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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Eschatology of Covid

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In Joe Biden’s interview with ABC News, the president sought absolution for his failure to anticipate another surge of Covid. That suggests the elite consensus around this virus really did believe their were behavioral rites that would ward off the disease, and, as a corollary, that contracting the disease is a personal failure.

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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Thursday December 23rd 2021.

0:29.2

I'm John Bajor, it's the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor,

0:33.5

a brainwalled hi-a.

0:34.8

Hey, John.

0:35.8

Senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine.

0:38.0

Hi, John.

0:39.0

An associate editor, Noah Rothman, high Noah.

0:41.3

Hi, John.

0:42.3

Abe, you watched or read about Biden's interview with David Muir of ABC, which he said some

0:51.9

interesting things you want to go there and we'll try to...

0:55.4

Yeah, I just watched what clips I saw on social media.

0:59.9

You didn't say things that were that interesting.

1:02.9

I mean, I think with him half the interest is in how he manages or fails to communicate

1:10.5

while he's saying what he's saying.

1:14.9

For example, in this case, he was talking about at home COVID tests and he said, you referred

1:23.0

to them as pills saying that he wished to...

1:27.3

With foresight, he wished that he had ordered...

1:30.1

I forget how many he said, but it doesn't matter.

1:33.5

Some huge gross of some massive number of pills, he said months back before the advent

1:41.3

of Omokron when he meant home tests.

1:45.2

Basically the interview, the clips I saw was David Muir challenging him, pushing him

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