That's Not Funny, It's a Firing Offense

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today's podcast takes up the punishment of a Washington Post reporter for the crime of retweeting a provocative joke—and what it says about journalism, the Post, and America. Plus: what Georgetown Law School hath wrought in its treatment of a conservative scholar. And we talk January 6. Give a listen.

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0:00.0	music
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast
0:27.2	Today is Tuesday June 7th, 2022.
0:30.3	I'm John Pudport.
0:31.3	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always,
0:34.3	executive editor, a Greenwald Hyade, a John,
0:37.6	an associate editor, no rough one.
0:39.5	I know. Hi, John.
0:41.1	Everybody go to Amazon, go to Barnes and Noble,
0:43.2	go wherever you get your books.
0:44.5	It is time to order Noah's book, the rise of the New Puritans,
0:49.4	out at the end of this month.
0:51.6	It's a must, a must read, fun, revealing,
0:56.6	important, entertaining, rise of the New Puritans by Noah Rossim.
1:01.8	Thank you, John.
1:02.6	It has some profound relevance today,
1:05.1	because the news cycle is all about the malicious influence,
1:10.8	the insidious influence of dark humor.
1:13.5	How these jokes can really tear a society apart
1:17.3	if you let them go unpunished.
1:20.4	So what you're referring to, of course,
1:22.2	is the fact that my old friend Dave Weigel
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