Michael and Us: Ratings War

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, HBO made a movie about the lead-up to the first Gulf War, from the perspective of its most important factor: CNN. In LIVE FROM BAGHDAD (2002), Michael Keaton and his team of CNN reporters are Davids against the Goliaths that are establishment media... and the Iraqi security state. We discuss a mind-bogglingly awful piece of American propaganda from the Bush era.

Richard Seymour on CNN and Iraq - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrGcK6XInE&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish

Luke's interview with Tantoo Cardinal - https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/youve-got-to-crash-a-door-and-fail-and-get-back-up-canadas-most-recognizable/article_729f94ea-8ec2-11ee-843c-733c6d38c787.html

Luke's review of Werner Herzog's memoir - https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/werner-herzogs-new-memoir-is-as-complicated-and-fascinating-as-the-filmmaker-himself/article_92daad66-8ed7-11ee-9628-9345052d7cc2.html

Will's new zine, "The Journal of Stoogeological Studies" - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPM5JBPB

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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0:00.0	The I don't know how to say this loop but I've been having I've not been enjoying
0:20.3	looking at Greg Proups as Twitter as much as I used to.
0:23.4	Oh, see it and so.
0:24.6	Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
0:26.2	I think it's just because like times are particularly dark right now.
0:29.6	I mean, Greg Proops, I just want you know, stands with Israel.
0:33.7	So his feed right now is a really great mix of like,
0:36.4	you know, what his tweets normally are, which are like
0:38.9	retweeting the official John F. Kennedy Twitter account,
0:42.0	where it's just like a picture of Kennedy on a boat.
0:44.0	Retreating just everything Kamala Harris tweets and being like, thank you.
0:47.7	Or like, yeah, like Dr. Jill Biden decorating the White House and then being like, isn't it great to have nice people at the white
0:56.2	Oh yeah that was that was one of those kind of like little micro discourse that
1:00.0	some Twitter Libs tried to get going again recently,
1:02.9	like the outrage over Malanya Trump's gaudy White House decorations,
1:07.9	which, you know, Jill Biden has now fortunately corrected.
1:11.0	Incidentally, imagine giving a shit about how the White House is decorated at Christmas.
1:17.0	Anytime.
1:18.0	Anytime who cares?
1:20.0	And this is true Trump derangement syndrome.
1:22.0	Oh man, man, yeah.
1:23.4	But now in particular, it's just so monstrous.
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