MAGA Media Weaponizing Murder

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When Seth Rich was murdered in Washington, D.C. in 2016, many right-wing conspiracies popped up saying he had something to do with leaked DNC emails. In his new book, Death on W Street, Andy Kroll debunks the conspiracy theories about Rich's death. Kroll joins Rick on this episode to help show how the MAGA medial will do anything they can to succeed even if it means making stuff up. And Rick's entry onto The Enemies List this episode is an interesting one. Listen to find out who Rick is targeting for the list. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/rick-wilsons-the-enemy-list/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Rick Wilson, welcome back to The Enemy's List.
0:06.2	Our guest today is Andy Crowell.
0:08.3	Andy is an investigative reporter with ProPublica.
0:10.3	He's been published in Rolling Stone and a host of other places.
0:14.1	He's got a book out called A Death on W Street.
0:17.2	And A Death on W Street is a kind of disturbing book about the way the MAGA media works today,
0:23.9	and the way that even a tragedy that occurs to a young man who was murdered in DC can
0:31.6	be transformed and transported into this almost global propaganda effort to invalidate the
0:40.6	2016 election.
0:42.4	And Andy goes through in this book, I think a pretty dark journey on just how exploitative
0:49.3	and heinous a lot of the people in that world are and how willing they are to go to some
0:56.4	very dark places in order to achieve a propaganda.
1:01.5	There was also maintained what was called an enemy's list.
1:05.7	Democrats want Republicans dead.
1:08.3	I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.
1:11.7	The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about
1:15.9	having abortions.
1:18.0	On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting.
1:23.0	If you're the president of the United States, you can de-classify just by saying it's
1:27.5	de-classified.
1:28.5	It's not a right-wing conspiracy theory.
1:29.5	It's not queuing on.
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