The Jackpod: The bystander
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty discusses Republican pollster Whit Ayres' observation that Joe Biden is “a bystander watching events spin out of control.”
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| 0:00.0 | Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink software, |
| 0:06.0 | accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at Math Works. |
| 0:11.0 | com. Work's dot com. I'm Magna Chakramardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jack Beady helps us connect history, |
| 0:23.0 | literature, and politics in a way |
| 0:24.8 | that brings unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, Magnup. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, lookie here, we are at episode 20, so more two times double digits, let me put it that way. |
| 0:37.5 | What is the headline for today, Jack? |
| 0:40.0 | The bystander. |
| 0:41.8 | The bystander. Okay, who is the bystander. The bystander. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay, who is the bystander in this case? |
| 0:46.8 | Joe Biden. |
| 0:47.8 | And for the second year in a row, |
| 0:50.9 | he has declined the invitation for a 15 minute interview around the Super Bowl |
| 0:57.1 | with a three to four minute part of it that would even be in the pre-game festivities. |
| 1:04.0 | The audience for the Super Bowl will be over 100 million Americans. |
| 1:09.0 | By comparison, Biden's state of the union last year had an audience of 27 million. |
| 1:17.0 | So here he has a chance to talk to over 100 million and he's turning it down. |
| 1:24.2 | And you know it isn't just out of the blue, |
| 1:26.8 | it's emblematic, I'm afraid, of a president |
| 1:30.1 | who's been in hiding. Consider in a press conferences. Obama has had 25 in his first term, |
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