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The New Abnormal

How RFK Jr. Supporters Are Trying to Spin The Anti-Vax Thing

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.67.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Daily Beast politics reporter Ursula Perano shares more details about the anti-vax rhetoric she saw in RFK Jr.’s campaign-run Slack, including wild comparisons of vaccines to household cleaners from the 1900s. Plus, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks what’s next for new social media site Threads and the feature that could change platforms forever—if Mark Zuckerberg enables it in Europe. And of course, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie unpack Elon Musk’s dick measuring comments they for sure thought were fake and the latest lawsuit hitting Fox News.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious

0:05.4

objector.

0:06.4

I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.

0:09.4

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an

0:14.4

unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:18.6

And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off

0:22.0

the rails.

0:23.0

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining

0:27.2

people in politics, media and beyond.

0:29.9

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully

0:35.3

even make you laugh through the tears.

0:37.4

What a great show we have for you today.

0:39.4

Nile Patel, editor in chief of the verge, host of Dakota and co-host of the Vergecast

0:43.5

stops by to talk about threads and where exactly Twitter went wrong.

0:47.9

Then, Daily Beast Politics reporter Ursula Pirano joins us to break down her adventures

0:52.6

in the wild world of RFK Jr's public slack channel.

0:56.6

But first, let's have some fun.

0:59.0

So folks, you know, for the longest time, Andy, we've been making jokes about billionaires

1:05.6

doing a dick-measure in competition to outer space of whose rocket is the biggest and

1:11.6

whose social media account is bigger.

1:14.4

And then it was, let's actually have a physical cage match, which was shut down by Elon

1:20.4

Musso's mommy, who did not want him to get into a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg.

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