 1:24.2 | And just like, as we say in the show, Pagan's going to peg, hack's going to hack. So there's no surprise that he didn't. I like David Harsani's take here, though. |
| 1:34.0 | He said, it's hard for me to get annoyed at any journalist getting a legit story. Tom Wolfe said |
| 1:38.6 | reporting wasn't a skill but an attitude. I have the right to get information from you to which |
| 1:43.5 | I'm not entitled. |
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