[BEST OF] American Exceptionalism and Innocence: Liberal Ideology and American Creation Myths

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Dec 9, 2019

Danny Haiphong, co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror,joins Breht for a long, in-depth conversation about the stories that America tells itself about itself, and why those stories are false.

We cover so many topics and ideas that its impossible to summarize them all here, so check it out yourself!

Check out Danny's work at the Black Agenda Report here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Danny%20Haiphong

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.5	On today's episode we have Danny Haffong, co-author of the book American Exceptionalism
0:14.7	and American Innocence, a people's history of fake news from the Revolutionary War to
0:20.1	the War on Terror.
0:21.6	The other co-author for this book is Roberto Servent, and there's a lot that obviously
0:25.3	we couldn't cover in this episode, so I encourage people to read the book of this episode, or
0:29.5	especially this episode, sparks your interest.
0:32.7	But yeah, it was a really fun episode, and if you like what we do here at Revolutionary
0:35.8	Left Radio, you can go to RevolutionaryLeftRadio.com.
0:39.7	On that website you will find our sister podcast Red Menace, our YouTube page, Twitter, and
0:44.1	our Patreon.
0:45.1	And if you support us on Patreon, you do that in exchange for monthly bonus episodes.
0:49.9	So having gotten that out of the way, let's go ahead and get into this conversation with
0:52.4	Danny Haffong on his book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence.
0:59.6	My name is Danny Haffong, and I am a journalist, activist, and author based in New York City.
1:11.8	I write for Black Agenda Report Weekly as a contributor, and I am the co-author of the
1:17.8	recent book with Roberto Servent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence, a people's
1:22.3	history of fake news from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.
1:25.8	Yeah, absolutely.
1:26.8	And I'm really honored to have you on.
1:28.8	I think this episode has been a long time coming.
1:32.0	It's been in the planning process.
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