Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is the darkest day of the

superstitious calendar Friday November 13th 2020 I am John Pudford the editor of

Commentary with me as always senior writer for steam Rosenheimerstein

Hi John executive editor a Greenwald high-aib

Hi John and associate editor Noah Rothman high-nowa hi John so what do we

want to talk about I know I know that every story I read says Trump Trump's

incandescent anger at Fox News largely resides in its early call of the state of

Arizona on on election night which was not followed by anybody but AP until

yesterday when the other networks finally called Arizona for Biden so let's

get this straight so Fox got it right it called Arizona early and was correct

and aren't in Michigan the decision desk head came on air and said there's no

mathematical way for Trump to catch up and it turned out he was right so does

this mean that Trump can now stop being so angry Fox news well I don't think

that's the root of his anger this was also pretty frustrating for me because

they called it on election they Fox and AP called it on election night and the

universe of sort of polling hobbyists descended on them for being within 48

hours descended on Fox News for being too ambitious with its it's early call

but they were right so they were right at the wrong time or they shouldn't

have been right when they were right I mean it's not as though they ever reversed

the call I'm sitting in a district where a call was reversed they called my

district in New Jersey 7th which is Tom Malanowski representative Democratic

representative Tom Malanowski first term Democrat in a swing district versus

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