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The News Dudes

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Gentlemen of the Press

The week, Troy Senik sits in for Peter Robinson as we wrap up the Cruise, discuss Obama's immigration overstep, talk about the business of news with journalist and author Sharyl Attkisson (buy her new book Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington), debate Bill Cosby's future and Jonathan Gruber's past. Listen up!

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  • carlboraca@gmail.com@PleatedPantsForever

    Gentlemen, as always, a superb podcast.

    James - appreciate the Apple thread callout. Per the comparison to geopolitics, we may need a two site solution. But, we're not granting Troy the right of return to the non-Apple camp.

  • BuckeyeSam@BuckeyeSam
    I like Rob, though he's a squish, but he doesn't see the venality of Obama. Twenty percent of the country is white and hard-left liberal. Another 20% is black or Hispanic, who are either hard-left or simply see conservatives as racists. On the other side, 20% of the country is staunch conservative, and 20% are squishes like Rob. Obama is aiming at the middle of the 20% who won't want to be viewed as racist homophobes, who have spines of jelly, who have convictions of diarrhea, and who will be cowed into believing this amnesty won't be the parade of horribles that some predict. And Obama is likely to pull this off because the GOP sucks, and Obama enjoys what I heard Mona Charen or Jay Nordlinger say this week on Need to Know--racial immunity.
  • BuckeyeSam@BuckeyeSam
    At 40:30, Rob describes something he calls "therapizing," I think. He's right. In SW Ohio, our local rag is The Cincinnati Enquirer, and far too many of its reporters anymore engaging in this kind of "reporting." And the worst of theme is a guy named Mark Curnette, the champion of all local illegal immigrants. What's interesting is that I suspect the editorial board is largely on board with them, but their election endorsements generally back the conservative candidates in a kind of hold-their-noses fashion. I've decided that with the endorsements, they try their best to retain their readers while their reporters wear them down with their therapizing.
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