Ep 816: From Grassroots to Gears

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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[Recorded before the Presidential Debate.]Time for a deep dive into the troubling parallels between the decline of "liberal" mainstream media and the recent corporate buyouts of popular automotive YouTube channels like Donut Media.Remember when MSNBC was a bastion of creative, progressive messaging? We take a nostalgic journey through the network's evolution, examining how the suits upstairs never got how they couldn't "add conservative voices to reach a wider audience." Megyn Kelly, Hu...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Netroots Radio or at our website, proleftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:10.7	There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:21.2	This is the podcast for the week of June 28, 2024.
0:24.9	It's not safe for work.
0:27.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we very much agree with the good
0:31.4	Dr. Rachel Maddow.
0:32.9	Podcasts are very humbling.
0:34.6	They are more difficult than you would think.
0:36.2	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:45.6	For this episode, we broke out two coffee cups that have been in storage at our house for a long time.
0:51.9	Very long time.
0:52.6	Our countdown with Keith Olberman coffee mug and our up with Chris Hayes coffee mug.
0:58.4	Hey, cheers, Drift Glass.
1:00.2	Cheers to you, Blue Gal.
1:01.5	Yeah, those have been gathering dust for quite a long time.
1:04.5	And today we're going to talk a little bit about the New York Times article from February that recently resurfaced, and it's about exhaustion.
1:13.1	And I will now read to you all.
1:15.1	Uncle Drift class is going to read to you all now from the New York Times.
1:18.1	So settle in, get a nice big mug of something, something cozy.
1:22.9	And here it goes.
1:24.6	The headline is anti-Trump burnout.
1:27.3	The resistance says, it's exhausted.
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