Episode 55: Neera Tanden, Jacobinghazi, Brueniggate, Alligatorghazi, Centrist Corncobs, And The Legacy Of The 2016-2021 Brocialist Twitter-Woke Twitter Wars (Early-Access, Ad-Free)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After responding to some reader feedback about their last couple episodes, the hosts revisit one of the fiercer left-of-center Twitter controversies of the last half-decade: Woke Twitter vs. Brocialist Twitter. There are alligators! And corncobs! And forgotten and since-humiliated internet microcelebrities! It's quite. A. Ride.

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Show notes/Links:

No dice for Neera: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/bernie-supporters-seethes-neera-tanden-441603

Some of the deleted tweets: https://www.the-sun.com/news/2387776/what-did-neera-tanden-say-in-now-deleted-tweets/

"I didn't slug him, I pushed him": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html

Matt Bruenig pointing out the insanity of the Sarah Kendzior claim that set off Jacobinghazi: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/06/08/opportunistic-misreads/

Bruenig calling Kendzior a liar: http://mattbruenig.com/2014/09/23/what-would-it-take-to-make-sarah-kendzior-admit-this-is-not-true/

Wired on The Alligator Tweets: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/wish-unsee-vile-tweet-alligator-attack/

Bruenig loses his job over "scumbag Neera": https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-walsh-hillary-clinton-223439

Matt Yglesias on Bruenighazi: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos

German Lopez on Reid-gate-ghazwhatever: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286392/joy-reid-msnbc-lgbtq-gay-hack

Jesse's brave investigative reporting on corncobs: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/why-is-everyone-on-twitter-suddenly-talking-about-corncobs.html

Dril: https://twitter.com/dril

Al Giordano accusations: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-giordano-sexual-harassment-school-of-authentic-journalism_n_5aeb5113e4b041fd2d24580c

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Jesse. In this episode I made not one but four minor errors just to be a slips of the
0:06.1	tongue. What an idiot, it was Katie's fault. I figured I'd address them here so you little detectives
0:11.5	don't write in complaining. Okay, so first there's a moment when we're talking about the accusation
0:16.0	Joy Reid wrote homophobic stuff on her blog and I mentioned the accusation that these remarks were
0:21.6	transphobic. I just misspoke, I don't think anyone accused her of transphobia. Second, when we're
0:26.2	talking about Chapel trap house demanding Democrats line up behind Bernie Sanders at one point I say
0:31.7	Biden instead of Sanders as though they're demanding allegiance to Biden. That's obviously not true. I
0:36.3	didn't mean that. I meant Sanders. Third, I mentioned the potential prosecution of Seth Manouken,
0:42.0	but I meant Stephen Manouken. I mixed up my Manoucans. Happens to the best of us. Finally, at one
0:47.2	point I refer to a certain character in this week's sprawling cast as her, which was how he identified
0:53.2	at the time, but he has since transitioned to non-binary and goes by he or they pronouns. That was
0:58.4	unintentional and I apologize. Thank you and I look forward to finding all the other errors in this week's
1:04.1	episode. Jesse, how's it going? I'm pissed off at you, Herzog. Uh-oh, what did I do? All right, so
1:14.8	here's my routine for creating this podcast every week. Every Friday I wake up. I listen to a podcast
1:20.4	called the fifth column. It's sort of our brother podcast, our older brother. Older, better,
1:25.7	brother. Older, better, brother. Older, better, brother. Older, better, brother.
1:30.9	Yes, so what I'll do is I'll take one of their segments. So like, let's say Michael Moynihan
1:35.9	goes on a five minute rant about, you know, the stuff he cares about, white genocide,
1:41.6	immigrants taking our jobs, so I'll transcribe whatever he says, change a few words here or there,
1:48.4	and then just pass that off those insights off as my own on our podcast. This is known as aggregating.
1:54.8	Yeah, totally fair. So that's how I make the podcast without without what they say,
1:58.4	there wouldn't be a podcast because I'm just aggregating all their words. This week, however,
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