Ep 524: Impeachment Articles At Last, and a Convo with Jay Rosen

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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A brief discussion of our reaction to impeachment. h/t @athenae on Twitter. And a long discussion with Jay Rosen of Pressthink.org. Discussed in this episode: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press -- http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html Why Political Coverage is Broken: Jay Rosen’s keynote address at New News 2011, part of the Melbourne Writers Festival -- http://pressthink.org/2011/08/...

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for December 13, 2019.
0:03.1	It's not safe for work.
0:04.6	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we're pretty sure every single Trump supporter at DJ's diner has been interviewed at least twice.
0:11.9	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:25.0	Hey, Dr. Class.
0:30.2	The House Judiciary Committee voted articles of impeachment this morning.
0:31.1	Really?
0:32.2	Yeah.
0:33.0	Must have missed that.
0:34.0	No, you didn't.
0:34.4	Okay. You came in the living room, turned on TV and said, thought you'd want to watch this.
0:37.4	And so I watched it.
0:39.9	The vote was along party lines and several Republicans left in quite a huff afterwards.
0:47.3	Well, as long as they left, I don't care what vehicle they used.
0:50.7	Well, and this is the only real point I want to make about this today.
0:55.4	Alison Hanchel on Twitter, she's the brilliant Athenae at first draft.
1:02.4	First draft, who I've met in real life.
1:03.9	I've had dinner at her place.
1:05.9	She's had lunch with her and with you.
1:08.5	She's amazing.
1:09.4	It's amazing.
1:09.8	And yeah, she's brilliant.
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