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A History of Bunk

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center and poetry editor at The New Yorker, about his new book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Donald, I need to come back to the topic we've been all screaming about here, which is

0:04.8

Scalia, was he murdered?

0:06.4

What do you think of that?

0:07.4

It's a horrible topic, but they say they found the pillow on a space, which is a pretty

0:11.4

unusual place to find the pillow.

0:13.5

His grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya, and she was there and witnessed the

0:17.6

birth.

0:18.6

That's something that really only comes from the cook part of America.

0:24.8

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who demands a public thank you.

0:29.9

For private diplomacy, Donald Trump.

0:33.3

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:35.4

And I'm talking about those three UCLA basketball players who are arrested on a team trip

0:40.2

to China.

0:41.8

Trump says he got Chinese president Xi Jinping to let them go.

0:45.8

Like so many of the quarrels Trump chooses to pick, this one just seems implicitly racial.

0:51.0

The three teenagers accused of shoplifting sunglasses are black.

0:55.8

Trump is acting the role of their rich white benefactor.

0:59.2

He wants these boys to bow and scrape, acknowledging his mercy and help.

1:03.6

It's reminiscent of his fight with the NFL players.

1:06.4

Shouldn't these well-paid sports celebrities be more grateful to the white fans who provide

1:11.2

so generously for them?

1:13.3

Trump knows he never loses a fight that someone's white resentment against privileged black

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