Dying of COVID to Own The Libs

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Four conservative talk radio hosts have died of COVID-19 this summer, further revealing the consequences of a politicized pandemic. Why aren’t prominent right-wing figures doing more to embrace the coronavirus vaccine? Guest: Brian Rosenwald, fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Talk Radio’s America. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4	Can you hear that?
0:36.3	Yes, I can hear it, yeah.
0:37.9	OK, listen to this for a second.
0:42.2	There's a parody song that was played on a conservative radio show
0:45.3	earlier this year.
0:46.5	I wanted to run it by Brian Rosenwald,
0:48.5	a media historian specializing in talk radio.
0:57.9	This song was released in June.
0:59.6	It turns the Beatles song Taxman
1:01.8	about a cheery, sadistic administrator
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