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In her book, “Dinners with Ruth,” journalist and author Nina Totenberg writes that she and Ruth Bader Ginsburg enjoyed a decades-long relationship because the line between their careers and their friendship was clearly marked. #Colbert #RBG #NinaTotenberg
There was a substantial chance that RBG would be replaced by a Republican president. Her decision not to retire is unexplained.
ReplyIt’s funny, I have been listening to NPR for years, and every time I see people who I have exclusively heard on radio, but have never seen, they never look in real life, like they do in my imagination.
ReplyClarence Thomas is such a moral lightweight, he could have sat on the tail.
ReplyNina Totenberg is a national treasure!
ReplyBEST Interview in a long time.
ReplyI love Nina Totenberg but I’m not sure she understands how her relationship to RBG looks to Republicans. We live at a moment when Trump let neopotism reign; the proper boundaries between roles in the government were blurred. If Republicans look at her relationship with RBG, they will clearly say something like “well she does it” and “it’s the deep state!” It is imperative for her to spell out why she thinks this relationship was okay and how it is different from, say, the revolving door of lobbyists and the nepotism of Trump and company. Otherwise, it has the effect of sanctioning those relationships in the eyes of the right.
ReplyShe buried a husband and has another . But she loves rbg. This is weird .
ReplySteve: Not complaining BUT- Why not use that chair to enjoy the Queen with Nina??? That would be so fun to see these great women in the same shot with you!!
ReplyLet us call the six on the court what they really are “The Ayatollahs of the Supreme Court”
ReplyWeight distribution! hajahaja, Nina, you have a good memory, in all the good ways.
ReplyCompare the anecdote told at minute 4:16 to how Ron deSantis treats other humans on planet earth. Which political philosophy do you want in a leader?
ReplyLIBERALS… liberals never change. JK, I find her charming and always loved her reporting as a child, her voice was always so amazing, and I always just would try to picture what she looked like before I watched the news on TV. She balanced factual information with great voice performance with some editorialism. We need more of her. CNN is going to the right and both sidesing, and I fear those trains have sailed. Too many people doing it for the clicks and trying to dunk on each other. Nah, I’m a millennial, the online media is 100x better than traditional media, we just need them to get interviews with politicians so we can clip them to discuss.
ReplyIf we had only women in the SC, all problems would be solved. It is that simple.
ReplyLove Nina!
ReplyWho shrunk Christine Baranski ?
ReplyThis comment gets pretty salty, but I dunno, I’m getting tired of people who want to be leaders for liberal causes acting like you can be friends with someone who thinks randomly selected people get less rights. You can’t be friends with them for the same reason that cancer is not your friend, it’s an inherent trait of the condition, bigots are bad for society, cancer is bad for living organisms. Like cancer, bigotry spreads and leads to great suffering and death, I think the US is at a crux, and it’s going to have to make a lot of difficult choices, where it will either move towards progress and stop tolerating bigotry (and making it the norm in the legal system) or just lose any and all moral high ground forever more and essentially collapse into a backwards fascist hellhole/playground for the rich.
Its telling when a person can be of the position where other people don’t get to have basic human rights, and someone who wants to be identified as a liberal considers them a friend. There isn’t a medium ground here, I sure as shit am not friends with people that I know have screwed me over, I might not be in a position to fuck them up, but I’m never going to be on their side for anything, and that’s how any liberal needs to be towards people who think that LGBTQ/minority rights is a political issue rather than inherent human rights. I think liberal cause is in a very bad position when our leadership is more interested in being friends with rightwingers than they are in fighting for progress/human rights, our leaders have no skin in the game, the republicans play nice with them because they play nice with the republicans, but us poor bottom dwellers don’t get such a great deal, the kid gloves come off when they deal with the poor, all of the consequences for the rollback of rights fall not on the politicians, but on those at the bottom who don’t have anyone fighting for them.
Jesus wasn’t friends with the various problematic people in the world, he recognized they were inherently dangerous because of their reprehensible views. Don’t be friends with people that believe other humans don’t qualify as equal, because it’s pure chance that they aren’t actively trying to take away your rights, and in the future, when they run out of various scapegoats, guess what? The fascists have to find new people to put on the shit list, and that can and will be you eventually.
ReplyWhen you’re given a lifetime appointment, it’s best not the trust fate to decide when an amoral grifter will pick your replacement. RBG should have given Obama her seat to fill.
ReplyI still want to get a Nina Totenbag as an NPR gift!!!
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