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Summer

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We recorded this one yesterday in New York City, and due to travel and other issues, we're posting it now. We talk Trump, the now official Republican nominee, get the inside scoop on that Facebook meeting from our guest Brent Bozell, and a theory about Joe Biden. Yes, Joe Biden. Finally, what's Peter Robinson's favorite Bob Dylan lyric? The answer may surprise you (it surprised us). Happy summer, everyone!

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Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
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Discussion (34)

  • Salvatore Padula@SalvatorePadula
    I kind of get the impression that Bozell has spent so long as a media watchdog that he's developed a bit of Stockholm syndrome. Based on the way others who attended the meeting talk about it, his satisfaction with Facebook's approach is very much a minority view. Either that, or he's the Jesse Jackson of the right. He doesn't care about what happens as long as he's at the table when it does.
  • Josh Farnsworth
    Peter-how can you vote for Trump after his comment about Cruz's father and his doubling down on lauding Chinese action in 1989 as "strong?" Trump hates freedom and truth and as a result deserves to be defeated and deserves the universal condemnation of all conservatives.
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