Rob Reid
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1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was no such thing as an objective newspaper at this time.
And in fact, many times in the names of the paper, it would talk about the political party they had allegiance to.
And so even though he's in his early 20s, he's actually nominated by other people to become a congressman.
He winds up running against the novice and then using his paper as a tool to help himself get elected.
And if you think of everything that has occurred in Pulitzer's life in the last five years, I think this sentence is a great description that we're not dealing with a normal person here.
In only five years, he had grown from a bounty hunting Hungarian teenager to an American lawmaker.
And again, he saw no reason why he couldn't do both jobs at the exact same time.
And assuming his new post, Pulitzer did not give up his old one as a reporter.
In his singular position as both a legislator and a journalist, he used his reporting to advance his political work.
In Pulitzer's eyes, the lobbyists descending on the Capitol were an army of darkness.
And so he was he's very anti at least publicly very anti-corruption.
I would describe him as a moralist.
He's constantly criticizing the behavior of other people.
And in many cases, especially later in life, he will publicly criticize a certain behavior and then engage in that exact same behavior privately, which I think a lot of people who are obsessed with the behavior of other humans do this exact same thing, by the way.
And so Pulitzer was not shy about attacking lobbyists and talking about how corrupt they are.
The problem with that is he runs into people that he attacks in his newspaper in person.
And it almost always ends in violence.
There are multiple people killed in this book because they wrote a story or a book or published something about another human.
And then that person chose to respond in violence.
And so in this case, Pulitzer is attacking a lobbyist, calling him a liar.
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