We Don't Know What the News Is Anymore
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today's podcast points out that for the first time since 2015, every piece of American news doesn't somehow revolve either directly or indirectly around a certain ex-president. Is this the sign of his new irrelevance? And will this make being a Republican less embarrassing? Give a listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | Today is Thursday, December 1st, we made it to December. |
| 0:34.3 | The 12th month is upon us, 2022. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm John Pahor, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, |
| 0:40.4 | Abe Greenwald. |
| 0:41.4 | Hi, John. |
| 0:42.4 | Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen |
| 0:47.6 | Hykristin. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi, John. |
| 0:49.6 | An associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi, Noah. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, John. |
| 0:55.7 | I, after yesterday, we seem to sort of run out of topics a little bit at the end of |
| 1:02.2 | the podcast and I asked everybody if they had anything to bring to the table and no one |
| 1:07.2 | really knew what to say. |
| 1:09.3 | And Abe has had some thoughts about what is going on with the news that I thought we |
| 1:16.2 | should have a conversation about Abe. |
| 1:18.5 | Can you ventilate upon your thoughts? |
| 1:20.7 | Sure. |
| 1:21.7 | So it occurred to me that this is the first moment in, say, seven years where there is no |
| 1:31.3 | single dominating overarching news story for the country to focus on. |
| 1:38.9 | It was Trump when Trump announced and was really running. |
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