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Pundit Portraits: Kathleen Parker and Chris Cillizza
🕑 Added 2023-11-28 10:00:04 +0000 UTCThis episode is the first in an ongoing series wherein Peter and Michael explore the brains of America's pundits. We start with Kathleen Parker, the platonic ideal of a rich white lady, and Chris Cillizza, a pioneer in talking about politics without saying anything.
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bridget
“no one gets to be a dictator” is feeling pretty different now
selina
Listening to the trump predictions today after he won again. We live in hell 😭😭
ES
Biggest mood. I hope you’re doing better now.
stevie
just want to say that this podcast and the maintenance phase are what is keeping me from ending it all rn… i have covid and i just moved into my new apartment to immediately discover i have covid and i have been trapped in a studio apartment with a deflated air mattress, no wifi, the first few days, no electricity and it was like 100 degrees, i have to stand in a very specific corner of my house to get enough cell service to be able to listen to a podcast and my phone gets so hot it feels like its going to blow up, but it is WORTH IT!! you guys are keeping me from losing my sanity completely so thank you for that!!!
Skippy the Alien
imagine if a man said that about Kamala Harris. What an asinine criticism of the VP
Needless
This is a great suggestion! I feel like they are for sure folks I am deeply mixed about. They both genuinely seem to be smart and clever people, but for as much as they maybe experts on specific topics the fact that they have been in these industries elite spaces for as long as they have, it seems to have warped their expectations of some of what they are commenting on. Especially when it comes to tech, both are deeply skeptical about AI, but usually only in relation to their own hobby horse assortment of issues. So, whereas Kara has some great critiques of how AI is being used to cheat journalists out of their work and research, she continually throws up her hands for most other professionals, saying something along the lines of "well that's just the way it's going to be, I'm sorry their won't be any more painters, but that's tech for ya."
Julie D'Angelo
OMG did anyone see the latest take from Kathleen Parker????? Telling Kamala Harris to step aside because of… her laugh? It’s such word salad I can’t find a point and it’s framed like everyone knows what she’s talking about. I just can’t with this woman.
Jessica
Petition for you to do Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. I feel like these are two people speaking to and about particular kind of tech person. I feel like Kara's been in the news a bit lately because she was such an Elon stan. And I can't seem to get away from Galloway's bad takes on Threads.
peach girl 202
Same here
Olivia Coen
PETER & MICHAEL 😫 something is going on with your Patreon - new episodes aren’t available to some of us and the first time I fixed it by canceling then rejoining but tried that again and for some reason the new episodes aren’t updating - I’m not the only one having this problem so hope this brings it to your attention. Great work!
Katie
The series really moves the Venn diagram of what IBCK is doing and what Mic Wright is doing on British media closer together.
