We Don't Deserve Beto O'Rourke

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The only public figure with the guts to confront cynical Republicans over gun laws and the Texas massacre was a defiant Democrat who the media class long ago dismissed: gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke. Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan grapple with the horrors of this week's events in Uvalde and what they say about our broken politics and national backslide. When rare instances of idealism and courage are framed by political elites as mere opportunism, is there any hope left? Where do we go from here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there, it's Molly Jongfast, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair.
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0:46.7	Welcome to Inside the Hive.
0:48.9	This is Joe Hagen.
0:49.9	I'm here with Emily Jane Fox.
0:52.0	Hello, hello, hello.
0:55.4	How are we, this week sucks, I don't know, it sucks.
1:00.2	I'm sitting here really just sort of brain-fried by the attention that we have to pay to what's
1:08.8	happening and the burden of it on our conscience and on our sense of responsibility as journalists
1:19.6	but as citizens, as people, you know, to be honest, you know, and I think that people
1:24.5	know this but, you know, your first response to these things is not as a newsmaker or
1:28.8	a news reporter.
1:30.7	It's as a human being, you, and especially for me and I know you, you're a new mother.
1:36.3	Yeah, I got three kids.
1:38.7	They're all like in the zone, in the same age zones as these kids.
1:43.8	And today, I'm reading in the news, there's some confusion about what happened with the law
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