In this listener comment episode, Mike and Jay get into:
- If the media – Time magazine in particular – was fair in its photographic portrayal of President Trump’s immigration policy, and if Mike and Jay spend too much time on a media sideshow.
- How much deference federal courts should give to administrative agencies.
- Whether Jay thinks government regulations to prevent pollution are wise and necessary corrections for market failures.
- A conservative case for abolishing ICE.
- Mike, Jay, and ideological orthodoxy.
What Mike’s Reading
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for taking the time to respond, but Jay’s comments in this episode were pretty much exactly why I said you needn’t bother reading my comment on air.
I expressed shock (in an admittedly over-long message) at the repeated way in which Jay uses rhetorical deflection and selective indignation to avoid speaking to the substance of an issue; Jay became selectively indignant and used rhetorical deflection to thoroughly avoid the issue once again.
I would say that I regret using the term ‘atrocities’ in my comment – as that was what gave Jay the excuse to ignore the point I was making – but in its original context, I think it stands.
Rather than actually address the substance of a contentious issue, Jay has spent the majority of his time aping outrage at the supposedly dangerous optics of one magazine using one picture to represent a story, disingenuously extrapolating that out to yet another sign of ‘left wing media bias’. It is just more distraction; a way of ignoring the subject at hand by quibbling with the footnotes.
Right on, Bryan. Was giving them a shot to possibly get back to original form, but after this “listener question response” (aka Jay repeating his Fox talking points) I had to withdraw support. Was a good run for a while, but can find the same babbling ignorance on Twitter.
Hi Tanner! Sorry to hear you’re withdrawing your support, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciate your having supported us in the past. I’m always looking for ways to improve the show and models of how we might do better. I know you mentioned that you could get what we’re doing on Twitter, but I was wondering if there were any podcasts you know of who are doing something similar to what we try to do (looking at the news each week from a liberal and conservative perspective) and, in your view, do a better job of it. This isn’t me trying to be snarky (really!) – I honestly am always looking for good models, room for improvement, and so on. Thanks!