Skewering GOP Clowns. With Dana Milbank
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Dana Milbank is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. Bill describes his work: "A combination of insight with disbelief, outrage and biting humor." Meet the man behind the columns and experience even more of his outrage and humor. You can read his columns here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and a very special guest today, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. You know, I read the post every morning. Come on, you can't really follow what's happening in Washington unless you do. |
| 0:21.5 | And the first place I turn is to the op-ed page and Dana Milbank. |
| 0:27.5 | Dana not only writes about events in Washington, he covers a lot of them in person himself. |
| 0:33.6 | He and I have attended a lot of White House briefings together, for example. |
| 0:47.7 | And in his column, he records his comments with a combination of insight, wit, disbelief, outrage, and biting humor. |
| 0:52.2 | As a fellow columnist, I must admit, nobody does it better. |
| 0:56.9 | Dane is at his best when scuring Republican clowns in the House of Representatives as he did about the first hearing of the Select Committee on January 6 in a column |
| 1:03.5 | titled, As January 6th hearings begin, Republican side with the terrorists. |
| 1:10.1 | Dana Milbank, good to talk to you, and welcome to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:14.4 | It is great to be with you, Bill. |
| 1:16.3 | Hey, thanks so much. |
| 1:17.3 | You know, this is a day that makes people like you and me so happy, Dana. |
| 1:22.2 | We wake up to find out that Sarah Palin is going to run again. |
| 1:27.9 | Maybe, at least, just think about it. |
| 1:29.9 | Doesn't that make your day? |
| 1:31.8 | Oh, it's old-timers day. |
| 1:34.7 | I love it. |
| 1:37.1 | She's like, it's like, it's like Babe Ruth getting back in the game. |
| 1:41.9 | But, you know what? She was, she was Trump before there was |
| 1:47.1 | Trump. You know, she pioneered this, you know, the whole version of the Republican Party. |
| 1:53.8 | We are seeing today. You know, it's just really a pivotal moment. In fact, I'm doing a book going |
| 1:59.0 | back to 1994. And I, you know, she's one of those |
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