We are not big fans of golf over here. But suddenly the horrible, not very good, sort of evil Kingdom of Saudi Arabia thinks they can repair their reputation by paying a lot of money to get famous players to join them in a sports league / public relations campaign. Congress seems unimpressed. Anthony looks at how the latest effort at “sportwashing” may spur bipartisan agreement to stand up to the country Joe Biden called a “pariah”. In Listener mail, Anthony looks at who gets what committee assignments in Congress. Santos wins a small prize and Schiff and Swalwell trigger a big fight.

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