74: Package Deal with Judd Legum
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🗓️ 20 October 2021
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Judd Legum, Founder and Author of Popular Information. They discuss the latest bombshell revelations regarding the connection of AT&T to One America News (also known as OAN), how AT&T financially supports the politicians who favor anti-abortion legislation (like SB 8 in Texas), and the latest on how AT&T continues to break its corporate pledge to not fund the Sedition Caucus. To learn more from Judd Legum, be sure to subscribe to Popular Information at popular.info.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:13.1 | Judd Lecker, writer of the Independent Newsletter, popular information. Before that, he founded |
| 0:18.6 | Think Progress and was research director on the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. |
| 0:23.7 | Judd, thanks for joining me today. Thanks for having me Reed. So Judd, today I want |
| 0:28.0 | to talk all things AT&T. But before we do that, I should say in full disclosure, when I |
| 0:33.4 | worked at a PR firm 10, 12 years ago, I actually did work for AT&T in California. I think you |
| 0:40.1 | would probably be hard-pressed to find any political consultant, Republican Democrat or otherwise, |
| 0:45.2 | who had not at some point done work for them. They are the biggest dog in state politics |
| 0:50.1 | generally wherever it is you are and in federal politics as well. So just want to make sure |
| 0:54.2 | that I was upfront about that. But last week, Reuters had what I would consider to be a pretty |
| 1:00.1 | bombshell report that AT&T had helped build the far-right network one America news, OAN or OAN. |
| 1:09.2 | The special report by John Schiffman, which delved deep into court records, presented the |
| 1:14.4 | results of a massive investigation into the interwoven relationship between the two companies. |
| 1:18.6 | And Judd, just to scratch the surface, the network's launch in 2013 came at AT&T's |
| 1:24.1 | instigation from what this report says. And AT&T's continuing patronage is responsible for |
| 1:29.8 | about 90% of OAN's revenues. But you actually had an inkling that something like this was going |
| 1:37.0 | on as far back as February. So why don't you tell everybody what you were seeing and how you |
| 1:41.9 | sort of got onto that? Yeah, I started getting interested, by the way, I should just say, |
| 1:46.2 | Reuters report absolutely incredible reporting and gave us such incredible insights into exactly |
| 1:54.5 | what is going on between AT&T and OAN. I actually started looking at this and became very interested |
| 2:01.8 | in this in February when OAN took these movies. Technically, they were paid ads by Michael |
| 2:10.9 | Dell, the My Pillow guy who's on Fox News and Newsmax and all these places, just with absolutely |
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