Episode 187: Oh Good, The Explosion Understanders Have Logged On
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss how our most trust-worthy disinformation experts correct the record except when they don’t. Plus, conservative hero Tim Ballard faces the wrath of the nicest people on Earth.
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(CORRECTION: In the original version of this episode that Primos heard before it went up for everyone else on Monday morning, I misunderstood some of the evidence suggesting Israel wasn’t responsible for the attack on the Gazan hospital. I’ve now re-recorded that bit with the below corrections, and if you scroll down to the tweet from Marc Garlasco, you’ll see my mistake: He was talking about the width of the crater, not its depth. Many thanks to the listener who wrote in to point this out, and I apologize for the error. -Jesse
Corrected version, with old, false material struck through and new, correct material in bold:
~9:56: "And you can see an impact crater which is only about one meter 30 centimeters deep wide or so. And he basically said, and again, this is a guy who is highly qualified on these issues, that this could not have been caused by Israeli weaponry, because that weaponry tends to leave nine-meter-deep wide craters, and there's a big difference between one meter 30 centimeters and nine meters.")
NYT: “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh: Tracing a Bullet to an Israeli Convoy”
https://twitter.com/marcgarlasco/status/1714590544620408909
https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1714336863740104879
https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1714652254832140636
Robby Soave: “Disinformation Reporter Ben Collins Failed To Correct the Gaza Hospital Story”
Better NBC News coverage of same
Glenn Kessler: “Human trafficking statistics: Politicians love them though they remain imprecise”
Blaze News: “What really happened with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad?”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Katie, where are you in the world right now? |
| 0:11.4 | I am currently in my parents' basement. |
| 0:14.2 | That's where they keep me when I come to visit. |
| 0:16.4 | Nice. |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, I just drove across the country. |
| 0:19.1 | I did my annual 3,000 mile drive. |
| 0:23.0 | As long time listeners will know, the issue that I'm most passionate about in the world |
| 0:28.8 | is the blatant discrimination that airlines have for dogs. |
| 0:34.3 | To protest this, I drive across the country at least once, if not twice a year. |
| 0:39.2 | I just did the trip all the way from Washington State to North Carolina. |
| 0:43.5 | I would like to give you some recommendations based on this long, very long trip across |
| 0:49.1 | the country. |
| 0:50.1 | How long did it take total? |
| 0:51.1 | Five days. |
| 0:52.1 | We did this one quickly. |
| 0:53.1 | We got to drive through the middle of the country instead of driving all the way down |
| 0:56.0 | to California coast and across Texas because we did it not in the wintertime, so much improved. |
| 1:00.5 | I've heard about this so-called middle-america, and I'm curious what it's like, so yeah, |
| 1:05.2 | what do you recommend over there? |
| 1:06.7 | Okay, I have four recommendations for you, Jesse, maybe five. |
| 1:10.9 | First of all, guns, Jesus. |
| 1:13.1 | The state of Montana, highly recommend, especially in the fall. |
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