Ep 218 The Media Malpractice Edition

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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h/t Paul Krugman on The Colbert Report for the title. Media malpractice in hiring Bill Kristol, fearing Chris Christie, mis-reading the CBO report, and negating the importance of facts. All in one week. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show

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0:00.0	You can listen to the Professional Left on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or at our website, professional
0:05.3	left.orgspot.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:09.8	There is a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution
0:14.1	at P.O.Box, 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.1	This is the podcast for February 7th, 2014.
0:23.1	It's not safe for work.
0:24.9	Recorded live from outside Bill Crystal's vocational education training program.
0:29.4	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:46.0	He needs to take that fact-checking class again for the seventh time.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:50.1	But it doesn't seem to stop him from getting a job.
0:51.5	Getting lots of jobs.
0:51.9	Yeah.
0:53.7	And now he's working for ABC.
1:05.6	Original Project for New American Century Scumbag, a weekly standard douchebag with David Brooks has just been writing right-wing, neo-conservative trash for debt. And is responsible personally for the selection of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket. Some of you might remember
1:11.9	when Rachel Maddow of MSNBC unloaded on Paul Wolfowitz. Hiring Paul Wolfowitz to write an article
1:20.4	about the future of the Middle East. Yes. Yeah. But this guy who's been wrong about everything
1:25.9	should have no place, right, you know, he can write cheesecake recipes if he's, he may be qualified to do that, but he is not qualified.
1:33.2	I don't have a job writing about foreign policy in the Middle East since he has ruined it.
1:38.3	And the fate of, and who was horror, and she went through a list of his horribly, horribly smug wrong predictions that got
1:45.7	Americans killed. And of course, Paul Wolfowitz, due to his horrid failure at foreign policy,
1:52.3	was given a job running the World Bank until he turned out he was giving his girlfriend money
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