We Knew it Was You, Fredo
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Chris Cuomo demonstrates once again that he is unfit for primetime, or anytime, the media botches crime and Omicron coverage, and Chris's Dispatch colleagues hit the exits from Fox News
Times
- 03:26 - Segment: Front Page
- 03:34 - The return of The Brothers Cuomo
- 11:38 - The Daily Beast reports on drama at Politico
- 13:27 - Chris's colleagues Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes leave Fox News
- 22:53 - The New York Times can't explain the nationwide spike in violent crimes
- 29:07 - Crisis coverage of climate change and the Smithsonian, via the New York Times
- 31:28 - The Yale Daily News publishes the greatest story ever written
- 35:08 - Segment: Obsessions
- 35:18 - New York Magazine piece on Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports (Chris)
- 40:09 - The media coverage of the Omicron coronavirus variant (Eliana)
- 46:26 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 46:50 - Chris's favorite headline (Chris)
- 47:21 - Erik Wemple's Washington Post article on Chris Cuomo and CNN boss Jeff Zucker
Links
Daily Beast article on drama at Politico
The New York Times article on climate change and the Smithsonian
The best article ever, à la the Yale Daily News
Chris's favorite headline ever
Erik Wemple's article on CNN
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. Hi, I'm Chris |
| 0:23.4 | Tyrewald. And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to L. Inkstained Reto, where we break down what's |
| 0:29.7 | going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. Welcome, welcome. Happy Hanukkah. |
| 0:34.9 | Thank you. Thank you. We haven't had an episode since Thanksgiving, and we're already on to Hanukkah. |
| 0:39.7 | It happened so fast. |
| 0:40.9 | But... |
| 0:41.3 | Have you had any Lottkas? |
| 0:43.4 | I did have Lottkas. I actually had Lankas with your AEI colleague, Suzanne. |
| 0:49.5 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:49.9 | On Sunday, and they were delicious. And the best part was, like, homemade apples. |
| 0:54.4 | I like the fact that Jewish Americans have turned a virtue into, so they're like, okay, |
| 0:59.6 | we've got to, we're stuck with Hanukkah because we need a Christmas counterpoint, |
| 1:03.3 | so we're going to, we're going to dress up this minor holiday into something more important. |
| 1:08.0 | We're going to make it fancy. |
| 1:09.2 | And you're like, what are we going to do? |
| 1:10.6 | It is not and has never been a Christmas counterpoint. |
| 1:14.0 | Like, Hanukkah is just such a perpetual disappointment. |
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