Demonizing Disney: Why Mickey Mouse May Be A Factor In The Midterm Elections

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🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Brian Stelter and a panel of guests discuss the right-wing media targeting both Disney and LGBTQ rights. Plus, Julia Ioffe makes the case that Vladimir Putin is now a prisoner of his own propaganda; Meduza editor Ivan Kolpakov discusses his fight to provide news to Russians despite restrictions; and CNN's Frederik Pleitgen calls in with eyewitness reporting from Bucha, Ukraine.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine
0:06.3	the story behind the story, and we figure out what's really reliable.
0:10.5	This hour...
0:11.5	NEXT!
0:16.5	Inside a bloody ambush, a veteran foreign correspondent is now recovering from that shooting, and he's
0:22.4	here to recount what happened in Ukraine.
0:24.4	Plus, what is President Biden really think of Fox News?
0:27.9	A forthcoming book claims to know we have the exclusive excerpt to share with you.
0:32.3	Plus, Jen Psaki Levy in her White House post next month, he does about where she's
0:36.2	heading.
0:37.2	That's coming up later this hour.
0:38.7	But first, why the right-wing media is targeting Mickey Mouse.
0:43.2	In the United States, we're seeing a theme of the midterm elections emerging.
0:46.6	It's the way you can see a wave start to form far from shore before it breaks on the
0:51.2	beach.
0:52.2	The theme, the talking point on the right, is about protecting kids from the dangers of
0:58.1	the war.
0:59.1	The Walt Disney Company.
1:01.1	Really.
1:02.1	But Disney is just a stand-in.
1:04.2	It's just a symbol for something bigger.
1:06.1	A conservative backlash to growing acceptance of gay and transgender people.
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