Bonus: Media's Mamdani Meltdown
Diabolical Lies
Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this (bonus) conversation…
Reporting live from the basement where Annie Lowrey is chained to a radiator while a six-foot-tall sentient copy of Abundance holds a gun to her head, Caro & Katie review four pieces in major newspapers and magazines that were published in the days leading up to the New York City mayoral race when it became clear that the progressive Democrat who somehow managed to lead the polls without throwing trans people or immigrants under the bus might actually win.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're good. We're live. Five minutes late. Sorry, everybody. We're live. |
| 0:05.3 | This always happens. Okay. Fuck yeah. Let's do this. Welcome. We are having a bonus conversation in honor of, what are we calling today? A non-denominational socialist holiday? |
| 0:21.9 | Yeah. I wish I knew what his middle name was because we could... |
| 0:26.1 | Quame. |
| 0:26.9 | ZKM Day. |
| 0:28.4 | ZKM Day. |
| 0:29.3 | ZK.M. Day. Yeah. I was reflecting this morning on the bottomless pit of despair that I felt on the morning |
| 0:34.9 | that Donald Trump won the election and how this morning felt like the emotional but like the opposite polarity of that where I was I could not believe what I was |
| 0:44.0 | seeing. It was amazing. You know what's funny is that we recorded an election episode for that as well. |
| 0:48.9 | And for that episode, I'm going to have the same conclusion as this episode, which is that the |
| 0:52.6 | Democratic Party is not doing enough. |
| 0:56.4 | You're like six months later, we have proof. |
| 1:00.2 | Okay, so basically what we want to do is something that Karen and I both noticed, |
| 1:05.5 | and I think we're kind of like taken a back by, particularly in the recent weeks as it became clear that Zoran was really |
| 1:12.4 | becoming like the more popular candidate, was there was this flurry of coverage in the Atlantic, |
| 1:19.8 | the New York Times, New York Magazine. We saw one in the Chicago Tribune, which is like really |
| 1:24.4 | random, where all of these different editorial boards were essentially |
| 1:29.6 | weighing in to explain why this person should not be elected. |
| 1:36.0 | So not fit for office. |
| 1:37.5 | Yeah, not fit for office. |
| 1:38.6 | So in order to do that, I have in front of me four of these pieces, basically, and we're going to go one by one |
| 1:48.8 | and basically discuss how different our expectations are, the hurdles that we create for progressive |
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