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The Gist

The Politics of Pith

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Joe Biden curing cancer. In the interview, senior writer at the National Review Michael Brendan Dougherty is here to discuss his new book My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home. He and Mike talk about Dougherty's journey into his father's history, how the immigrant experience shaped his mother, and the ways Ireland has influenced his politics.   In the Spiel, political pithiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I cannot swear to you that there is swearing on this show, but there might be.

0:03.9

It's the kind of behavior I engage in.

0:10.8

It's Tuesday, June 11th, 2019, from slated to just I might pass.

0:14.8

But today Joe Biden made a horrible statement that caused a lot of consternation.

0:20.2

Brace yourself.

0:21.4

It gets pretty terrible what he's going to say right here.

0:24.3

You know, a lot of you understand that what loss is.

0:30.0

When loss occurs, you know that people come up to you and tell you,

0:35.0

I understand if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member.

0:42.1

And lots of times I feel like saying, you know, they say, no, how you feel.

0:45.6

And if they hadn't, you look at them, you know they mean well, but you say, you have no idea how I feel.

0:51.2

But when it happens to you, you know, that's why I've worked so hard my career to make sure that

0:59.8

I promise you, if I'm a like the president, you're going to see the single most important thing

1:05.2

that changes America's. We're going to cure cancer.

1:12.4

Yeah, that's right. That monster wants to cure cancer.

1:17.2

Dick. Okay, let's just stipulate that a promise to cure cancer isn't a likely promise that is

1:24.4

to be kept, but it is better than the current president's windmill-based misdiagnosis of cancer.

1:30.4

And also, Donald Trump's ever-burning, cold love, which will certainly cause cancer.

1:35.5

You know what the real cancer is? Cruelty. And the internet and prostate, lung and thyroid.

1:41.8

Those are just some of the cancers. So when I heard that Joe Biden announced he wanted to cure

1:46.8

cancer or promised to find the cure, not necessarily that he'd be the guy in the lab coat doing the

1:52.1

work. It was presented via the internet as a conscious well-thought-out policy pronouncement

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