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Recorded live this morning as the transcript was released, this episode of GLoP is as fresh as a just mowed lawn. Wait, are newly mowed lawns fresh? OK, how about laundry just out of the dryer? Nah, too on the nose. OK, forget about the fresh metaphor. In this episode, the GLoP-meisters (that's Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz) cover the goings on at WeWork and other suspect internet based businesses (ahem), a look at the state of the TV business, and yes, some Rank Punditry® on that phone call to Ukraine.
Hosted by John Podhoretz, Jonah Goldberg, and Rob Long
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I'm a few years older than you guys. The way I remember it, Billy Carter was investigated because he was trying to obtain financing for his peanut farm from Libyan diplomats, and Mr. Qaddafi was not our friend at the time.
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Is anyone else fine with using foreign governments for oppo research? Politicians are terrible and we should investigate them. I just don't see the harm in asking Ukraine to check this out if there is a legitimate reason to research it. Likewise, I was always fine with talking to the Russians to dig up dirty secrets provided that those dirty secrets actually have some validity.
I mean it's not like Trump is using the IRS to go after political opponents...
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As I said on another thread, the problem with the Steele Dossier is not that it was a foreign operation. It was that it was complete Bullshine.
Trump wasn't asking Ukraine to make something up. He was asking for a legitimate investigation.
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I didn't watch the Emmy's either. Nor do I regard award shows, especially the Oscars, given the politics that has affected them, as recommendations to watch a movie or television show.
As far as Fleabag is concerned, I turned it on twice and got turned off. I'm willing to give it another try because Andrew Klavan recommended a few days ago.
Breaking Bad is a show that I tried watching but found it too slow. It was Jonah's recommendation that made me give it another try and I ended up enjoying it.
So what points me to these shows is people I folllow recommending them. It's not the awards shows.
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I loved the comment about Trump's outlook on politics being informed by his experiences in the New York real estate market.
The same could be said about Obama's politics being informed by how things are done in Chicago. Obama was never as crass, but he was just as corrupt, and more importantly, more effective in his corruption because he wasn't watched the way Trump is.
He did things that are impeachable too. As Jonah says, it doesn't neccesarily mean he should be impeached.
I'm a Trump supporter in the same way Ben Shapiro / Andrew Klavan are. But it would be a silver lining if Trump's removal made it easier to remove a president.
If Bill Clinton had been removed, it would have had the effect of lowering the bar for impeachment, and raising the bar for behavior by the president, including when lying.
And Republicans would have been giving the Democrats at least one additional term in the White House with Al Gore, and possibly an additional 2 terms. Al Gore could have run twice as an incumbent. And the Democrats wouldn't take the freebie. They took the corruption instead.
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