Welcome to the day early commentary magazine podcast today is Wednesday, January,

15th, 2020. I am John Puthworth. It's the editor of commentary with me as

always senior editor a Greenwald Hy-Abe. Hi John. Associate editor no

Rothman, Hy-Noah. Hi John. And in Washington, senior writer Christine Rose

and Hy-Christine. Hi John. So we are a day early because we wanted to come to you

with all of our scintillating views of the of last night's Democratic debate and

we just have come into our podcast studio after watching Nancy Pelosi

announce the seven impeachment managers who will prosecute the trial of Donald

Trump in the Senate, apparently beginning next week. So this is an all this is

an all conservative analysis of all Democratic events beginning last night at 9 a.m. 9 p.m. 9 p.m. 9

9. 9. 9. 9. 9. So the first question I have for for you Christine is how did you

manage to what did you do to stay awake during the Democratic debate?

Were you stabbing yourself with a fork? Well I usually rely on our group

text to keep me awake with the jokes but we all kind of became despairing and full of

lassitude. I actually I was thinking I was kind of missing Andrew Yang who could have

been the sort of Haley Joe Osment character from six cents like I see dead people like

you needed there was there was really a need for some sort of levity or

weirdness in Mary and Williamson and Andrew Yang form so no it was it was pretty

bad I basically kept standing up and petting the dog and that did the trick.

So I had to write a column last night for the New York Post which is in the New York

Post and around after about an hour of the proceedings I was you know in despair

because I couldn't think of what on earth I was going to say about this

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