186. Inside the Smears Against Tucker, Assange, RFK, Jr. & Beyond
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
For years, progressive PR executive Trevor Fitzgibbon worked alongside Media Matters and other smear groups. But when he ran afoul of the Democrat establishment's narratives, he became a victim of them. Now he's an authority on The Smear-- and an expert at analyzing campaigns against high profile targets. Hear what he has to say about Tucker Carlson, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Presidential Candidate RFK, Jr., Media Matters, and journalism today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:11.2 | podcast. For years, progressive PR executive Trevor Fitzgibbon worked alongside media |
| 0:17.6 | matters and other smear groups. But when he ran a foul of the Democrat establishment's |
| 0:22.5 | narratives, he became a victim of them. Now he's an authority on the smear and an expert |
| 0:28.8 | at analyzing campaigns against high profile targets. Today, we'll hear from him about Tucker |
| 0:33.7 | Carlson, Julian Assange, the left wing smear machine media matters and beyond. |
| 0:44.3 | You're going to love this conversation today. Well, it might make you mad, but at least |
| 0:49.6 | you're going to find it interesting. I'm speaking with an insider in the world of the smear. |
| 0:55.2 | Tucker Fitzgibbon was a public relations executive, a Bernie Sanders supporter who represented |
| 1:00.2 | people on issues that he felt truly mattered. I think he called himself to me when I met |
| 1:04.7 | him a true believer. He has a fascinating story of how he became subjected to the left |
| 1:11.1 | wing smear machine, which you'll hear about later, but he's become an authority of |
| 1:15.6 | spotting and analyzing smears of others, organized smears, which is what he's going to weigh |
| 1:20.5 | in on today. Here's Trevor Fitzgibbon. First of all, I'd love to get your take on what's |
| 1:28.1 | happening with or to Tucker Carlson after what's happened at Fox News. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, it's nothing new. Media matters and other organizations that have been trained |
| 1:51.4 | in the media matters style of organizing and campaigning and attacking. They've been |
| 2:03.2 | doing this for quite a while. We take a look at Glenn Beck campaign was one of their |
| 2:11.6 | first big, real successful campaigns to try to get him off of Fox, which was successful. |
| 2:21.6 | We just run a really aggressive campaign to basically taking the rules for radicals |
| 2:36.6 | and putting it in action where you freeze a target and you alienate the target and you |
| 2:42.4 | smear the target and dehumanize the target. It's been very effective. They have a strategy |
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