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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Monday, September 18th, 2023. I'm John

Puthhordz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always. Executive Editor Abe Greenwald

Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Media Commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John.

And Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute,

our Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Contanetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John.

So, as Matt said, just before we got on the air, we're all animals. And by we, I mean, human beings,

not the four of us here, or the people who are listening to this, but human beings are fallen

creatures. And yet we try to strive for higher ground and to live in a way that is more elevated

than our human nature's may incline us to. And that's why we have mores and customs and laws and

faith and all sorts of traditions and behaviors that are established to make sure that we do not

expose ourselves to be the low creatures that we can be. And yet here we have over the course of

the last four or five days, leaders, would be leaders and masters of our political realm,

showing themselves to be base. We have cases in both parties. We have Republican and Congress

member Lauren Bobert, making a spectacle of herself at a production of the musical Beetlejuice

in Denver, being kicked out of a theater for unseemly behavior, then lying about it, then saying

sort of like Teddy Kennedy after Chapa Quiddick. She can't believe that she did what she did.

She honestly didn't remember vaping in front of other people. And by the way, we don't know what

was in the vape, but let's assume that it wasn't just cotton candy flavored vaping.

Because she's so eccentric. She's eccentric. And her divorce is taking a lot out of her,

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