Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday, February 7th, 2020,

I'm John Bajor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine, Christine Rosen, is out today with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hyab.

Hi John.

I'm Associate Editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans, No Arrothment, Hy Noah.

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Though it's just we three, we marry band of brothers.

Others will deem themselves a curse that they were not on today's podcast as they bline their beds.

And so here we are to talk yet again about the Chinese balloon.

The story continues to get baffling, gets more baffling by the hour.

And I think basically what we have here is a, we now have the defenders of the Biden administration,

not that it really needs defenders, but are the people who are trying to spin this so that it doesn't look bad for the Biden administration.

Now effectively arguing that this was no big deal, but that because it blew up or because it became public,

that's why Anthony Blinken had to postpone his trip to China, that even the administration knows it's not a big deal,

but he had to do something so he did it.

What kind of defense?

And as I see it, this is what people who want to say that the Biden administration, it was fine the Biden administration wasn't going to make it public.

It was fine that they were just tracking it over the continental United States in an effort to let it, they could shoot it down over,

over the Atlantic Ocean, and that was all fine.

And that, you know, if only for you rotten kids and buildings Montana who saw the balloon over, you know,

then everything would have been fine, but instead you rotten kids saw the balloon and you took a picture of it,

and then the Secretary of State had to create, you know, there had to be a major diplomatic incident over it.

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