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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

A Useless Skill

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G features the failings of the news media (via Ben Domenech). Plus, Jack creates an H-R situation, Marshall brings the news and more!

Transcript

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i think most americans are probably not that surprised that uh... the government has

0:20.9

been spinning the story about the afghanistan war

0:23.2

to them over the years

0:24.4

but it should be the biggest story that we're talking about because we spent

0:28.1

a trillion dollars and lost more than twenty three hundred american lives

0:31.5

in a war that

0:32.7

we really don't know the purpose of any more

0:34.9

and yet this story was not the one people were paying attention to in fact

0:38.5

i consulted with grabe in an internet service the taxi sorts of things

0:42.0

and in the past four days jacke tap or raised at this morning for the first time

0:45.5

but in the past four days cnn did no segments on the afghanistan papers but they

0:49.6

did do four different segments on this controversy that they were jing up

0:54.4

about this phanos meme

0:57.0

how did cnn do no segments on the

1:00.2

afghanistan papers out of the washington post

1:03.3

they have become something

1:05.7

ugly and stupid

1:07.2

cnn in particular but that's just weird if you're if your goal is to um... you

1:13.4

know get viewers that's an interesting story

1:16.4

you would think

1:17.9

and there's an option there's an opera if it's about politics there's an

1:20.6

opportunity to kick around george bush and donald trump if you want to that

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