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We’ve got some debates town halls to cover, we’ve got a good old fashioned social media shadow banning scandal, Joe Biden’s son is bad at influence peddling, we had a Supreme Court nominee sail through her hearing, and we get into the nitty gritty on the 1619 Project. But most importantly, we spend some quality time with Kim Strassel, she of the Wall Street Journal, and one of the most ardent supporters of the President. We of course talk about that with her, also the Senate, the previously mentioned big tech/media controversy.
Music from this week’s show: Amie by Pure Prarie League
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I feel like this is the story of my life!
It is the story of everybody’s life! If you toss the thing you haven’t needed in years, you’ll need it next week.
That’s why I bought a 4,500 square foot home!
Good thing you’re keeping fit, so you can survive these awards! :-)
What do think about the Biden corruption , Rob?
Rob: Trump is a lowlife .
I believe this is called monomania.
It’s focus.
Thanks…NHK is exasperatingly inconsistent. On the one hand, it’s culturally conservative. Part of me likes that (as I too am conservative). The manners and dress of the presenters are impeccable, and they don’t call attention to themselves. But there’s also a certain stodginess, and everything is tightly controlled. There can be no trace of regional accents, and at least in the old days members of the Imperial family had to be referred to with all of the proper honorifics. (I’m all for the monarchy, but sometimes it was a bit too much.) And there was also a strange kind of political correctness, so that one couldn’t simply refer to North Korea. One had to use the full form: Chousen-minshu-shugi-jinmin-kyouwakoku ‘The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” Fortunately, that has been quietly dropped…I once knew the former head of NHK, as well as someone who was supposed to assume the job, before being rejected as the result of infighting. From what I hear, the rank-and-file staff leans towards the left. In any case, there’s a noticeable anti-Trump bias, though not as blatant as elsewhere…My wife, who is rather nationalistic, regularly calls up NHK to complain. We are all obliged to pay a fee to NHK simply for owning a television set. She says, for example, that instead of showing South Korean soap operas, there ought to be more news about Japanese abducted by North Korea.
During a two-year stay in America a third of a century ago, I would watch TV news, which even then was biased. It was both amusing and exasperating to hear Pres. Reagan, for example, being quoted, with a comment added that went: “However, critics say…” or “However, thoughtful people say…” I remember “thoughtful people” as PBS-ish…Famous TV “journalists” earn huge salaries, much bigger than those earned by their Japanese counterparts, for example. They think of themselves as belonging to a ruling aristocracy. I doubt that many of them have any coherent political philosophy. They’re surely motivated less by statism than by snobbism.
I think that’s fair, and this is a good discussion, but along with that snobbism, I think they really believe that “experts” pushing around the economy with central planning and non-public goods just has to work.
Why wouldn’t it work? They’re Experts.
I just realized talking to my brother-in-law that he psychologically just cannot accept this. I am going to be a lot more sensitive to how he makes an “argument” from here on out.
This is a great speech related to that:
I thought the long excoriation of Trump on virus discipline grounds was right in line with your point, the oddity is at other times they clearly realize that hope of reaching any kind of stability with regard to China lies with Trump. Perhaps some of the heat was exasperation at what they saw as his lack of discipline reducing the chances he would be in a position to contribute to a more cohesive East Asian neighborhood.
Thank you for your comments, they were very illuminating.
Another great Ricochet podcast. Thank you, Team Ricochet.
Two comments. First, thank you for bringing Kimberly Strassel back on the show. She is awesome. I love her writing, and her perspective. Second, I agree with James Lileks that Susan Quinn is a phenomenal writer, and builder of communities. Great to see her recognized in the Post of the Week.