Ep 249 Our Response to Violence. Obama’s Legacy Already?
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Driftglass and Blue Gal
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2014
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can listen to the Professional Left on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or at our website, professional left. |
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| 0:17.0 | This is the podcast for September 12, 2014. It's not safe for work. |
| 0:22.0 | Recorded live in the warm afterglow of Chuck Todd's first time at the helm of the USS conventional wisdom. |
| 0:29.5 | It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. |
| 0:43.4 | Oh, I don't think this was Chuck Todd's first time. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, it was the first time he was doing without training wheels. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.1 | You know, it's yours, Chuck. |
| 0:49.3 | You got the job, okay? |
| 0:50.4 | So. |
| 0:53.0 | Even David Letterman noticed that he sucked. |
| 0:53.9 | He was so bad. You didn't mention Syria. Oh, wait. |
| 0:55.8 | I did five times. Okay. I will quote Charlie Pierce. Same circle different jerk. We really have done |
| 1:02.2 | enough meet the press in the past two weeks. So that's all we're going to talk about for Check Todd this week. That's it. |
| 1:07.2 | That's all we need to say about that. This was a really busy week. We're going to talk a little bit about ISIL or ISIS and Ray Rice. |
| 1:14.3 | But I want to talk about these things in sort of an overarching theme, which is our response |
| 1:19.4 | to violence and how we as a culture respond to violence. |
| 1:24.3 | Because the ISIS thing, you know, what really has brought this to the forefront of everyone's mind is a violent video. |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | And what brought Ray Rice to the attention of the NFL was a violent video. |
| 1:38.3 | And it's almost as if it's the video that is causing us to react and to respond to violence rather than responding |
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