Breaking the Myth

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Making sense of the events at the Capitol on Wednesday, unpacking the right-wing "Lost Cause" myth and its historical antecedent, and revisiting "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

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0:00.0	Protesters, rioters,
0:03.0	domestic terrorists, insurrectionists.
0:06.0	I want to call them rioters or mobsters.
0:08.0	As cable news hosts watch the chaos in the Capitol,
0:12.0	they struggled to describe what they saw.
0:15.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:18.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:19.0	I'm Bob Garfield. Also on this week's show,
0:22.8	can a nation ever really move past? It's past. When people say, we're better than this,
0:29.5	I'm often wondering, so what history have you not read about American society? Plus, how the
0:36.1	myth of the Confederate lost cause
0:38.9	has been fought over in a song written by a Canadian.
0:42.8	Songs never really belong entirely to the person who writes them.
0:47.1	There's always this very complex negotiation between, you know,
0:50.6	audience and composer.
0:53.5	It's all coming up after this.
0:59.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:04.4	And I'm Bob Garfield.
1:06.1	A shocking week and a shocking presidency have finally come to an end. But there is shock and there is surprise.
1:15.2	And come on, were we not warned by Trump himself, even at the very dawn of his administration?
1:22.7	We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every
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