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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
* How Jamie ended up writing about Armie Hammer
* So what *is* the Hammer story anyway?
* How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies
* Is there a path back from an utterly destroyed reputation?
* How Jamie’s book Secret City informed his reporting
* Heroes and homophobia
* So is it true what they say about James Webb?
* The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy
* Who was worse, JFK or RFK?
* Would anyone care about Larry Craig in 2023?
* Why was Moynihan at a political event in Florida?
* SMDH at the FUBAR SOTU
* A bit about those Twitter hearings…
* And so much more!
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