Beyond the Echo Chamber [REBROADCAST]
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When did we retreat to our Red and Blue Facebook pages? It’s not just that America is politically polarized. We live, work and play in Red and Blue tribal bubbles, filling our social media feeds with news sources that affirm our place in that order, rather than challenging it. That isolation is breeding an ugly, seething hatred of the other side that feels poisonous and dispiriting. So what can we do? In this hour, we hear how conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes lost his faith in the GOP and why a former CEO of NPR left his liberal bubble. Also, how Black Twitter has created its own safe space.
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Segments:
How The Right Lost Its Mind And Charlie Sykes Lost His Faith In The GOP
A Former NPR Executive Leaves His Liberal Bubble Behind
The Blend Of Jokes and Social Justice That Is Black Twitter
What Does An Obscure Economist Have To Do With The Koch Brothers?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:01.5 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:03.9 | Most of us live in a political bubble. |
| 0:06.6 | What happens when it bursts? |
| 0:09.9 | My show began at 8.30 in the morning. |
| 0:12.0 | It was March 28. |
| 0:15.8 | Conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes. |
| 0:19.4 | I did not expect that he was going to call in. |
| 0:24.0 | Joining me on the line is Donald Trump. Good morning, sir. |
| 0:27.9 | Hi, Charlie. |
| 0:28.8 | We began the conversation rather friendly. |
| 0:31.9 | Congratulations on the birth of your grandson yesterday. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, that's so nice. |
| 0:36.3 | And I asked him, wouldn't it be a good way to start off your Wisconsin campaign by saying |
| 0:41.5 | that wives should be off limits? |
| 0:43.6 | Putting aside his personal attacks on the looks of Ted Cruz's wife, could this be something |
| 0:50.4 | we could agree on? |
| 0:52.0 | And his response was, He started. |
| 0:54.4 | If he didn't start it, it would have never happened. |
| 0:56.9 | But he started it. |
| 0:59.4 | I expect that from a 12-year-old bully on the playground. |
| 1:02.6 | Not somebody who wants the office held by Abraham Lincoln. |
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