McConnell makes fatal mistake with ill-timed comment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 9 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Mitch McConnell makes a fatal mistake with an ill-timed comment and the Republican Party’s attempt to purge Liz Cheney from its leadership has major implications moving forward. Brian makes an announcement about one of his own projects that’s several months in the making. Angelo Carusone, the president and CEO of Media Matters, joins for an interview about Fox News’ lunge off the deep end and what steps we can actually take to stop them. And Run for Something co-founder Amanda Litman joins to discuss how her organization is rebuilding the Democratic Party from the ground up.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going to talk about Mitch McConnell's fatal mistake with a really ill-timed comment, |
| 0:06.0 | what the Republican Party's attempt to purge Liz Cheney from its leadership means moving |
| 0:09.5 | forward, and I have an announcement about one of my own projects that's a few months in |
| 0:13.2 | the making. |
| 0:14.2 | I interview Angelo Carousone, the president and CEO of Media Matters, about Fox News' insane |
| 0:19.2 | lunge off the deep end, and what steps we can actually take to stop them, and I chat |
| 0:23.3 | with Run for Something co-founder Amanda Litman about how her group is rebuilding the Democratic |
| 0:27.6 | Party from the ground up. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:34.4 | So for once, it's not Dems in Disarray, the Republican Party is in the midst of trying |
| 0:38.8 | to throw Liz Cheney, who's currently the number three Republican in the House, out of |
| 0:42.4 | her leadership position. |
| 0:44.0 | All because she committed the crime of acknowledging objective reality that the election wasn't |
| 0:48.1 | stolen, and that Donald Trump bears responsibility for the insurrection on January 6th. |
| 0:52.3 | She also joined Democrats in calling for a commission to investigate the events of January |
| 0:55.5 | 6th, without the poison pill of trying to make it a commission that also looks into the |
| 0:59.5 | George Floyd protests, which is what Republicans have resorted to to try and defuse responsibility |
| 1:04.1 | off of themselves, and instead be able to, you know, both sides of this thing into a stalemate. |
| 1:09.3 | And the target on Cheney's back is basically evidence of this. |
| 1:13.4 | If you want not just to succeed, but even survive in today's GOP, you need to embrace Trump's |
| 1:19.5 | lies about the election. |
| 1:20.9 | And if you're willing to embrace those lies, then you are inherently opposed to democracy. |
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