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On today’s podcast, our hosts tackle a wide range of topics. From China’s hypersonic missiles to the ongoing situation in Loudoun County, Steve, Sarah, Jonah, and David grapple with what those issues mean for the country with heavy doses of concern and skepticism. Plus, some good old-fashioned rank punditry. Sarah asks whether political operatives are responsible for ruining our politics? And some level-setting on Jonah’s third party idea that has caused a stir on the right.
Show Notes:
-“The Greatest Cold War Myth of All” - Charles Krauthammer
I thought Jonah was a little too dismissive of the Loudon county assaults. Not saying he brushed them off, but in his comparison to the Covington High School kid I think he fumbled the ball a little bit.
Correction: Attentive listeners will note that I jumped in defensively as Jonah was speaking to make clear the numbers I'd provided on China's GDP were not from China itself and that I wasn't some gullible wag repeating uncritically numbers provided by an authoritarian communist regime with a long history providing bad information.
I was wrong.
They are from China. (And the second number should have been roughly 5 percent 3rd quarter GDP, not roughly 6 percent.) I'm guilty of all of those things. And while very little is as bad for a journalist as providing bad information -- or failing to properly qualify that possibly bad information -- admitting Jonah was right is a close second.