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Marc DB's avatar

Does Howard Stern now believe he holds a podium at some intellectually high university & that all the people who listened & laughed at his radio shows are no longer acceptable except to be scraped off the bottom of his shoes? Does he hope that the people he used to malign will now enshrine his words because he has cast his former listeners into the pit of deplorables? I remember that he interviewed Trump on one of his radio shows & they laughed together. Et tu Brutus.

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Gold medal for awful -- that fawning USA Today article on Emhoff, which boldly quotes Democratic campaign workers/consultants and supporters about how wonderful he is; frames him glowingly throughout to signal support, not neutral reporting; was apparently written to express the reporter's value system, and filters them through Emhoff for credibility while advancing the Harris campaign; and cringely tells readers that men can still like sports and support their wives, while presenting Emhoff as a "guy's guy."

Silver medal -- The Pelosi quote, but also the question that led to it. Semafor's Kadia Goba tees up an answer for Pelosi about the lack of an open primary: "Did you change your mind because you saw all the excitement around Kamala Harris?" Earlier in the interview, around the 39-minute mark, Goba asks this winner: "Why is California producing such dynamic political people?" Is there any wonder why our media deserves our scorn and passionate disdain?

Bronze medal -- That absurd, tortured question by the NYT reporter to J.D. Vance: "What's something you're willing not to say to make a point?" I had to read that a couple of times to understand it; kudos to Vance for being to HEAR it and make sense of it and its editorializing.

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