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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Can Religion Save You From The Coronavirus?

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

With a holy weekend looming, Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the Cult of the Shining City, a nationalistic, Neo-Confederate, white-identity evangelical cult has taken over American politics and the Republican Party, and the danger they pose during the coronavirus pandemic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Aren't you concerned you could interact other people if you get sick inside?

0:05.0

No.

0:06.0

People who don't go to this.

0:07.0

No. I'm covered in Jesus's blood.

0:09.0

I'm covered in Jesus' blood.

0:11.0

And the politicization of decisions like the hydroxychloroquine has been amazing to me.

0:18.0

And as soon as he said something positive about it, the media has been

0:22.9

on a jihad to discredit the drug. It's quite strange.

0:28.3

You need a nationwide testing system for the virus before you reopen the...

0:32.5

We have a great testing system.

0:33.8

We need that, Mr. President, to make sure people are safe going back to work.

0:39.1

You don't want to send people back to the workplace.

0:41.6

We want to have it, and we're going to see if we have it.

0:42.5

Do you need it?

0:54.9

No. Is it a nice thing to do? Yes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Muck Rake podcast. I am your host, Nick Houselman, joined by my dutiful co-host, Jared Yates Sexton, as always.

0:54.9

And it's an interesting Thursday afternoon with... Nick Houselman, joined by my dutiful co-host, Jared Yates Sexton, as always.

1:00.4

And it's an interesting Thursday afternoon with the news that Jerry Falwell Jr. is serving some sort of a subpoena or some sort of thing running to arrest people from the media.

1:08.5

So, Jared, as being a member of the media, I wonder how threatening this

1:11.8

feels to you that he's going to turn his campus police on you. You know, this reminds me when I

1:16.7

was little and you'd be outside playing and all of a sudden, you know, there was the one kid in

1:20.8

your neighborhood who always got upset and then they'd be like, I'm telling. You know, that's

1:25.1

what this is. It's just straight garbage Jerry Falwell Jr

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