Chris Cillizza
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400 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Apr
Chris Cillizza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you know, when he was in the house in particular for Michigan, that was the knock on him.
People that always even Republicans would call, you know, it's like a dumb guy.
He went to Michigan, but like, you know, it's to play football.
And, you know, he forget who it was.
Some famous politician said, you know, I like Jerry's a good guy, but he he played too many downs without a helmet on.
We've had plenty of presidents who have exaggerated their athletic achievements.
My favorite is Bill Clinton saying he dunked a ball in a CYO basketball game, which as far as I can tell, never happened.
Ford was the, to your point, Ford was the exact opposite because he didn't like that dumb jock stereotype and didn't want to play into it.
Gosh, it's...
So this is one of the things I found in writing the book.
There's so many elements in sports and how these presidents interact with sports that are so revealing about who they are.
And this Carter is a great example.
So Carter did grow up playing tennis.
His father had a clay tennis court randomly.
I mean, cause he did, he grew up in rural Georgia.
He gets the White House and there's a tennis court at the White House.
And he insists personally
approving he had to personally approve who could use the white house tennis court while he was the president united states and it's just so telling right like because if what is the criticism the the the longest lasting and i think fairest criticism of carter couldn't see the forest through the trees right too focused on little things not focused on the big picture well the president of the united states managing like
Okay, I've got you in at three o'clock on Tuesday.
He wanted to control it.
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