Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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is this idea that there are certain principles that we defend in this country, and sometimes we have to defend those principles even in contexts where there are people who are perhaps a little noxious, when there are circumstances that make this less than ideal. And one of the things that I'm kind of most frustrated by is like J.D. Vance's response to this.
Anytime that you say that, you know, I'm normally a favor of due process, but, you know, there is an emergency. My brain goes like, yeah, I remember 9-11.
Right. And I understand that in this particular case, the administration acted in defiance of a court order. And I just can't get with that. You know, there's.
I don't think I would have cared if he'd been deported to Columbia, to be honest with you.
Well, I mean, it's also this this administration and J.D. Vance in particular, they've been cruising for a bruising. They want showdowns with the judicial branch. They like this stuff. J.D. Vance, who has misrepresented this case on several occasions, I think.
Yeah, but he also said it's gross for a gang member, for us to be more worried about gang members than victims of violent crime, which is profoundly disingenuous. No, it's true.
The left is.
Maybe the left is, but I'm not.
And I don't know that I would make that claim about the left.
But he's saying it publicly. That is the response to kind of categorically from J.D. Vance. And I get it. Again, he's a politician. I expect him to make these kind of decisions.
I can't speak to that. He's right.
If he'd said it about the Atlantic, he might be able he might be on slightly better footing. But he made a categorical statement and suggested he was in a fight with the Atlantic.
Ted Cruz made a very similar and very similarly sweeping argument to Ted Cruz, who once self-styled as a constitutional conservative. This is not a constitutional way to act in defiance of a judge's order. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
That's the way you do it. Or to say that they don't want to tell you, but whatever. Like we ask our staffers, we actually don't do endorsements at Reason. The last endorsement they ran was in 1976 or something like that. But I tried to do this when I was at the LA Times too. Like, all right, you know, let's just list all of this. Because one thing, it kind of takes away that as a cudgel.
But another, if you pull your own... If you poll your own news organization, right? Imagine, Megan, over at not just MSNBC, but NBC News or also at Fox. That would be interesting. Poll all of your journalists. Maybe you don't even have to make it public. If you have 99 percent voting for one party, you've got a screwed up news organization. Why don't you want that information?
One of the only other outlets that do this is Slate. I don't even know if they did it this past year. But as they went on, it would be like 55 Obama won Gary Johnson. Like the numbers were always Jack Shaver. Yeah. That's useful information. And it's also like showing that you are, uh, you have faith in your audience. You can handle this information. You don't have to run scared from the LA times.
And I was there was terrified that people would discover something about them. Like, why don't you show it to the world? So like faith in your audience.
And Portnoy is a heck of a. Right. a showman. He is, he's a heck of a showman, but he's no showman compared to Donald Trump. And that's my recommendation to the Trump administration is like change the conversation. You just, you just arrested one of these top gang leaders of Ms. 13 in Virginia. I don't bring them into the briefing room. You know, we can dissect all of his tattoos.
What is the important calligraphy on his chest?
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