The March Overwhelms, Media Fails

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Caution: Today's podcast has a lot of cursing on it—cursing about the shockingly bad coverage of the extraordinary March for Israel yesterday and the effort by the mainstream media to bury it in an avalanche of "but really policymakers are concerned" coverage that is, frankly, bull---. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Wednesday, November 15th, 2023.
0:29.6	I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, Abe
0:35.0	Greenwold, hi, Abe.
0:37.0	Hi, John.
0:38.0	Senior editor, Seth Mandel, hi Seth.
0:41.0	Hi, Seth.
0:42.0	Matt Connede is out today and of course here with us media commentary columnist
0:47.6	Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. So I'm back I left at 6 a.m.
0:54.8	yesterday morning Tuesday morning got in a car my wife and our friend Debbie got to the
1:01.1	DC area around 10, 15, went down to the mall, got back in the car around four,
1:10.0	got home around 8, 14 hours, and what happened between the time that I hit them all and I left them all
1:18.0	was the largest show of political, emotional, ideological, and policy force on the part of the pro-Israel
1:30.7	movement and American Jewry since there was a pro-Israel movement and American Jewry since there was a pro-Israel movement and American Jewry.
1:35.9	The initial number seemed to suggest that this was the largest such rally in American history.
1:41.6	There was a huge one in 1987 to support the effort to
1:47.0	force the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union. The number there was put at 250,000 and now this number
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