#481 - Ratings War

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, HBO made a movie about the lead-up to the first Gulf War, from the perspective of its most important factor: CNN. In LIVE FROM BAGHDAD (2002), Michael Keaton and his team of CNN reporters are Davids against the Goliaths that are establishment media... and the Iraqi security state. We discuss a mind-bogglingly awful piece of American propaganda from the Bush era. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Richard Seymour on CNN and Iraq - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrGcK6XInE&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish Luke's interview with Tantoo Cardinal - https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/youve-got-to-crash-a-door-and-fail-and-get-back-up-canadas-most-recognizable/article_729f94ea-8ec2-11ee-843c-733c6d38c787.html Luke's review of Werner Herzog's memoir - https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/werner-herzogs-new-memoir-is-as-complicated-and-fascinating-as-the-filmmaker-himself/article_92daad66-8ed7-11ee-9628-9345052d7cc2.html Will's new zine, "The Journal of Stoogeological Studies" - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPM5JBPB

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0:00.0	I don't know how to say this, Luke, but I've been having, I've not been enjoying looking at Greg Proops' Twitter as much as I used to.
0:23.4	Oh, say it ain't so.
0:24.6	Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I think it's just because like times are particularly dark right now.
0:29.6	I mean, Greg Proops, I just, I of like, you know, what his tweets normally are, which are like retweeting the official John F. Kennedy Twitter account where it's just like a picture of Kennedy on a boat.
0:44.2	Retweeting just everything Kamala Harris tweets and being like, thank you.
0:47.7	Or like, yeah, like Dr. Jill Biden decorating the White House and then being like, isn't it great to have nice people at the
0:56.0	White House? Oh, yeah. That was that was one of those kind of like little micro discourse that
1:00.1	some Twitter libs tried to get going again recently, like the outrage over Melania Trump's gaudy
1:06.1	White House decorations, which, you know, Jill Biden has now fortunately corrected.
1:16.5	Incidentally, imagine giving a shit about like how the White House is decorated during Christmas.
1:17.5	At any time.
1:18.1	Anytime. Who cares?
1:19.4	And this is true Trump derangement syndrome.
1:22.2	Oh, man.
1:22.7	Yeah.
1:23.4	But now in particular, it's just so monstrous.
1:26.2	So you'll see that on his feed.
1:28.0	And then you'll see other tweets that are like,
1:29.9	just so you know, Israel has taken every state it's ever been offered.
1:34.3	And Palestinians have turned down every state they've been offered, thread.
1:39.0	And then, you know, quote tweeting it with like, thank you.
1:42.7	And I don't know.
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