Ep 897 | Driftglass for Pope and David Brooks Said What?!

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

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode of The Professional Left Podcast, we return from our break to tackle the media's misuse of political vocabulary and how a certain pundit twists language to avoid placing blame where it belongs. We break down a prominent columnist's appearance on PBS that perfectly illustrates this problem, while examining how his myth of the "Sensible Center" continues to poison our discourse. Our news roundup covers troubling developments from the Trump administration alongside a few rays of ...

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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, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this very podcast. 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 May 6, 2025.
0:22.0	It's not safe for work.
0:24.0	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:26.3	where we are back from break
0:28.1	and glad to see that everything is all right now.
0:30.7	Everything worked out great.
0:32.2	We're all fine.
0:33.2	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:42.6	Music The Professional Left with Trip Glass and Blue Gal. Yeah, not everything is fine.
0:44.5	No, but...
0:45.4	Yeah, not everything's great.
0:46.9	I have returned from my knitting trip.
0:48.9	I had a wonderful time.
0:50.6	It's a little unfair that my luggage got to stay on break two days longer than I did.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:56.5	But the airline FedExed me my suitcase, which is also kind of funny.
1:04.5	The cats survived, although to hear them tell it, they had been abandoned on a desert island like the kids in Lord of the Flies.
1:13.8	Yeah, barely survived.
1:14.9	They suffer so, so much without me there.
1:17.9	Barely survived at all, really barely.
1:20.2	And they were quite glad to see me.
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