Episode 178: If modern journalism is rotting your brain, how can we fix it? Revisiting the ad that "racialized" politics
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Has Kevin McCarthy been rejected by his party?
Rob Howard joins us to discuss his newsletter Hiatus which attempts to give you an calm and focused take on the news from someone who knows exactly how to distract you.
We begin a new segment on negative ads starting with Weekend Passes (aka Willie Horton) the 1988 ad that helped sink Michael Dukakis and according to some "racialized" presidential politics.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Dustin Campbell, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Will Harris, and Craig. Politics politics politics podcast. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 0:43.4 | podcast for May 21st 2021. |
| 0:48.0 | So, Paul, Justin, Robert Young joining you from Austin, Texas. |
| 0:54.0 | Got a great show for you today. |
| 0:56.0 | The debut of a new segment. |
| 1:00.0 | Get to that in a second. |
| 1:02.0 | We're gonna... Get to that in a second. |
| 1:08.0 | We're gonna do a little update, a little newsy update |
| 1:12.0 | on something that I warned everybody about if you got the PX3 extra on Monday. |
| 1:17.0 | But the January 6th Commission is becoming a bigger story and we have still more non-Liz Cheney related divisions |
| 1:29.5 | within the Republican Party. We are going to have an interview about journalism, rage clicks, |
| 1:38.8 | hate watches, and whether or not the media faces yet another reckoning. |
| 1:45.0 | That's coming up. |
| 1:50.0 | Rob Howard is our guest. |
| 1:51.0 | Look, spoiler alert. Rob Howard's one of my favorite people on the |
| 1:56.3 | planet. I've known him forever. It's overdue that he was on this show and now I am |
| 2:01.7 | thrilled that we will be rectifying that. |
| 2:05.0 | But here's what you really want to stay tuned for. |
| 2:08.0 | After we tell you the news, after we give you this Rob Howard conversation, we are going to delve into a world that I find |
| 2:19.0 | endlessly fascinating and I know you guys will appreciate a new segment on PX3 about negative ads. |
| 2:30.0 | Yes, we are periodically going to go through a famous negative ad that shaped the history of how to run for president, how true they were, why the attacking party launched it, how the attacked party handled it, and how the |
| 2:48.0 | attacked party handled it, and how the world was changed because of it. |
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