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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Striking Syria, Slamming Kevin Williamson

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Has Syria’s monstrous chemical attack on its own citizens changed the trajectory of the Trump foreign policy—and was it occasioned by Trump’s announcement of an American pullout from Syria? That’s the question we ask on this podcast. Then we go into l’affaire Williamson, during which segment I curse repeatedly for the first time in public in a couple of years. Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0

Music

0:23.4

Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday April 9th, 2018.

0:29.4

I am John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70-some-odd year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

0:36.2

property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective we invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com,

0:42.8

where we give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe 1995 for a digital subscription, 29.95 for an all-access subscription,

0:50.8

including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox. 11 times a year, please go to iTunes and leave us a review.

0:56.6

It's really helpful for the algorithm and the algorithmics and the erythmics and other bands of the 80s.

1:04.3

As always, a greenwald or senior editor, look, I'm laughing at my own stupid joke. That's really bad.

1:10.3

Hi, John.

1:11.1

Hi, I am.

1:13.5

You shouldn't laugh at your own jokes.

1:16.5

I do all the time.

1:17.3

I was actually listening to a podcast on one of our podcasts and I laughed at a joke and my wife looked at me and said,

1:23.1

did you just laugh at your own joke?

1:24.6

And I said, unapologetically, yes, I did.

1:26.6

Well, look, if you don't, if you don't think your own joke is funny, who else is going to think it's funny?

1:32.0

I mean, I'm your senior editor.

1:33.8

I'm even more.

1:34.4

Senior writer.

1:35.2

What I do is when I tell us stupid jokes and no one laughs, I'll say it again.

1:41.0

Because I think it's so funny.

1:42.4

I'm like, did you guys guess I gave you a goal?

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