Ep 654: Lara Logan IS The Republican Party

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

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Driftglass came across a podcast we did this week in 2014, and derives some historical lessons from same. We discuss a Senator who behaves like a Congressman (in a good way) and Republican primaries are LIT to infinity, still! Plus a report on youngest child's high school graduation and what it says about education. More at http://proleftpod.com Ep 654: https://youtu.be/P35hNWanrFc Many thanks for donating to Blue Gal/Fran's go fund me for her hearing aids at: https://gofund.me/42a2972b Su...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcast on Netroots Radio or at our website, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:09.7	There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:18.9	This is the podcast for June 10th, 2022.
0:22.1	It's not safe for work.
0:24.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where, back during this week in 2014,
0:30.0	our podcast was introduced as follows.
0:32.8	Recorded live from just outside the Laura Logan Perpetual Employment Project,
0:38.4	it's the Professional Left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Hi, and this is an interesting story. It is fun to go back and
0:51.5	look at what were we doing on this date on Twitter or on the podcast
0:56.1	or on our blogs. It's great to have archives. We have archives in lots of different places.
1:02.0	Yes, we do. And so tell us about why Laura Logan jumped out at you today. Well, this was 2014, and this was back before Donald Trump had ever
1:13.3	come down the escalator. It was back when David Brooks was confidently reporting the GOP was in
1:18.6	great shape and there was nothing but blue skies ahead. And it's because in 2014, Laura Logan had
1:24.7	just returned to work at CBS after she was forced to take a leave of absence
1:29.5	after her giant fake, scary Benghazi story on 60 Minutes. It all fell apart. And that was the story
1:36.4	that had supercharged the dying embers of the GOP's current favorite Kenyan usurper fairy tale.
1:43.7	Now, there's one fun fact that if you remember
1:45.6	this at all, you might not remember this piece, which is that the fake Scary Benghazi book on which
1:51.2	Logan Baster's story had been published by Threshold Editions, which is an imprint of Simon
1:57.4	and Schuster publishing, which is owned by Surprise CBS.
2:02.4	A threshold was set up by Simon & Schuster once they saw what a lucrative market there was in selling schlock to wingnuts.
2:09.0	So after Logan was taken off the air, certain liberals who on this podcast cynically predicted that she would be probably be forced to sit out in the naughty corner for no longer than the industry standard 30 days, or as we call it, doing the full halperin.
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