Can You Force Fox News To Be Less Racist?

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There’s so much packed into the latest edition of The New Abnormal, it’s hard to know where to start. Let’s see… Molly Jong-Fast heralds the return of Matt “Hot Tub Crime Machine” Whittaker, the one-time Attorney General. (He mixes “a toxic cocktail of macho mega swagger, the angry cant of the Christian [ultra-conservative], and the whining of a petulant child.”) Rick Wilson wonders whether Trumpists could “solve a complex puzzle, like stacking blocks in order,” and ponders the contents of Ted Cruz’s erotic fan fiction. Plus! Former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu goes deep on his long fight to take down confederate monuments. And Sleeping Giants’ Matt Rivitz talks about what it’s like to take on Brietbart, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson — and win. He’s been pushing advertisers to drop the race-baiters, and they’ve responded. “This is like the Super Bowl... It's like, okay, brands finally get it. What they choose to support with their media dollars really drives the conversation.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.7	I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling
0:14.1	author and full-time troublemaker.
0:16.1	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:19.9	politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world
0:24.9	clear.
0:25.9	We try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and
0:31.8	other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
0:35.4	So we have a lot of news today to cover, but I thought we should first talk about the
0:39.8	real important stuff.
0:41.3	Hot tub crime machine has written a book.
0:43.6	Matt Whitaker for those of you who aren't frequently into our little slang world.
0:47.5	We will, I promise you guys we're going to produce an episode at some point on just the
0:51.2	obscure slang that we have in our little squad here.
0:54.3	We're doing it.
0:55.3	I know, we're going to do it.
0:57.2	I believe in it strongly.
0:58.8	So tell me about Hot tub crime machines new book.
1:00.9	Well, I have a question for you.
1:02.7	Who do you think wrote the forward to Matt Whitaker's book?
1:06.2	Was it Jim Jordan?
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