Chris Cillizza
speaker
667 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2023
last heard May 2023
Chris Cillizza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, he...
That's what he was good at.
That's what he cared about.
The only way he used it was transactionally.
So Richard Russell, the Senate Majority Leader from Georgia, Nixon, Johnson knew two things about him.
He's a bachelor and he loved baseball.
But Russell didn't want to go to baseball games by himself because he thought it's kind of weird, like I'm a prominent figure just sitting alone in the stands as odd.
So Johnson, who knows nothing and cares nothing about baseball, is like, let's start going to games together.
So he can work them.
So that...
And that that relationship winds up being hugely important to Johnson's future.
And but it's purely transactional.
Johnson doesn't care about baseball in any way, shape or form.
Yeah, nobody's got better.
Your little games that you cover?
It was true at the Washington Post when I was there, too.
all had a love of sports.
I think you're 100% right about the way that sports was looked upon by capital J journalists.
It made me happy.
But I think that's a huge mistake.
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