Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday September 20th, 2023.

I'm John Puthor. It's the editor of commentary magazine reminding you that on November 12th in New

York City, we will be hosting our annual roast of a prominent American who we both want to pay

tribute to and poke a little fun at. And this year's Roasty is Tom Cotton, a person who tells us

that he is intellectual conservatism was formed by reading commentary. And so we are of course

going to punish him for having such a bizarre and problematic origin as a conservative at our roast.

If you go to commentary.org slash roast, you can find out details about how much a ticket is,

how much a table is and contribute to commentary by by coming and joining us at what

people seem almost universally to think is one of the highlight events of their year. So that is

the commentary roast of Tom Cotton. November 12th commentary.org slash roast. And you know,

he'll be there executive editor A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Washington commentary columnist

Matthew Connetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. And media commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi,

Christine. Hi, John. So the UN General Assembly has convened here in New York City to New York City's

eternal shame and discredit. It's not New York City's fault that the United Nations is here. I don't

think I don't know why I'm blaming the city many people in the city at the UN and wish it were gone

particularly this week. As it befells our streets, it creates traffic and dictators,

potentates and monsters, Rome, our streets, unmolested and protected by our law enforcement secret

service and others. But things happen at the UN and yesterday three things happened at the UN,

the president of the United States gave a speech, the president of Ukraine gave a speech,

and the president of or the foreign minister, I can't remember, of Iran gave a speech. So we're

going to go through what these gentlemen said. One of them is not really a gentleman. He's a

thug representative of an evil malocharcy, but nonetheless, I am not John Federman. I do obey

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