Vibe Check in the Quiet Car
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Before reading this, please wish Chris a Happy Birthday! And say good luck to his family as he subjects them to birthday McRibs. As for the show, we’re breaking down the drama at Daily Wire, Nikki Haley “scandals” and fashion trends emerging from the Israel-Hamas War.
Time Stamps:
4:21 Front Page
1:02:17 Obsessions
1:08:12 Reader Mail
1:11:11 Favorite Items
Show Notes:
Powerline: The AP at work today
AP News: Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals
WFB: WaPo's Shipley Hand-Selected Hamas Cartoon He Pulled Amid Woke Blowback, Cartoonist Ramirez Says
The Wrap: Ben Shapiro Dares Candace Owens to Quit After War of Words About Israel
Politico: Firm powering Haley’s presidential bid hit with harassment lawsuit
AP News: Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash
WaPo: Fani Willis: Georgia trial involving Trump might not conclude until early 2025
Variety: Univision Anchor Leon Krauze Exits in Wake of Network's Controversial Trump Interview
NYMag: Selling Bidenomics Is Biden’s Only Chance to Beat Trump
Axios: Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state a "misnomer"
New Republic: Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office? | The New Republic
NPR: Speaker Johnson's close ties to Christian right — both mainstream and fringe
WaPo:Florida’s laws, book bans drove this librarian to quit - Washington Post
WaPo: A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy
NYT: More Americans Say They’re in a Brain Fog. Long Covid Is a Factor.
NYT: Kaffiyeh: The Symbolism and History of a Checkered Scarf
NYT:McDonald’s Growing Appetite for Fashion: Crocs, Moschino and More
National Review: The BBC Humiliates Itself — Again
Amichai Stein on Twitter: "Targeting medical staff"??? The daily @BBCNews Blood libel
Ofer Gendelman on Twitter: Hamas has hidden these weapons in the MRI unit of the #Shifa_Hospital and in its clinics.
The Guardian: ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake | James Joyce
Kotaku: YouTubers Put Anal Bead Chess Conspiracy To The Test
Kicker: Favorite Items of the Week:
Poynter: Instead of Taylor Swift beat reporters, we need Nextdoor beat reporters - Poynter
WFB: Yale Law Students for Hamas
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:25.2 | Oh, hello. I'm Chris Stierwalt. And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Ink Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:38.7 | Eliana Johnson, what do you have been up to? I have, I spent the last week in Montgomery, |
| 0:44.8 | Alabama as part of the civil society fellowship, which is. Is society civil now? It is, |
| 0:51.8 | we left work undone. |
| 0:54.8 | Okay. |
| 0:55.2 | The struggle endures. |
| 0:56.5 | The work goes on. |
| 0:57.7 | The dream will never die. |
| 0:59.0 | But I mean other than saving civil society, any news since you've last been on stained wretches? |
| 1:06.8 | Well, first, I want to thank Christine Rosen so much for filling in. |
| 1:10.7 | And I wrote her telling her that she was so good. |
| 1:15.9 | She could take my place permanently. |
| 1:18.9 | And I said, we got to come back and talk about working on the fourth Republican presidential primary to debate, which will also take place in Alabama, but in Tuscaloosa on December 6th. |
| 1:33.9 | And we are actually working together on this. |
| 1:36.7 | I know. It's been so nice to work on this with you. |
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