Episode 761 | Republican Weaponized Projection | Interview w/@MalaikaJabali on Obama Intervention
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Republicans are masters of projecting onto "the Left" the very things they are doing. But since the election of Donald Trump, we've seen an escalation in this tactic to the level that we can best describe as "weaponized projection." Let's discuss this tactic and its implications.
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Welcome to the show Malaika Jabali. She currently writes for The Guardian and has bylines in Essence, Current Affairs, and The Intercept. We discuss Barack Obama's alleged plan to intervene if Bernie Sanders gets too far ahead. We also discussed the Black vote and its importance to the 2020 election.
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| 0:15.0 | I am your host Benjamin Dixon. |
| 0:17.0 | Today is Wednesday, November 27th, 2019. |
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| 0:37.8 | This is why the podcast sounds the way that it does. |
| 0:41.2 | But it's still gonna be a jam-packed show. I'll be interviewing Malika jabali of the guardian.com. |
| 0:47.4 | She's previously written for essence.com and the intercept. I spoke with her last night and we had a chance to discuss the article from |
| 0:57.0 | political that covered President Obama's alleged comments about intervening to prevent Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. |
| 1:06.0 | Now one thing that we did not go into great detail, we recorded the interview last night |
| 1:10.0 | and one thing that we didn't go into great detail was something that actually came out late last night or actually early this morning. |
| 1:15.0 | It's coming out that President Obama |
| 1:20.0 | is directly saying that the New York Times who originally reported this |
| 1:25.8 | mischaracterized his remarks and that President Obama is saying that |
| 1:31.2 | now is the time for bold ideas and now is the time to move forward. |
| 1:35.0 | So here's the thing. |
| 1:39.0 | When you have political aides on your team that can't keep their mouth shut or need to feel |
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