141 - The Earth Is Flat, The Moon's Made Of Green Cheese, And The New Deal Was A Terrible Failure: Debunking The Latest Right-Wing Propaganda

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 22 January 2009

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ok, right-wingers aren't (at least currently) making any claims about the shape of the Earth, or the composition of the moon. But they are ranting and raving about FDR and the New Deal.The right is attacking FDR's New Deal spending. This gives them the perfect opportunity to attack Obama's financial stimulus package.This is their new mantra:The New Deal failed.It's not that right-wingers are

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0:00.0	Greetings, y'all listening to podcast number 141 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm your host Jack Carc, great to have you on board.
0:27.0	The new deal was a big failure.
0:29.0	It made things worse, even caused the Great Depression.
0:32.4	Obama better dare not go there.
0:35.3	This is what you're now hearing the right-wing echo machine relentlessly screaming.
0:39.5	Today, you'll get the facts to counter this latest right-wing slander.
0:43.5	Let's get right into it.
0:45.6	Your sources today include the San Francisco Chronicle, Media Matters.org, The Nation Magazine,
0:51.9	Time Magazine, The New York Times, and National Review Online.
0:56.6	Remember a couple of podcasts ago I told you how right-wingers were absurdly claiming
1:01.9	that the election proved the country wanted right-wing policies because that was what
1:06.2	Obama campaigned on?
1:08.4	This was from conservatives who, days before, it said Obama was advocating socialism.
1:12.8	Well, there's a new doozy from our right-word-leaning friends.
1:17.6	Back in March, progressive historian Howard Zinn was lamenting the fact that no democratic
1:23.0	contender for the presidential domination was invoking the memory of the new deal.
1:28.4	That certainly changed, all you need to look at is the November 24th cover of Time Magazine.
1:34.1	There's this iconic photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sitting in a car, except the face
1:39.0	is Obama's, and it's titled The New New Deal.
1:43.3	We all know about the right's opinion of FDR.
1:54.2	But with the incoming Obama administration, right-wingers know an attack on the new deal
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