That Hunter Biden Story
It’s October 15, 2020, and 12.4 percent of the votes that were cast in the 2016 election have already been cast this election cycle. Sarah and David try to discern through the tea leaves what this means for voter turnout this year. “There’s two different schools of thought here,” Sarah says. “One is that we’re on pace to have record turnout and one is that we’re simply banking Election Day votes early this time.” On today’s episode, our podcast hosts also discuss the journalistic, political, legal implications of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story before breaking down the key ingredients to a successful marriage.
Show Notes:
-Divided We Fall by David French, “Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm” by Emma Jo-Morris Gabriel Fonrouge in the New York Post, Malwarebytes Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, “Why Only Amy Coney Barrett Gets to Have It All” by Katelyn Beaty in the New York Times.
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Sarah is amazing, especially when she disagrees with David. Not because she’s always right, but because she always has a well-considered argument for why she thinks the way she does. In fact, David possesses this same quality, but he is far less spicy in his self-expression. You two are a good team. As for me, I think it is true that young men need to be prepared to be better partners to their wives no matter what their careers are. But I wish that both husbands AND wives could be happier finding meaning and joy in primarily not through their careers, but through relationships with family and friends. Everyone is replaceable in their career. No one is replaceable to their loved ones.
Big ol liberal here but also a big fan of what you all do. I was all set to play my favorite “false equivalency” tune when you noted that NYPost’s actions resemble Buzzfeed’s without noticing that uhhh, the entire mainstream media had the dossier before the election and sat on it because they actually do have ethics. Releasing it in 2017 was bad and buzzfeed shouldn’t have done it but it’s not the same as releasing it in 2016. To JG’s frequent point we should be able to distinguish differences in degree.
But I found the conversation around a healthy sense of masculinity in the back half so *^%**^ healthy. I teach in ms/hs and one of the hardest tasks i have as a male teacher is trying to model what healthy masculinity looks like without the stereotypes and the toxic attitudes towards women. If the right and the left can come together around a project of fostering a masculinity that allows a man to be a Barack Obama or a Jesse Barrett I think we could leach a lot of the poison out of a society that has created a guy like Falwell the lesser hero worshipping a guy like Trump and Maureen Dowd stanning for Clinton.
Keep it up guys. Even if sometimes I want to ask the question “religious liberty to do what?”