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🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A haunting case of missing students, election skulduggery dating back centuries, and the deep dark world of comments sections.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Ladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. This week...
0:08.1	I recognize that the media is all eager to talk about an alliance. There is no alliance.
0:13.1	John Kasich made the decision in his own political self-interest to withdraw from Indiana.
0:17.9	That's Ted Cruz, disavowing the supposed alliance between himself and John
0:22.7	Kasich that the media had been tripping over itself to cover earlier this week.
0:27.8	Kasich will stop campaigning in Indiana, and Cruz will do the same in Oregon and New Mexico.
0:33.1	Trying to block Donald Trump from ranking up enough delegates to win outright before the convention.
0:37.4	How did they ever get such an idea? Well, in part because Ted Cruz and John Kasich said so.
0:44.0	It is big news today that John Kasich has decided to pull out of Indiana to give us a head-to-head
0:49.9	contest with Donald Trump. For his part, Kasich's top strategist, John Weaver, tweeted, quote,
0:56.2	I can't stand liars.
0:59.0	Although, of course, he couldn't have been talking about anything.
1:01.9	Thus concluded the latest and most bungled scheme of the 2016 GOP campaign season.
1:09.0	If nothing else, it gave the current frontrunner plenty to work with.
1:13.8	They are really trying to stop me.
1:16.5	Everybody knows it.
1:17.6	Everybody sees it.
1:18.9	The thing is, he's not entirely wrong.
1:22.3	The GOP has been trying to come up with the way to stop Trump
1:25.4	ever since it realized he wasn't just going away.
1:29.1	But if Trump and his supporters are scandalized, they shouldn't be surprised.
1:34.4	In fact, journalist and historian Rick Pearlstein says that the GOP's Stop Trump movement
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