"Thank You for Speaking While I'm Interrupting."
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
highlights/lowlights:
Linda Chavez
A New Cohort of Transgender Kids by Lisa Selin Davis at Persuasion.
Damon Linker
The re-release of Stop Making Sense.
Barbara Comstock
The recent testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson.
Mona Charen
Inside the Unfounded Claim That DeSantis Abused Guantánamo Detainees by Matthew Rosenberg and Carol Rosenberg (NYT).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Beg to |
| 0:09.4 | Beg to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. |
| 0:17.0 | We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist, policy editor at the Bullwork, |
| 0:23.3 | and I'm joined by our regulars. |
| 0:25.3 | Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution |
| 0:27.5 | in the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:28.7 | Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter |
| 0:31.0 | notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannon |
| 0:34.6 | Center. We have the whole gang back together again. Our special guest this |
| 0:39.8 | week is Barbara Comstock who represented Virginia's 10th District in the US House for two terms. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome, one and all. |
| 0:50.0 | So we are gathered on the afternoon after the second Republican debate. |
| 0:56.0 | Which, if the eyes of the world are upon us, is a rather depressing thought. |
| 1:01.0 | But let's just give a sample of the way it sounded last night. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's have a policy debate. |
| 1:10.0 | Let us have a policy debate. |
| 1:12.0 | As the UN Ambassador policy debate. debate. debate. |
| 1:13.0 | As the UN Ambassador, you literally put $50,000 on curtains. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes. |
| 1:21.0 | Because Obama bought those curtains. |
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