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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, August 16, 2022. I'm John

Puthwoods, the editor of commentary. Once again reminding you that on November 13, a Sunday

in New York, just the little less than three months from now, we will be roasting Barry

Weiss at our 12th annual commentary roast. A great event, a wonderful event. People love

this event. That's why we've been having it for 12 years and live 400 people come every

year to join us in high good humor and off the record, the shenanigans. We've roasted Ben

Shapiro. We've roasted Mayor Sullivan, we've roasted Dick Cheney, we've roasted Joe Lieberman,

we've roasted Norman Puth Horits, we've roasted Roger Hurtog, we've roasted Dan Cinor, we've

roasted others and now we are roasting Barry Weiss, perhaps the leading young journalist

of the moment and someone that we both love and think needs to be taken down a couple

of pegs and that's what we do at the roast. We love them and we tease them and you should

come. So go to commentary.org slash roast for information and details about how to attend

commentary.org slash roast. With me as always executive editor, a Greenwald Hyab,

adjun, media commentary columnist Christine Rosen, high Christine, and associate editor

and author of the rise of the new Puritans, Noah Rothman, high know, hi John. So sorry

about that. If you heard that, that's some weird effect where my phone starts playing

on my computer. I don't know how to stop it. I don't know how to stop it. I'm pretty

computer literate anyway. So my apologies for that. Liz Cheney is up for a re-election,

is up a primary challenge. Everybody tells us she's going to lose in Wyoming and she's

going to lose because she turned on Trump and this is a highly Republican state. They're

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