Episode 237: Good Cop, Bad Cop

Today on Polilogue, Naomi and Brendan take on new roles as we discuss Afghanistan. Naomi is Good Cop as she acknowledges and praises good, noteworthy questions. Whereas Brendan finger wags and admonishes the bad questions on the Sunday morning shows.

Shows discussed 

• State of the Union on CNN

• Fox News Sunday on FOX

• This Week on ABC

• Face the Nation on CBS

• Meet the Press on NBC

Resources

• “What Americans Think About The End Of The Afghanistan War And Biden’s Handling Of It So Far” by Nathaniel Rakich in FiveThirtyEight

• The ABC News take on their poll with Ipsos: “Overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping troops in Afghanistan until all Americans, Afghans who aided US out: POLL”

• The Ipsos take on their poll with ABC News: “Most Americans think the end of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan makes no difference on our safety from terrorism”

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