Lynching the Deplorables

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, finds the January 6 protestors deplorable, but says the treatment of those arrested or detained in the wake of the incident is un-American. What does it mean when a "die-hard Lefty" finds common cause with those on the right outraged about the Special Administrative Measures invoked against some of the accused? Right Angle is a production of the Members of https://BillWhittle.com . Stephen Green and Scott Ott are grateful to Zo Rachel for sitting in for Bill again this week.

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0:00.0	We need to talk about lynching the deplorables.
0:02.7	Not that I'm in favor of it, mind you, but I was very surprised by who is against it.
0:08.5	And that would be Chris Hedges, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times for like 15 years.
0:14.5	And he's got a Pulitzer.
0:15.3	And he's about his left wing as you can possibly imagine.
0:18.1	Hey, everybody.
0:18.6	I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Zoe Rachel filling in for, no.
0:22.7	I'm Steve Green with Scott Ott and Zoe Rachel, filling in for Bill Whittle, who is on assignment this week.
0:30.2	Dayquil, I love and hate you so.
0:32.6	Let's get back to the topic, shall we, on this very professional broadcast.
0:37.0	The first problem was taking DayQuil, NyQuil, man, it's got to be NyQuil.
0:40.6	Not during the flavor.
0:42.6	Day, or, you know, you won't even be able to see me in the chair.
0:45.9	I'll just be, I'll be on the floor drooling on myself.
0:48.7	NyQuil with a coffee chaser, man, espresso chaser, if anything.
0:53.2	That's a weird combination of flavors for you.
0:55.5	That'll wake you up in itself. Oh, that's nasty. All right. Back to the topic, which is lynching
1:00.2	the deplorable. So this Chris Hedges, he really doesn't like the January 6 protesters, okay?
1:07.7	He accused them of Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump,
1:14.2	an embrace of reactionary, fact-free conspiracy theories.
1:18.1	That's a quote from I think the first paragraph of the essay he published this week on his own side.
1:24.9	I can remember the name, but we can put a link underneath the video here for you.
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