Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is your host, Robbie Martin.

Today we have a guest who I've been reading columns from for quite a while.

He is a fellow at the Nation Institute and a writer and contributor to Loeblog, which is Jim Loeb's website,

who's someone that's been very influential to me

and sort of during my research of all the neoconservatives in DC, it's an extremely valuable

resource, Loeblog, and I recommend everybody check it out.

My guest is Eli Clifton, who can also be followed on Twitter at Eli Clifton. So welcome, Eli.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I've been really into what you've been writing lately. And I haven't, you know, I've been

checking out Loeblog for a while, but it was only maybe, I don't know,

eight months ago or so where I started checking out your stuff.

Yeah, it's been really up my alley.

What kind of subjects you've been covering, especially sort of this dark Islamophobic,

almost like holy war mentality that sort of has filled out many of the Trump's,

I don't know, Trump's whole platform has kind of has all these little people

and areas which sort of have this dark, you know, anti-Islam underbellied to it that

that's strikingly different than the Bush administration.

And I think you've done a really great job covering that so far.

Thank you.

And, you know, you've covered Frank Gaffney, who's someone I'm particularly curious about and

interested in.

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