17: America’s Most Dangerous Immigrant
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Executive Director Fred Wellman to discuss the backstory behind "Rupert", the Lincoln Project’s new ad, which identifies Rupert Murdoch (creator of Fox News) as the most dangerous man to ever cross the U.S. border. Plus, the panel discusses the aftermath of Georgia’s newly-inked Jim Crow legislation and the GOP’s hastened march towards fascism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Ray Galen. Today I'm joined by my fellow |
| 0:13.6 | co-founder, host of LPTV's The Breakdown, and an author of everything Trump touches |
| 0:18.4 | dies. Rick Wilson. Rick, good to have you here. Hey, thanks, Reid. And back by popular |
| 0:24.2 | demand. Lincoln Project Executive Director, Fred Welman. Fred, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.4 | It's great to be back. I appreciate the opportunity. So today we're going to talk about the aftermath |
| 0:34.1 | of George's newly inked Jim Crow legislation, as well as the Republican Party's accelerating |
| 0:40.3 | path towards fascism. But before we do that, we want to talk about the new ad that the |
| 0:45.0 | Lincoln Project dropped this morning. Rob, why don't we have a listen? |
| 0:49.7 | When immigrant came to our shores nearly 50 years ago and brought destruction with him. Destruction |
| 0:58.9 | wrought by stoking fear of all outsiders, except for himself, his name is Rupert Murdoch, |
| 1:10.4 | and he's the most dangerous man to ever cross our border. He built an empire out of fear |
| 1:18.9 | and lies, ruling over a network of deceives that made him a billionaire, brainwashed millions, |
| 1:29.4 | with unamerican propaganda. But now the very source of Rupert Murdoch's power will become |
| 1:38.2 | his downfall because America is watching. |
| 1:46.7 | So Rick, that doesn't leave a lot to the imagination. |
| 1:49.1 | You know, I tried to make sure that it was something that would require a team of trained |
| 1:53.2 | semi-attitions and linguist to parse through for weeks on end, but it was a little less |
| 1:57.0 | subtle than that. Yeah, you know, we started talking about this for you. I think you and |
| 2:00.4 | Stu and Steve and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. You know, Rupert Murdoch has |
| 2:05.2 | had this unfettered arc of power and expansion in this country without ever having any kind |
| 2:11.4 | of accountability or consequences for the things he's done. And you know, folks at the |
| 2:15.6 | Lincoln Project, we have long been willing to stand up against what seemed to be overwhelming |
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