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How much presidential race? Yeah, I don't know. We've only got what was that sean nineties, six days to go. It's gonna be over in the blink of a hunt right around the corner, I tell you what, though, even the early days have been fun to watch in a way, in a lot of ways. For instance, the Beaeto mania followed by the betto backlash, and Tim Miller, who's a calumnist for The Bulwark, is reading a piece entitled the Beato Woke Wars that we found quite intriguing and have
invited Tim on. Hey Tim, how are you sir? Hey guys, I'm doing great. Good to be with you. It's five ninety four More days of this. You're killing me. It can't. But seriously, it can't be this pace. Ken, It is that possible. Didn't we say that last time? Yeah? I think it can. I think it can be this pace, especially with with Trump. Hey, we didn't invite you on to make a suicidal tim Alright, you guys did it to me. So I'll tell us about your piece the
Better Woke Wars. Yeah. Well, look, I'm sort of a
never Trump Republican for listeners who don't know me. So I feel like I have this interesting perspective where I feel disengaged from both primaries, and so I've been kind of going to events on both sides to try to get a feel for what the what the voters wanted and the betto thing that has been so interesting to me, in kind of another depressing all the suicidal way is that he was, you know, the golden boy of the left in eighteen he was going after Ted people, Ted
Cruz and uh, you know, he was on Ellen and he was defending Kaepernick and and and all of this. And then the calendar turns to twenty nineteen and he's running against socialist Bernie Sanders and you know, candidates that are more popular at the intersectional social justice laughed like Kamala Harris and and they've turned on him, and they've
turned on him. And in every article you read about him from lefty outlets, now, uh, they talked about his white privilege and his privilege as a male, and you know, I'm just thinking to myself about, how what what hope do you know? Moderate Republicans have to build a coalition with these folks if they're gonna turn on Bettos so quickly. Yeah, I talked to a a college student who was, uh, you know, progressive, like a lot of college students are on Friday, and it was kind of you know, I said, so,
what do you think of Betto? And I was ready for the Oh my god, this is that and it was all, what a fraud, what a complete fraud. And it really really caught me by surprise. And then I saw the New republic article, article in the Slate article and saw the backlash in the New York Times about him not letting his wife's talk during the commercial, and thought, wow, the article crazy. Honestly, thesteners haven't read it. This is
the most insane thing that I've read. The New York Times wrote not it wasn't like a columnist with an opinion. It was a news story. He wrote. That was that the premise of the story that was Betto was appearing to revel in his advantages in a white male as a white male because his wife didn't speak in the announcement video. Now remember written as a news story, which is crazy number one Betto's wife. And look, I'm not really particularly Bettle fan. He's far too left for me.
But but you know, you have to when you see crazy, you gotta call it crazy. Betto's wife spoke in in the magazine article interview. She speaks at his events like this idea that he's trying to silence her. And this is the same critique that Trump, remember leveled against because your Khan's wife at the convention that that the New York Times was all up in arms over about how that was the offensive. And now you know now that it's it's the folks on their side that are, you know,
being threatened. It's a it's stair game, it's it's it's it's really insane to see how how the tables have turned on this stuff. It's probably worth tossing in as an aside that Laura Logan famously said on our show a couple of weeks ago that she'll read a New York Times news article and not find a fact in it. Well, this is true, and this this article was paid to
five tweets. Guys. The reporter found five tweets a liberal Brooklyn uh, you know social you know, socialist Bernie fans, and then wrote an article based on this and was saying that there's this ground soul of people who are offended by her silence based on five liberals in Brooklyn. It's just crazy that that at least at least it's not the most important newspaper in the world. You know, all of politics is a NonStop, hundred way back stabbery.
But Better Ork has to be absolutely astonished, has be be shocked, of course he does. You know, I've been talking to I was a communications director for a bunch of Republicans like Jeb and John McCain and others, And I've been talking to some of my fellow flax we call ourselves who have to deal with the press, we call you that to it. Yeah, there you go flax on there and uh and and everybody's just laughing. Actually,
there's a little bit of uh. And now you know how it feels to be on our side, right because Betto has been getting this this sort of insane, unfair you know attacks that you know any Republican, you know politicians used to getting it every day of the week from the Times. Hey, since you brought it up, and this is this is no no complain about Jeb. Seemed
like a perfectly nice guy. But if you're the communications director for Jeb, tell us what it feels like when you're not obviously dying campaign, I mean one that's just not working. What does it feel like? It feels really painful? I had, I was I've been on a couple of losing campaigns, and the very first one I was on, who was a guy running for governor of Delaware, Republican, which was obviously a doomed battle toime. You know, he
was a marine and he told me. You know, when I went into the Marines, I thought, how bad could basic training be? And then, you know, my my father said to me, you don't know how long six weeks is until you live at one second at a time. And that's kind of how I felt on the Jeb campaign. I was living at one second at a time, and you know we knew it about October. Look, I I'll just have to say this, the Jeb is my favorite person I've ever worked for. You might not like his politics,
but he's a fantastically decent man. It would have been a great president. But in October we asked for a poll and just asked why people didn't like him. Didn't like him because he was a bush, because he was the nature of the way he carried himself wasn't tough enough, so to speak. I've never heard a single human being alleged that he's less than a really good human being. Well, the president, I've heard one person like Jim Miller writes for The Bulwark. We'll have a link to his article.
I wish we could have gotten more of it because it's really really good, But just got Armstrong and Guetta dot com. Hey, Tim, love the Chad. Let's do it against soon. Huh, thanks, guys, I would love to well done. That was awesome. When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to know we're ready for you. Here are just a few of the people at Metro to tell you how we're doing our part to keep riders safe,
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