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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast. Today is Monday, September 25, 2017. I'm John

Potthoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine, the 72-year-old monthly of political analysis,

intellectual, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. Join us at CommentaryMagazine.com

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11 times a year with me as always Abe Greenwald our senior editor hello Abe hi John and back with

us after sustaining a popcorn oil related injury last week that kept him on the sidelines no

arosment or associate editor high Noah. He makes it sound so heroic. He is bloody but not bowed he is

he is uh what else other burned but not it's a literative I think he should go burn burned but not

bowed he is singed but not soulless or something like that. That's debatable. Uh well judging from

your uh Twitter feed this weekend that is debatable since many people have accused you of all sorts

of terrible things for the fact that you took both the president of the United States and his

liberal critics to task for engaging in culture, war, erism over the deeply important central issue

of our time which is how one should behave on the sidelines of a football game during the playing

of the national anthem as almost four million Americans in Puerto Rico are subsisting in 95 degree

heat with no electricity people mired and trapped in buildings. Uh an island property the United

States that has largely been destroyed by a hurricane that maybe six months without power.

The president of the United States spent the entire weekend getting into ridiculous fights about

how multi-million dollar football players and billionaire NFL team owners should behave. Similarly

uh just as he spent days last week um going to the UN giving a good speech talking about the threat

the global threat posed by North Korea and the uh the simple model of deterrence that says that any

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