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Episode 326 Promo - AIPAC vs The Left (w/ Ryan Grim)

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Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Grim, D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, has done some of the most important reporting on the influence of AIPAC on the American political system. He joins Bad Faith to discuss the recent AIPAC pledge to devote $100 million to unseat the Squad following their calls for a ceasefire, and delve into the history of how AIPAC became so powerful in the first place.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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So the A-PAG brand was starting to get tarnished, and so that's why you needed a little bit of a separation from this group, DMFI.

0:07.0

So you go on to write that, okay, they dabble in the Iowa Caucus, but they don't really start to ramp things up until the next

0:17.6

midterm cycle where they start spending really heavily and really lay the groundwork

0:22.4

for a pattern of behavior that you're going to see

0:24.6

marshalling the resources against specifically progressives like

0:29.7

these are all going to be familiar names because we're all very familiar

0:31.9

with these stories at this point.

0:34.0

Senator Nina Turner was the first big example.

0:36.9

State Senator Nina Turner never, Congress member, Nina Turner precisely because of the

0:42.0

DMFI ad spin.

0:43.0

So we're familiar with that, but just for the detail of it,

0:47.2

because nobody really knows the facts and the timing

0:49.4

of how that spinning came into play.

0:51.1

Walk us through how she was polling at what time in the

0:54.0

race before DMV entered the picture. How much money she had versus

0:58.4

Chantant Brown, her opponent, and then how and why everything started to change.

1:02.1

Yeah, and when she rolled out her campaign,

1:04.7

she rolled it out with a whole bunch of local establishment

1:07.9

endorsements, you know, people who might not have supported

1:10.8

what she was doing with Bernie Sanders,

1:12.4

but had, they had known her as a state

1:13.9

senator they'd known her as a you know local activist for years and they've

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