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This week, the audacity of grope -- can Uncle Joe survive the woke warriors? We (along with Bethany Mandel who sits in for Peter) ponder that question with our guest, Commentary's Christine Rosen. Also, have the Democrats gotten too far out over their skis with the Mueller Report? Survey says...YES. And what the heck is going on across the pond with Brexit? We call on Quillette's Toby Young to explain it all to us (and more important issues like Megan Markle's lack of popularity). Finally, Bethany (home) schools us on her NYT piece on the politics of measles immunization. It's a very...sharp conversation.
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James Lileks
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Surely you taped the whole encounter (dinner) with Buck Dharma for use in a special Lileks podcast?
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That's yet to come, tonight. But I hope he can have SOME recordings.
Oh you meant dinner that was LAST night.
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Exit music: “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” by Blue Oyster Cult.
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If I see "Mueller Report" in any headline, I know to skip over the article.
I think that the photoshopped picture with Biden is unfair.
The Murdoch New York Post writes in part,
“A viral image of then-Vice President Joe Biden giving a woman a seemingly creepy embrace in 2015 was taken wildly out of context, the woman says — as the potential presidential hopeful is facing accusations from another woman that he got too handsy during a 2014 campaign event.
“Stephanie Carter, the wife of Obama-era Defense Secretary Ash Carter, says Uncle Joe did nothing untoward when he planted his hands on her shoulders and whispered something in her ear during her husband’s swearing-in on Feb. 17, 2015.
“‘The Joe Biden in my picture is a close friend helping someone get through a big day, for which I will always be grateful. So, as the sole owner of my story, it is high time that I reclaim it — from strangers, Twitter, the pundits and the late-night hosts,’ Carter wrote in a Medium post.
“Carter said she had slipped on some ice at Arlington National Cemetery earlier in the day and was feeling particularly self-conscious about the fall — and concerned about her husband’s high-pressure new gig — when Biden comforted her.
“The image became part of what Biden critics call a pattern of creepy behavior.
“‘After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, [Biden] leaned in to tell me, “Thank you for letting him do this” and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day,’ she wrote.”
There are plenty of other Biden pictures. Use them. But don't use the specific picture where the woman objects to it.
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