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On the Media

A Very Bitter Joke

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Saying good riddance to John Bolton; domestic abuse on the rise; and Lady Liberty's many meanings.

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0:00.0

President Trump, meanwhile, will have to announce a new national security advisor after the abrupt departure of John Bolton.

0:06.9

The latest shakeup in the White House has talking heads fearing the loss of stability.

0:12.5

What stability?

0:14.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:16.8

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:17.8

And I'm Bob Garfield, how the press is suddenly seeing Trump's latest victim as a man of ideas.

0:23.9

Hitler had a worldview, too, you know?

0:26.0

I would rather have no worldview than a really terrible destructive worldview.

0:31.1

Also, is Lady Liberty, the mother of exiles, or a guardian shielding America from the teeming hordes.

0:38.2

Pick aside.

0:39.4

Everybody does.

0:40.4

I think there's a reason why when these contemporary nativists are trying to make these arguments

0:44.7

for shutting down refugee programs, closing borders, et cetera, that they feel like they have to

0:50.2

take her on.

0:51.3

And she keeps fighting back.

0:53.3

Brooke visits Lady Liberty after this.

1:00.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:04.7

And I'm Bob Garfield. It began, as it often does, with a tweet.

1:10.5

At the White House, major changes with the firing of national security director John Bolton.

1:16.2

President Trump tweeting that news saying, I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House.

1:23.3

This, in turn, sparked two very familiar manifestations of Washington Press Corps reflex.

1:29.3

Shake up at the White House. Did National Security Advisor John Bolton quit? Or was he fired?

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