Thursday, August 24, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 15:39)
A Debate? Let’s Call It a Debacle.: The Republican Presidential Candidates Were Set Loose, and the Loser Was American Politics
Part II (15:39 - 23:11)
‘There was a Deep Malevolence, Bordering on Sadism in Your Actions’: British Nurse Turned Serial Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison After Killing Seven Babies
- British Nurse Who Killed Babies on the Job Gets Life Sentence by Wall Street Journal (David Luhnow and Humza Jilani)
Part III (23:11 - 27:00)
Driverless Car in San Francisco Hits New Roadblock — Wet Concrete
- Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco by New York Times (Michael Levenson)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 24, 2023. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing. A daily |
| 0:10.7 | analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Well, they called it a debate, but |
| 0:16.3 | actually it was something more like a debacle. What happened last night there in Milwaukee, |
| 0:21.5 | Wisconsin, is a taste of the future direction of American politics and sadly, pretty much |
| 0:27.5 | a picture of the present as well. As you look at the history of American political traditions, |
| 0:33.4 | the idea of a debate between major candidates is in one sense as old as the American Republic. |
| 0:40.1 | It was updated significantly in famous debates, such as the debate between Abraham Lincoln |
| 0:45.8 | and Stephen Douglas. It of course was brought back in the 1960 presidential campaign in |
| 0:52.9 | a televised debate between the then vice president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, |
| 0:58.0 | and his Democratic challenger. The Democratic nominee was of course Massachusetts Senator |
| 1:02.8 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Kennedy would go on to win the election, albeit by one of the closest |
| 1:09.0 | margins, actually one of the most questionable margins in American presidential history. |
| 1:14.0 | But the debate was actually something of a debate. By the way, in an interesting footnote |
| 1:18.3 | to American presidential history, it was expected that the then incumbent vice president, |
| 1:24.0 | Richard Nixon, would win the debate. And interestingly, those who in the audience listened to the |
| 1:30.9 | debate rather than viewing it on the relatively new technology of television, they rather |
| 1:36.4 | conclusively thought that Richard Nixon had won the debate. But those watching television |
| 1:40.4 | believe that Senator Kennedy won the debate. That tells you something about the power of visuals. |
| 1:45.0 | Richard Nixon had been ill. He looked haggard. There were questionable decisions about makeup, |
| 1:51.0 | Senator Kennedy looked far more youthful. Again, another irony. We now know, based upon expert |
| 1:57.2 | medical opinion, that it was the vice president who was a healthier candidate. But John F. Kennedy, |
| 2:02.7 | though less helpful, actually looked more youthful. Nonetheless, the debate became something |
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