The Lunatics Running the COVID Asylum

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today's podcast is a threnody of denunciation: Of the CDC, of the Biden administration's haplessness, and of the seemingly deliberate disinformation regarding the Delta variant in the New York Times and on CBS News, among many other places. Plus: Will Democratic leftists kill the infrastructure bill? And how delusional was the Biden negotiating team when it came to dealing with the Iranians on the Iran nuclear deal? Matt Continetti joins us. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.4	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday, August 2nd, 2021.
0:29.9	I'm John Pudhord's the editor of commentary magazine which you can read at our new URL
0:35.6	www.commentary.org.
0:40.2	Christine Rosen is out this week joining us.
0:44.0	Well, maybe I should go the other way.
0:46.2	Christine Rosen is out this week so with us as always executive editor, A Greenwald
0:50.2	Hyde John and associate editor, noir Rothman, Hyneua.
0:55.2	And joining us today commentaries, Washington commentary columnist, former media commentary
1:01.1	columnist, former editor of the Washington Free Beacon, current scholar at the American
1:06.8	Enterprise Institute, Matthew Kuntnetty.
1:08.6	Hi, Matt.
1:09.6	Hi, John.
1:10.6	Okay, so the COVID shutdown lockdown renewed mask mandate stuff is getting crazier and
1:21.3	crazier by the minute.
1:24.0	Let me just give you one indication of the craziness.
1:28.7	Andrew Cuomo is now being sensible.
1:33.2	That's how crazy things have gotten.
1:36.7	Andrew Cuomo said this morning that he could not reimpose mandates without legislation.
1:45.7	That is correct because the state legislature in New York removed his emergency powers
1:52.5	in the wake of all of these accusations of sexual misconduct that were dogging him in
1:58.6	the spring.
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