Thursday, November 10, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 13:35)
The Red Wave That Did Not Happen: What Caused the Taming of the Projected Republican Tsunami?
Part II (13:35 - 20:05)
An Abject Tragedy and Unmitigated Moral Failure: Citizens in Several States Vote Overwhelmingly in Support of Abortion Rights
- A Predicted ‘Red Wave’ Crashed Into Wall of Abortion Rights Support on Tuesday by Politico (Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly)
- American Voters Just Sent a Crystal-Clear Message: They Believe in Abortion Rights by The Guardian (Jill Filipovic)
- Women Remembered to Vote on Abortion by Slate (Dahlia Lithwick)
- Abortion-Rights Supporters Prevail in Midterm Ballot Measures by Wall Street Journal (Laura Kusisto and Jennifer Calfas)
Part III (20:05 - 24:58)
History Is Often Much Closer Than We Think — An Obituary of the (Thought to Be) Last Child of an Enslaved Person Reminds Us of That Fact
- Daniel Smith, 90, Dies; Thought to Be the Last Child of an Enslaved Person by New York Times (Clay Risen)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, November 10, 2022. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.0 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Well the big story is what didn't happen. |
| 0:16.2 | The red wave didn't happen. |
| 0:18.2 | A massive tsunami of Republican elected officials, winning in elections coast to coast that |
| 0:23.2 | did not happen. |
| 0:25.3 | And this leads to a series of very important questions that all thinking Christians should |
| 0:29.3 | keep in mind. |
| 0:30.3 | Number one, what's it ever about to happen? |
| 0:33.2 | This is where we have to go back to a comment I made on The Briefing repeatedly in the |
| 0:37.4 | lead up up to the election. |
| 0:38.9 | And that is this. |
| 0:40.0 | There is a game played, and the game has to do with expectations and prognostications |
| 0:45.2 | and predictions. |
| 0:46.8 | It is to the advantage of the media that there be understood to be a loosening of the race, |
| 0:51.7 | a tightening of the race, a loosening of the race, a tightening of the race. |
| 0:55.3 | It is because there is an advantage for the media in there being a great deal of expectation |
| 1:00.6 | that something big just might happen. |
| 1:03.4 | But then it's also a game played out by political strategists. |
| 1:06.5 | And that can play both ways. |
| 1:07.9 | For example, you had someone like Kathy Hoechel, who is the incumbent governor of New York, |
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