072 "Media Panics, Title IX, DACA, The Passion of Bagger Vance"

Published: Sept. 8, 2017, 11:56 p.m.

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Recorded 9/8/2017

Moynihan\\u2019s back from Russia and has the drinking stories to prove it. Normally reasonable journalos lose their goddamn minds over Betsy DeVos\\u2019 intention to bring back due process on college campuses.

Matt Welch on DACA: \\u201cCall it amnesty, and do it anyway\\u201d (WaPo) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/08/yes-daca-is-amnesty-lets-just-call-it-that-and-then-lets-make-it-happen/?utm_term=.d7cee531cf3a

Kmele takes Anthony Fisher to task for calling President Trump\\u2019s brand \\u201ccruelty\\u201d in a DACA-related article Fisher wrote for The Week. But you gotta hear BOTH SIDES (link: https://theweek.com/articles/722742/trumps-daca-suspension-proves-brand-isnt-winning--cruelty)

Absorbing Ta-Nehisi Coates latest epistle \\u201cDonald Trump is the First White President\\u201d (The Atlantic) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

Matt claps back at "comic" Andy Kindler.

A rare morning recording. Sober*, salty, caffeinated.



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