SIO38: Obama's Unfortunate Payday

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

When I saw the news of Obama's $400k paycheck for a speech to a Wall St bank, I posted this reaction on Facebook. The slew of comments that resulted was quite surprising to me. In my view, a lot of liberals are doing some logical backflips to justify Obama's payday, or to obfuscate and divert attention away from it. I think these gymnastics are unbecoming of skeptical people. I hope to add a little nuance to this black and white thinking! White Liberals BS clickbait, Obama Record Setting Book Deal, Obamas Could Earn $200 Million, Obama $2 Million Donation Leave us a Voicemail: (916) 750-4746! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.1	All right, very happy to have you with me today.
0:37.9	So today we're gonna talk about Obama's big payday, the $400,000 he's earning from Cantor Fitzgerald for giving a speech of some kind.
0:51.0	And after that, I've got yet another really good voicemail segment. My favorite,
0:56.7	seriously that's actually my favorite part of this show now because I love hearing from you guys.
1:01.5	The questions have been good, the points have been good, and this
1:04.2	one especially. So please keep that up. It's my favorite thing that this show now does.
1:09.0	So look forward to that. But with that said, let's get over to it. I need to talk about this Obama thing
1:15.0	and the post that I did on Facebook
1:18.0	because it illustrated just how much,
1:21.0	who man, how much liberals disagree with one another,
1:24.5	which is interesting,
1:25.4	how many different arguments that I believe
1:27.8	are a bit fallacious that liberals are using
1:30.4	when it comes to this,
1:31.4	and I'm excited to talk about it so let's get over to it.
1:34.0	First things first things first this is not the most important thing going on. I need to
1:46.4	emphasize this because a lot of the the complaint so what's so interesting
1:50.4	about this to me is I post an opinion about this speech this
1:55.2	four hundred thousand dollars and I get such a range like it's a taxonomy of
2:00.2	arguments about why I'm wrong and it's so interesting because I'm sort of doing just that
2:06.2	I'm sort of categorizing and say okay here's this group of arguments here and
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